8.2/1032 votes#1 - Egypt
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 4/12/2010
She begins her adventure on a fishing boat on Egypt's coast, where the Nile spills into the Mediterranean, before capturing the spirit of Agatha Christie in Cairo and enjoying a Nile cruise. She also travels along the river by train, road and felucca sailing boat, and ends the first part of her trip in Aswan, a town the Victorians described as being on the edge of civilisation.
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8.4/1023 votes#2 - Sudan
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 4/19/2010
The actress follows the river into the deserts of Northern Sudan, where she meets the survivor of a crocodile attack and goes in search of the creature. She is then introduced to the treasures of Nubia, an ancient kingdom of Africa ruled by the little-known Black Pharaohs, before visiting Sudan's capital city Khartoum, where she talks to nomads who live in the remote sub-Saharan desert.
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8.1/1023 votes#3 - Ethiopia
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 4/26/2010
The epic river journey brings the actress to Khartoum, where she watches whirling dervishes practising their devotional dancing and experiences a Sudanese beauty treatment that makes use of wood smoke. She then takes a short diversion into Ethiopia's Simien Mountains to meet an unusual group of Olympic hopefuls training in the thin air of the highlands
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8.0/1021 votes#4 - Rwanda
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 5/3/2010
The actress embarks on the last leg of her epic river journey, flying to Juba in southern Sudan where the fragile peace process has enabled a re-emergence of the country's beauty pageants. She then heads to the Murchison Falls in Uganda and encounters some of Africa's wildlife - including hippos, rhinos and an unusual bird called a shoebill. Finally, Joanna meets explorer Cam McLeay who takes her to the source of the Nile, high up in the Rwandan mountains. Last in the series
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Joanna Lumley goes on the trip of a lifetime - exploring the longest river in the world, the River Nile, from sea to source.
Genre:Documentary
Network:ITV1
Season 1 Ratings Summary
"Egypt" is the best rated episode of "Joanna Lumley's Nile" season 1. It scored 8.2/10 based on 32 votes. Directed by N/A and written by N/A, it aired on 4/12/2010. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Sudan".