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- Comedians Rhod Gilbert, who visited the country earlier, and Greg Davies, new to bad roads, cross land-locked Nepal's Himalaya from the Indian to the Chinese border via capital Kathmandu. Their bickering takes a back seat to awe at the mighty but daunting Himalaya and the importance of roads, despite the existence of ancient trade routes by tiny mountain paths mostly a neighbors-sponsored novelty since the middle of the 20th century, for the previously utterly isolated local farmers and towns.
- Crossing the former Soviet republic of Georgia from Azerbeidjan trough capital Tiblisi, then to legendary Svanetia and the Black Sea, actor Hugh Bonneville and comedian Jessica Hynes admire the varied landscapes and mostly isolated town in idyllic valleys and daunting Caucasian mountains. They wonder if roads, however practical for the locals, and touristic infrastructure built all over the place, despite political near-encirclement by hostile neighbors, may spell the end of pristine culture and traditions.
- This time sees actor Stephen Mangan and comedian Lara Ricote, who have never met before, aim to reach the northernmost point of Australia.
- Marcus Brigstoke and Phil Jupitus cross Bolivia, where poorly maintained roads are a major death cause, starting from the Andes Highland. Trough plain with lakes where salt is extracted, they continue to the world's greatest silver mines in Potosi.
- Comedians Maisie Adam and Suzi Ruffell wouldn't call themselves road aficionados - it took 10 goes to pass their driving tests between them - but they're tackling Morocco anyway.
- From the Peruvian coast, professional adventurer Ben Fogle, who knows the country a bit, and comedian Hugh Dennis cross the Andes and follow the historic mission road through Amazonia. They continue even smaller roads all the way to the country's geographical center, where president Pasco planned a new capital, Constitucion, a project which failed so badly it doesn't even appear on recent maps.
- Writer-actor and David Baddiel and actor-writer Hugh Dennis drive the long, bumpy road van Ethiopian capital Addis Abeba to Axum, the ancient Coptic center that claims to hold the Arc of the Covenant. The Italian colonization constructed it as part of a network to enable effective control over the temporarily subdued native empire, a complex tapestry of Christian and Muslim peoples and tribes. The nation's mismanagement o-under the communists and civil war left their mark on road and areas it crosses. The poor infrastructure is part of general underdevelopment and widespread poverty, with modest tourism regardless of a rich heritage in historic and natural monuments.
- Actor-presenter-comedian Angus Deayton manages to stay spotless except for one incident, unlike his BBC acquaintance, journalist Mariella Frostrup, while they travel from Madagascar's East coast to the north eastern pristine forest at the end of the rain season. The mud transforms the poor roads into slippery slopes, many of the numerous bridges are out of order, the pauper population can supply little more then experience and tenacity.
- Long-standing British buddies actor-writers Ed Byrne and Andy Parsons embark on an adventurous drive over the Kolyma tract, the world's coldest land road. It starts in Yakutsk, smack in the icy (-50 to -70 Celsius!) center of Siberia and goes to the still frozen ocean coast. dangers abound for vehicle (the motor may never be shut off) and passengers (whose urine would freeze their cocks off unless kept moving). Yet constructing the 'bones route' was far worse still, a job that cost an estimated million lives among the convicts in dozens of gulags, mostly founded for this project and abandoned except where mining remains.
- Ed Gamble and Lou Sanders have been friends for years, so much so that she's bought a 'his 'n' hers' set of driving gloves to tackle a dangerous 1000 kilometres of Iceland.
- A female British pair sets out driving along the Ho Chi,Minh Trail, set out in the jungle by the Viet Cong, mainly to supply their southern attacks on the US troops. In reunited victor Vietnam, it now leads trough a country in economic expansion, popular with tourists. When it diverges into Laos, that landlocked country's much weaker economy is reflected in the poor state of the road.
- Seasoned adventurer Charley Boorman brings experience from six continents, while his companion, comedian Sue Perkins, is a rookie tourist whose only asset is a big mouth. Starting from Alaska's coast, they head for and follow the dreaded Dalton Highway. It was built by the oil sector, which generates 85% of the state's revenue, to supply its pipeline staff, private cars like their 4x4 remain rare insects among the company's colossal road monsters. The end of winter is a super-dangerous season, as ice becomes unstable and seeping waters turns into floods, while snow storms remain omnipresent.
- Certified 'indoors' man Phil Wang convinces best friend Pierre Novellie - also not much better at outdoors stuff - to join him in Africa's kingdom in the sky.
- Jamie-Lee O'Donnell and Saoirse-Monica Jackson, who are best friends and stars of the hit sitcom Derry Girls, head way out of their comfort zone as they tackle rugged Romania.
- This time sees long-term mates Joe Wilkinson and Zoe Lyons, who've travelled to gigs together for years, take on the wilds of eastern Turkey.
- Darren Harriott is a former bouncer and self-confessed city boy, while Ria Lina is full of adventurous spirit with a PhD and autism. How will they fare travelling in South Africa?
- Actor Will Mellor cajoles one of his best mates - comedian Keith Lemon - to join him on a high octane road trip in Albania.