Synopsis
Simon Reeve follows the Tropic of Cancer, here crossing the dangerous, land-mined border between Morocco and Mauritania.
- Programme: Tropic of Cancer with Simon Reeve
- Episode: Western Sahara to Libya
- Channel: BBC Two
- Broadcast year: 2012
- Geography | Locational Geography | Morocco | Physical and Human Characteristics
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