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2010 - 2012 7 seasons 57 eps Returning series

Mythical Roads

2010 - 2012 7 seasons 57 eps

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52 min

S7 · E1 Feb 26, 2012

Eden Episode 1

Since its mouth on the high plateaus of Angola, the Okavango winds through Namibia before reaching Botswana. Thousands of years ago, a geological accident cut its crazy race towards the Indian ocean. Since then, it's trapped into the burning sands of Kalahari and its flows explodes in thousands of channels, streams, lagoons and lakes.

52 min

S7 · E2 Mar 4, 2012

Ex-Yugoslavia: The Road of the New Republics Episode 2

From the breakup of Yugoslavia twenty years ago, Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Montenegro, Kosovo, and Macedonia have emerged. Through the language, the arts or the sport, each country tries to recreate its image and foster a collective sense.

52 min

S7 · E3 Mar 11, 2012

Gabon: The Great Forest Episode 3

The director Laurent Bouit went to Gabon, a country half the size of France, inhabited by one-and-a-half million people, and covered at 85% by the large African forest some people call the Green Hell. In the forest, preferred habitat of the Pygmies, gorillas and elephants are the kings.

52 min

S7 · E4 Mar 18, 2012

Outside Indonesia Episode 4

Indonesia is often said to be a virus inoculator, that of geographical greed which makes you salivate at the idea of jumping from an island to another and meet new cultures. When one is piqued, addicted to this immensity, each crossing towards a new island is a jump into the unknown. The last census of 2002 reports 18,307 islands, emerged witnesses of what geographers called the fire bow.

52 min

S7 · E5 Mar 25, 2012

In Kerouac's Footsteps Episode 5

The road is one of the big American's myths. Surveyed by Jack London in the beginning of the 20th century, hobos during the Great Depression or traced back in the apocalyptic novel of Cormac McCarthy, Jack Kerouac has made its own road and transcribed it on a continuous roll of 36 meters that takes place as a journey in the American night's craziness.

52 min

S7 · E6 Apr 1, 2012

National Road 40 Episode 6

Marc Mopty decided to drive us to Argentina, this large country in South America, in one of the longest and highest roads of this continent : the Ruta Quaranta. From North to South, from Bolivia to Patagonia along the ancient road of the Andean mountains' Incas. But he chose to do it upside down beginning by the kilometer 5,200, on the Bolivian border, to the kilometer 0 of Magellan strait.

52 min

S7 · E7 Apr 8, 2012

Ulysses' Road Episode 7

3,000 years after Homer's Odyssey, his hero's journey, Ulysses, in Mediterranean, remains a inexhaustible source of inspiration. The director Jeanne Mascolo de Filippis leaves for this mythical trip. From Turkey to Tunisia, from Italy to Spain, from Gibraltar to Greece, she went meeting today's Mediterranean people.

52 min

S7 · E8 Apr 15, 2012

The Road of the Dragon: Vietnam Episode 8

It begins with a legend. According to an ancient belief, the Vietnamese people is rooted from the union between a dragon and a fairy. The mythic dragon, one of the four sacred animals in Vietnamese folklore and legends, has an important place in the country's culture, appearing on almost every monument - palaces, pagodas, temples, tombs and houses.

8 episodes in Season 7

Whether remote or packed with tourists, recent or old, famous or forgotten, certain routes are paved with legends. This series explores itineraries that have made history across five continents. As historical symbols, these routes now fire the imagination of millions of people in search of adventure and freedom.

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Christophe Cousin Director

Director Writer

Christophe Cousin

Total runtime 49h 24m · Episode length 52 min · Type Documentary

Show info

Premiered

January 1, 2010

Final episode

April 15, 2012

Status

Returning series

Country

France

Type

Documentary

Episode length

52 min

Total runtime

49h 24m

Original language

French

Languages

Original title

Routes Mythiques

Spoken on screen

English · French · Spanish

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