We liked BBC Sahara documentary which was created by Michael Palin. The documentary stars from Gibraltar and then heads to Morocco, Mauritania, Senegal, Mali, Niger, Libya, Tunisia, Algeria and then comes back to Gibraltar and finishes where it all started.
The documentary is told in 4 episodes and I must say I was fascinated with episode 2. Where Palin takes us from Senegal to Mali and then to Niger. Both the journey and the video is very strong in this episode. I must say most interesting part of Sahara journey is those areas as well. We fell in love with Mali once again and decided to take this part of the journey. The hardest part seems the train journey from Dakar to Mali which goes up to 35 hrs...
During the journey Palin was able to caught different cultures and people surrounding those cultures. I must admit his way of story telling is not ideal for me however its much more better than the ones we watched earlier this week.
Lonely planet Botswana and Namibia documentary was one of them. This Australian fellow was travelling in these lands and we were not able to tell what was his point and whether he liked the places he was travelling, well, thats his problem. On our end it was also impossible to capture the feeling of the places he was visiting. As it's a lonely planet series you assume its a budget travel and he tells in several places that he was sleeping in a budget camp site, again, it was impossible to understand if the places are good or bad or the only option. The route was almost the worst option possible. The camera was so so...
The other documentary that we had the chance to watch was agaon a BBC documentary. This time it ws about history of Namibia and first genocide of the 20th century. Germans on local herero people. Its sad to come across with those realities of history.. It's a 50 minute informative documentary. If anyone who plans to visit Namibia should watch this beforehand. It was a 2005 documentary if I am not mistaken.
We also started to watch Micheal Palin's 80- days around the world. Although its relatively old documentary we had fun watching first two episodes. Will fast forward the rest 5 episodes soon.
Now we plan to watch National Geography's Madagascar documentary.
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