Wild Arabia - A Golden Visual Treat

I had a sneak preview of the series a few weeks ago, and I was mesmerised. Great storytelling, enigmatic landscapes and more wildlife than I ever thought we'd see from what is often perceived as just a dry and dusty corner of the world. Long-legged jerboa leaping 10 times their body length to escape a desert fox, horned viper hunting glow in the dark scorpions and Bedouin nomads racing their camels across the largest sand desert in the world. But, this is not just a land of sand, episode two reveals 'The Jewel of Arabia'. - the Dhofar Mountains. Swept by the annual Indian Ocean monsoon, this range becomes a magical lost world of waterfalls and cloud forests filled with chameleons and honey-badgers. Off-shore an isolated population of rare humpback whales swim with green sea turtles, who come ashore in their thousands as egg eating foxes wait for the feast. Heat-seeking cameras reveal, for the first time ever, striped hyenas doing battle with Arabian wolves. While local researchers come face to face with the incredibly rare Arabian leopard. Surely nowhere evokes more mystery and romance than Arabia.