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World's Most Dangerous Roads Season 2 Episodes
Season 2 Episode Guide
3 Episodes 2012 - 2012
Episode 1
Siberia
59 mins
Long-standing British buddies actor-writers Ed Byrne and Andy Parsons embark on an adventurous drive over the Kolyma tract, the world's coldest land road. It starts in Yakutsk, smack in the icy (-50 to -70 Celsius!) center of Siberia and goes to the still frozen ocean coast. dangers abound for vehicle (the motor may never be shut off) and passengers (whose urine would freeze their cocks off unless kept moving). Yet constructing the 'bones route' was far worse still, a job that cost an estimated million lives among the convicts in dozens of gulags, mostly founded for this project and abandoned except where mining remains.
Episode 2
Ho Chi Minh Trail
58 mins
A female British pair sets out driving along the Ho Chi,Minh Trail, set out in the jungle by the Viet Cong, mainly to supply their southern attacks on the US troops. In reunited victor Vietnam, it now leads trough a country in economic expansion, popular with tourists. When it diverges into Laos, that landlocked country's much weaker economy is reflected in the poor state of the road.
Episode 3
Ethiopia
58 mins
Writer-actor and David Baddiel and actor-writer Hugh Dennis drive the long, bumpy road van Ethiopian capital Addis Abeba to Axum, the ancient Coptic center that claims to hold the Arc of the Covenant. The Italian colonization constructed it as part of a network to enable effective control over the temporarily subdued native empire, a complex tapestry of Christian and Muslim peoples and tribes. The nation's mismanagement o-under the communists and civil war left their mark on road and areas it crosses. The poor infrastructure is part of general underdevelopment and widespread poverty, with modest tourism regardless of a rich heritage in historic and natural monuments.
