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00:00I'm traveling along the world's longest river, the Nile, 4,000 miles from sea to source.
00:09It's the most remarkable journey I've ever made.
00:18Look how wide it is. It's a huge river.
00:21My adventure started two weeks ago in Egypt.
00:25Hello, darling. Hello, sweetheart.
00:29I followed in the footsteps of Agatha Christie.
00:34We think that's the winner.
00:37Marvelled at the beauty of this mighty river.
00:40It's pretty unspoiled, isn't it?
00:42And heard tales of spirits hiding in the depths.
00:47I'll come and sort that demon out for you.
00:52But I'm less than a quarter of the way through my journey.
00:56I still have four more countries to go.
00:59All in my quest to reach the source of the Nile.
01:04Here we are.
01:05Oh, my gosh.
01:06Oh, my gosh.
01:07You are.
01:08My favorite movie.
01:12You are.
01:17You are.
01:18Here we are.
01:22It's late afternoon.
01:47I've just boarded the weekly ferry that's taking me from Egypt into Sudan.
01:52Across Lake Nassar.
01:57When I was a child, we used to travel across the world like this on ships all the time.
02:01The army travelled by ship. We didn't fly in those days.
02:04We used to lean on the rails like this and just look and look at the waves turning white like this.
02:10The sea, I can remember being dark blue.
02:12I remember my mother putting out her hand and she had a sapphire engagement ring.
02:16And she said, the sea is the colour of sapphires.
02:19And I then knew what the colour of sapphires were.
02:24Lake Nassar was created when a huge dam was built across the River Nile at Aswan.
02:29At just over 300 miles long, it's the world's largest man-made lake.
02:35It's colossal to think one river has made this.
02:44My journey along the Nile began two weeks ago in Alexandria.
02:48I've already travelled 700 miles to Aswan, where I joined the ferry to take me across Lake Nassar.
02:54Once in Sudan, I'll be following the river to Khartoum, Sudan's capital, where the Nile is joined by the Blue Nile.
03:03Here, I'll take a new direction, following the river into the highlands of Ethiopia.
03:09I'll then rejoin the Nile in war-torn southern Sudan, continuing south through Uganda, across Lake Victoria, and pushing on into Rwanda, where my journey on the world's longest river will come to an end.
03:24It's going to take me 18 hours to get to the Sudanese border, so plenty of time for dinner.
03:50I see you before.
03:54Did you?
03:55Yeah.
03:56Maybe on television or something like that.
04:00Maybe television.
04:01Yeah.
04:02Egyptian?
04:03James Bond.
04:05James Bond?
04:06Yeah.
04:07You.
04:08On Her Majesty's Secret Service.
04:09I remember you.
04:10Yeah.
04:12That's wonderful.
04:13Okay.
04:14That's wonderful.
04:15I'm a Bond girl.
04:17Gosh, I didn't think I'd be recognised as a Bond girl.
04:19On a ferry.
04:20Here, below deck, in a sweltering 40-degree heat, Sudanese workers are travelling home after working overseas from as far away as China and Dubai.
04:36Come on.
04:37I don't know how to say not meat.
04:38I've got some eggs.
04:39It's lovely.
04:41Shukran.
04:42Thank you so much.
04:43You speak English.
04:44Oh, excellent.
04:45My name is Magdi Oswan.
04:46Magdi.
04:47Magdi.
04:48May I call you Magdi?
04:49Yes, please.
04:50Wonderful.
04:51This is delicious food.
04:52Yeah, it's nice.
04:53This is local food.
04:54We call it in Arabic food.
04:55The English name, the correct name is for it.
04:58I just want, I don't want to say it.
04:59It's beans.
05:00Yes, beans.
05:01Let's say beans.
05:02And I feel good when I eat it.
05:03I don't like meat too much.
05:04If I may say so, a very marvellous man.
05:05You look very healthy.
05:06Thank you very much.
05:07This food may not be state of the art, but it seems to have all the creature comforts.
05:34That smells wonderful.
05:37That is, until it's time to get ready for bed.
05:48It's not that one's squeamish, but there's something sometimes a bit horrifying about some of the lavatory arrangements.
05:56You can't smell what it's like in here, but it's brilliant.
06:04And actually, if I had my way, I would be in here with gloves and scrubbing.
06:08I'd give this a really good scrub.
06:10Actually, it's all right.
06:11Once you've just got over it, you know, quite a lot of life is like that.
06:16Just get over it and just do it.
06:17There we are.
06:18Lovely.
06:19No, fine.
06:20It's so hot downstairs that I want to sleep on deck.
06:46Unfortunately, so does everybody else.
06:49Thank you so much.
06:51Shukran.
06:53But with over 500 passengers, it looks like I should have bagged a place earlier.
07:01Maybe this is a little nice corner by these bottles.
07:04Yeah, this place is the best one.
07:05You're sleeping here, yeah?
07:06Yeah, it's the best place.
07:07Is that a good place?
07:08Yeah, yeah, yeah.
07:09That's wonderful.
07:11I've seen a couple of little friendly cockroaches, but I think they'll be fine.
07:14Because, you know, what's a cockroach between friends?
07:17It feels rather odd lying down with everybody else standing up.
07:20But there we are.
07:21This is me.
07:22And it's so warm, I wouldn't need anything over me.
07:26This is comfortable.
07:28The word comfortable didn't sort of spring immediately to the lips, but I thought I'd just say it.
07:33I'm comfortable.
07:34And the great thing is, is that I can hear the throb of the ship's engine.
07:43And I know that just there is the Nile swishing past.
07:46As dawn breaks, we're just three hours away from Sudan.
08:11But before we get there, Egypt has one last treat for us, as its most spectacular ancient monument comes into sight.
08:25The great temple at Abu Simbel.
08:32Abu Simbel is over 3,000 years old.
08:36Its centrepiece, carved from solid rock, is four colossal seated statues of one of Egypt's greatest rulers, Pharaoh Ramesses II.
08:49I've seen Abu Simbel before.
08:52Phenomenal.
08:53In the 1960s, this immense temple was nearly lost forever, when this whole area was flooded to make Lake Nasser.
09:07But thankfully, over 50 countries came to the rescue.
09:13At huge cost, it was cut into over a thousand pieces.
09:16And then rebuilt, 200 feet above its original position.
09:27A miracle of engineering.
09:33Preserving Abu Simbel forever.
09:35Finally, we arrive at our destination, the small port of Wadi Halfa.
09:46It's difficult to believe that this tiny strip of concrete is the gateway to Sudan, a country the size of Western Europe.
09:54It's quite frantically hot on this quayside.
10:03I've just seen our kit, it's beginning to go around there, so perhaps they're going to make a sort of pile of it over there.
10:11When we think of Sudan, we usually think of a country torn apart by civil war.
10:17Though the tribes of Darfur in the west of the country are still fighting, the north is relatively peaceful.
10:30Which means business as usual for most.
10:32We've just got to clear all this through customs, which is just about to happen.
10:49And then we can get properly into the deserts of Sudan.
11:02Gone are the luxuries of Egypt, hotels, hot running water and comfortable beds.
11:09For the next four days we shall be camping under the stars, so we have to carry everything with us.
11:19It must be one of the most remote places on earth.
11:23It's very exciting.
11:32Leaving Wadi Halfa and the ferry behind us, we head 125 miles south to Wawa, where we're hoping to meet one of the Nile's most feared creatures.
11:51We're making our way down to the river to look for crocodiles.
11:54And the Arabic word for crocodile is Tomsa.
11:59So, we're hoping to see a huge Tomsa, yes?
12:05Hamid laughing knowingly.
12:08But they do grow to the most immense size.
12:12I think I'm writing saying also that the Nile crocodile is the most aggressive of all the big, big crocodiles.
12:17For many of us, the closest we've come to a crocodile is on the silver screen.
12:30Tarzan movies, the very stuff of Hollywood adventure.
12:38What I didn't know was that to save Jane, Tarzan was wrestling the Nile crocodile,
12:43the most dangerous freshwater predator in the world.
12:48It can grow to three times the length of a man and weigh as much as a small car.
13:02This is a bit mad dogs and Englishmen, but the truth is, this is the best time to see crocodiles,
13:06because this is the time they come out to bask when the sun is at its hottest.
13:09So, we have to be here. I mean, it is fry egg, hot plate.
13:16The river's lovely and cool. It just begs for you to jump in.
13:19But crocodiles, I think not.
13:25Local crocodile hunter, Abdu Mohammed, is helping me find this great reptile.
13:29I've just been staring at the same bit of sand now for a long time.
13:32I've just been staring at the same bit of sand now for a long time.
13:36We're crossing over the river now because Abdu thinks he might have seen one.
13:38I've got to see one.
13:39I've got to see one.
13:40I've got to see one.
13:41I've just been staring at the same bit of sand now for a long time.
13:45We're crossing over the river now because Abdu thinks he might have seen one.
13:46Of course, I'm straining my eyes. Everything I see looks as it might be a crocodile.
13:53I'm sure I can see crocodile footsteps.
13:55We're crossing over the river now because Abdu thinks he might have seen one.
14:01Of course, I'm straining my eyes. Everything I see looks as it might be a crocodile.
14:06I'm sure I can see crocodile footsteps.
14:08Abdu, does Abdu want me to go with you?
14:11Do you want me to come with you?
14:12Yes.
14:13Yes?
14:14He's happy to come with you.
14:15Why was I longing for him to say no?
14:18No.
14:19No.
14:20No.
14:21No.
14:22No.
14:23No.
14:24No.
14:25No.
14:26No.
14:27No.
14:28No.
14:29No.
14:30No.
14:31No.
14:32No.
14:33Okay.
14:38I'll leave my sandals on so the crocodile's got something to eat.
14:52Whoops!
15:00Unfortunately, we've been outsmarted.
15:06The crocodiles have gone, but we've only missed them by minutes.
15:12Yes, about here. Yeah. And here.
15:17And there. There from there.
15:19Four kilometres. Four metres. Four metres.
15:23Four metres.
15:25That's huge. Yes.
15:29Can you tell by the footmarks?
15:32Man or woman crocodile? Male or female?
15:36No. It doesn't differ from the feet.
15:38You see it?
15:39Of course, it's a big or small difference.
15:44It's the biggest memory.
15:46The memory is the biggest memory.
15:48It's always, when they hit them,
15:50they hit them.
15:52They hit them.
15:54This loop is a loop.
15:57When they hit them, they hit them.
16:00They hit them here.
16:01They hit them quickly and they hit them quickly.
16:04Yeah. Yes.
16:06Ha-ha-ha.
16:08Not us, Abdu. Not us.
16:11I wish we could see one.
16:14Ah!
16:15Sadly, crocodiles are big business in Africa.
16:21Every year, sales of their valuable skins fetch over £150 million.
16:27Though the crocodile provides a living for some, it's feared by most, and not without reason, as they kill as many as 500 people every year.
16:39And these two holes here are the ones which these, those are baby teeth, but at the bottom, these immense front incisors fit into the slots up there.
16:52So you have this interlocking, which means that if it's grabbed something, it's absolutely welded on.
16:58Well, croc, you met your end.
17:03It was a monster like this that nearly ended the life of local fisherman Hamid Abd El-Rasoul.
17:09Hamid, come and show me.
17:11And you were like this.
17:13No way.
17:14Hey!
17:31And it's...
17:32Oh.
17:33He goes...
17:36Oh, he's got you like that.
17:38And then, he's going along.
17:40Hamid took ten hours to crawl the five miles home in agony.
18:08Oh, exhausted, I have to rest again, probably losing quite a lot of blood too.
18:12And then wake up and still this awful bleeding leg for ten hours.
18:16And how long in hospital?
18:18Okay for walking?
18:27Thank you Hamid.
18:32Despite these tales of horror, I still want to see a crocodile.
18:36We've been told they're back, so we head to the river for one last look.
18:43Suddenly, a bit of the river, look, look, look, that huge, huge thing.
18:51Looks like a log, but it's a crocodile.
18:58It's difficult to tell over the water how huge it is but I guess if it looks that big and
19:05it's in the middle of the river, it must be at least 18 or 20 feet long.
19:11This animal is extraordinary.
19:13It evolved 200 million years ago and it even outlived the dinosaurs.
19:18Pretty impressive.
19:20The truth is we're not going to see them out of the water today.
19:23It's too cool.
19:24It's only about 130.
19:26Far too cool for a crocodile.
19:28Jolly cool for me actually.
19:30Okay, let's go and get some blankets.
19:42In a couple of hours it'll be dark, so we're heading off into the Nubian desert to find
19:46somewhere to put up our tents.
19:49The thing is we're going into the desert because there are mosquitoes at the banks of the Nubian.
19:54So it'll be lovely.
19:55It'll be exciting to camp bang in the desert.
20:12This is really beautiful because we really are in the middle of nowhere.
20:17I mean you've heard of the back of beyond.
20:19This is beyond the back of beyond.
20:20It's just nowhere.
20:22It's fantastically exciting.
20:25This is the best campsite on earth for tonight.
20:28And the lads are starting already.
20:30Ideal.
20:31I think I'll walk a little bit slowly so I just won't be there quite at the beginning.
20:37Good.
20:38Great.
20:39I couldn't be happier.
20:46We have four drivers, two cooks, one policeman and Musab Abidi, our guide and translator.
20:55Well, nothing left for me to do.
21:00My case is called rather ambitiously Marco Polo.
21:07This is my bed.
21:13It's lovely.
21:14It's pretty odd to be writing a journal and put at the top of it in Nubian desert.
21:32I never thought I'd write that in my life.
21:34The sun's beginning to go.
21:35Everywhere I am in the world, if I can, I try to watch the sun going down.
21:40Where we live in Scotland, we watch the sun going down every night.
21:45We can't bear to miss the sun going.
21:47Dear Dari, give everything away and camp.
22:06away, and camp.
22:14I didn't write that because it's not true.
22:28On the menu tonight is Nile tilapia,
22:31but as I'm vegetarian, they've kindly prepared me some beans and chips.
22:36I'm going to put it in a little bit.
22:39I'm going to put it in a little bit.
22:42I'm going to put it in a little bit.
22:45I'm going to put it in a little bit.
22:51Isn't this lovely?
22:56Look, this is the flashy, flashy torch.
22:58It does all that, which is exciting.
23:01So when you're lighting your candles, your cigarette, everything,
23:03this just goes on and on.
23:05Then, when it's stopped, you shine the other end and you think it's a torch,
23:09but actually there's this beautiful little picture of a beautiful girl.
23:14Look at that.
23:15Found it in the market today.
23:17She's got a lovely bracelet and a sweet little face.
23:20And it's obviously a men's item.
23:23But isn't that charming and modest?
23:25Not like one of those barrows and you twitch it up the other way and all the clothes come off.
23:29This is just a charming darling girl.
23:31Isn't that lovely?
23:32She's my new friend.
23:33My tent friend.
23:34You see what living in the desert can do to your brain.
23:38Good night.
23:50Good night.
23:52Good night.
23:53My tent's not a flower.
23:54Right.
23:55It's all around the island.
23:56I'm sorry.
23:57You!
23:58You!
23:59Yeah.
24:00Yeah.
24:01Yeah!
24:02You!
24:03Yeah, I'm sorry.
24:04That's it.
24:05Yeah.
24:06Yeah.
24:07Yeah.
24:08I've been there.
24:09Oh, it's so much fun.
24:10We are heading south to the ancient and sacred town of Karima, once the heart of the great
24:32kingdom called Nubia.
24:38Today, Karima is a market town, a staging post for those travelling across the desert to Khartoum.
24:56I found out that most people here think of themselves as Nubian, identifying with a culture
25:02which stretches back over 5,000 years.
25:09We know little of this great civilisation, but just outside the town, there's evidence
25:16of a chapter of history that is largely untold, the story of the black pharaohs.
25:23For me, one of the most extraordinary things I've discovered on this trip is that the great
25:35pharaohs of Egypt didn't all come from Egypt.
25:40In fact, the last burst of fabulous Egyptology that we know, the ancient Egyptians, were in
25:44fact Nubians.
25:45It's unbelievable.
25:46There are more than twice as many pyramids here in the Sudan as there are in Egypt.
25:59But it was here.
26:08This was the seat of power.
26:14The black pharaohs of Nubia took control of a huge empire called the Kingdom of Kush that
26:20stretched south from here and all the way north through ancient Egypt to the Mediterranean.
26:31They moved their capital here, where the Temple of Amun lies in the shadow of the sacred mountain
26:36Jebel Barkal, also known as the Pure Mountain.
26:43They believed this mountain was the home of the greatest of all gods, Amun, the god of kingship.
26:50Whoops!
26:52Sandy, Sandy!
26:56Every Friday, the Muslim holy day, people flock to climb its perilous slopes to watch the
27:02sunset over the Nile.
27:09Abdul Magid Omar has been climbing the Jebel ever since he could walk.
27:14If anyone knows the best way up, he does.
27:26Oh, look at this, look at this, it's the river Nile.
27:40River Nile.
27:41It's fantastic.
27:42Very, very good.
27:43It's so beautiful.
27:44Very good.
27:45Very good.
27:46This is the top, this is the top of the hill.
27:50Yes.
27:51Yes.
27:52Oh.
27:53Yes.
27:54Ah.
27:55Yam' al-Barka.
27:56Holy mountain.
27:57Holy mountain.
27:58Holy mountain.
27:59Holy mountain.
28:00Holy mountain.
28:02Wow.
28:03Wow, we have to look at this.
28:06Isn't it fantastic?
28:07You're far, my amizah?
28:09Am I right in thinking that when the Nile is full, it comes right up to the edge of this
28:30green?
28:31Yes, 1988, the Nile flood, till just the feet of Jebel-Barka.
28:35Yes, here.
28:36Right up to the edge of this water.
28:38So this is all the old temple.
28:40Oh, how wonderful.
28:41Yes.
28:42Don't get too close, I get terrible grass again.
28:45The people who have been in the village, the people who have been in the village, in
28:48the village, in life, in the village, in the village, in the village, in the village.
28:52That's why the relationship between the villages and the village in the village.
28:57How old will you be when you can hardly get up, will you still come up there?
29:01.
29:22Never stop.
29:23very good the Sun the Sun is called Shems and something which is rather lovely is
29:37that my son my own son as opposed to this son when we were trekking in Hunza
29:42they couldn't say James so they called him Shems so my son is called Shems and
29:47the Sun here is called Shems and today is my son's birthday so the whole thing
29:51it's completely perfect what a day to be on the holy mountain
30:11the next morning we're up early as our translator our dragoman Musab has told me of an extraordinary
30:20and rarely seen burial site five miles from town I think a tourist of Sudan could be forgiven for
30:27missing out on the next great treat it's like Sudan's hidden secrets it's this extraordinarily
30:32important couple of tombs that still remain all the rest of disappeared they used to be under
30:38pyramids now they're just tombs but they've got fabulous things inside I think I can't wait to
30:44see them this is a little local graveyard this is how people are buried today not like the pharaohs
30:52just a small stone at your head and foot mosque in the background it's rather simple and lovely
30:59this is a cemetery of El Khuru here the black pharaohs were buried over two and a half thousand years ago
31:14however many graves have since been ransacked by tomb raiders how did they dig into the pyramids they start
31:26to the people looking at the for the treasures and the top of the pyramids yes and then they dig all
31:33the pyramids and they found the floor the top of the tomb like like this here if you can see yes they
31:40open it from the top and they found they were in the burial chamber yes they discovered that there
31:45is a door bringing to outside so then they started they start to dig in a correct way despite the
31:56vandalism the most impressive tomb is that of Queen Calhata mother of the last Nubian Pharaoh staircase
32:04careful the great big step so this ceiling is very beautiful and blue and here Musab is this where
32:24the body would have been put down on here yes it should be in this point exactly can we go on to it
32:32can we step on it now and this is the picture of her body lying as it would be yes wrapped in her
32:39funeral clothes you see here the bed the shape of the lion yes and all the tools of the war under
32:51because our queens there they were a warrior queen right so these are weapons yeah yes daggers spears arrows
33:01the Nubians were good with arrows okay they were great archers I think yes how fantastic look at
33:09that bow that's wonderful but here on this side now this is wonderful I'm going to get down and look
33:20at this because she's turned around she seems to have come back to life yes after smelling the arch so
33:28that's the key of life there with the crisscross and that loop there he's giving it to her to smell
33:33here's the God and here she's working and turned around and she's lying up on her stomach feeling better
33:42already only 1000 people a year come here not very many is it I hope it stays like this I'd hate it to
33:57get any grander I'd hate it that we couldn't film or stand up close to the walls I'd hate it that we
34:05didn't have alley with his key to unlock it I'd hate it that the steps would get worn down
34:12but I wouldn't hate it to be a little bit cooler
34:18Karima a town full of echoes of the ancient past from its holy mountain right down to the banks of the Nile
34:42these old boats are a stark reminder of a more recent age when the river was used to transport goods
34:53animals and people along its banks now it seems the river looks empty unused almost forgotten
35:03but for the locals the Nile hasn't lost its spiritual power
35:11nowhere is this more apparent that at a Nubian wedding
35:41I think we're heading down to the river the river Nile I think some sort of ceremony goes
35:45on there and I said to them which means congratulations
35:49Muslim men are allowed four wives but who way to is Mohammed's one and only bride
36:00and this isn't an arranged marriage they chose each other to bring the couple a long and happy marriage
36:15the guests make an offering of dates and wheat to the river Nile
36:30the marriage is blessed with water from the Nile
36:46this is the final ceremony of their marriage celebrations that have lasted seven days
36:57the Processes
37:00now
37:01we're all right
37:10we're all right
37:10okay
37:12you
37:13guys
37:14you
37:14you
37:15bought
37:16you
37:17you
37:18I certeza
37:20I hum
37:21you
37:24I
37:25how
37:26And I think this, snapping your fingers and sort of doing that is a kind of blessing,
37:31because I did that to the bridegroom and he looked very pleased.
37:33And all the women were urging me to clap.
37:35They were going, come on, clap, get in with him.
37:38So a lot of that was going on.
37:46Saying goodbye to Karima, we're taking a short cut across the Bayou de Desert.
37:52Then we'll rejoin the river, which will take us into the capital of Sudan,
37:55Khartoum, halfway point of my journey along the Nile.
38:14I've always been fascinated by this tough race of people, the pastoralists,
38:19who live a nomadic existence in these harsh deserts.
38:22Around 10% of Sudan's 40 million people follow a way of life
38:28that hasn't changed for centuries.
38:32The Hassania tribe moved here from Egypt a thousand years ago.
38:37four generations of the Hassan family have come to say hello.
38:58Salaam.
39:00Marahal.
39:01Shukran.
39:03Salaam.
39:04Salaam.
39:05Salaam.
39:06How lovely.
39:07This is a beautiful bowl of yoghurt I've just been offered, which is delicious.
39:10Yes.
39:11So very delicious.
39:12Shukran.
39:13It's lovely.
39:14Hello.
39:15Salaam, little one.
39:16Uh-huh.
39:17Hello, baby.
39:18Hello, Salaam.
39:19She's asking about your name.
39:20My name is Johanna.
39:21Johanna.
39:22Johanna.
39:23Johanna.
39:24Johanna.
39:25This place is so remote that some of the older people may not have seen an English person
39:38since the British occupation of Sudan, which ended 50 years ago.
39:43Oh, this is wonderful in here.
39:46This is so lovely.
39:47May I sit here?
39:48May I sit here?
39:49May I sit here?
39:50When she was as young as this?
39:56When they saw the English, they were...
40:01And this is yoghurt being made in a goat skin like that.
40:27I'm not sure if I meant to bump that skin.
40:30You passed the job over to me.
40:37Eventually, great-grandmother Medina became too old to travel, so the family decided to
40:44settle here, where they've been for 22 years.
40:51However, as head of a family of 10, Mohamed continues a semi-nomadic life, breeding livestock
40:57and transporting salt by camel nearly 200 miles across the desert to Khartoum.
41:07Tell me why you prefer to live in the open spaces, in the fresh air, rather than in a city with buildings and roads.
41:16So if you take a little care, you take drugs.
41:18You take a waste?
41:19For example, it makes a lot of bad.
41:20You take a lot of good care.
41:21But for example, we have care of the house in the United States.
41:23We take a lot of good care.
41:24You take a habit of the house in the city.
41:26We live in the public, but we don't.
41:27We live in a city.
41:29We live in the outside.
41:31We live in the outside.
41:32And we are scared of the house alone.
41:36We die.
41:37I love this way of life.
42:05It's just fantastic.
42:07And I understand them absolutely longing to be in the open air and to have eye-stretching
42:12views like this, with the wind blowing through rather than in a hot town with fumes of petrol
42:18and busy people all the time.
42:24And it's a hard life.
42:26It's a hard life, but you're free.
42:29You're free.
42:29No, no, no.
42:34Though this freedom comes at a price.
42:36To get water, Mohammed must travel ten miles to the nearest well.
42:43And most people in Sudan have less than a pound a day to live on.
42:47I think you could live like this in a kind of romantic dream, but I suppose in the end
42:59you go back to your curtains closed and your keys clinking.
43:04And I'm not sure we've got it right, though, you know?
43:09I mean, we might not want to live as simply as this, but I'm not sure we've got it right
43:19in the Western world.
43:20No, it's a twig for me, twig house for me.
43:28Right.
43:30Twig house.
43:31Let's try that in London, see if I've moved on.
43:33We push on, towards the Nile, and then Khartoum, which lies a two-day drive ahead of us.
44:00Unfortunately, the desert has other ideas.
44:03We are stuck miles from anywhere, but thankfully, we're not alone.
44:15Charming people just materialise out of nowhere.
44:17It seems to be empty, and it's actually quite full of people.
44:25Do you think we should bounce it?
44:27Do you think if you bounce it, is that someone who's helping you get out of it?
44:33No, no, no, no!
44:35No, no, no, no!
44:48Good.
44:49we're driving south east southeast across the desert to cartoon we'll have to stop the night
45:02before we get there because it's a long drive it's not exciting isn't it oh look the cars goodbye
45:15so on to cartoon where my journey takes a new direction
45:19there our great river is joined by the blue nile and i'll follow it into the highlands of ethiopia
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