Around the World in 80 Days - Episode 02: Arabian Frights

BBC, Michael Palin

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Title: Around the World in 80 Days - Episode 02: Arabian Frights
Producer: BBC, Michael Palin
Category: Around the World in 80 Days, Travel
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Added: Oct 26th 2010
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Palin arrives in Alexandria, Egypt and has difficulty getting a train to Cairo. On arrival, he attends a local football match and appears in a cameo role in an Egyptian film. After seeing the Pyramids in Giza and riding a camel named Michael, Palin runs into difficulties when the ship he was supposed to board has engine problems and cannot sail. Even though he is able to take a ferry from the city of Suez to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, he misses a key connection that would have taken him to Muscat. As a last ditch effort to save the journey, Palin and the director Clem Vallance are permitted by the Saudi authorities to drive across Saudi Arabia to Dubai, with the rest of the crew (and their problematic camera equipment) making the journey by air.

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