Stephen Fry in Central America
Travelling through Mexico and the entire Central American isthmus, to the Panamanian border with South America, it's a remarkable trip through some of the oldest civilizations on the planet Mayan, Aztec and Olmec.
- 2015-2018
- 1 season
- Documentary
Travelling through Mexico and the entire Central American isthmus, to the Panamanian border with South America, it's a remarkable trip through some of the oldest civilizations on the planet Mayan, Aztec and Olmec.
Season 1 Episode Guide
4 Episodes 2018
Episode 1
Mexico
Stephen Fry crosses Mexico from El Passo in a yellow US school bus, commonly getting its second, hardest career there. Vaqueros (the Original cowboys) and canyons impress him more then the Grand Canyon. In Chihuahua he enjoys the donkey festival and visits the once priceless silver mine at rundown Real Catorce. A proud archaeologist show him the Tutanchalon-like treasures in the Precolumbian capital Teotihuacan near Aztec, colonial and modern metropolis Mexico City. Stephen plays a butler cameo in a telenovela (soapserie) and attends a mass demonstration against the horrible murders in drug wars. Heading for the Pacific coast, he admires the colony of multi-generational monarch butterfly migrations and the brave, yet often studying cliff divers in Acapulco, once a fanciful elite resort.
Episode 2
Belize and Guatemala
Stephen crosses from Mexico to Belize, the former British Honduras, still anglophone and with a now tiny British garrison, where the major kindly helps repair the bus. Then to Guatemala, a green and mountainous country, where half of the population is Mayan, and suffered excessively in decades of civil war. Steven tastes their rituals and learns about the bloody originals, admires archaeological sites at Tikal and Atitlan while the onerous ball sports is revived by youth and traditions maintained, like 'fashionable' weaving in each tribal regions.
Episode 3
Slavador, Honduras and Nicaragua
Episode 4