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Presenter: Ian Wright
Traveller Ian Wright begins his journey in the Middle
East in Jordan. In the Wadi
Rum desert he joins guests at a Bedouin wedding.
Before travelling south to the ruins of Petra
he rides a camel and has a swim in the
Dead Sea.
After Jordan, Ian travels on to Lebanon.
In Beirut he rides with a motorbike
brigade, then heads south into the occupied zone where
he talks to the UN peacekeeping forces.
Ian's next destination is Baalbeck
in the fertile Bekaa valley, one of
the most spectacular Roman temples in the world. It
was a major place of worship sacred to the god Jupiter.
Ian begins his visit to Syria in Damascus,
where he observes the 'jumping sufis' experiencing religious
ecstasy in a mosque, and relaxes in a Turkish bath.
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