0:00:03 > 0:00:05- Oh, my God,- oh, my God. Hey!
0:00:05 > 0:00:07HE LAUGHS
0:00:07 > 0:00:12'My fellow comedian Ed Byrne and I are on an epic road trip.'
0:00:12 > 0:00:16We have been in this car for nearly a month.
0:00:16 > 0:00:21'We're travelling 4,000 miles down the longest road in the world -
0:00:21 > 0:00:23'the Pan-American Highway.'
0:00:23 > 0:00:25Wow, look at that.
0:00:25 > 0:00:27'We'll be passing through some of the most spectacular...'
0:00:27 > 0:00:30ED LAUGHS
0:00:30 > 0:00:32'..and volatile countries on the planet.'
0:00:32 > 0:00:34Look at that over there.
0:00:34 > 0:00:35POLICE SIREN WAILS
0:00:35 > 0:00:37Oh, my God.
0:00:38 > 0:00:44'Today, this great road is a main artery through the Americas.
0:00:44 > 0:00:48'But 75 years ago it was little more than a cart track.
0:00:50 > 0:00:54'Then three adventurers from Detroit set out to drive all the way
0:00:54 > 0:00:57'from North to South America.'
0:00:57 > 0:01:01'It was an expedition to attempt what no-one has ever done.'
0:01:01 > 0:01:05'Crossing jungles, fording rivers and conquering mountains,
0:01:05 > 0:01:08'they forged a route for what would eventually become
0:01:08 > 0:01:11'the Pan-American Highway.'
0:01:11 > 0:01:13'Using their journal as a guide,
0:01:13 > 0:01:18'we'll follow their path from the USA all the way to Panama.'
0:01:18 > 0:01:20Here we go.
0:01:20 > 0:01:21'But first we're in Mexico,
0:01:21 > 0:01:24'getting to grips with the extraordinary people...'
0:01:24 > 0:01:25Welcome to Mexico.
0:01:25 > 0:01:28THEY LAUGH
0:01:28 > 0:01:30'..the local diet...'
0:01:30 > 0:01:31Oh, my lord, that is the head of an iguana.
0:01:33 > 0:01:34In it goes.
0:01:36 > 0:01:39'..and the dangers of life along the route.'
0:01:39 > 0:01:42Jesus, look at them hanging off the train.
0:01:42 > 0:01:44Some of them are just kids.
0:01:46 > 0:01:50'We'll discover how this highway has changed the lives of the people
0:01:50 > 0:01:53'who live on its course on our very own
0:01:53 > 0:01:56'Pan-American road trip of a life time.'
0:02:08 > 0:02:11- This is not right.- Whoa.
0:02:14 > 0:02:17I don't know where this road is on this map.
0:02:17 > 0:02:20I don't know that this road is on this map.
0:02:20 > 0:02:26We are surrounded by a lot more cacti than I would like us to be.
0:02:27 > 0:02:32Ed's my closest friend, we were best man at each other's weddings.
0:02:32 > 0:02:36When we first met, Dara was opening for me at a club in Dublin.
0:02:36 > 0:02:37We're both immigrants.
0:02:37 > 0:02:40We both travelled from the country we were born into another country.
0:02:40 > 0:02:43There is an element of fitting in to a separate culture.
0:02:43 > 0:02:45I think there's as similar relationship between
0:02:45 > 0:02:49Central America and the USA as there is between Ireland and Britain.
0:02:49 > 0:02:53We are the smaller neighbour that kind of gets forgotten about.
0:02:53 > 0:02:56The United States is already, to a certain extent,
0:02:56 > 0:02:58overly dominated our view of this part of the world.
0:02:58 > 0:03:01And so what I want to see is Latin America standing tall.
0:03:01 > 0:03:04- Go where I tell you to go and then... - This time I will.
0:03:04 > 0:03:10- ..rather than just following your feminine instinct.- It felt right!
0:03:10 > 0:03:14'On a long journey there'll be times where we'll be exasperated'
0:03:14 > 0:03:18with each other. We've had to do that before, so I think it'll be OK.
0:03:18 > 0:03:20We're beyond small talk.
0:03:20 > 0:03:23That's a useful thing in a journeying companion.
0:03:23 > 0:03:26I am hoping our friendship will survive this journey.
0:03:26 > 0:03:29But it's quite possible it won't survive dinner.
0:03:34 > 0:03:37'Before we hit the Pan-American Highway south through Mexico,
0:03:37 > 0:03:43'Dara and I are stopping off in the small Arizona mining town of Miami.
0:03:44 > 0:03:47'We want to know more about these three adventurers from Detroit
0:03:47 > 0:03:49'whose tyre tracks we're following.
0:03:49 > 0:03:52'So we've arranged to meet Dave Richardson
0:03:52 > 0:03:56'whose father, Sullivan, led the 1940s expedition.'
0:03:56 > 0:03:59- Ed.- How are you?- Pleasure.- Welcome.
0:03:59 > 0:04:02- Dara.- How are you, sir?- How are you, are you well? Very, very good.
0:04:02 > 0:04:05It's great to see you gentlemen here today.
0:04:05 > 0:04:08I have something very special that I'd like to share with you.
0:04:08 > 0:04:12- Yes, please.- It's a scrap book that my father put together of his trip
0:04:12 > 0:04:14down to South America.
0:04:14 > 0:04:16I'm looking at Clark Gable and Ron Howard here,
0:04:16 > 0:04:19the two guys that he brought along.
0:04:19 > 0:04:21Yes, this was a very close friend, Arnold,
0:04:21 > 0:04:23and Ken was Arnold's close friend.
0:04:23 > 0:04:26Arnold was the mechanic, Ken was the cook,
0:04:26 > 0:04:28and my father was the journalist.
0:04:28 > 0:04:30They called them Three Damn Fools
0:04:30 > 0:04:33because there was no roads
0:04:33 > 0:04:36in many of the stretches throughout Latin America.
0:04:36 > 0:04:40Many people told him that it was absolutely impossible.
0:04:41 > 0:04:45'Let me take you with us on this trip. It really is an experience.'
0:04:45 > 0:04:48'Sullivan was working for the Detroit News
0:04:48 > 0:04:52'when he came up with the idea of a panAmerican expedition.
0:04:52 > 0:04:55'The reports he sent back became a book called Adventure South,
0:04:55 > 0:04:58'which is how Ed and I found out about it.'
0:05:00 > 0:05:04Why did he do it? Was it a bar bet? Was it a challenge?
0:05:04 > 0:05:07Cos no-one had done this drive before.
0:05:07 > 0:05:12My father was born in Mexico, right at the border of the United States.
0:05:12 > 0:05:15He was born into very poor circumstances.
0:05:15 > 0:05:17He was discriminated against.
0:05:17 > 0:05:20People told him he was white trash.
0:05:20 > 0:05:25- And he was the 17th child of 20 children.- Right.
0:05:25 > 0:05:27So you really need to do something special
0:05:27 > 0:05:30if you're going to stand out from a crowd like that.
0:05:30 > 0:05:35So he conceived of the idea of trying to find a route
0:05:35 > 0:05:37for the Pan-American Highway.
0:05:37 > 0:05:39He went to the people at Chrysler Corporation
0:05:39 > 0:05:41and they gave him
0:05:41 > 0:05:45this 1941 Plymouth Sedan car.
0:05:45 > 0:05:47So "Viva el Panamericanismo."
0:05:47 > 0:05:51That means "Long live Panamericanism."
0:05:51 > 0:05:55The concept was to bring together the Americas.
0:05:55 > 0:05:59'We give you here the realistic story of men trying to follow,
0:05:59 > 0:06:02'by automobile, the route of what one day will be the greatest
0:06:02 > 0:06:03'highway in the world.'
0:06:05 > 0:06:08'Armed with Sullivan's journal, Adventure South,
0:06:08 > 0:06:10'we're following the expedition's original route,
0:06:10 > 0:06:15'from Arizona, down through Central America, to Panama.'
0:06:16 > 0:06:18What do you know of Central America?
0:06:18 > 0:06:22Well, I didn't even realise until I started researching this trip
0:06:22 > 0:06:25that Mexico is actually in North America.
0:06:25 > 0:06:26It's not even in Central America.
0:06:26 > 0:06:30- You've never been to these places at all?- No. No.
0:06:30 > 0:06:33I once spent two weeks here in the mid-'90s,
0:06:33 > 0:06:35so if you've any questions...
0:06:35 > 0:06:37Is that going to be enough now for you to just adopt a patronising
0:06:37 > 0:06:41- know-all attitude for the rest of this trip?- Oh, Ed.
0:06:41 > 0:06:46- "Oh, how it's changed." - Donde esta. Donde esta.
0:06:48 > 0:06:51'It took the Fools five months to reach the Panama Canal,
0:06:51 > 0:06:54'but we've only got four weeks.
0:06:54 > 0:06:56'We'll be travelling over 4,000 miles,
0:06:56 > 0:06:58'first down the length of Mexico
0:06:58 > 0:07:00'and then south through Guatemala,
0:07:00 > 0:07:03'El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua,
0:07:03 > 0:07:04'and Costa Rica,
0:07:04 > 0:07:07'before we end our journey in Panama.'
0:07:09 > 0:07:12- SULLIVAN:- 'We'll start here, and enter Mexico at Nogales, Arizona.'
0:07:14 > 0:07:18'In the 1940s crossing the border into Mexico was a breeze,
0:07:18 > 0:07:21'and the Plymouth was simply waved across.'
0:07:21 > 0:07:23'We present ourselves to customs authorities
0:07:23 > 0:07:26'and are permitted to pass without opening a single bag
0:07:26 > 0:07:28'or piece of equipment.'
0:07:28 > 0:07:31'But times have changed on the US/Mexican border.'
0:07:36 > 0:07:40Right, this is the fast moving Mexican border control.
0:07:45 > 0:07:48'Nogales is now divided by a huge fence.
0:07:49 > 0:07:53'Over 400,000 people were caught tying to hop the border
0:07:53 > 0:07:54'last year alone.
0:07:54 > 0:07:59'And over 90% of the cocaine and crystal meth entering the US
0:07:59 > 0:08:01'is trafficked by violent drug cartels
0:08:01 > 0:08:03'through border towns like this.
0:08:05 > 0:08:10'Which is why it's over three hours before we are finally waved through.'
0:08:11 > 0:08:12Welcome to Mexico, my friend.
0:08:16 > 0:08:20'Sullivan, Ken and Arnold had decided to drive down the Pacific coast
0:08:20 > 0:08:24'of Mexico, where they had been warned the going would be tough.'
0:08:24 > 0:08:27- SULLIVAN:- 'For 1,000 miles there is only a dry weather trail
0:08:27 > 0:08:29'for high-wheeled carts.
0:08:29 > 0:08:32'And we hit it after a six-day rain.
0:08:32 > 0:08:34'We dive in the mud holes
0:08:34 > 0:08:36'and follow hour after hour
0:08:36 > 0:08:38'along highway like this.'
0:08:38 > 0:08:40'And when the road ran out altogether,
0:08:40 > 0:08:42'they were bailed out by the locals.'
0:08:42 > 0:08:47'He kept yelling at us, "No puede pasar, senores, sin mulas."
0:08:47 > 0:08:50'Meaning we couldn't get across without the help of his mules.'
0:08:54 > 0:08:57'But Mexico is no longer the manana backwater of the USA
0:08:57 > 0:08:59'that Sullivan encountered.
0:08:59 > 0:09:03'The Pan-American Highway here is now a network of modern motorways
0:09:03 > 0:09:07'that soar over the rivers which the 1940s expedition struggled to cross.'
0:09:09 > 0:09:11Baluarte Bridge.
0:09:11 > 0:09:13A kilometre long,
0:09:13 > 0:09:16- from the start to the end. - Please slow down, thank you.
0:09:16 > 0:09:18- All right, OK. - I know, I know.- OK.
0:09:18 > 0:09:21Yeah, it's...scary, it's really scary.
0:09:21 > 0:09:22It's exhilarating, is what it is.
0:09:22 > 0:09:25A type of exhilarating which is also scary.
0:09:25 > 0:09:28'Rising over 400 metres above the valley below,
0:09:28 > 0:09:32'the Baluarte is the highest bridge in the Americas.'
0:09:33 > 0:09:37Wow. We're properly over the gorge now.
0:09:38 > 0:09:41- Oh, what are you doing, what are you doing?- I'm stopping.
0:09:41 > 0:09:44Why are you stopping in the middle of a bridge?
0:09:44 > 0:09:46Well, it'll be more dangerous for me to keep driving
0:09:46 > 0:09:49- AND look over the edge. - Oh, don't, don't.
0:09:49 > 0:09:53- I've put me hazards on, it's all right.- You put your hazards on?
0:09:53 > 0:09:55It's a massive bridge, it's a massive long, straight road.
0:09:55 > 0:09:57There's no traffic.
0:09:57 > 0:10:00- What are you doing?- I'm getting out, I'm going to have a look.
0:10:00 > 0:10:02- You not coming?- No, I'm not. I absolutely am not.
0:10:02 > 0:10:05I reckon you're less safe in the car.
0:10:05 > 0:10:07I think, you know, there's more chance something's
0:10:07 > 0:10:10going to come along and hit you. You should get out and come with me
0:10:10 > 0:10:13- and have a look over the edge.- No.
0:10:15 > 0:10:17Buenas noches.
0:10:17 > 0:10:20- CD PROMPTS IN SPANISH - Bien, gracias.
0:10:20 > 0:10:23- 'Muy bien.' - Muy bien. Muy bien.
0:10:23 > 0:10:24GENTLE MUSIC PLAYS
0:10:24 > 0:10:27The music is calming me, the music is calming me.
0:10:28 > 0:10:31- The view's incredible. - I'm sure it's fantastic(!)
0:10:34 > 0:10:36Buenos dias. >
0:10:42 > 0:10:46'Yes, the Fools didn't have the benefit of these terrifying bridges,
0:10:46 > 0:10:48'so instead they spent ten days dragging the Plymouth
0:10:48 > 0:10:53'through the mud before they reached Mazatlan, a beautiful seaside town
0:10:53 > 0:10:55'where we are going to spend the night.'
0:10:59 > 0:11:01This is how happy they were to reach Mazatlan.
0:11:01 > 0:11:04They go, "There were people in Mazatlan, paved streets,
0:11:04 > 0:11:09"restaurants, ice cream, Coca Cola and the sea."
0:11:09 > 0:11:11- There we go, look at that. - Right on cue.
0:11:13 > 0:11:16'To save money for meals, Sullivan, Ken and Arnold
0:11:16 > 0:11:19'camped on a rocky vantage point next to the sea,
0:11:19 > 0:11:22'one popular with local daredevils.'
0:11:22 > 0:11:25'These Mexican swimmers would think nothing of doing
0:11:25 > 0:11:28'a swan dive where angels would fear to fly.
0:11:28 > 0:11:31'The slightest miscalculation and he'd have his last headache.'
0:11:33 > 0:11:34'The cliff divers are still here,
0:11:34 > 0:11:37'risking their lives to earn tips from tourists.'
0:11:41 > 0:11:42God.
0:11:44 > 0:11:46Wow, that's astonishing.
0:11:46 > 0:11:48And another one coming.
0:11:51 > 0:11:52Oh!
0:11:54 > 0:11:58- There he is. - That was a little pause, wasn't it?
0:11:59 > 0:12:01Very impressive. Very impressive.
0:12:01 > 0:12:04Very, very good. Thank you very much. Fantastic.
0:12:04 > 0:12:07Does it hurt when you hit?
0:12:07 > 0:12:10It is, like, pain? Boom - like that?
0:12:10 > 0:12:12- It's normal.- It's normal.
0:12:12 > 0:12:14- Yeah.- Normal.
0:12:14 > 0:12:16How deep is it?
0:12:16 > 0:12:1945.5 feet high.
0:12:19 > 0:12:22The water - 7.5 feet deep.
0:12:22 > 0:12:26In times we have five, six feet deep right here.
0:12:26 > 0:12:28- Can you do five feet deep?- Yes.
0:12:28 > 0:12:31- Is that what I think it is? Is that off...?- Yeah, the rocks.
0:12:31 > 0:12:35- Really? Look at that. - Oh, man.- That's tough.
0:12:35 > 0:12:36That's new as well.
0:12:36 > 0:12:38Wow, that's incredible.
0:12:38 > 0:12:42- Would you mind showing us what it's like up there?- Yeah, come on.
0:12:44 > 0:12:47Every time is very, very dangerous.
0:12:47 > 0:12:48- May I?- Yeah.
0:12:50 > 0:12:51Oh...
0:12:51 > 0:12:54I bet if you go too far you hit that rock there, yeah?
0:12:54 > 0:12:57You can see the other rocks underneath.
0:12:57 > 0:12:59HE CHUCKLES
0:12:59 > 0:13:02- Want to fly with me, my friend? - I would love to, but in spirit.
0:13:13 > 0:13:14Here we go.
0:13:23 > 0:13:26- Wow, that was amazing. - Incredibly impressive.
0:13:26 > 0:13:29Although, I'd like to see them close the late show at the Comedy Store
0:13:29 > 0:13:33- on a Friday night. That's scary! - He's not Superman.
0:13:33 > 0:13:37- Amazing!- Fantastic! Muchas gracias.
0:13:37 > 0:13:38Yeah, he's cool.
0:13:38 > 0:13:41Do you know what's extra cool about this actual bit here is this
0:13:41 > 0:13:46is where the Fools camped. Sullivan sat just down there,
0:13:46 > 0:13:48just clattering away on his typewriter all night.
0:13:48 > 0:13:50Very romantic place to camp,
0:13:50 > 0:13:53- but an even more romantic place to sit and type.- Staring out at that?
0:13:53 > 0:13:55- How beautiful would that be, with the sun going down?- Yeah.
0:13:56 > 0:13:59'Before we turn in for the night we've decided to have
0:13:59 > 0:14:03'a couple of beers where the Fools used to eat.'
0:14:03 > 0:14:05This is the beautiful Belmar Hotel.
0:14:08 > 0:14:13This place was considered too fancy to stay in by the Fools.
0:14:13 > 0:14:18They ate here. They ate ham and eggs, like, four, maybe five times.
0:14:18 > 0:14:20These chairs might have been here as well.
0:14:20 > 0:14:25There's any chance Sullivan's bum has worn a groove in this.
0:14:27 > 0:14:29I'd like to be romantic about this
0:14:29 > 0:14:33- but I don't want to start thinking about Sullivan's bum.- No, OK, fine.
0:14:33 > 0:14:34HORN TOOTS
0:14:36 > 0:14:37Cheers.
0:14:39 > 0:14:42'Sullivan fell in love with this place.
0:14:42 > 0:14:46'But more recently it's become less welcoming to visitors.
0:14:46 > 0:14:49'Mazatlan is the capital of the state of Sinaloa,
0:14:49 > 0:14:53'which has seen some of the worst violence from warring drugs cartels.
0:14:53 > 0:14:56'Only a week after we left, Joaquin Guzman -
0:14:56 > 0:14:59'considered one of the world's most powerful drug lords -
0:14:59 > 0:15:03'was arrested here with 200 million in cash.
0:15:03 > 0:15:06'A darker side of the Pan-American dream.'
0:15:12 > 0:15:16'Mazatlan is more than 600 miles from Mexico City.
0:15:16 > 0:15:20'Without a good road, it took the expedition five days
0:15:20 > 0:15:23'and mosquito-plagued nights across desert scrubland to get there.
0:15:24 > 0:15:29'At that time, Mexico City had a population of just over one million.
0:15:30 > 0:15:33'Today, it has swollen to over 21 million,
0:15:33 > 0:15:37'and is now the fourth largest urban area in the world.'
0:15:38 > 0:15:40This city's massive.
0:15:40 > 0:15:42This is insanely big, isn't it?
0:15:45 > 0:15:49I imagine their arrival at Mexico City was full of joy for them,
0:15:49 > 0:15:51having been crossing desert.
0:15:51 > 0:15:55And it would have been a lot easier to get around.
0:15:55 > 0:15:58Whereas, for us, we've had lovely open road
0:15:58 > 0:16:01and now we are facing road rage and congestion.
0:16:01 > 0:16:03'With an average commute time of three hours
0:16:03 > 0:16:07'and no requirements to take a driving test, Mexico City
0:16:07 > 0:16:10'is officially - and there are people who measure these things -
0:16:10 > 0:16:14'the worst place to drive on the planet.'
0:16:14 > 0:16:16HORN HONKS
0:16:16 > 0:16:18THEY LAUGH
0:16:18 > 0:16:20You're getting the hang of this.
0:16:21 > 0:16:24In any other culture, I would be really ashamed of you.
0:16:24 > 0:16:26I know, that would have been a really rude thing to do.
0:16:26 > 0:16:30I'm already, like, "Not today, biatch!"
0:16:32 > 0:16:36'There's only so much weaving you can get away with,
0:16:36 > 0:16:39'and now there's a conga line of salesmen trying to flog everything
0:16:39 > 0:16:42'from food to home furnishings.'
0:16:42 > 0:16:44- Bathroom mirrors. - Bathroom mirrors.
0:16:44 > 0:16:48- It's quite the marketplace, this traffic jam.- Yes.
0:16:48 > 0:16:52No, no, no, no. Just pointing at you so we can see you.
0:16:52 > 0:16:56No, I don't want a paper battleship. It's OK. I'm sorry. OK, look away.
0:16:56 > 0:16:58Look straight ahead.
0:17:03 > 0:17:07'But we don't mind paying to be serenaded by mariachi.'
0:17:07 > 0:17:09Roll down the window.
0:17:09 > 0:17:11HE SPEAKS SPANISH
0:17:11 > 0:17:13What do you want to play?
0:17:13 > 0:17:15Mexicano song. That's fantastic.
0:17:18 > 0:17:20We're doing a drive-by hiring of a mariachi band.
0:17:20 > 0:17:22Yeah, I know, it's excellent.
0:17:24 > 0:17:25Here we go.
0:17:25 > 0:17:29UPBEAT MUSIC PLAYS
0:17:32 > 0:17:35- Great.- I feel like I've dropped acid.
0:17:35 > 0:17:36HE LAUGHS
0:17:41 > 0:17:43Despite being flatter than a tortilla,
0:17:43 > 0:17:47there is something marvellously romantic about these musicians.
0:17:49 > 0:17:52THEY SING IN SPANISH
0:18:02 > 0:18:05- Muchas gracias! - Muchas gracias!
0:18:05 > 0:18:08Muy bien. Muy bien.
0:18:08 > 0:18:10Happy anniversary, Dara.
0:18:10 > 0:18:12HE LAUGHS
0:18:14 > 0:18:18'Well, that's quite enough of that. We have an appointment to keep.'
0:18:18 > 0:18:21- SULLIVAN:- 'In the Mexican capital we call at Governation to meet young,
0:18:21 > 0:18:25'handsome Don Licenciado Miguel Aleman.
0:18:25 > 0:18:27'He extends us every possible courtesy.'
0:18:27 > 0:18:30'Sullivan believed that his expedition could encourage
0:18:30 > 0:18:35'Latin American leaders to realise the dream of a Pan-American Highway.
0:18:35 > 0:18:38'And the first name on his list was Miguel Aleman,
0:18:38 > 0:18:40'soon to become President of Mexico.
0:18:42 > 0:18:45'Today, his son, Miguel Aleman Junior,
0:18:45 > 0:18:47'is dropping by to meet us.'
0:18:47 > 0:18:50It's an impressive way to make an entrance, isn't it?
0:18:50 > 0:18:53Are you sure we're not actually meeting a Bond villain?
0:18:55 > 0:18:57I feel a bit underdressed now.
0:18:57 > 0:19:00I think you should have probably...
0:19:00 > 0:19:04'Miguel Junior, with his media empires and his own airline,
0:19:04 > 0:19:07'is one of the new class of super rich business moguls
0:19:07 > 0:19:11'created by Mexico's recent economic success.'
0:19:12 > 0:19:16- Buenos dias.- Hello, welcome.
0:19:16 > 0:19:18Welcome to the Aleman Foundation.
0:19:20 > 0:19:23'The Alemans are still some of Mexico's most powerful
0:19:23 > 0:19:28'movers and shakers. Miguel Junior seems to have met everyone.
0:19:28 > 0:19:30'Including two Popes,
0:19:30 > 0:19:32'the Queen,
0:19:32 > 0:19:35'and even Ol' Blue Eyes himself, Frank Sinatra.
0:19:35 > 0:19:38'But today he has time for a couple of fools like us,
0:19:38 > 0:19:41'as his father did 74 years before.'
0:19:44 > 0:19:46Your father went on to become president.
0:19:46 > 0:19:51At the time he met the Fools he was already Minister of the Interior.
0:19:51 > 0:19:55That's correct. When three Americans came to see him,
0:19:55 > 0:20:00planning to drive all the way down to Argentina,
0:20:00 > 0:20:02he thought that they were crazy.
0:20:02 > 0:20:05- Yeah.- Did your father think they wouldn't make it?
0:20:05 > 0:20:08No, my father saw that they knew what they were doing,
0:20:08 > 0:20:13and the spirit of adventure that they had was good enough
0:20:13 > 0:20:15to make miracles.
0:20:15 > 0:20:17And they did - it was a miracle.
0:20:17 > 0:20:21- Do you think he was inspired by Sullivan's trip?- Absolutely.
0:20:21 > 0:20:23And he said,
0:20:23 > 0:20:26"Now I'm obliged to do something about it.
0:20:26 > 0:20:29"We must build a central road."
0:20:29 > 0:20:31'Juarez, Mexico, on the Texas border,
0:20:31 > 0:20:33'was the starting point of the recent
0:20:33 > 0:20:36'Mexico Pan-American race, opening the newest link
0:20:36 > 0:20:38'in the famous Pan-American Highway.'
0:20:38 > 0:20:40'Spurred on by the intrepid travellers,
0:20:40 > 0:20:43'President Aleman poured money into the road,
0:20:43 > 0:20:47'and in 1950 Mexico became the first Latin American country
0:20:47 > 0:20:51'to complete their entire 1,600 mile stretch of the Pan-Am.
0:20:52 > 0:20:56'The new road dramatically increased trade with the US
0:20:56 > 0:21:00'and transformed Mexico from poor neighbour to powerful ally.'
0:21:02 > 0:21:05Clearly your father was a man who had vision, a vision of Mexico.
0:21:05 > 0:21:07I think so, yes.
0:21:07 > 0:21:11We talk about Sullivan Richardson and his "Viva el Panamericanismo."
0:21:11 > 0:21:17Does Mexico feel closer to North America or closer to Latin America?
0:21:17 > 0:21:19Are you always torn between the two?
0:21:19 > 0:21:23- Yes. We belong to Latin America. - Mm-hm.
0:21:23 > 0:21:28But right now we're closer to North America. It's our market.
0:21:28 > 0:21:33So 80% of what we produce goes to United States.
0:21:33 > 0:21:35Senor Aleman, I think we've taken up enough of your time.
0:21:35 > 0:21:37I just have one favour to ask.
0:21:37 > 0:21:40- We find driving in Mexico City a very stressful experience.- Yes.
0:21:40 > 0:21:42I wonder if we could borrow your helicopter?
0:21:42 > 0:21:44Sure! Of course you can.
0:21:44 > 0:21:46THEY LAUGH
0:21:50 > 0:21:53'But Aleman is called back to his world of high finance,
0:21:53 > 0:21:55'and takes his helicopter with him.
0:21:59 > 0:22:02'When I visited Mexico before, I never got a chance to see
0:22:02 > 0:22:06'the biggest sport in the country - lucha libre.
0:22:06 > 0:22:08'The flying men in Spandex.
0:22:14 > 0:22:17'But before we attend a fight, I want Ed and I to look the part.'
0:22:17 > 0:22:21- I now realise it looks like I'm bringing you to a sex shop.- It does.
0:22:21 > 0:22:24I'm not. I'm bringing you to a very famous shop in Mexico.
0:22:24 > 0:22:26Buenos dias, senor.
0:22:26 > 0:22:29'The Martinez family have been making lucha libre masks
0:22:29 > 0:22:31'since the sport began.'
0:22:32 > 0:22:35This is the equivalent of the football jersey shop.
0:22:35 > 0:22:39- Exactly.- So are these masks from specific wrestlers?- Exactly.
0:22:39 > 0:22:43- Right.- Did you do the first of these masks?- We have the first masks.
0:22:43 > 0:22:47- Can we see the first masks? - Yes, of course. I have it here.
0:22:49 > 0:22:52- Oh, wow. - Quite frightening.
0:22:52 > 0:22:53It's quite Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
0:22:53 > 0:22:56Yeah, scary cos it's actually not got a join,
0:22:56 > 0:22:58wings on the side, or stars, or something.
0:22:58 > 0:23:00And who fought in this mask?
0:23:00 > 0:23:02- Cyclone McKey. - Cyclone McKey.
0:23:02 > 0:23:04He was Irish.
0:23:04 > 0:23:07- You're joking me!- No, no.
0:23:07 > 0:23:12- The first lucha libre wrestler was Irish.- The first masked lucha libre.
0:23:12 > 0:23:16- There he is.- That's an Irish head on him, all right.
0:23:16 > 0:23:19- He's actually almost got a touch of the Colin Farrell about him.- He has.
0:23:19 > 0:23:21He's a good looking fella.
0:23:21 > 0:23:25- But he covered himself up.- He wants to keep his identity in cover.
0:23:25 > 0:23:28- And did he become more famous when he started wearing the mask?- Yes.
0:23:28 > 0:23:33- Really?- A lot.- And because of him, others decided to wear the mask.
0:23:33 > 0:23:37Exactly. After that comes traditional in Mexico.
0:23:39 > 0:23:42'The mask, introduced as an attention-seeking gimmick
0:23:42 > 0:23:44'by an Irishman in the 1930s,
0:23:44 > 0:23:47'has become one of the defining characteristics of Mexican wrestling.
0:23:50 > 0:23:52'After the war, lucha libre thrived
0:23:52 > 0:23:56'and fighters like El Santo became national superstars.'
0:23:58 > 0:24:00May I see Santo's mask?
0:24:00 > 0:24:02- This one.- That's a Santo mask. Shall I?
0:24:04 > 0:24:07That looks like it's really uncomfortable on you.
0:24:07 > 0:24:10I like the history behind this but I don't think this is frightening.
0:24:10 > 0:24:12This looks a bit too spangly and showbiz for me.
0:24:13 > 0:24:15Rarrr!
0:24:15 > 0:24:19I'm more of a "Why do we have to fight?"
0:24:19 > 0:24:23Do you have a mask with the UN colours on it?
0:24:23 > 0:24:25This one is from the sea.
0:24:25 > 0:24:27- It's from the sea? - Yeah. Exactly.
0:24:27 > 0:24:31Now I feel like a very relaxed fighter. You look like a wasp.
0:24:31 > 0:24:33It looks ridiculous.
0:24:33 > 0:24:35- Oh, I look ridiculous. - You look ridiculous.
0:24:35 > 0:24:36Cos you look really cool(!)
0:24:36 > 0:24:40- You look like someone I don't want to be seen with.- This works on me.
0:24:40 > 0:24:42- You look awesome(!) - This makes me look tough.
0:24:42 > 0:24:44Argh!
0:24:44 > 0:24:46I love what you're doing with the frills.
0:24:50 > 0:24:53'Having chosen our evening attire, we are ready to meet
0:24:53 > 0:24:57'one of the most famous wrestlers in Mexico - Shocker.'
0:24:59 > 0:25:02Here he is. Try and spot the guy who's the professional wrester.
0:25:02 > 0:25:05- Aha.- Hey!- Shocker. - Welcome to Mexico.
0:25:05 > 0:25:06It's a pleasure to be here, Shocker,
0:25:06 > 0:25:08- thank you very much. - Nice to meet you.
0:25:08 > 0:25:12It's my pleasure to introduce you to the Arena Mexico,
0:25:12 > 0:25:15the house of the best wrestling in the world. This is big entrance.
0:25:15 > 0:25:18- This is where all the people come into the arena.- Yeah.- OK?
0:25:18 > 0:25:22This is the history of wrestling, this big mural.
0:25:23 > 0:25:26- Are you on this?- Of course. Right over here.- There you are.
0:25:26 > 0:25:28To be honest, you look better in real life than that.
0:25:28 > 0:25:31- I'm making my mean face.- Yeah, they're not being kind to you there.
0:25:31 > 0:25:35- Cos, you know...- You're a pretty handsome man.- Yeah.
0:25:35 > 0:25:39Yet, I call myself Mr 1000% Handsome.
0:25:39 > 0:25:42Mr 1000% Handsome, right.
0:25:42 > 0:25:44Le Mil Por Ciento Guapo.
0:25:44 > 0:25:47- It's a good name, huh? - It's a fantastic name.
0:25:47 > 0:25:51- Are you a good guy?- I'm one of the more lovable wrestlers in Mexico.
0:25:51 > 0:25:53- Fine. Fine. Good. - The people just love me.
0:25:53 > 0:25:55So is that your signature move?
0:25:55 > 0:25:57- Yeah. That's called La Reienera.- La Reienera?
0:25:57 > 0:25:58So you put someone...?
0:25:58 > 0:26:01I put them over my back and I just pull and stretch them
0:26:01 > 0:26:02and start spinning them around.
0:26:02 > 0:26:04- Do you want to see it? - I'd love to.
0:26:04 > 0:26:06- Let's go to the ring and show us. - Yeah?- Yeah.
0:26:06 > 0:26:08INDISTINCT CHATTER
0:26:08 > 0:26:10Let's start with me coming at you. Here.
0:26:10 > 0:26:12ED ROARS
0:26:13 > 0:26:16- We go right here and you go over here.- Aye-aye.
0:26:16 > 0:26:18ED GROANS AND LAUGHS
0:26:18 > 0:26:22And you're spinning around if you like, you know?
0:26:22 > 0:26:25- THEY CHUCKLE - How's that, Ed? Is it all right?
0:26:25 > 0:26:27Oh! That's cured my sciatica.
0:26:27 > 0:26:29THEY CHUCKLE
0:26:29 > 0:26:32What's the biggest person you've done that to? How much...
0:26:32 > 0:26:35- Could you do it with him?- That's the question he's asking here really.
0:26:35 > 0:26:38Feel free to say no, cos you're in a suit and...
0:26:38 > 0:26:39I'm in a suit, you know.
0:26:39 > 0:26:42I don't feel we'll gain anything by doing this.
0:26:42 > 0:26:44Really, I think I can.
0:26:44 > 0:26:46- Are you sure?- You know what? I don't think you could.
0:26:46 > 0:26:49- Prove it.- Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
0:26:49 > 0:26:52- We'll start off with an easy one. - OK.
0:26:52 > 0:26:54- Get down.- OK.
0:26:54 > 0:26:57- Whoa, whoa, whoa, what's going on here?- No, no, no.- Hello.
0:26:57 > 0:27:00- This is why they call you the Shocker!- What is this?
0:27:00 > 0:27:03You always try to use your opponent's body, you know.
0:27:03 > 0:27:05- Right. Yeah. - Hang on.- It's not going.
0:27:05 > 0:27:07Whoa! Ho-ho-ho-ho.
0:27:07 > 0:27:09- MUFFLED:- Oh, it hurts. It hurts.
0:27:09 > 0:27:11INDISTINCT MUMBLES
0:27:11 > 0:27:13I don't know what to do!
0:27:13 > 0:27:16That looked like it hurt. That looked like it hurt.
0:27:16 > 0:27:19That escalated quickly.
0:27:19 > 0:27:21ED GUFFAWS
0:27:21 > 0:27:24MUSIC: "Jump" by Van Halen
0:27:24 > 0:27:27'We can't wait to see Shocker in action.
0:27:27 > 0:27:29'But, first, it's that old classic...
0:27:30 > 0:27:33'..the monkey lady dance routine.'
0:27:36 > 0:27:38CHEERING AND WHOOPING
0:27:42 > 0:27:44- ANNOUNCER:- Let's rock!
0:27:44 > 0:27:50Ah, Shocker!
0:27:50 > 0:27:53Whoo! Good guy Shocker!
0:27:53 > 0:27:57Come on, Shocker! Guapo!
0:27:57 > 0:28:02'Lucha libre is a cross between wrestling and soap opera,
0:28:02 > 0:28:04'with a pre-planned and outlandish plotline.'
0:28:06 > 0:28:08Oh, man, come on.
0:28:09 > 0:28:13Shocker and his team-mate! This is awful!
0:28:13 > 0:28:16'Tonight, Shocker has turned into a psychopath
0:28:16 > 0:28:19'and he's attacking his own team-mate.'
0:28:19 > 0:28:21- Boo, Shocker. - I can't believe you're doing this.
0:28:21 > 0:28:22- BOTH:- Boo!
0:28:22 > 0:28:24- Boo, Shocker!- Boo!
0:28:27 > 0:28:28CROWD BOOS
0:28:28 > 0:28:30Look at the crowd.
0:28:30 > 0:28:32They used to love you, Shocker.
0:28:41 > 0:28:44I'm genuinely gutted that Shocker turned out to be
0:28:44 > 0:28:45one of the bad people.
0:28:45 > 0:28:47He was so nice beforehand.
0:28:50 > 0:28:54RHYTHMIC MUSIC
0:28:57 > 0:28:59'We've been on the road for less than a week
0:28:59 > 0:29:02'and now we're heading south through the state of Oaxaca,
0:29:02 > 0:29:05'a journey that should take us about seven hours on the Pan-Am Highway.
0:29:07 > 0:29:11'The original expedition had been on the road for a month
0:29:11 > 0:29:16'and had travelled over 3,000 hard miles by the time they left
0:29:16 > 0:29:18'Mexico City on Christmas Day 1940.
0:29:18 > 0:29:20'Sullivan had been warned that
0:29:20 > 0:29:22'the road to Guatemala would be treacherous.
0:29:22 > 0:29:24'The boys were bracing themselves
0:29:24 > 0:29:26'for a rugged road along mountain paths.
0:29:30 > 0:29:32'Like us, they drove out of Mexico City,
0:29:32 > 0:29:35'under the shadow of its huge, active volcano.'
0:29:37 > 0:29:39Unbelievable old Popocatepetl,
0:29:39 > 0:29:43"Mexico's mighty mountain and volcano of the past, was beautiful.
0:29:43 > 0:29:46"We saw him that next morning, with the red light of dawn
0:29:46 > 0:29:49"on the raw edge of his great cone,
0:29:49 > 0:29:51"high up in the pastel heavens."
0:29:53 > 0:29:56- Popocatepetl.- Popocatepetl. - Popocatepetl.- Popocatepetl.
0:29:56 > 0:29:58- Popocatepetl.- Popocatepetl.
0:29:58 > 0:30:01Not as good as favourite other words -
0:30:01 > 0:30:04- Quetzalcoatl.- Quetzalcoatl. - Quetzal... Quetzalcoatl -
0:30:04 > 0:30:07the mythic bird. Here's another one.
0:30:07 > 0:30:09- PHONETICALLY:- Jabba-no-wanna-wooki.
0:30:17 > 0:30:18- SULLIVAN:- 'We eat what we can get
0:30:18 > 0:30:21'and with as little fuss and bother as possible.
0:30:21 > 0:30:23'But we often run out, as we do here in these mountains,
0:30:23 > 0:30:26'and have to live on native food which we are able to buy
0:30:26 > 0:30:28'from the native women along the way.
0:30:28 > 0:30:31'Arnold and Kenneth claim that tortillas taste, to them,
0:30:31 > 0:30:34'like a cross between cement and leather without salt.
0:30:34 > 0:30:36'But I ate them as a boy and like them.'
0:30:38 > 0:30:40- Get some tortillas? - Yeah, let's get some tortillas.
0:30:42 > 0:30:45- Un paquete de tortillas? - Paquete de tortillas?
0:30:45 > 0:30:49- Paquete de tortillas... - Por favor?- Oh, right. Jesus.- Uh? Uh?
0:30:51 > 0:30:54'Yes, that might look like construction material there
0:30:54 > 0:30:58'but it's the traditional blue corn which gives them that colour.'
0:31:02 > 0:31:06- Oh, gracias.- Lovely. - Our Spanish is really good.
0:31:06 > 0:31:08We got twice as much food as I thought we ordered.
0:31:08 > 0:31:12'This kind of tortilla has been made in Mexico for hundreds of years
0:31:12 > 0:31:15'but the setting has changed a little
0:31:15 > 0:31:16'since the fools passed through.'
0:31:19 > 0:31:22- We're essentially in East Mimms now.- What? Like a service station?
0:31:22 > 0:31:25The services, yeah. This is essentially a big Watford Gap.
0:31:25 > 0:31:27RHYTHMIC MUSIC
0:31:34 > 0:31:37Look at that! Cut through the mountain
0:31:37 > 0:31:39and you see the valley and the mountains beyond.
0:31:39 > 0:31:40That is astonishingly beautiful.
0:31:40 > 0:31:42Monte Alban.
0:31:42 > 0:31:46'Like the intrepid adventurers, we're heading for Monte Alban -
0:31:46 > 0:31:48'the ancient Zapotec city that lies
0:31:48 > 0:31:51'west of the modern city of Oaxaca.
0:31:51 > 0:31:55'In the 1940s, few foreigners had visited this site
0:31:55 > 0:31:59'and Sullivan wanted to showcase this sophisticated
0:31:59 > 0:32:03'and largely unknown civilisation to the US public.'
0:32:04 > 0:32:06Marcus Winter. Hiya. Nice to meet you.
0:32:06 > 0:32:08Nice to meet you, Marcus. Pleasure to meet you.
0:32:08 > 0:32:09This is incredible.
0:32:09 > 0:32:13- Wow, I have not seen anything like this that hasn't been CGI-ed.- Yeah.
0:32:13 > 0:32:18'Archaeologist Marcus Winter first arrived here in 1966.
0:32:18 > 0:32:22'He's been nearly half a century uncovering the secrets of
0:32:22 > 0:32:26'the Zapotec civilisation which existed here over 2,000 years ago.'
0:32:26 > 0:32:29That is unbelievable.
0:32:29 > 0:32:31It's the main plaza, the downtown of Monte Alban.
0:32:31 > 0:32:33And this was a big town.
0:32:33 > 0:32:34I mean, even for its time...
0:32:34 > 0:32:36In Europe, this would have been a big town.
0:32:36 > 0:32:40It's a city. The first city in the highlands of ancient Oaxaca.
0:32:40 > 0:32:43Still so much of it that's not yet excavated.
0:32:43 > 0:32:45There's a lot to work on still.
0:32:45 > 0:32:47A lot of the work was done here in the '30s
0:32:47 > 0:32:49and '40s by Alfonso Caso,
0:32:49 > 0:32:52the man that found Tomb Seven - the one that had the gold.
0:32:52 > 0:32:56'In 1932, an extraordinary hoard of gold
0:32:56 > 0:32:58'had been found in Monte Alban.
0:32:58 > 0:33:02'And with a letter of permission from Mexico's future president,
0:33:02 > 0:33:06'Miguel Aleman, Sullivan was given unprecedented access to film it.'
0:33:06 > 0:33:09'Fashioned by unknown craftsmen centuries ago,
0:33:09 > 0:33:12'most of them depicting the gods of these first Americans.
0:33:12 > 0:33:13'They're solid gold
0:33:13 > 0:33:16'and absolutely priceless as relics of the past.'
0:33:17 > 0:33:19When these guys arrived in the 1940s,
0:33:19 > 0:33:22- it must been very recent that the gold been discovered.- That's right.
0:33:22 > 0:33:24About eight or so years before that.
0:33:24 > 0:33:28But it was...once it was discovered, that was the highlight of Oaxaca
0:33:28 > 0:33:32and it put Monte Alban and Oaxaca on the worldwide map.
0:33:34 > 0:33:36'Another attraction were the danzante
0:33:36 > 0:33:40'stone carvings, thought to depict the great and good of Monte Alban
0:33:40 > 0:33:43'but mysteriously missing certain body parts.'
0:33:44 > 0:33:47This is Danzante 55,
0:33:47 > 0:33:48obviously a high status person.
0:33:48 > 0:33:50See his ear spool, there? It's got a big ear spool.
0:33:50 > 0:33:54- Uh-huh.- And in front of his head there's a jaguar carved.
0:33:54 > 0:33:58And the jaguar is a symbol of high status.
0:33:58 > 0:34:03- And what do we think has happened to his wedding tackle?- I don't know.
0:34:03 > 0:34:07It looks like at least some blood is coming out right on his legs.
0:34:07 > 0:34:10- Does it look like they've damaged their penises?- Yes.
0:34:10 > 0:34:15We know from other groups that people used obsidian implements
0:34:15 > 0:34:18to cut their earlobes, their tongues, penises
0:34:18 > 0:34:22- to let blood.- And so this perhaps could be a depiction of that?
0:34:22 > 0:34:26A version. An extreme version. We wish we could be there, right?
0:34:26 > 0:34:29No. Clearly not, no.
0:34:29 > 0:34:31Especially not if you're an important person
0:34:31 > 0:34:33who ends up getting his Johnson cut off? No.
0:34:33 > 0:34:35Is there any way we've got this wrong
0:34:35 > 0:34:39and that these are some form of...
0:34:39 > 0:34:41Could it have been an ancient art school?
0:34:41 > 0:34:44Could it be a load of people lined up trying to practise...?
0:34:44 > 0:34:47- "I can't get the penis right." - OK.- "I just...
0:34:47 > 0:34:49"I'm going to have to start again."
0:34:49 > 0:34:51- Keeps breaking off. - "It keeps coming off."
0:34:51 > 0:34:54Well, there's a theory that it's a hospital.
0:34:54 > 0:34:56You could just make up anything for this, can't you?
0:34:56 > 0:34:58- Almost anything. - Your job's a doddle.
0:34:58 > 0:35:01Your job's easier than ours.
0:35:01 > 0:35:03'Whatever the truth behind the mystery of the severed penises
0:35:03 > 0:35:07'of Monte Alban, it hasn't put off the tourists.
0:35:07 > 0:35:10'The Pan-Am Highway reached Oaxaca
0:35:10 > 0:35:14'in 1943, and now more than half a million people a year
0:35:14 > 0:35:16'visit this ancient city.'
0:35:18 > 0:35:20Monte Alban is an important landmark
0:35:20 > 0:35:22in the journey because it is the last place
0:35:22 > 0:35:26on this trip for a while that I have already been.
0:35:26 > 0:35:28And so that therefore can lord it over Ed
0:35:28 > 0:35:31with local knowledge from 18 or 19 years ago.
0:35:31 > 0:35:33And all it means is he's going to
0:35:33 > 0:35:36start reading up in greater detail on the places still to come,
0:35:36 > 0:35:40so he can continue to be the big know-it-all he is.
0:35:40 > 0:35:44RHYTHMIC MUSIC
0:35:44 > 0:35:47'South of Oaxaca, the Pan-American Highway follows exactly
0:35:47 > 0:35:50'the same route as the expedition's original trail,
0:35:50 > 0:35:54'passing through villages that they passed over 70 years ago.
0:35:54 > 0:35:57'At one of them, they decided to stop for a drink.'
0:35:59 > 0:36:01- So, what are we looking for? - Las Minas.
0:36:01 > 0:36:05- Las Minas is where they watched a man make mescal.- OK.
0:36:05 > 0:36:07- Tequila is a type of mescal.- Right.
0:36:07 > 0:36:09Tequila's like Champagne. Tequila's a region.
0:36:09 > 0:36:11Oh, right.
0:36:11 > 0:36:13- Oh, there we go. That's it. - I didn't spot that one.
0:36:13 > 0:36:15Didn't spot the rabbit there.
0:36:15 > 0:36:16Right.
0:36:20 > 0:36:22What's the chance that this is the actual, exact same
0:36:22 > 0:36:23mescal production place?
0:36:23 > 0:36:26It's possible. There's only two or three in the town.
0:36:26 > 0:36:27- It's a very small town.- Yeah.
0:36:27 > 0:36:30It could well be the one that they stopped at.
0:36:30 > 0:36:33- Hola. Buenos dias.- Buenos dias. - Hola.
0:36:35 > 0:36:38'Mescal's made from the heart of the agave plant,
0:36:38 > 0:36:41'traditionally by family run roadside distilleries like this one,
0:36:41 > 0:36:43'and then sold for a few pesos
0:36:43 > 0:36:46'to thirsty travellers such as ourselves.'
0:36:48 > 0:36:51This is the equivalent of, you know, stomping on the grapes for wine or...
0:36:51 > 0:36:53Yeah.
0:36:53 > 0:36:56Do you think on every second day he gets to go the other way round?
0:36:56 > 0:36:58That would seem only fair cos it would get a bit boring.
0:37:09 > 0:37:12And the mescal comes out there? Si.
0:37:12 > 0:37:13'In the 1940s,
0:37:13 > 0:37:15'few outside of Mexico had tasted mescal.
0:37:15 > 0:37:19'But when the Second World War limited America's supply of European
0:37:19 > 0:37:23'liquor, they looked south for a tipple and mescal production soared.'
0:37:23 > 0:37:26Oh, we're siphoning it.
0:37:30 > 0:37:32'These days, however, wily entrepreneurs,
0:37:32 > 0:37:35'often from the US, are buying up mescal
0:37:35 > 0:37:38'direct from the locals and selling it on at vast profit
0:37:38 > 0:37:42'to fashionable buyers in London and New York.'
0:37:42 > 0:37:44Cuanto cuesta una botella?
0:37:48 > 0:37:51- So that's like a fiver. Four quid a bottle.- £4 a bottle.
0:37:51 > 0:37:53How does it feel to know that in places like London,
0:37:53 > 0:37:57mescal sells for up to £100 a bottle?
0:37:57 > 0:37:59- 2,000 pesos.- 2,000 pesos?
0:38:08 > 0:38:11- Um, OK.- We have to flip a coin to see who's going to sip it
0:38:11 > 0:38:14and who's going to drive us home. Hang on.
0:38:14 > 0:38:16Right, in traditional Mexican style,
0:38:16 > 0:38:18eagle eating a snake, or Aztec calendar?
0:38:18 > 0:38:21I'll go for eagle eating snake, please.
0:38:21 > 0:38:24There we go. Eagle eating snake? And that eagle eating snake drinks...
0:38:24 > 0:38:26Eagle eating snake means I drink and you drive.
0:38:26 > 0:38:28- Yeah, you win.- Oh!
0:38:28 > 0:38:31- SHE CHUCKLES - Good luck.
0:38:34 > 0:38:39- Still feeling lucky?- That's keen. - Is it?- That's keen. Ooh! It warms.
0:38:39 > 0:38:41It's warming.
0:38:45 > 0:38:51'With an alcohol content of up to 55%, mescal packs quite a punch.'
0:38:51 > 0:38:52MIMICS FIREWORKS
0:38:55 > 0:38:57You're already giggly.
0:38:58 > 0:39:00You're already starting to laugh a lot.
0:39:01 > 0:39:03Oh, muy bueno.
0:39:03 > 0:39:05- Muchas gracias.- Muchas gracias.
0:39:06 > 0:39:09- Actually, can I get another shot? - No, you've drunk enough.- Come on!
0:39:09 > 0:39:12- You've had enough. - I've drunk too much to drive.
0:39:12 > 0:39:14I'm not having you drunk in the car.
0:39:14 > 0:39:17MUSIC: "Tequila" by Los Lobos
0:39:31 > 0:39:34How much of that stuff did you actually drink?
0:39:34 > 0:39:37I don't know. I had two or three shots of...
0:39:38 > 0:39:40..mescal!
0:39:43 > 0:39:46It's powerful stuff, this mescal, isn't it?
0:39:50 > 0:39:52# Tequila! #
0:39:56 > 0:40:00'As we follow the Pan-Am south towards the Guatemalan border,
0:40:00 > 0:40:04'we hit Mexico's main railroad line at the town of Ixtepec.'
0:40:04 > 0:40:08TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS
0:40:08 > 0:40:11'Emerging out of the darkness, this freight train
0:40:11 > 0:40:17'known as La Bestia, or The Beast, carries Mexican goods to the US.
0:40:17 > 0:40:21'But it also carries another more controversial cargo -
0:40:21 > 0:40:23'undocumented migrants.
0:40:27 > 0:40:30'Three times a week, La Bestia carries thousands of desperate
0:40:30 > 0:40:33'stowaways towards the US border.'
0:40:33 > 0:40:36Jesus, look at them hanging off of the train.
0:40:38 > 0:40:40That's an astonishing sight, isn't it?
0:40:40 > 0:40:43'Most of these migrants come from Guatemala, El Salvador
0:40:43 > 0:40:47'and Honduras, where poverty and violence have forced them
0:40:47 > 0:40:48'to seek a life elsewhere.'
0:40:48 > 0:40:51- Some of them are just kids. - Yeah, I know.
0:40:51 > 0:40:53A lot of them are just kids.
0:40:53 > 0:40:55And even as they're disappearing into the town,
0:40:55 > 0:40:57all these people here.
0:40:58 > 0:41:01- And these are the ones who made it. - Yeah.
0:41:01 > 0:41:03'Hanging off the train is dangerous enough
0:41:03 > 0:41:06'but criminal gangs, or maras, rob,
0:41:06 > 0:41:08'kidnap or even kill the migrants
0:41:08 > 0:41:10'as they try to make their way north.'
0:41:13 > 0:41:16You can easily see why it has the nickname The Beast.
0:41:16 > 0:41:18I mean, part of that is because of the damage it has done
0:41:18 > 0:41:20and the toll it takes, but also
0:41:20 > 0:41:24it emerges from the pitch-black darkness with people strapped to it.
0:41:24 > 0:41:28All this tidal wave of humanity heading north.
0:41:28 > 0:41:32But, as they go past, they were waving,
0:41:32 > 0:41:35presumably because they think their journey is getting better.
0:41:35 > 0:41:37It's all about North America
0:41:37 > 0:41:39and it's all about getting there
0:41:39 > 0:41:42because the financial inequality is so huge.
0:41:42 > 0:41:44Nature hates an inequality and will seek to level it out.
0:41:44 > 0:41:47And that is essentially what people are doing.
0:41:47 > 0:41:51Slightly heartbreaking looking at those...
0:41:51 > 0:41:54optimistic faces of the young people riding on top of that train,
0:41:54 > 0:41:58knowing that the journey north through Mexico gets a lot worse
0:41:58 > 0:42:00than what they've come through.
0:42:00 > 0:42:04- And, you know...- Yeah.- And some of them aren't going to make it.
0:42:04 > 0:42:05A lot of them aren't going to make it.
0:42:07 > 0:42:10Be harder still not to wish them well on their journey, wouldn't it?
0:42:10 > 0:42:13It's not a journey I'd ever like to take.
0:42:20 > 0:42:23'Migrant shelters have sprung up along the route,
0:42:23 > 0:42:27'offering the weary travellers food as well as medical and legal aid.'
0:42:27 > 0:42:30- Hi, guys.- Hiya, Danny. Thanks for meeting us.- Danny, how are you?- Dara.
0:42:30 > 0:42:31- Hello.- Thank you for showing us.
0:42:31 > 0:42:34'Danny volunteers in this shelter at Ixtepec,
0:42:34 > 0:42:37'where up to 500 migrants a week arrived on La Bestia.'
0:42:37 > 0:42:41What is life like on the train?
0:42:41 > 0:42:46On the train, well, the problem on the train is that you cannot escape.
0:42:46 > 0:42:50- Yeah.- So many people take advantage of them.
0:42:50 > 0:42:54You may find gangs on the train that ask for money.
0:42:54 > 0:42:57They have guns or weapons with them.
0:42:57 > 0:42:59So they ask for money, "If you don't pay me,
0:42:59 > 0:43:01"I throw you out of the train."
0:43:01 > 0:43:05- But they're preying on some of the poorest people in the world.- Yes.
0:43:05 > 0:43:07Many of the people who arrive here,
0:43:07 > 0:43:09you'll find that they have lost everything.
0:43:09 > 0:43:13Sometimes people arrive here naked. They have nothing on them.
0:43:13 > 0:43:15They steal everything from them.
0:43:15 > 0:43:17Most of them know that the journey is really dangerous
0:43:17 > 0:43:21that maybe only 15% will arrive. They know that.
0:43:21 > 0:43:26And women know that about 60% of them will be raped on the way.
0:43:26 > 0:43:29- And they just accept that that's going to happen.- That's the risk.
0:43:29 > 0:43:31When you have nothing to lose...
0:43:31 > 0:43:34- Yeah.- ..you go to...you take any risk.
0:43:34 > 0:43:37We know that many of them cannot go back.
0:43:37 > 0:43:41Gangs in their countries are looking for them. So if they go back...
0:43:41 > 0:43:44- They'd be dead.- They die. Yeah. - Right.
0:43:45 > 0:43:48'Migrants see the US as the answer to their problems.
0:43:48 > 0:43:52'Christian is a Guatemalan who's seeking a better life there.'
0:43:52 > 0:43:54Christian, nice to meet you.
0:43:54 > 0:43:57What has driven you north, then?
0:43:57 > 0:44:01Basically, my economic status. I didn't find a job in Guatemala.
0:44:01 > 0:44:03And also the violence.
0:44:03 > 0:44:06We have a lot of violence in Guatemala, and the maras.
0:44:06 > 0:44:10- The maras are the gangs? - Yeah, the gangs.- Right.
0:44:10 > 0:44:15So, you came north on The Beast. What was that like, then?
0:44:15 > 0:44:18Well, the train stopped in one of the places
0:44:18 > 0:44:20that was supposed to be a dangerous spot.
0:44:20 > 0:44:24And one of the guys started to ask money to all of us
0:44:24 > 0:44:27- and no-one wanted to give money. - Right.
0:44:27 > 0:44:33So he got mad and he took a big machete and try to stab everyone.
0:44:33 > 0:44:38Actually, I got slapped on the back but I'd got my backpack on.
0:44:38 > 0:44:41I dropped it and I ran away into the woods.
0:44:41 > 0:44:43And what is your plan now for the future?
0:44:43 > 0:44:46Maybe, if the opportunity arises, to go to the States,
0:44:46 > 0:44:50I will definitely take the chance to get to the States.
0:44:50 > 0:44:55- But not by that train.- Not any more. Not even thinking about it.
0:44:55 > 0:44:57Not for even a second.
0:44:57 > 0:45:00- Well, good luck, Christian. I wish you all the best.- Thank you.
0:45:01 > 0:45:07'In the 1940s, less than 20,000 Latin Americans a year migrated to the US.
0:45:07 > 0:45:10'But increasing violence and instability in Central America
0:45:10 > 0:45:13'have pushed that number up to 400,000 a year.
0:45:16 > 0:45:20'Considering the scale of this migration north, our journey south
0:45:20 > 0:45:22'is starting to feel a bit like
0:45:22 > 0:45:24'we're running into a burning building.'
0:45:25 > 0:45:28'Now come our days of real difficulty.
0:45:28 > 0:45:31'What we've gone through up to now seems almost child's play
0:45:31 > 0:45:32'compared to this.
0:45:32 > 0:45:35'We tried to pull the car with bulls hooked onto the rope.
0:45:35 > 0:45:37'But the bulls won't pull with the motor
0:45:37 > 0:45:39'because the roar of it frightens them.
0:45:39 > 0:45:42'So we finally have to send them home and get more men.
0:45:42 > 0:45:45'And one day we go only 25 yards.
0:45:45 > 0:45:49'It's heartbreaking toil but we're determined not to turn back.'
0:45:51 > 0:45:53That was the River Hondo.
0:45:53 > 0:45:57- Oh, well... - They got stuck here for ages.
0:45:57 > 0:46:01This is the section that was unbelievably slow.
0:46:01 > 0:46:04Also, the one thing watching the footage of them, you know,
0:46:04 > 0:46:08hauling the car across the desert and stuff, I know it sounds stupid,
0:46:08 > 0:46:09but until we got here...
0:46:10 > 0:46:15..I never considered that they were doing it in such blistering heat.
0:46:15 > 0:46:17Hats off to the boys.
0:46:20 > 0:46:22'While it's only taken us ten days to reach
0:46:22 > 0:46:24'the mountains above the city of Juchitan,
0:46:24 > 0:46:28'it took the Richardson expedition nearly two months.
0:46:28 > 0:46:30'After mountain desert,
0:46:30 > 0:46:33'they were now struggling through dense vegetation.
0:46:33 > 0:46:36'And running low on provisions, their Zapotec Indian helpers
0:46:36 > 0:46:39'suggested that they try a local dish.'
0:46:39 > 0:46:42'So they take sticks and begin beating on hollow logs.
0:46:42 > 0:46:43'When they hear a sound,
0:46:43 > 0:46:45'they reach in and pull out these long-tailed iguanas.
0:46:45 > 0:46:47'Don't these make you hungry?'
0:46:49 > 0:46:51'Ed and I have come to Juchitan,
0:46:51 > 0:46:54'where iguanas, a traditional Zapotec food,
0:46:54 > 0:46:55'are still on the menu.
0:46:55 > 0:46:58'He's going to a local research and breeding centre
0:46:58 > 0:47:01'and I'm going to have breakfast with Mistica, a muxe
0:47:01 > 0:47:05'or transgender Zapotec, who's agreed to be my guide for the day.'
0:47:07 > 0:47:10Now, Mistica, show me the market.
0:47:10 > 0:47:14'Muxes have been an accepted part of the culture here for centuries.
0:47:14 > 0:47:17'And Mistica is a well-known and popular figure.'
0:47:17 > 0:47:20- OK, let's go inside here. - IN TRANSLATION:
0:47:27 > 0:47:29You get a real sense of iguana from that.
0:47:29 > 0:47:32You can see the leathery skin. I'm not seeing much meat on that.
0:47:34 > 0:47:36Oh, that's the head of the iguana? Oh, my Lord,
0:47:36 > 0:47:39that is the head of an iguana. I can see his teeth!
0:47:39 > 0:47:42There's no mistaking.
0:47:45 > 0:47:47I'm not Zapotec.
0:47:47 > 0:47:50I don't know if I'm strong enough to eat the head.
0:47:50 > 0:47:53'Thanks to Mistica, it looks like the head's going in anyway.'
0:47:53 > 0:47:54THE WOMEN LAUGH
0:47:56 > 0:47:58OK, why don't we go and eat some iguana?
0:48:00 > 0:48:02Muchas gracias.
0:48:03 > 0:48:07'As Dara has breakfast, I've come to the local iguana research centre.
0:48:07 > 0:48:11'While it's still legal to eat them, hunting them is now discouraged
0:48:11 > 0:48:13'as numbers are dropping.
0:48:13 > 0:48:16'Biologist Eduardo Martinez is trying to persuade locals to buy
0:48:16 > 0:48:18'farmed iguanas instead.'
0:48:18 > 0:48:23Eduardo, I've seen footage of people hunting iguanas in the wild,
0:48:23 > 0:48:24from back in the '40s, you know,
0:48:24 > 0:48:27banging bits of wood, and stuff like that.
0:48:27 > 0:48:29Does that style of hunting still go on today?
0:48:29 > 0:48:31IN TRANSLATION:
0:48:44 > 0:48:46I can't believe I'm going to ask this, but could I hold one?
0:48:46 > 0:48:49- Is that a possibility? - Si, claro.
0:48:50 > 0:48:52They seem a little bit ornery.
0:48:52 > 0:48:54ED CLEARS HIS THROAT
0:49:01 > 0:49:05They don't... They don't look like a snack to me.
0:49:05 > 0:49:08I don't look that and think, "Yum-yum."
0:49:09 > 0:49:11Oh, hello.
0:49:11 > 0:49:14There we go - that's a big bowl of iguana.
0:49:14 > 0:49:16Now, don't forget, I also had a really good breakfast -
0:49:16 > 0:49:20some eggs, some huevos rancheros, you know...
0:49:23 > 0:49:25Oh, my God, that really is an iguana head.
0:49:25 > 0:49:28You can even see its little teeth and, you know,
0:49:28 > 0:49:30I don't want to anthropomorphise my food too much,
0:49:30 > 0:49:32but he has genuine expressions.
0:49:32 > 0:49:33"Hey, don't eat me."
0:49:36 > 0:49:39Ah! As if to go, "No! Don't eat me!
0:49:39 > 0:49:41"I am not comida, I am not food."
0:49:44 > 0:49:47It's normal food for you, but where I'm from,
0:49:47 > 0:49:49it is not la comida normal.
0:49:49 > 0:49:50OK.
0:49:54 > 0:49:56Down in one, eh? Down in one.
0:49:56 > 0:49:59It's the first...my primero time doing this.
0:50:01 > 0:50:03Oh, that's spicy. Nice.
0:50:03 > 0:50:05Is it good, are you enjoying that?
0:50:05 > 0:50:07OK, fine, we'll try a bit more of it.
0:50:09 > 0:50:10SPEAKING SPANISH
0:50:10 > 0:50:11Oh, is that a good bit, is it?
0:50:11 > 0:50:15You're essentially giving me a good bit of iguana, there.
0:50:15 > 0:50:17Oh, my lord. Oh, God.
0:50:18 > 0:50:21OK, let's try a bit of that. OK, here's iguana meat.
0:50:21 > 0:50:23Here it... In it goes.
0:50:24 > 0:50:26Mmm, that's all right. Tastes like chicken.
0:50:26 > 0:50:29It's very difficult to get over the fact that that is lizard skin
0:50:29 > 0:50:31that we're eating through.
0:50:31 > 0:50:32It's a very good...
0:50:32 > 0:50:34It's very good. The soup is very good.
0:50:34 > 0:50:38The sauce is really, really spicy and that could hide anything.
0:50:38 > 0:50:40Oh, you're very sweet, you're laughing,
0:50:40 > 0:50:42even though you have no idea what I'm saying.
0:50:42 > 0:50:44I wish all audiences were like you.
0:50:46 > 0:50:48Yes, my first time tasting iguana.
0:50:48 > 0:50:50You know what? I might not make it part of my staple diet.
0:50:53 > 0:50:56- These are the green iguana? - Iguana verde.
0:51:05 > 0:51:07Is that a major problem,
0:51:07 > 0:51:11having to respect the tradition of hunting iguana
0:51:11 > 0:51:13whilst at the same time trying to find a balance
0:51:13 > 0:51:15with preserving the species?
0:51:28 > 0:51:30It's a beautiful beast, it has to be said.
0:51:30 > 0:51:32I think I shall call him Dara,
0:51:32 > 0:51:34cos he doesn't have any hair either.
0:51:40 > 0:51:42'We're moving on from Juchitan,
0:51:42 > 0:51:44'but not without a little present for Ed.'
0:51:46 > 0:51:49- Look what I brought you. - What have you got?
0:51:49 > 0:51:52- Is that iguana meat?!- In fact, it's the same iguana you held.
0:51:52 > 0:51:56- No, it's not.- It's the same iguana. We liberated it.
0:51:56 > 0:51:57That's iguana meat, my friend.
0:51:57 > 0:51:59There may even be some iguana eggs in there,
0:51:59 > 0:52:01which are quite, quite yummy.
0:52:09 > 0:52:12'The plains south of Juchitan are the narrowest point
0:52:12 > 0:52:15'between the country's Atlantic and Pacific coasts.
0:52:15 > 0:52:19'They are known as La Ventosa, or "the windy place."'
0:52:19 > 0:52:21It's incredible, the wind farms. How many...?
0:52:21 > 0:52:24Oh, man, I've never seen wind farms like it.
0:52:24 > 0:52:28- Nothing on the scale of this. - There must be over 1,000 of them.
0:52:28 > 0:52:30It's astonishing.
0:52:30 > 0:52:33'These wind farms are the largest in Latin America
0:52:33 > 0:52:37'and Mexico is aiming to produce up to 15% of its energy from them
0:52:37 > 0:52:38'within ten years.
0:52:39 > 0:52:41'But for drivers like us on the Pan-Am,
0:52:41 > 0:52:45'the wind brings another less welcome phenomenon -
0:52:45 > 0:52:47'brush fires.'
0:52:47 > 0:52:48Bloody hell!
0:52:50 > 0:52:51Wow, look at that!
0:52:52 > 0:52:55That's a little close to the road, isn't it?
0:52:55 > 0:52:57This is kind of scary-looking.
0:52:57 > 0:53:00Oof! Ho-ho! Came in the air conditioning, you see that?
0:53:00 > 0:53:02THEY LAUGH
0:53:03 > 0:53:06'Sullivan, Ken and Arnold also drove through La Ventosa,
0:53:06 > 0:53:10'but by now their car was starting to fall apart.'
0:53:10 > 0:53:13'Down in the jungle lowlands near the Guatemalan frontier,
0:53:13 > 0:53:16'Arnold again begins grousing about the car.
0:53:16 > 0:53:18'As he finally stands up, he says,
0:53:18 > 0:53:20'"No wonder the darn thing wouldn't pull.
0:53:20 > 0:53:23'"Look, it didn't even have an exhaust pipe."
0:53:23 > 0:53:24'And the whole under part of the car
0:53:24 > 0:53:26'looks as if we'd turned it upside down
0:53:26 > 0:53:29'and beaten it with picks and sledgehammers.'
0:53:30 > 0:53:32'After two months on the road,
0:53:32 > 0:53:36'Sullivan was forced to fly back to Detroit for spare parts.
0:53:36 > 0:53:39'He arrived in February 1941 to find the US
0:53:39 > 0:53:42'on the brink of joining the Second World War
0:53:42 > 0:53:46'and the lack of a road through the strategically vital Panama Canal
0:53:46 > 0:53:50'was becoming an issue of national security.
0:53:50 > 0:53:51'While Sully had meetings
0:53:51 > 0:53:53'with the State Department about the expedition,
0:53:53 > 0:53:57'Ken and Arnold soldiered on towards the Guatemalan border,
0:53:57 > 0:54:00'along a winding path through mountain jungle.'
0:54:02 > 0:54:03Oh, my lord.
0:54:03 > 0:54:04I don't like driving
0:54:04 > 0:54:08when you can look down and see a drop falling away.
0:54:08 > 0:54:09It's precipitous.
0:54:09 > 0:54:11It is. It's vertiginous.
0:54:13 > 0:54:16So without me looking, and you know my thing about heights...
0:54:16 > 0:54:19This bit is fine. This bit, if you came off here,
0:54:19 > 0:54:22we'd hurt ourselves and we'd damage the car, but we wouldn't die.
0:54:24 > 0:54:27- You're doing very well, though. - Thank you very much.
0:54:27 > 0:54:30'What Ken and Arnold weren't expecting to encounter
0:54:30 > 0:54:33'was a state-of-the-art coffee farm.
0:54:33 > 0:54:35'It was run by the Edelmann family,
0:54:35 > 0:54:38'German immigrants who arrived in the 1880s
0:54:38 > 0:54:40'and are still here today.'
0:54:40 > 0:54:42- Buenos dias.- Buenos dias.
0:54:42 > 0:54:44Thank you very much for inviting us.
0:54:44 > 0:54:46It's a pleasure to have you here in Finca Hamburgo.
0:54:46 > 0:54:49- What a beautiful location. - It's a paradise.
0:54:50 > 0:54:53'Tomas Edelmann's family built the Finca Hamburgo
0:54:53 > 0:54:55'and the road up to it from scratch
0:54:55 > 0:54:58'and his grandmother filmed their life here
0:54:58 > 0:55:00'during the 1930s and '40s.'
0:55:00 > 0:55:06- At that time, this was pure rainforest.- Right.- Nothing else.
0:55:06 > 0:55:08So it was tough for them,
0:55:08 > 0:55:12but my grandmother would say it was hard work,
0:55:12 > 0:55:17hard labour, but the best years of their lives, she spent here.
0:55:17 > 0:55:20Now, we are following the journey of the Three Fools
0:55:20 > 0:55:22- as they travelled through.- OK.
0:55:22 > 0:55:25We know that two of them came here,
0:55:25 > 0:55:27which we find to be an astonishing journey,
0:55:27 > 0:55:30given we've travelled the road up here
0:55:30 > 0:55:32and it could do with levelling off.
0:55:32 > 0:55:34And we knew what we were coming to.
0:55:34 > 0:55:38- They seemed to wander aimlessly up the hill and found you.- Exactly.
0:55:38 > 0:55:41Well, they had to drive up here on one side
0:55:41 > 0:55:43and go down on the other side
0:55:43 > 0:55:45if they wanted to keep on going south.
0:55:45 > 0:55:48- They were just trying to get over the mountain?- Exactly.
0:55:48 > 0:55:49I can show you some...
0:55:49 > 0:55:52Do you have photographs of the two of them when they arrived?
0:55:52 > 0:55:55Yeah, we have pictures when they arrived
0:55:55 > 0:55:58- with that vehicle. - The Plymouth?- Right.
0:55:58 > 0:56:01This is Grandmother and my grandfather.
0:56:01 > 0:56:03- And that's Arnold and that's Ken?- Yes.
0:56:04 > 0:56:08'Tomas's grandparents also captured Ken and Arnold's visit
0:56:08 > 0:56:10'on their cine-camera.'
0:56:10 > 0:56:13"Viva el Panamericanismo!"
0:56:13 > 0:56:16- Bits of the car already come off? - Yes.
0:56:16 > 0:56:18Ruined tyres.
0:56:18 > 0:56:19Four tyres on the roof.
0:56:20 > 0:56:23- Your grandfather must have thought they were insane.- Yes.
0:56:23 > 0:56:25I mean, on saying that, though,
0:56:25 > 0:56:30there must have been some sort of fellow feeling, as we say -
0:56:30 > 0:56:34- one adventurer recognising another adventurer.- Definitely.
0:56:38 > 0:56:42'Thanks to the Pan-American Highway, which arrived here in 1950,
0:56:42 > 0:56:44'the Finca Hamburgo has thrived
0:56:44 > 0:56:47'and today exports most of its coffee to the US.
0:56:48 > 0:56:51'Ken and Arnold would no doubt have approved.'
0:56:51 > 0:56:53They spoke very highly of the hospitality.
0:56:53 > 0:56:57They said they were never looked after better than they were here.
0:56:57 > 0:56:58Well, that's nice to hear.
0:56:58 > 0:57:00I imagine they liked it here
0:57:00 > 0:57:04because my grandfather was a specialist in making Martinis.
0:57:04 > 0:57:07- Oh, really! - That's an excellent skill to have,
0:57:07 > 0:57:11- should people accidentally drop by. - Exactly, yeah!
0:57:11 > 0:57:12Arnold and Ken must have really felt
0:57:12 > 0:57:15like they'd landed on their feet when they landed here.
0:57:15 > 0:57:18Just imagine them sitting back, drinking coffee, going,
0:57:18 > 0:57:19"Sullivan would have loved it here.
0:57:19 > 0:57:21- "He would have been delighted." - Exactly.
0:57:21 > 0:57:23"Shame he had to go back to Detroit to get parts."
0:57:23 > 0:57:25- Right. - "I'm glad we finally got a break
0:57:25 > 0:57:28"from the 'clack-clack!' of his bleedin' typewriter!"
0:57:30 > 0:57:32'Like the original expedition,
0:57:32 > 0:57:36'we too have reached the end of our time in Mexico.'
0:57:37 > 0:57:41- So that would be Guatemala out there. - Somewhere there.
0:57:41 > 0:57:43We say goodbye to Mexico, which is also in cloud.
0:57:43 > 0:57:45We see very little of that either.
0:57:45 > 0:57:48And we say hello to Guatemala, which is possibly there, or there,
0:57:48 > 0:57:49or somewhere out...
0:57:49 > 0:57:52It's not really the best view of it from here, is it?
0:57:52 > 0:57:56That's the thing about rainforests. They cloud over quite often.
0:57:56 > 0:57:59- I know. Did you enjoy Mexico? - I enjoyed it immensely.
0:57:59 > 0:58:02- Was it as fun for you a second time round?- It was, actually.
0:58:02 > 0:58:05It's a huge, exciting country and very diverse.
0:58:08 > 0:58:11One thing I have learnt on this journey is that people are people.
0:58:11 > 0:58:13- Oh, God, really? - So why should it be...?
0:58:13 > 0:58:15It took this trip
0:58:15 > 0:58:18- for you to learn that banal fact? - ED LAUGHS
0:58:18 > 0:58:20God!
0:58:20 > 0:58:23- See that break in the clouds, my friend?- That's a good omen.
0:58:23 > 0:58:24That's a good omen.
0:58:27 > 0:58:30'Next time, our journey takes us even further south,
0:58:30 > 0:58:32'into Central America...'
0:58:32 > 0:58:33MAN CALLS OUT IN SPANISH
0:58:35 > 0:58:36'..where paint jobs...'
0:58:36 > 0:58:39IN SOUTH AMERICAN ACCENT: How you like my new ride, huh?
0:58:39 > 0:58:40'..volcanoes...'
0:58:40 > 0:58:42There seems to be a bit missing
0:58:42 > 0:58:44- from the middle of the mountain. - Yes.
0:58:44 > 0:58:46'..and baseball...'
0:58:46 > 0:58:48LAUGHTER AND CHATTER IN SPANISH
0:58:48 > 0:58:50'..are all on the menu.'