S2E5: Christmas – The Sahara | The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan

Duration: 59'03''

Synopsis

Rom visits the Sahara Desert. Guided by Bobo, a local of Berber descent, Rom discovers a place that is vast and inhospitable - at once impossibly bleak and impossibly beautiful.

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