Thursday
Nov252010
LAST CHANCE JOURNEYS - SAHARA
The Caravan from Bilma
1x47 Min / Format: Digibeta / National Geographic Version
Funders: National Geographic International, TG4, Irish Film Board
A magnificent journey along the most traditional camel caravan route left in the Sahara, an 800 mile trek across Niger.
This one-hour film follows Al Haj Alhassan, an old Tuareg caravaneer on his last journey across the Sahara, travelling one of the last remaining desert trade routes in West Africa: the salt run of Bilma.