LAST CHANCE JOURNEYS - SAHARA
Thursday, November 25, 2010 at 7:26PM
Ian Benjamin Kenny

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.

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