Amazing Train Journeys

Namibia

Directed by Alex Badin
S8 • E1    Jul 19, 2018    55m
8.27.0
Beginning of the journey on a railway line in the middle of the wild life; in the savanna giraffes, antelopes.A woman arrives and explains that they must wait for a moment; the train may be late.And then train arrives: only a wagon for passengers, the other wagons are for freight.On board many students, mothers and children.Philippe stops his travel and visits a baboons sanctuary: there a man is taking care for orphan baboons, Philippe enjoys this moments with these baboons.Then Philippe takes again the railway line to Windhoek.A very short stay in Windhoek and departure for the Desert of Namib.Philippe enjoys the landscape but a young Namibian woman doesn't enjoy this landscape ( she dreams of white spaces with spring water).The train stops: sand on the railway line: A special team has come to take off the sand from the railway line.Further at Sossusvlei Philippe walks in the desert: another planet with sand, clay and dead trees.Suddenly Philippe meets a marathon runner, a 49 years old woman who is training in the desert.Then in the north of Namibia at Tsumeb Philippe takes a train towards the Kalahari desert, Namibian passengers are happy to speak with Philippe; we are now in the bush and Philippe will encounter Cashe, a bushman.On the morning Cashe, the hunters and Philippe will try to catch porcupines or small antelopes, they walk a lot and come back with only a big frog : the bushmen explain him that they live with simplicity, the nature gives all that they need.

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