Hello, I'm Lale Arakoglu, and this is a brand new episode of Women Who Travels. At the end of last year, Shana Sabib talked at length about avoiding obsessive adherence to bucket lists

and encouraged us all to be more intentional and thoughtful with our travels.

It got us thinking about a trend that we talk a lot

about at Coninass Traveller, slow travel. So over the next few months, we'll be digging into what that

term actually means and how to incorporate that mindset into the way we see and experience the world.

For me, slow travel is really walking and it's one of the ways I really love to see a country

is to walk across it because I think by doing that, you smell it, you feel it under your

feet, you have the wind or the cold or the sun on your face and it gives you an entirely new depth to what you're

experiencing. Author and BBC presenter Alice Morrison is talking to me from the high Atlas Mountains,

what she dubs the Switzerland of Morocco. I really wanted to do something. I wanted to move. I wanted

to cross something, you know.

Were you always a big walker? All human beings, if you think about it, unless we're differently

able, are big walkers. I mean, you know, once we emerged from the primordial swamp and stood on

our two legs, that's the first thing we did. We migrated. It was almost immediate. So I do think that that kind of desire

to move is absolutely genetically programmed within it. Alice walked across Morocco from the Sahara

to the Atlas Mountains in three parts, keeping a diary and writing notes along the way,

which led to her book, Walking with Nomads. Music in three parts, keeping a diary and writing notes along the way,

which led to her book, Walking with Nomads.

The reason I called my book Walking with Nomads was I was walking with two people who were nomads,

and we met many nomads along the way.

My first stage of this three-stage journey was to walk from Wazazat to a place called Wedshmika,

which is just south of Tantan on the Atlantic coast. The first leg along the Draar River was absolutely fantastic. I found a lost city. I found tombs of the giants. There were these

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