Botswana Adventure Part 1 - Top Gear - BBC

Before you lies the Mad Caddy. These are the largest salt flats in the world, they are almost completely lifeless and are as wide as Portugal. No car has ever crossed them. If you run out of water, you will die if your car breaks down and you can. If you are rescued you will die if you run out of food you will die it is like driving in a Creme Brule uh there is a primitive mud covered with a thin layer of salty crust if you have thin tires you will break that crust you will get stuck and die so it is recommended to put on thick tires and remove as much weight as possible before leaving.

Well, how hard can it be? Don't say that in the camp weight loss began, that doesn't work, thank you all, terribly, I could feel how much! This seat weighs like you work, ah, fuel filler. I need you to maybe remove the H caps because they protect the hubs. Can I point out something about Hammond walking around his car? Ming about how he needs it all. Look, I know exactly what. What he is doing has formed an emotional bond, hasn't it? We have said, could you cut pieces of your wife? What are you doing? I was going to remove the radiator grill thinking it's just a decoration.

I can help? Please do you want to remove your windows? no no no no no they are not good no, I have really solved it. I've done no because old glass very thin glass very thin glass God, they come off easily James yes, using nothing more than a hammer Yes, your beer, thanks mate, have we lost enough weight? Now you haven't lost a single gram. I lost the spare tire and something else. Now look at mine. I'm going to need some guide ropes to keep it from floating away like a big balloon so tomorrow we'll die so I don't think it's like all this stuff is overkill we'll be fine honestly we'll be fine we've done enough the next morning at the edge of the mountains salt flats we thought we would get attacked by a Bond villain, but it turns out to be the vice president of Botswana, which is a good arrival, yes it is, it's better than an official Rover 75 and a couple of police vehicles.

He was surprised to hear what he was planning. I've never met anyone who crossed in a car. This should be the first time. I think they are there. Oh, really, yeah, it's just, oh, really, yeah, that should be interesting. You were smiling. You just stopped encouraging yourself. Because of the vice president's optimism, we set off, nothing really prepares you for the sheer size of these. I think in a way that's scarier than the pole, it's absolutely nothing, you can see the curvature of the earth as we plow the little opal. Well Oliver is just skipping the boom, this car was born to do this sadly although despite losing weight my Lancia wasn't doing so well judging by the way the tires sink while driving I think It has to be a little more. come out still as you can see in the grooves of the tires.

He was doing better than the MC. I'm looking at James' rear wheel and he's digging a lot. I tried to help him, he's very helpful, well he's always the beetle, James. waiting for you what are you going to do it's sinking J honestly we've done how far is that mile is that my Lancia waited again just a push that's a crash there's one thing unfortunately because it was automatic it was useless so He told Richard to try it , but he didn't want to hurt Oliver. This was useless so we had to hire the 3 2 1 camera crew because the Moco was so bad that we had to be even more drastic with the weight loss that we worked on for hours.

Well, two of us did it and we were finally ready. Now this is the Lcia beta CPE super Lera light, this is not a modification, this is great, why don't all cars have no doors? When I come to power I will make it a rule because This is just better, however the Mad Caddy was not going to let us go so lightly and soon even our super light cars started having problems again, come on oh oh , yes, no, this is not good, oh no, only the opal remains problem-free. Which was bad news for me, yeah, come on man, I'll move on and then we'll do it again.

Wait, how far away are they? Another five or six yards and we could be Bobby, oh this is horrible, go on, go on, go on. let's move on yes yes no James don't go there you'll get stuck that's close to not having permission to say yes we have everyone we'll get him out we need 100 men or more no this is hopeless people I'm sorry you need it four wheel drive for this

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the gunk was so sticky it had completely jammed the rear wheels of the Lanier so I can't describe it to you you just think it's Murs do you know what fish is it's just rotten prehistoric fish 1 two 3 Fortunately the ground finally hardened and we made good progress, but suddenly the horizon was no longer flat.

This is interesting because now we are among what look like islands and I assume they were a lake, so they would have been incredible islands, absolutely incredible. Where we are? It's called Kubu Island. We are about to. I'm trying to cross a third of the way and you've gotten stuck about a thousand times. That's presumptuous. A BB tree I always wanted to see one of those Hammonds, check this out. It's the most amazing place I've ever been with you there as the sun was setting we headed to camp