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Alice Morrison
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!
In this season finale, Alice answers questions from listeners about Morocco, Imlil, expeditions, Africa, Scotland, her motivations, and even more. See you all again in September!
Special thanks to Water by Nature for their wonderful support in organising Alice's rafting adventure.
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Alice is on the front page of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society Wesite!
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Alice is talking about her Saudi trip for the Royal Scottish Geographic Society Inverness - 9 Feb - 7.30
https://www.rsgs.org/Event/alice-morrison-crossing-saudi-arabia-on-foot-inverness
Perth - 10 Feb - 7.30
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Stirling - 11 Feb - 7.30
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Wayward Women: sex, friendship and the midlife reset by Rhonda Carrier and Tracey Davies https://www.amazon.co.uk/Wayward-Women-Friendship-Midlife-Reinvention/dp/1835013597
Alice is on a panel with www.intrepidtravel.com check them out.
Snow pictures from the Atlas Mountains www.instagram.com/aliceoutthere1
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Alice's Interview on GBN
Saudi Arabia Expedition - Asir Adventure
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Saudi Arabia Expedition - Asir Adventure
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The Saudi Gazette's Article about Alice from today's front page.
Alice's Homepage (with maps of her progress).
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Saudi Arabia Expedition - Asir Adventure
Alice's Sponsor: Visit Saudi
The Saudi Gazette's Article about Alice from today's front page.
Alice's Homepage (with maps of her progress).
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Alice's newly minted Wikipedia page!
Alice's Sponsor: Visit Saudi
The Saudi Gazette's Article about Alice from today's front page.
Alice's Homepage (with maps of her progress).
Alice's Instagram
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Alice's Twitter
Alice's Sponsor: Visit Saudi
The Saudi Gazette's Article about Alice from today's front page.
Alice's Homepage (with maps of her progress).
Alice's Instagram
Alice's Facebook
Alice's Twitter
Alice's Sponsor: Visit Saudi
The Saudi Gazette's Article about Alice from today's front page.
Alice's Homepage (with maps of her progress).
Alice's Instagram
Alice's Facebook
Alice's Twitter
After our summer hiatus, we're back! Alice has been training for her 1300 Km walk from Medina, Saudi Arabia to Najran, Yemen. However, her training was not in desert sands, but in the wet, boggy, and midge infested Hebrides off the coast of Scotland.
Among the well watered, and now flowering walnut trees Alice is back in Imlil playing games with the kids in the family compound. We also learn a very useful Tashelheit phrase which is used when departing your host's home.
Alice has returned from her tour down the Berwickshire Coastal Path to a stormy Imlil. After this week's rainy sojourn with her kitties, Alice is returning to Saudi Arabia to appear on a panel at the Hajj and Umrah Conference and Exhibition 2025 in Medina.
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New BBC Series - Arabian Adventures: Secrets of the Nabateans
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Rain has graced thirsty Imlil today! And Alice tells us all about Ashura, the Sunni celebration on the tenth day of the first month in the Islamic calendar.
Watch "Adventures in Arabia: Secrets of the Nabatean":
In the UK - episodes 1 and 2 are on iPlayer - search for Arabian Adventures: Secrets of the Nabateans. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00203rj/arabian-adventures
Watch "Adventures in Arabia: Secrets of the Nabatean":
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Watch "Adventures in Arabia: Secrets of the Nabatean":
In the UK - episode 1 is on iPlayer - search for Arabian Adventures: Secrets of the Nabateans. https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/m00203rj/arabian-adventures
Outside UK on BBC News All times are in GMT so you have to convert
Sat 8 June
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Here is an article about the show: https://www.broadcastprome.com/news/alice-morrison-explores-ancient-nabataean-secrets-in-new-bbc-series/
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Alice was trying out a part of the Intrepid woman’s tour to Saudi Arabia - https://www.intrepidtravel.com/en/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabia-womens-expedition-154003 with guide Sara Omar and a stay at Al Shada Hotel.
She also highly recommends the Intercontinental Hotel, Taif https://www.ihg.com/intercontinental/hotels/us/en/taif/tifha/hoteldetail
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Runner up: Travel Book of the Year! Walking with Nomads
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Morocco to Timbuktu
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Alice is in Saudi Arabia this week working on her potential next adventure. She is also going to the premier performance of "Zarqa Al Yamama" the first Saudi opera!
Alice is safe and sound, but it has been a terrifying and difficult couple of days. We did this episode just to inform our listeners about the conditions in Morocco and to let them know how they can help relieve the suffering in Imlil. We will post information about the GoFundMe page as soon as I, Vic, can get it operational. Alice will post the link on her social media accounts.
Happy and sad news from Imlil this week. Alice is suffering the slings and arrows of outrageous drumming, but there are lovely things to eat accompanying the noise.
Looking for her next adventure, Alice embarks on her first journey to Saudi Arabia. What she experiences is at odds with her expectations.
After a week's delay (Alice's fault) we are back. Alice is in Scotland and had a rather unfortunate encounter with a sticky-fingered person just before leaving Morocco.
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If you would like to help Salve with their noble mission their website is: www.salveinternational.org
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If you would like to help Salve with their noble mission their website is: www.salveinternational.org
Alice will be climbing the volcano Mount Elgon in Uganda with SALVE who work to get Street kids back to their families and into school
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Adventures in Morocco and Walking with Nomads are now audiobooks and all the links to buy are listed here www.alicemorrison.co.UK/books
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Have we mentioned that Alice is a Best Selling Author? Well, she is:
Dodging Elephants
Morocco to Timbuktu: An Arabian Adventure
Adventures in Morocco
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Dodging Elephants is available from Amazon.
Dodging Elephants by Alice Morrison
Finally able to leave her apartment, Alice shares a lovely cup of tea high in the Atlas Mountains, changes her propane tank, and is a cartwheel witness.
Alice's best selling book "Adventures in Morocco" is available on Amazon.
Big news – it has stopped snowing in the Atlas Mountains and Alice is thawing out. In this week’s episode of Alice in Wanderland, Vic tells us why you get bonus points for having group sex in the woods in Norway and Alice reels at the very thought. Stay safe friends!
Since the last podcast, the world has imploded with coronavirus. Alice and Vic talk about how it is affecting them in Morocco and Norway respectively. Vic faces some real challenges: his wife is almost certain to be infected as she is an Ear, Nose and Throat doctor. Alice decided to go back into Morocco from London as that is where her home is and is now dealing with the consequences of that decision. We’ll be upping the podcasts to once a week for the duration, and, for a bit of relief from corona, do check out Alice’s Instagram @aliceoutthere1 for a daily dose of beauty from the mountains and deserts. Stay safe.
Alice is in London this week, so she tells us about her cultural shock at being among so many people after weeks of the great nothing. We also talk about her amazing experience with some school children in Liverpool, giving feedback about her expedition gear, hiking in the Atlas Mountains, second breakfast, and, of course, coronavirus complications.
Now south of Bir Gandouz, Alice, the camels, and her team are nearing the end of their trek through the Western Sahara. In this episode, Alice tells us about land mines, Azwo the dog, a boat graveyard, and, of course, being very nearly at the end!!
Now, south of Dahkla, Alice has had a difficult two weeks since last we spoke. Wind, heat, quicksand, and the great nothingness have taken their toll on the expedition. However, Alice and her team have made good progress and are continuing to push on toward their goal.
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.
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.
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’s amazing to be able to discover these millennia old traces of human life for yourself hidden in the sands.
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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 expedition is to explore this virtually unknown part of the Sahara and I will be tracking the deathstalker scorpion, hunting for meteorites, investigating the unique sand statues of the south, and searching for the lost great bird monuments which lie hidden in the dunes.
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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 Academy for Young Ladies, where I had to wear two sets of knickers – under and over – and a velour hat to church. NO idea why the two sets of knickers but they did help keep the nethers warm in the freezing winters of an unheated school in Edinburgh!
At Edinburgh University, I studied Arabic and Turkish and discovered the joys of the Poetry Society and the Socialist Worker’s club – both joined because I fancied the guy that ran them. Six memorable months were spent living in Damascus with my lifelong (now!) friend and fellow Arabist Martin, where we faced down the secret police and survived on a diet of bread, condensed milk and jam because I was a terrible cook.
After university I spent two years teaching English in Cairo and exploring the country. Hitchhiking on military trucks across the Western Desert and spending afternoons sleeping with the stray dogs in the shade of the Pharaonic temples of the Luxor.
Moving to London, I pursued a career in journalism which had started in Dubai at “What’s On in Dubai”. My first job was with Technical Review Middle East (there is nothing she doesn’t know about concrete decay). From there to Middle East Broadcasting, the original Arabic Satellite News Station, with my first assignment being to produce coverage in the USA for the Clinton Election. My next step was to BBC News with jobs on BBC World TV and then BBC Arabic TV. I rose quickly (ish) through the ranks in BBC News and was recruited to help launch the BBC News Channel where I went on to become co-Editor of the daytime hours which meant I was in charge of all the BBC News Channel output between 10 am and 8 pm. I was one of only three female news editors in the corporation at the time. My speciality was managing the complexities of live, breaking stories in the news gallery, and one of my abiding memories is causing higher ups to almost have cardiac arrests when I threw live to the George Michael arrest press conference in the USA when the details of his cottaging were revealed – apparently that was not what the British news-watching public wanted to watch at teatime with the kids.
For the new millennium I moved North to Manchester and onto the internet www.supanet.com where we built the ISP’s content from six pages to one million pages in two years; oversaw content deals with all the major players and attracted six million users. Happy days! I also started to break out into mini adventures squeezed into the holidays: the Snowdon Challenge, crossing Costa Rica coast to coast, Kilimanjaro, ice climbing in the Andes, climbing the Ruwenzoris….
In 2002, I plunged into public service when I was appointed as CEO of Vision+Media, a quango dedicated to growing the creative industries in the Northwest and remained there for nine years. I am proud that I managed – with my Board and my Team – to build the company from a modest start of £830k funding annually to £10 million, move it into brand new premises in Salford’s media city, work closely with the BBC Move North team and delivered 10x value to funders. However, following Tory government cuts in 2011 we were no longer viable, so I merged the company into Creative England and cast off my pinstripes for lycra."
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 and if a man who is not immediate family comes in, the women all retreat into their house. Hafida’s house is the big one and that is where we all went for breakfast. When I say all, I mean the women and children as the men ate in a separate room. “It is for respect, Alice” the women told me. “So, that we can all be comfortable.”
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 three months, beginning on 26 November 2019 (inchallah) and she will be travelling with her Draa Expedition team of three Amazigh (Berber) guides, Brahim Ahalfi, Brahim Boutkhoum and Addi ben Youssef, and five camels: Alasdair, Hamish, Callum, Murdo and Sausage. This time, though, one more camel is being added to the team to help carry water – Hunter, who was named after Alice.
The expedition is being organised by Jean-Pierre Datcharry of Désert et Montagne Maroc who has 40 years of experience in the region.