Mouk Season 1, Episode 19: Don't Judge a Cactus by its Prickles

Lucky Charm

Mouk and Chavapa are in the Sahara desert and they must give Zerda a charm bracelet to bring him luck in the dromedary race. On the way, they meet Acha, a young musician and Didi, her dromedary.

The Desert Archaeologists

Mouk and Chavapa are passing through the region of Tassili where they meet Dalila, a young girl whose parents are archaeologists. They decide to help the family with the dig.

Urgent Delivery

Mouk and Chavapa are in Greece. They come across the postman whose truck has broken down. Our two friends offer to deliver invitations for the fair that will take place that evening to all the inhabitants of the village...

Stone Giants

Mouk and Chavapa are staying with their friend Amaruk in Canada. They go ice fishing but everything is so white they have trouble going back to the village...

The Birthday Present

Mouk and Chavapa are in Japan. They just bought a gift for the twins' birthday and take a break in the park before going to the post office. But the lady next to them picks up the wrong bag and leaves with their toys...

Small is Beautiful

It's Mouk and Chavapa's last day in Tokyo. Their friend Miiko has promised to show them a very quiet and peaceful place, which is very different from everything else they have seen in Tokyo.

A Helping Hand

Mouk and Chavapa are in Africa. They give their friend Bouba, who's playing the drums at his cousin's wedding, a hand. But he's not the only one who needs help...

The Stick that walked away

Mouk and Chavapa are in Venezuela, in the rain forest. They make a new friend, Taptuk, and are amazed to discover several animals they have never seen before, like a giant stick insect and leafcutter ants.

Turtle Time

Mouk and Chavapa are in Madagascar to watch turtle eggs hatching on the beach. But Mouk is such in a hurry he does not listen to his friend's recommendations when Anosy tries to tell him about local customs.

In the Paddy Fields

Mouk and Chavapa are in Vietnam and are playing with paper boats. Linh Hue tells them they shouldn't have lifted the water gates... If the water drains out of the paddy fields, the rice plants will dry out!

Whoops, we missed the Bus

Mouk and Chavapa are in the Andes. While they are running some errands, the bus leaves with their bikes attached to it! Api is going to help them catch up with the bus... by mule.

Out of Contact

Mouk and Chavapa are in Darjeeling, India. Popo and Mita ask them to take pictures of the tea harvest for a presentation they have to make at school.

The Great Crossing

Mouk and Chavapa are in Venezuela. Chavapa gets a flat tyre in the middle of the rainforest. Alouatta, a friendly man they meet, offers to take them to the next village in his boat.

Holi

Mouk and Chavapa are in India. They want to go to the famous Holi celebration but they don't know what exactly it is all about. Hopefully, Kalpita, a little Indian girl, will guide them...

Goal

Mouk and Chavapa are in Brazil. They don't want to miss the big football match on TV. Ronaldo and Paolo, two elderly men who are watching the broadcast invite them to sit with them.

In Search of the Yeti

Mouk and Chavapa are in Tibet. They walk with a guide to a monastery high in the mountain for a traditional celebration. Will they come across the terrible Yeti, or is it just a legend?

In Search of the Caribou

Mouk and Chavapa are in Canada. They're watching a herd of caribous when Mouk's scarf flies away...and gets caught in a caribou's antlers!

Good as New!

Mouk and Chavapa are in Senegal. Mouk accidentally breaks the basket of his friend Bouba's bicycle. In order to mend it, Mr Dialo advises them to pay a visit to Ousman, a magician who gives things new life.

The Best Dressed Elephant

Mouk and Chavapa are in India. They meet Mina and Meera, twin sisters who are looking for the lost elephant they want to paint for their grandmother's birthday. Our two friends help the girls to find it and paint it.

Bicycle Race

Mouk and Chavapa are in Crete. They support Cassandra in the annual bicycle race and help her father Kalmos to supply water to all the competitors. Unfortunately, the young girl loses her number and faces elimination.

Star Struck

Mouk and Chavapa are in Australia. While looking for the observatory, they lose their way in the outback. Fortunately, Kelly's grand-father is the housekeeper of the observatory and can lead them to it.

Pink Dolphin

Mouk and Chavapa are in Venezuela. With their friend Joropo, they come across a dolphin stuck in a net. Joropo and Mouk decide to go to an old fisherman's hut to see if they can find something to free the dolphin.

Yee Ha Cowboy

Mouk and Chavapa are in Argentina, where they meet Chaco. Chaco is a cowboy. Mouk and Chavapa offer to give him a hand, but they will soon find out that herding cows isn't as easy as they think.

The Indian Vase

Mouk and Chavapa are staying with their friend Kalpita in India. They are watching Bollywood films on TV, but when Chavapa starts dancing in the living room, he knocks over a vase!

Paper Chase

Mouk and Chavapa are in Tokyo and Mita and Popo set up a treasure hunt in the Yoyogi Park for them. Racing from one clue to another, will they solve the mystery?

Above the Trees

Mouk and Chavapa are delivering packages to their friend's father in the Amazon. While taking some of the packages up to an aerial platform, Mouk and Chavapa accidentally get stuck in a tree glider above the forest canopy.

Baobab Café

Mouk and Chavapa are in Madagascar. Their friend Anosy introduces them to her aunt and uncle who run The Baobab Cafe. Anosy's aunt and uncle want them to try their home-made ice cream, but the ice-cream machine isn't working!

The Art of Milking a Yak

Mouk and Chavapa are in Tibet. Their friend Pasang teaches them to milk a yak, but Chavapa seems better at it than Mouk, whose hands are too cold.

Viva la Pinata!

Mouk and Chavapa are in Mexico. They are invited to Maya's 15th birthday. While helping with the preparation, Mouk accidentally sits on Maya's piñata...

Nile and Easy

Mouk and Chavapa are in Egypt. They rent a dhow to sail the Nile. Captain Abdel shows them the tricks of the trade...

Wallaby's Rock

Mouk and Chavapa are in the Australian bush. They come across a rock band: The Wallabies. Unfortunately, the musicians have a problem with sound for their concert. Mouk and Chavapa offer their help...

Nazca

Mouk and Chavapa are in Peru to see the Nazca drawings... they get there too late and miss the plane which flies over the drawings. Mouk is very disappointed, he had a dream about the drawings and was very eager to see them.

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The Cloud Catcher

Mouk and Chavapa are in the Atacama Desert in Chile. As they help their friend Pepito repair a leak, they discover the clever cloud-catcher system which provides water for people living in the desert.

A Message For You

Mouk and Chavapa are in New York. Serissa, Popo and Mita's cousin, is throwing a party for her birthday, so Mouk and Chavapa are looking for the perfect gift to give their friend. But as they run around New York's stores, Mouk keeps on seeing people who look like their friends Popo and Mita. It's impossible, they don't live in New-York...What's going on?

Little Fish Grow Up

Mouk and Chavapa are in Crete. They help Cassandra's uncle to release baby fish into the sea. They learn how to read a nautical map and the basic signs used in diving.

Runaway Robot

Mouk and Chavapa are in Japan. Their friend Atu shows them her robot which can move, talk and pick up things. But Chavapa appears to have broken it and now the robot has gone crazy!

Birdsong

Mouk and Chavapa are in Hong Kong. Chavapa is really excited because there will be a Kung Fu demonstration later on today. Mouk and Chavapa meet Bao, a nice boy who has a well-trained bird, Nim. Unfortunately, Nim gets scared and flies away. Mouk and Chavapa try their hardest to put Nim back in his cage, but it's not as easy as it sounds...

Dinosaur Trail

Mouk and Chavapa are visiting their friend Tucson and his Mum, who is working in Utah. Her job is to make special resin casts - copies - of dinosaur footprints.

The Bamboo Plantation

Mouk and Chavapa are in Vietnam. They play hide and seek with their friend Linh Hue in the bamboo plantation where her aunt makes all sorts of objects out of bamboo.

Hanami

Mouk and Chavapa are in Japan. They celebrate Hanami in a park. They want to take the most original photo of a cherry tree but a crow steals Chavapa's camera!

Wallabies' Clip

Today, Mouk and Chavapa are in Australia. They're going to help Ernest clean the stones. Chavapa, the camera king, can't help taking pictures and filming everything he sees with his camera.

Bossa Nova

Mouk and Chavapa are in Brazil. They help their friend Miguel find his sheets of music so he can play clarinet with his Uncle Sergio, a great bossa nova musician.

Puppet Masters

Mouk and Chavapa are in Vietnam. Lin Hue needs help to prepare the village's puppet show. They're about to discover what goes on behind the scenes and how the magic really works.

Rickshaw

Mouk and Chavapa are in India. They want to see the Taj Mahal at sunset. Unfortunately, both their bikes break going down a slope. They borrow Balbir's rickshaw but they are not at the end of their troubles...

Yummy, Maple Syrup!

Mouk and Chavapa are in Canada. Abey shows them how to harvest maple syrup in order to bake a maple syrup tart for them.

Souq Surprise

Mouk and Chavapa are in Morroco. Tariq's mum sends them to the souq to buy cinnamon and almonds so she can make almond gazelles. Once there, they have an incredible adventure.

Two Wheeled Hero

Mouk and Chavapa are in Canada. Chavapa didn't get much sleep the night before because an owl kept making noises. Chavapa realises that the owl is in fact stuck inside a shed, so Mouk, Chavapa and Amaruk try to let it out.

Instruments Do Grow On Trees!

Mouk and Chavapa are in Venezuela. In order to play in a surprise concert, they go in the forest with their friends Joropo and Raina: they're looking for tarapas, fruits which are used to make maracas.

Kabuki

Mouk and Chavapa are in Tokyo. Mouk and Chavapa will see for the first time the art of Kabuki, the oldest form of theatre in Japan...

Hockey

Mouk and Chavapa are in Canada visiting their friends Abey and Tadi. While they're playing ice hockey, Mouk's stick breaks, so they decide to go see Oki, a former champion ice hockey player. Will he fix Mouk's stick?

Aurora Borealis

Mouk and Chavapa are visiting their friends Aki and Aku in the North Pole. Today is Chavapa's birthday and he's very impatient to know what Mouk and the twins got him, so he searches the hut for his present.

The Parrot Feather

Mouk and Chavapa are in Bolivia. Their computer's battery is flat. Their friend's uncle sends them a parrot's feather, berries and bananas so they can talk to their friends Popo and Mita. But what is this all about?

A Forgetful Day

Mouk and Chavapa are visiting their friend Aty in Japan. After their picnic in the park, Mouk and Chavapa decide to go to the shops to find a present for Atu. But Mouk left his backpack at the park and they have to go back.

Cariamas (The Bird Hunt)

Mouk and Chavapa are in Borneo. They head in to the forest with Juan, their friend Luis' father, to find Ppette, a Great Argus. And to do so, they use a satellite tracker.

The Olive Festival

Mouk and Chavapa are in Crete. Cassandra is going to sing in a festival in the afternoon. Unfortunately, she breaks her xylophone and can't sing without it. Hopefully Petros can repair it in time.

Pottery

Mouk and Chavapa are in Crete. They must bring some pudding to their friend Cassandra. Unfortunately, all the shops are closed.

Windmill

Mouk and Chavapa travel by bus in the outback with Sidney, his father and two other passengers: Nina and her grandmother. Unfortunately, the bus breaks down and there no water left in the radiator.

Whistling Language

Mouk and Chavapa are in Africa, visiting their friend Bouba. Chavapa's bike has disappeared. Chavapa is very sad. What happened? Who took his bike? How are Mouk and Chavapa going to continue their world tour?

Christmas in the Sun

Mouk and Chavapa are in Madagascar. It's Christmas and they agreed that they'd have to put up the best Christmas decorations on Christmas Eve. But Chavapa is very upset because they don't celebrate Christmas in Madagascar.

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The Barter

Mouk and Chavapa are in the Sahara desert. They are going to the berber's camp's barter but Chavapa does not want to barter any of their things. Mouk finds a nice stone with a snail drawn on it but no one seems interested.

Shooting Stars

Mita is upset, she and Popo have fallen out, so Mouk and Chavapa tell her how they wish on lots of shooting stars.

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