KLOK TV presents
„Czechs, Trabant and South Africa – that is too much.“
ACROSS AFRICA – BY TRABANT
There should be a road,
but there aren‘t any…
2 STROKES
We'll destroy more things here
than we'd have destroyed if … Shit!
2 CYLINDERS
It's not like almost seized up,
it's just seized up.
2 TRABANTS
That's what it's all about.
That it's not easy.
20 000 KILOMETRES
QUOTATION
„Have a healthy disrespect
for the impossible.“
Larry Page, the founder of Google
Dan Priban - leader, driver and mechanic
I hope to get out of here soon. (titulek spolu s ním dole v obraze)
If only we could get started on the easy
part – the way to Cape Town
and this unbelievable bureaucracy and
stupid dealings with consulates was over.
Try the gears again.
Hold it, hold it, hold it.
That's it...
Ease up on the choke and step on it.
And open the gas!
-It's a motorbike with reverse.
-Yeah, it's a motorbike in disguise.
I think we'll understand one another.
00:01:55
Trabant 601 Universal. 26 horsepower, 2 cylinders, engine capacity 600cc, plastic bodyshell. Only a bicycle is more simple. We have two of them, called Egu and Babu. They cost 200 Euros each to buy and 2,000 to repair. They look like new. Or they will look like new. Hopefully.
00:02:18
Jan Martin Kozel, cameraman
I don't know yet what I should be afraid of.
Basically nothing terrible can happen.
Ales Jungbauer, bosun
I'm not afraid but I'm worried.
00:02:28
Why a trabant? Because we don't have a land rover. And we are tired of hearing that it's not possible. 80 years ago it was possible. Back then Czech explorers, Mr. Foit and Mr. Baum, travelled across Africa in a car even more primitive. We will follow in their tracks. Without sat-nav, satellite phone and other „must haves“.
00:02:53
Pavel Simek, photographer and driver (titulek nahoře)
I'm afraid of spiders and that
we'll run out of gas somewhere.
But we've got really big canisters
so it shouldn't happen.
And if they don't fly away like my
sleeping mat nothing will stop us.
-So you think you will get there?
-Absolutely. The only question is where.
To the Cape!
ONE HOUR TO THE OFFICIAL DEPARTURE
It doesn't look so good…
THREE HOURS LATER
00:03:26
We already have African manners. We arrived last to our own departure. But it was OK. Everybody was just afraid they'll never see us again. 00:03:42
Klara Handrejchova, producer and driver (titulek nahoře)
First – start the engine, then find
first gear and then off it goes.
EGU and BABU
EXPEDITIONARY TRABANTS
00:04:13 (MAP AFRICA)
There are 7of us. 5 people and 2 trabants. 20 000 km of Africa lies ahead of us. We're going to go through 11 countries. We need visas for all but one. It took us 3 months, hundreds of dollars and tens of stamps and forms to get them. We still don't have visas for Sudan. It could be a problem. We'd like to be in Cape Town in 2 months. Reportedly we can't make it.
00:04:40 (possible 04:52, but there is a music)
00:05:03
But we can. Everything is going smoothly. In 3 days we are in Genoa, our gateway to Africa. 00:05:10
(„How many kilometres?“)
(„20 thousand.“)
(„30 thousand?“)
(„20.“)
(„20 thousand kilometres!... For first time in my liven, leben, first time in my leben I like trabants. Czechs, Trabants and South Africa – that is too much.“)
00:05:44
For over 6 months during our preparations we have been looking forward to leaving Europe. Whatever awaits us on the other side, let it begin. 00:05:51
The Trabant is finally in Africa. Even if
we don't make it any further.
I took a photo of my foot
stepping on the African shore.
00:06:17
But we hadn't experienced a Tunisian petrol station yet. Or enviromental disaster, to be more precise. There is Libyan gas everywhere. Across the border it costs just 2 cents per litre. That's why it's being smuggled here on a huge scale. We asked whether smoking is allowed. It is - but it’s not recommended.
00:06:39
00:06:40 (MAP TUNISIA AND LIBYA)
Tunisia was just a transfer point to Libya. We stayed there less then one day, but the local journalists caught up with us for an interview anyway. They wanted to know what we liked the most there. We confessed we hadn't seen anything. They wrote we liked everything.
00:06:59
This is our deluxe Libyan hotel.
The only downside is we don't sleep
in there but out here in this sand pit.
But we saw the inside later
and it was no great loss.
They locked us in here
and the lights are shining on us.
They can't be switched off,
Gadhafi himself probably controls it.
It is only 49.3 degrees centigrade now.
We already had 50 degrees.
And the temperature is still rising.
00:07:43
It is not easy to shake off our assigned Libyan guards. But we have the Trabants. A whole day spent repairing them got rid of them. The policemen disappeared saying: „You don't need any protection.“ Our guide Massud stayed a little longer. But then he also lost patience. He took our passports and went to the border ahead of us.
00:08:02
-What did he say?
-To pass the checkpoints slowly and smile.
And to call him if we get stopped.
-Al Madar.
-So when we get arrested, we have this cellphone.
QUOTATION
„Allah is great, but make sure
you tie your camel to a post.“
Arab saying
The technical control needed a reading
from the emission terminal.
But the part measuring the emissions
was missing.
It cost 500 Euros
to let these two tiny cars enter the country.
It would be cheaper to buy them here.
They are just Egyptians.
Yet at school they are trained to say:
„Welcome back, welcome to Egypt,
hello mister, hello money.“
He was speaking about getting out
to Egypt all the way through Libya.
00:09:06 MAP EGYPT
Egypt has shown us how one hundred years of intensive tourism can wipe out common sense and decency. We don't want to stay here long. All we have to do is get visas for Sudan. 00:09:20
No, no money. I won't give you anything.
Hi! Ciao!
It's really nice to drive in Cairo.
If you don't look into mirrors, you don't
brake and you just blow the horn.
It's a bit of an adrenaline sport
but it's great.
I don't know what happens
if I drive like this in Prague.
00:10:15
At this local amusement park the musclemen push a small cart loaded with old tyres and a small boy up a slope. And instead of candy floss you can enjoy a potato. 00:10:26
A potato.
Sugar cane is nice.
I like it but some don't.
It's hard to compare it to anything
but it's good.
00:10:55
But not everything was good that evening. 00:10:58
Ales left for Prague because his father died.
We hope he'll come back again.
We agreed to pick him up
in Ethiopia, Tanzania or Kenya. We'll see.
This is Egypt.
You weave your way through children,
rickshaws, horses, donkeys, trucks, bikes,
donkeys, horses, mopeds, cars, buses
and everything else.
And there are these great speed bumps
so that we can't drive quickly.
There is going to be one here.
One – two – three – now!
And that one was rather small.
00:12:03
We are getting out of Cairo! After 14 long days we finally have our Sudan visas. And they did it on the spot! What wasn't possible in Europe was possible in Africa. At least some things work here. And some things don't… 00:12:18
It's not like almost seized up,
it's just seized up.
Oh mine,
this should be free-running there.
These 3 rings originally looked like this.
And the roller bearings
are all over the engine now.
They flew out and got burnt onto things.
We've got lots of spare parts with us
but of course we don't have this.
QUOTATION
“Insha`Allah.“
„God willing.”
Arab wish
00:13:29
Meanwhile a small miracle is happening in Cairo. The vice ambassador himself brought us the bearing we needed. Egu's engine was fixed in the embassy kitchen and rose from the dead. We love this damn continent. On we go! 00:13:52
No, no…
We are finally getting close to the place
where we could get into Sudan.
00:14:12
We don't go and check on the cars. The cars are leaving the next day. They'll go alone, on their own Titanic.
Reliably attached so that they can't fall off.
00:14:26
00:14:45
After an 18 hour long cruise we get to Wadi Halfa. A small place in the southernmost corner of Sudan. There is desert everywhere. This is what we've been waiting for. The customs officer asked us whether we believed in Darwin's evolutionary theory. After some thought we said we didn't. Correct answer. Another stamp for our passports. 00:15:15
We've got a really nice room.
00:15:22
Instead of our cars we repair our clothes. They are falling apart after a month on the road. 00:15:28
Super!
QUOTATION
Mafi mushkilah!
No problem!
Arab saying
00:15:42
After two hot nights spent in the courtyard our Trabants arrive. There's no way to unload them but the main thing is they stayed above water. 00:15:52
00:16:11
The best is yet to come. The captain is looking for a place where the ferry would be level with the wharf. One would think he's doing it for the first time.
After an hour of mad darting around the port he feels satisfied. 00:16:27
Hooray!
We are in Sudan. And with our cars.
00:16:43
It was lucky we loaded and unloaded them ourselves. The 20 metres from boat to shore plus some help from the dockworkers was enough. A Nissan belonging to some Swiss travellers had a dead engine and ripped tyre. Welcome to the real Africa. 00:16:58
(„There are lots of reasons for not going to Cape Town on motorcycle, more than there is reason to go. It´s just to… for the experience, that´s it, that´s a dream.“)
00:17:17 MAP SUDAN
And the dream is here. Hundreds of kilometres of dusty roads. And lying maps. Where there should be a highway there is nothing. Outside of the towns we have no idea where we are. 00:17:35
00:17:40
The Trabant is not a terrain car. So it can get stuck almost everywhere. The only way not to get stuck is to keep going. At full throttle. Even that doesn't always help. 00:17:52
00:17:55
But we can carry our small car whenever we need to… 00:17:59
00:18:03
...and get stuck again 100 meters down the road. 00:18:05
00:18:18
It's just us, desert, and the pyramids here. Nowhere else can you see pyramids like this. We finally got to Meroë. To the most famous pyramids in black Sudan. We don't want to suggest that Sudan is an easygoing country. It's better when there are no people so that the romantics can find the old Egypt they know from adventure stories. 00:18:43
(„Czechoslovakia?“)
(„Yes, Czechoslovakia.“)
(„Very, very… long.“)
00:19:00
Khartoum – a city with a reputation. It doesn't aspire to be on a UNESCO list, but there's no need to be afraid, is there? It's not as bad as it looks on TV. 00:19:10
It's OK.
He calls me buddy and his name's Megdí.
I have to go down 5 sizes to wear these trousers.
They don't sell patches here.
He's just double backed it
and is stitching it for the third time.
00:19:49
We keep losing weight on the way so we don't say no to a titbit. Peeled sugar cane. It tastes like a mixture of melon and wood. 00:20:03
We bought an extension cable,
a plug and a key size no.13
so that we can change the carburator.
It's raining.
We haven't seen it here yet.
It seems we'll be following the rainy season
though by now it should have been over.
00:20:30
It stopped raining in Ethiopia. And the change of religion improved the refreshments. 00:20:38
There's no prohibition here,
so we can drink this Saint George's beer.
It's a pity I don't drink beer,
I'd have some too. Just one.
-So what do you say?
-It's good enough.
00:21:00 MAP ETHIOPIA
If you're looking for contrast, come to the border between Sudan and Ethiopia. On one side, the hell of a thousand shades of yellow sand. On the other, an eden of a million patterns of green. It is a different world with different people. 00:21:15
00:21:20
All the country is situated on plateaus, so it is wet and fertile here. We are ascending to a height of some 3000 metres above sea-level. Here, high up on the flat tops of the Ethiopian highlands, , trees and grass grow in abundance. 00:21:33
00:21:36
We must get used to hearing „jujujuju“ all the time here. Children as well as grown-ups hoot it at us. They get on our bonnets and on our nerves, but that's how it goes here.
We eat the same food as locals. We presume they don't want to get sick. We chose a small pub propped up by a forgotten tank. 00:22:00
00:22:05
The Ethiopian national dish is injera. A sour flat bread we didn't like much. 00:22:16
Ethiopian food is really odd.
You can unroll it like this
and it's a really big pancake.
And we know two Ethiopian words. “Ju.”
And “Amesege`nallo“ – which we always forget.
And we can say „ciao“.
But we already could say it in Italy,
so it doesn't count.
Ciao! Ciao! That's easy, isn't it?
QUOTATION
„Amesege´nallo“
Thank you in Amharic language
„Ciao“
Ciao in Amharic language
00:22:46
Ethiopia has beautiful panoramic views. But what comes up must come down. It's not unusual to go straight down from a height of 3 000 metres to 1 500 metres above sea level. 00:22:58
Holy cow!
Lucky we filled up the brake fluid.
00:23:05
We have a „perfect“ car. It doesn't go uphill and downhill it usually doesn't brake. And when it does brake, it starts to burn. 00:23:12
It must cool down now.
Then we'll have to find some lever.
We'll have to find some lever.
Here in rural Ethiopia.
It seems it was really easy.
One, two, three.
Hell! The lining is completely burned.
We said we'd check it back in Avasa
but you said it wasn't a problem to go with it.
-It wasn't a problem because it used to brake.
-So don't tell me you told me so.
-You didn't want to check it.
-So it's my fault.
-No, it's not your fault.
-Yes, it is.
We must get new lining.
They should know how to do it here.
They should speak English in Addis.
We won't understand them elsewhere.
(„I am hungry.“)
00:24:26
We crossed the African Alps with only three braking wheels and we got to the capital city Addis Ababa, where streets have three names. We were looking for a garage. We were about to give up when Africa saved us. We met a local who asked us in Slovak what it was we needed. He showed us a garage with a willing owner just around the corner. Ethiopia is a land of miracles. 00:24:52
(„Otherwise I´m gonna give you my sim card an you can use my phone.“)
(„As you see, Babu is a little bit sick.“)
It stinks like a skunk.
-Don't brake so much and let it go.
-I am. I stop only when there is a hole.
-OK then. Just let it go. Go across the holes.
-I am letting it go.
-Otherwise the brakes will burn.
-I am letting it go. Honestly.
No, you aren't.
Otherwise you'd go as fast as we go.
I just don't speed up on the flat
as much as you do.
-No, you just don't let it go dowhill.
-I do.
We go 90 km/h downhill,
you find it slow?
See!
QUOTATION
„No brakes. No fear.
Across Africa - By Trabant.
-Hello People in Need.
-Hello Trabants.
00:26:28
You sometimes run into somebody who asks you for some money to help build a school in Africa. So this is her. 00:26:35
00:26:47
Children and felt tip pens just go together. But we offer our cars instead of paper. This way we get something special. The first Trabant to cross Africa with stories of local children on its bonnet. We've just never seen the markers again.
And the children have never seen a sky lantern before. We expected anything but their fearful flight afer we launched one. 00:27:11
00:27:30
The stickers and badges made them come back. Then a school caretaker tried to restore order with a cane, to no effect. 00:27:40
We completely ruined the lessons
in PIN`s nineth school,
so let's leave it to the teachers again
and run way like cowards.
00:28:09
It is nice to see first hand work with a purpose. If there is any aid to Africa that makes sense, it is building schools. Education is what Africa needs the most. 00:28:00
(„Rastafarai, I love to see all the great to come over here to my place. Africa, rastafarai, sound good and beautiful.“)
00:28:44
David Lumumba is the uncrowned king of Shashamane – the capital of Rastafarianism. This charismatic man promotes peace and love through marihuana smoke. He has 4 wives on four continents. New York, Jerusalem, Tokyo and here. 00:29:04
00:29:07
His Ethiopian wife is showing us another local miracle. She roasts green coffee beans, crushes them and boils the powder. Then she does something unexpected. She boils the coffee dregs again. Twice more.
Those who don't find this strong enough chew the Khat leaves. A drug both somewhat stupefying and somewhat stimulating. 00:29:30
(„This is quality chat, etiopian culture. You need some like this, you put it in your car… your eyes gonna be like this, yeah, no way for you to sleep.“)
-It tastes like chewing leaves.
-Should it have a taste?
-It should have some effect.
-I see, OK then.
(„This is my garden. Even here you can get some art. If you look at it very good, you can see something. And I hope, the people of Czechoslovakia can see that, like what me I´m seeing now. It´s very clear. But how you can get it like that, you see. Somebody standing, this is here the head, here is the hand, here is the stomach and here is the reggae. I don´t know, if you see this very good. See, rastafarai.“)
00:30:51
But time passes in a dangerously different way here. So we muster all our courage and head back to reality. Yet we are taking some of Lumumba's philosophy with us. It will come in handy. 00:31:02
00:31:04 MAP KENYA
While Ethiopia was the great unknown for us we were sure Kenya couldn't surprise us. The modern tourist centre of Africa. A state where there is nothing to fear. The opposite was true.
We had the hardest part of our journey ahead of us. The Trans African Highway – an impassable road across a land of bandits hidden in the woods. 00:31:25 (possible 31:45, but there is a music)
Welcome to Kenya.
Kenya looks worse than Kazakhstan.
It is terrible in Kazakhstan
but it is just dust there.
Here, it's mud everywhere.
And they say this is the good road.
We've just been told that it's impossible
to get through with these cars.
We're supposed to load them on a truck
and they're going to transport us like 250 km.
The bad news is
they want 500 dollars for one car
but we really don't have it.
So I don't know what to do.
Everyone keeps saying
we're not gonna make it.
But 800 Euros for 200 km is too much.
We'll see. Welcome to Kenya.
00:3241
After half a day quarreling with drivers and their middlemen all high on khat we managed to negotiate half price. 500 dollars for both of the cars. The biggest mistake of our expedition is about to happen. 00:32:53
There has to be 200 of them here!
Someone bloody stole our security key!
And they keep repeating – sorry.
Look, that's enough!
You tell a black guy to let out some air
and he deflates the tyre completely.
I don't need a pressure gauge
I need it to be inflated, you fool.
Goddam!
Don't you tie anything with that.
(„We agreed I would give you 30.
15 and 15. I gave you 35.
-It's all?
-Yes, that's all.
-And rope?
-I don't want a rope, it's yours, you bought it.
I don't (need) 20 ropes.
I have a lot of my own ropes, I don't need a rope.
-But you buy it.
-You buy it, I don't buy it.
And loading?
I drive my car inside
where is there some loading?!
You don't take my car by your hands,
no loading!
-OK, this is for ropes.
-And commission, my commission?“)
Those chancers put us on a truck
driven by a driver
who has never been here before
and they asked 10 000 for that.
There is no place we could unload it.
And one car bangs against the other.
We'll destroy more things here
than we'd have destroyed if … Shit!
…if we went by road.
00:35:47
We are fed up. We keep arguing with each other though it's nobody's fault. 00:35:53
So now we have to make a ramp here
so that we can unload the cars ourselves.
What was that supposed to mean?
That Allah will help us
unload the Trabant.
It was hard to find a Styrofoam stone
in Africa but I managed.
00:37:03
After 3 days of desperate rattling across a mere 200 km we are back on terra firma, 30 km short of what we paid for. 00:37:12
00:37:14
The road ahead is much worse. We struggle along the famous Trans African Highway. Reportedly Trabants don't stand a chance here. But we're glad we're no longer on the truck. If we were, the Trabants would batter each other to bits. 00:37:29
I followed in your tracks
and I heard something like a cannon shot.
-Shit!
-The connector pipe is fucked and the exhaust.
What about the exhaust?
Really bloody great!
During the useless ride on that cool truck
the bolt holding the cover plate got unscrewed.
The moment Babu hit the first big
stone it broke away.
The stone ran under the length of Babu
and wrecked the pipe and silencer.
So now we had to dismantle it all.
Oddly enough we managed to repair it.
00:38:51
We were warned not to travel at night. We don't know whether it's foolhardy.
But we don't have a choice. We go. Luckily, the bandits we were threatened with didn't show up. 00:39:05
QUOTATION
„TIA – This is Africa.“
African saying
We thought the equator would be in the
middle of nowhere with a monkey on a stick
but it is such a nice tourist attraction.
The shops are numbered from 1 to 31.
This billboard looks quite old.
It's probably authentic.
00:39:33 MAP TANZANIA
We're buying provisions and going to Tanzania. It's a land of policemen who wish you a pleasant journey instead of fining you. Tanzania was finally the Africa we dreamt about. 00:39:47
Gee! Shoot that!
00:40:18
Africa with wild animals and with Kilimanjaro hidden in the clouds. A few hundreds km further, in Tarangire, we broke another taboo. The one that says you can't go into a nature park without a four-wheel drive. Anyway, our two Trabants have got four wheel drive. Two each. 00:40:36
I'm very happy. We've got our Trabant
in a national park. That's a first!
00:40:50
The animals can finally see something really exotic. 2 Trabants in the middle of the African wilderness. 00:40:56
00:41:27
The elephants, giraffes and the lions were unimpressed. Unlike us. We were excited, even over a turtle drinking from a puddle. And we could pick it up and carry it away from the road. 00:41:42
Oh, this monkey is brazen.
I wanted to stab it with my big knife
but it was too quick.
00:42:04
This group of Dutch travellers who've spent the last 20 years travelling the world know how to get about too. Even in clogs. 00:42:11
(„And when we went to the village an were walking in wooden shoes, we lost each other, you ask some people anywhere – Have you seen guys in wooden shoes? And they said – oh yes, over there, over there. It´s for the time before mobile phones.“)
QUOTATION
“Happy Safari.”
African wish
00:42:36
Our progress at night was halted by a terribly bad road. But this time it's possible to bypass it on asphalt. It's almost the same as travelling from Paris to Frankfurt, via Amsterdam. What a brilliant idea. 00:42:47
We are turning around and leaving.
Pavel said we couldn't get through here
but I didn't listen to him.
Well, it's not possible.
Wow, it's like corrugated iron.
00:43:02
We appreciate every kilometre of asphalt and we practice driving on the left. Driving on the left started in Kenya and will last to the Republic of South Africa. Except for the Tanzania-Zambia border, where we were forced to overtake a long column of trucks on the right. 00:43:20
Yeah, it will be OK.
00:43:30 MAP ZAMBIA
After Tanzania, almost Europe-like, we are back in Africa. The amount of papers and customs stamps is unbelievable. Most of the Zambian officers shut their windows on us. Thanks to a big argument we manage to reduce the price and pay not in US dollars, but in the local Zambian Kwachas. Our extravagant Trabants were a big help. With just a third of necessary permits we enter the country semi-legally. 00:43:53
00:43:55
African cuisine is not varied. When we do come across a speciality, like these dried caterpillars, it's not very popular. 00:44:02
I'm your friend caterpillar.
-It doesn't have any legs.
-The legs got stuck to the body.
Here, I've already bitten off
its head and its bum.
-And what's inside?
-Nothing. Just eat it.
-Yuck!
-It's like chips.
It doesn't taste of anything.
You must chew more
then it has some taste.
It's salty.
-But what's inside?
-Don't think about it.
Eeech, yuck!
It's got head, legs
and black spots on it's arse.
I don't like it at all.
QUOTATION
„Hakuna matata!“
„No problem!“
Swahili saying
00:44:50
But it's nothing compared to the waterfalls ahead where a cubic km of roaring water falls 100 metres every second. The Victoria Falls. Unfortunately no one told us it looks like that only during the rainy season. 00:45:05
It's a small waterfall.
Not waterfalls but a waterfall.
00:45:11
We can either buy a photo with roaring water and pretend we took it. Or just admit that's the way the Falls look. 00:45:20
00:45:35
We can walk where otherwise we would get swept away by the river Zambezi. 00:45:40
We found the Victoria Fall.
There is more water on the Zimbabwean
side but they won't let it flow here.
But we found a pool here,
it's not so bad.
It's more like a Victoria bathtub.
We don't have such a nice bath at home.
And there is also
a really good shower down there.
00:46:10 MAP BOTSWANA
We decided to go through Botswana, but along a safer route. The original route has rivers with such high water levels a Trabant would drown. 00:46:24
00:46:26
After an illegal trip inland to a bank we have a result. A compulsory disinfection and we enjoy another country with free range elephants. 00:46:35
Another elephant.
More monkeys. All the time,
monkeys, elephants and giraffes.
00:47:20 MAP NAMIBIA AND SA
Ahead lies the last leg of our trip, and along with Ethiopia the most beautiful Country on our journey. Namibia. A country where you can find the luxurious version of Africa. A few thousand km to South Africa and the end of our journey: Cape Agulhas. 00:47:40
It's interesting
you can go 70 km/h here.
Maybe even faster
but we can't go that fast.
00:48:10
But both the cars have problems. Egu has trouble with the gearbox. The 4th gear can be used only when it's hot. 00:48:22
You have it in 4th gear?
They're blocking us,
they don't have it in 4th.
And they can't hear us.
But they're playing my favourite
song. Thank you.
00:48:46
Luckily it is hot enough in the desert that we can use 4th gear. We get to the red sand dunes of Sossusvlei in the Namib desert. It's one of the oldest deserts in the world that stretches right to the Atlantic. 00:49:00
35 degrees, atmospheric pressure 900,
639 m above sea level.
We must have walked up at least 39 m
out of these 639 m.
00:49:15
The word Namib is of Nama origin and means „open space“. When sitting on the top of the sand mountains we understand why. 00:49:23
We're probably in some mountains.
We tried to go up
but we got stuck in the middle.
The hills don't look so steep
when you photograph them.
This is the leader's tent, it's fine.
We are trying to find something
not covered in dust, but we can't.
00:50:30
The way through the passes gets really dangerous in the dark. Better to sleep on it. 00:50:34
Good morning Africa.
Martin spurned this beautiful comb.
I don't understand why.
It still has 24 and half teeth left.
No. 24 and three quarters.
Otherwise it's TIA here.
When we woke up the sun was rising
and a herd of zebras
was grazing over there.
Anyone who thinks I look like a fool
is quite right.
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„The drivers of Trabants are the coolest drivers in the world.“
A man who jumped out of a ditch
00:51:32
We are at the end. Embarking on the last thousand kilometres. This journey taught us a lot. Things will never be the same again. Maybe we shouldn't try to change Africa. And we can learn something from it too. Mainly that things will get better. Even if it doesn't seem that way. 00:51:57
The Egu's engine seizes up
a couple of days before leaving.
Life has a strange sense of humour.
What am I going to do with it here.
I can do nothing here. Absolutely nothing.
I don't have a single component.
It turns but I don't know
what the problem is.
There's oil flowing from it
so whether it's the cylinders
or the connecting rods,
I have no idea.
Ah, it's those two bloody bearings.
That's what it's all about.
That it's not easy.
But everytime it breaks down
you think it'd be better if it was easy.
Now we have to make it.
It's just one thousand kilometres.
00:54:38
When they tell you it's not possible – try it. When they tell you it will get worse - don't believe them. When you realize your dream it will be different than you imagined. And you will be glad of that. 00:54:55
The indicator is busted.
He must be taking the piss.
You've been practising that, haven't you.
We were breaking something
all the time.
And Pavel thought
nothing more could get broken.
So not to break with our routine,
he had to break something, here,
on the southernmost tip of Africa.
We travelled 19,201 km from Prague
to Cape Agulhas.
That's pretty good, isn't it?
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And who says it can't be done?!
ACROSS AFRICA – BY TRABANT