英国着名演员兼旅游家米高柏林又再起行,展开这个在八十日内完成的撒哈拉之旅,感受当地丰富独特的风土人情,明珠台好评如潮地理节目。 米高柏林又再起行,展开他的长途旅程,这回他深入撒哈拉禁地。 观众看到的不是撒哈拉的荒凉,而是丰富独特的风土人情及源远流长的历史。 米高於摩洛哥出发,他必须横越天然通道 — 壮丽的阿特拉斯山脉,才可踏足撒哈拉。绕山而行,乾旱的撒哈拉渐渐映入眼帘,只见黄沙万里,沙石纷飞。风沙刺面,吹得人睁不开眼睛。 离开西撒哈拉的纷争地区,米高乘坐两公里长的铁矿火车穿越毛里塔西亚,前往塞内加尔及国内古老的法国殖民时期的城镇。然后他拜访戈雷岛,从前数以百万计的奴隶在这里被人肉贩子贩卖,送往欧美等地。在马里,他有幸跟多贡人见面,多贡人之地拥有难得一见的景色,尤其在华氏134度的正午下,一边吃午餐,一边欣赏。 前往延巴克图的渡轮三个月才有一班,米高选了本地货船畅游尼日尔河。他在尼日尔攀越霍加尔山向北行,经过阿尔及利亚丰富的天然气田与石油田,进入利比亚,在当地他难得体验一种对外隔绝已久的文化。突尼斯是米高的最后一站,他曾在这国家拍剧,所以对该地十分熟识。
撒哈拉大漠之旅 (季节 1)

A Line in the Sand (集 1) 7.0
编剧: Michael Palin
播出日期: 2002-10-13
运行时间: 60 min
概述: Michael lands at Tangier in Morocco after crossing the Straits of Gibraltar, and passes through the High Atlas mountains after brief stops in Fez and Marrakesh. From here, the Sahawari people help him to negotiate the harsh, rugged terrain and guide him south to the Mauritanian border.

Destination Timbuktu (集 2) 6.0
编剧: Michael Palin
播出日期: 2002-10-20
运行时间: 60 min
概述: After a brief stopover in cosmopolitan Senegal, Michael endures two nights aboard the train to Bamako, where he meets up with the renowned kora player Toumani Diabete. Meanwhile, the Dogon people of West Africa introduce Michael to some of their origin myths, and a trip down the River Niger turns out to be far from plain sailing.

Absolute Desert (集 3)
编剧: Michael Palin
播出日期: 2002-10-27
运行时间: 60 min
概述: Michael reaches Timbuktu along with a camel train carrying the giant salt blocks that made the city one of the greatest centres of Islamic learning up until the 16th century. He wanders through the rubble that is 21st century Timbuktu to find the Imam who shows him original astronomical textbooks that predate Galileo's discoveries by 200 years.

Dire Straits (集 4)
编剧: Michael Palin
播出日期: 2002-11-03
运行时间: 60 min
概述: Michael arrives at the border of Niger and Algeria, the most desolate crossing, and then turning north Michael passes through the mountains of the Hoggar massif before pausing in the oil and gas fields of central Algeria. Then onto Libya to attend the very last reunion of the Desert Rats of Tobruk, before turning west along the North Coast past deserted classical sites at Apollonia, Cyrene and Leptis Magna.
