Alice in Wanderland

The slower you travel, the more you learn. I’m Alice Morrison, an Adventurer, exploring the ancient trails and life today in Africa and Arabia. Walk with me!

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S01E07, Alice in Wanderland

This week we get to hear about Camel Love, making sand bread, a lonely Mauritanian shepherd, Camel Fighting, sulfurous hot springs, and a wounded donkey.

Jan 16, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 7

S01E06, Alice in Wanderland

After 39 days of sand, wind, and sun, Alice sees green grass! We also hear about Saharan hospitality, Christmas in the desert, and camel sweat.

Jan 02, 2020•17 min•Season 1Ep. 6

After a tough start, we’ve got into our stride on the Sahara Expedition.There HAS been strife though. Our male camels are all hot under the saddle because it is mating season and we have been passing through Sagiyya Al Hamra which has a nomad population with lots of female camels. Check out my Instagram @aliceoutthere1 for pictures. I got to take a break from the camels’ (lack of) sex problems though to explore the incredibly rich prehistoric rock carvings around the desert capital of Smara. It’...

Dec 19, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 5

S01E04, Alice in Wanderland

Thanks for listening to my podcast. Please do subscribe. I try to take you along on my adventures so you can experience them too. At the moment I’m on an epic trek - 2000km across the Sahara - #saharaexpedition - beginning in Oued Chbika, and ending at the southernmost tip and border with Mauritania. The journey is expected to take three months, setting out on November 26th, I am travelling with the same team from the Draa Expedition including three local guides and five camels. The aim of this ...

Dec 05, 2019•28 min•Season 1Ep. 4

S01E03 Alice in Wanderland

From Alice's website: "I was born in 1963 in the Edinburgh Infirmary. Six weeks later, just after my mum had successfully taken her law exams, my parents Jim and Fredi boarded a ship and sailed to Africa. For the first 8 years of my life, I got to run free in the African Bush, roaming around the foothills of the Mountains of the Moon in Uganda, hunting tadpoles and running away from snakes. At the age of 11, by now the family was living in Ghana, it was back to Scotland to St Denis and Cranley A...

Nov 21, 2019•40 min•Season 1Ep. 3

S01E02 Alice in Wanderland

Imlil, Morocco: https://goo.gl/maps/gBoE2jhH6WtqPHHF7 Karma is NOT a Bitch "My douar (compound) is made up of three family houses owned by two brothers and an uncle and their wives and children, my little house, and then a downstairs for the cow and the chickens. In the middle, there is a communal yard where the kids play. It is enclosed with a big double door at the end which is locked at night and it is very traditional. I am the only woman who leaves the compound without wearing a full veil a...

Oct 24, 2019•32 min•Season 1Ep. 2

S01E01 Alice in Wanderland

In March 2019, Explorer Alice Hunter Morrison became the first woman to walk the length of the River Draa in Morocco. She discovered a lost city, found the tombs of the giants and was confronted with the dire effects of climate change on once viable land. Now, she is taking on the Sahara, the biggest hot desert in the world. The expedition will cover 2000km, beginning in Oued Chbika on the Atlantic and ending at Morocco’s southernmost tip and its border with Mauritania, La Guera. It will take th...

Oct 17, 2019•5 min•Season 1Ep. 1

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