"A road is being constructed across this beautiful wilderness but I am too early for it."

Beautifully filmed, Parallel World shows Nick Sanders' unique, final, seventh circumnavigation and the fourth to be undertaken on the mighty Yamaha R1. Filmed on the road while riding an average 12 hours a day - across 41 countries and over 35 000 miles in less than five months - Sanders' ride across geographic boundaries transports him into an emotional and intellectual world often startling in its uncompromising observations of his Parallel World.

This is the first of three parts and chronicles Nick's journey from London to the southern edge of the Nubian Desert. It is an extraordinary account of the first crossing of this desert, at the onset of summer, on an R1. Perhaps it states the obvious to say that Nick had no back-up support or film crew. This journey as with parts 2 and 3, is done without any on the road technical support.