World's Most Dangerous Roads - Australia : Wild Bush

kitty is um in the Australian desert the kangaroos have learned to see the trucks passing by or rather trucks that look like trains two types of drivers share the tracks and the marsupial is not invited to the party there are some ambitious ones who nothing can stop like Russell, no We seem to worry too much about kangaroos, but cattle can damage the truck, but also a beast like this could be worth two to three thousand dollars to the station owner, so the last thing we want to do is kill one. of these cows and then there are the kangaroo hunters on the tracks timmy is on the lookout he does not hesitate to accelerate when a good opportunity appears in front of his bumper my family

australia

is not just an island it is a continent 14 times larger than france the second country

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at least in the south and east the north and the center are still

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to connect these two different

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s giant trucks constantly travel on the

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between the south and the north of this island In the continent two opposite ways of life coexist, one is that of the English settlers who arrived in the 19th century, one that never stops expanding, the other belongs to the aboriginal peoples who try to preserve their culture that has existed for 50,000 years before cross the desert or the

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it is best to plan your trip the Australian tracks are full of dangers and surprises it is a paradise untouched by the modern world we are in northern Australia in the territory of the Yongnuo tribe they are the fiercest defenders of the Aboriginal culture throughout its history life is based on tradition, which does not mean that they reject all the comforts of the modern world.

Their town, Bauer Kane, doesn't appear on any map, but there is electricity. Timmy dreams of a new car. his is in sorry condition, except for At the moment he has to make do with the means provided by the community, you don't have a truck battery, so I'm going to try to fix it, but I'm going to the ceremony. I have a ceremony to do. I met my tribe. My mom tried to clear groups, so I go there. Actually, someone in my family passed away. They are too twins. Most Aboriginal people are unemployed like Timmy. Most live off government support.

A kind of compensation for colonization. Old cars provide spare parts. parts for these trucks with their inconceivable mileage simple mechanics are not enough to make them work at least not in timmy's car to stack the odds in his favor he calls the mechanics from the other side the spirits of his ancestors the aboriginal territories They have very few paved

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. The funeral he attends takes place in Bakira, 200 kilometers of sand and track, a trip of almost 10 hours. If everything goes well and it starts badly, the black smoke that rises in the distance does not look good as it progresses. the air becomes acrid the smell that tickles your nose suggests the worst the

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is burning the flames engulf the plants on both sides of the path in the dry season it is often the lightning that sets off the fire so large all the trees fell coming fire coming then I turned around I came back again I waited for the tree to cut three and then right there more fire cutting this fire has been burning for two days and there is no one to stop it Australia is a country of fantastic proportions the Aboriginal territory extends over almost a million hectares but has only three inhabitants per square kilometer, so when firefighters are alerted, they often arrive too late and the fire has had time to grow and become more powerful each year.

The flames devastate miles of bush and sometimes Even in today's villages, Jimmy is not too worried. Luckily, there is practically no wind and the fire spreads slowly. He has time to get out of the fire. Water will not be an obstacle to the flames. However, for Timmy's old 4x4, it's another story. from one town to another in australia is an epic journey its great landscapes have not been touched by the west only aboriginals have the right to cross their territory non-aboriginals have to ask for special authorization, otherwise they risk ending up in prison and these are not empty threats since this sign indicates that there is a strong rejection towards Westerners in this remote region this piece of land was taken from the settlers after bloody battles, epidemics caused by European diseases and the ravages of alcohol, the aborigines which were almost a million in the 18th century. century now there are only 366,000.

Today they are divided between the various reservations that the government has granted them. They told me that when they first saw the white people they were confused and said who are these people? Before, they thought they were a ghost. They came, I think they killed the aborigines, your people across the street killed them and then took their land. He has now been on the road for three hours. The track becomes more and more challenging. When you get stuck in the sand, Timmy takes it. a lesson inherited from the English sang foie stay calm in all circumstances if you accelerate too much the wheel will sink even more on the other hand gently and with a little patience whatever the state of the road that timmy has to cross at all costs without he the ceremony will not take place the tribe has chosen him traditional chief that is the name of duty my duties means speaking after our elder taking care of the law the tribes come, you know, we gather ceremonies and dances teaching the little children They remember their lives They remember our ancestors It is very important in these forgotten lands A simple stop can end in disaster Bathroom stops must be made on high alert Crocodiles are never far from the tracks that border the ocean even though they The government has offered the aborigines to refuse to have their The paved paths complicate their lives and make it difficult for them to visit neighboring towns but they respect the land.

The mountain is the same as that of their ancestors. Unlike the landscapes found 2,500 kilometers to the south, the contrast is striking. in the middle of the desert an island of modernity alice springs the city was born in the 19th century at that time it was supplied by caravans of camels imported from afghanistan today the camel color has been replaced by a shiny chrome these beasts no longer run water they are thirsty of gasoline, these unusual trucks pull three trailers and 100 tons of goods, the equivalent of 300 camels due to their endless length of 53 meters. Australians call them road trains.

Kevin transports a load of bricks to Alice Springs. 1,400 kilometers of asphalt that attacks everyone. speed the road train is the vocation of this young 27 year old driver my uncle is a truck driver and when I was about nine years old I went on a trip with him and that's crazy I just became obsessed with 600 horsepower trucks The engines transport the The world's largest trucks and their 100 tons of goods at an average speed of 80 kilometers per hour, but driving these monsters requires keeping a cool head. It takes much longer to accelerate. It takes much longer to slow down.

You have to be boys. kangaroos cows other cars you have to be careful with the steering just drive slowly trying to get the best fuel economy and checking the tires checking the load every two hours just making sure everything is tied up well and getting there the customer doesn't damage the train road Drivers don't just use their tires on the asphalt, bush potholes are part of their daily routine. The bush crossed a river and got stuck on the ramp on the way out and there are crocodiles in the water. I stopped there for approximately seven hours until the grader reached the hooked community and removed us from the river.

Okay, unless you tear up the side of the road in the summer, it can be a little scary, then the heat and if you've done it. If you don't have all the water and food with you, you can cause a lot of problems pretty quickly. These steel monsters cost a small fortune of around €1 million, so to make them profitable, the trucks never stop moving. Transportation companies rent the vehicles once they are there. arrived in alice springs kevin is going to rest but not his truck once unloaded it moves away from the track it is in new hands here is the new master on board russell nicknamed the king of the desert at this moment it is certain that the road train Defeat the desert.

He can be found on the outskirts of Alice Springs, where he has one of the largest scrap metal yards in the region. Thousands of tires and automobiles are piled up here, a treasure of rubber and steel that is a source of envy in the region. Two weeks ago we had an arsenal attack set fire to a crater, a pile of cars here and another bigger pile down here and then a third pile of cars a little more around the corner, totally unnecessary, they're going to be crushed anyway, but yeah, I was very lucky. Less than 20 feet from the car crusher here you would be devastated even if it is by no means your main concern this old truck driver is environmentally friendly in his own way collecting the old remains that litter the desert that the residents of the region They have used to abandoning their old or irreparable cars there Russell had to rent a truck because the last time he ventured into the bush it was very expensive the heat made the engine of his road train explode um like all the trucks are right in their limit everything the differentials are red hot, the gearbox is red hot and the engine is red hot, pulling over 100 tonnes, sometimes more, in 50 degree heat on some of the worst roads in Australia , so it's a punishment every time they go out, they get punished.

Russell is some kind of punishment. From Dr. Frankenstein, the only difference is that he brings life with the mechanical organs that he rescued. He has made this incredible machine into a transportable car compactor. We make this machine here ourselves, compact cars so that we can get the maximum weight in a semi-trailer. trailer, we designed this machine for the interior, what it has the ability to do is get off this trailer and then that leaves the trailer available to bring back 30 abandoned cars, mainly the components come from a 30 ton excavator, the engine, hydraulic pumps this unique machine is like something straight out of a Mad Max movie it needs to be checked before every trip as it is a bit temperamental it works now all that is left is to assemble the three trailers which is not easy and then I have to move some things that have been thrown in front of a trailer.

Remove the refrigerator. Prepare the trailer with everything clean. There is only the electric ramp to turn on. A good battery tap. Works. We have the front trailer here. We have our front loader with a forklift attachment, we use this to pick up the cars, hitching up the trailers requires a lot of skill and most of all good judgment, we are just putting up some warning flags here, it's just a bit over. but we'll just let people know that it's big, it's a little complicated to connect them all and then make sure all the airlines are right.

I'll just make sure you don't forget anything after three hours of maneuvering, the convoy. ready to leave the rodeo, we are going to destroy some cars 10 am and the heat has already crushed the last cool breezes of the morning 40 degrees in the shade and the temperature is still going to rise russell hopes that the mechanics of his rental truck do not suffer in the In the desert, the scrapyard's best customers are the aboriginal towns with the poverty that reigns there. The surrounding area is full of old crashed cars. Every time he goes, Russell checks to see if there is a ceremony or funeral, otherwise his wallet runs the risk of taking a hit. that have been given by the aborigines imposed very specific rules for the road and they are very strict, especially when the road crosses a sacred site, the legislators index Ireland, which wants to close the road saying that you cannot go to everyone's district, you must There is risk management, you know, it is a code of Fight for the law and pay attention.

Aboriginal people have the highest fines in the world. This sign tells drivers that they better turn off or risk paying a fine of almost 15,000 euros for the spirit of the aborigines. He created nature and the elements these spirits still circulate in certain places a forest a mountain can be proof of his passage good special for this land and a special one for your people where we have four sacred sides but six seconds outside could be a hill a land galleries um rocks trees in that land this talks about the meaning of that culture the sacred sites are very um it's like you respect the land you can't kill the land you can't kill that you know mother earth instead of the path on the land the land tells us possesses very very important because the earth is part of you when you kill the lamb you die timmy has been driving for 10 hours without air conditioning under a scorching sun tiredness begins to appear and his eyelids are heavy he loses concentration he begins to zigzag

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ly these signs announce security ahead we are arriving at the salomon area this place is called so we are going to go dancing with the family the funeral ceremony is scheduled forThe next morning the town where the funeral will take place is one of the most isolated towns in Australia to make it more accessible the villagers have laid out this landing strip but very few pilots dare to risk Bakira remains as remote as ever far from civilization The town only has a dozen families, there are no hotels or boarding houses.

Tents have been set up to house the guests at the funeral ceremony. Bakura is not really a small corner of paradise, especially since in this dusty place the inhabitants have to fight against ferocious mosquitoes. Since their conversion in the 20th century, the spirits of the jungle are happy to mix with the saints and rights of the Christian religion but we are not free because your Jesus we are freed Timmy's family mourns the loss of two babies, the mother and sister The eldest dance in honor of the lost children. The plastic bottles they carry symbolize the two who died before the English arrived.

The Yongnuo had a different way of honoring their dead. In ancient times, they put it behind as they left it behind. They leave it there. Large tombs run. They put it in a bag that after reading the gospel tradition takes control again the tribe begins the dance of the dead to contact the lost twins oh listen to the earth because there is a spirit the earth is the land of the spirit speaking with people currently something good good life good living good movement when you dream the will of the spirit that can come because they can talk to you for a couple of years the spirit begins to move and sometimes that spirit returns as if to tell you that something good is about to come.

The singing will last all night. Man and spirit in perfect harmony. Early in the morning, on the edge of the Gibson Desert, there is a light wind from Alice Springs trying to cool the temperature unless this breeze is the spirit of an ancestor returning home or the turbulence of the portable junkyard that is tearing the foot of the trail to the ground once we venture off the main roads and head towards what we call dirt roads or inland tracks our main companion is our fellow road train drivers the slightest hint of trouble or mechanical dramas we rely heavily on our companions stopping to lend a hand if we didn't have that ship of comrades that would have been extremely difficult to operate these road trains in these harsh inland conditions, the desert still holds some unpleasant surprises for travelers, like this device that looks like a lifesaver ready to make any desperate and broken down motorist smile, this old phone in the middle. out of nowhere it hasn't worked for a long time if you have a problem it's better to rely on a good CB radio do it now or the next one after this hill is that big sand hill after 200 kilometers on the tracks Russell reaches the first wreckage that is headed to a car accident that took place several months ago.

I'll move you back to the third trailer. I'll put my charger back in. I will go further and find a few more to work closely with Aboriginal people. The cars that are in the dump clearly don't end up, sometimes they are in their yards or on the surrounding streets or behind a tree. I usually go straight to a community that should be at the end of this road and then I'll either take another truck with me and he'll pick up 100 cars or I'll take off all my gear and put 100 cars on my road train and go home and then I'll download them and then come back. and collect my equipment or more cars the next shelf can be found 100 kilometers away according to russell if you had not opened a garage in addition to the junkyard it would have already closed selling metal does not bring in enough money I would like the region to declare it a supplier of public services, after all, clearing the desert of its debris is a win-win.

We need to receive subsidies to make a living from this. When times are good, when a car like this comes to Adelaide, that's how it is. worth maybe 200 but times are not good and adelaide is very far away there are 1600 1700 sometimes up to 2000 kilometers we have to transport these cars before we can sell them eh, I have been self-employed most of my life it is or involved fixing trains road trains buying and selling road trains driving road trains it was a combination of all of that that led me to making my own equipment repairing and operating this entire business the road train's 500 horsepower engine roars like a lion far away from This commotion is the silence of the beaches of the town of Boaca after baby's funeral Timmy returned home he and other members of his tribe are trying to catch fish for dinner with these strange screams can they hear our voice we are calling them to us give something fish sounds very good luck calling the great ancestors to let us hear their voice and give us some fish the spirit of the ancestors started timmy's car and this time it seems to have guided their spears the yongu's fishing technique has been the same for thousands of years ago, a small valley of trees, the turquoise water invites you to swim, but in this part of Australia it is better to spend as little time as possible in the water.

I just caught the stingray, as you can see, the mark of the spear, the

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thing is sharp with it. tail movement um that is very dangerous um it is poison the bad thing is very, very poisonous and very painful for them and not only that the poison can be deadly for the weakest in the water the hunter becomes the sharks, everyone hunts the earth um crocodile like well, but we never care and we just hunt those fish and other animals that we will never worry about. I never worry. The crab and the few fish they have caught will not feed the entire group.

Fishermen dive deeper. In the mangrove, this is where you can find the largest prey, but also a fearsome predator: crocodiles are back here. Some possibilities in India, but since we have to be very careful, we remain really very dangerous if you play in a territory that we will come to invite. You can go fishing, mostly fish and sometimes if you are lucky you can catch buffalo, you can fish. You know they're going to get dingoes, they're going to get kangaroos if they're really lucky in these nice, quiet places. waters full of crocodiles far from the modern world crocodiles have a long time to grow some of them are more than 6 meters long and weigh almost 700 kilograms it is dangerous but you have to learn to live with crocodiles for many thousands of years if you make fun of them crocodiles Don't think that the crocodile can kill if you play with your crocodile.

This huge animal that likes to graze on algae at the bottom of the sea is almost the size of a crocodile. Nothing that could scare the reptile. This is the Chugong silk cow. Can I eat this big and strong size? Timmy hasn't found any fish in the mangrove. The crocodiles seem to have cleaned up for the yongo crocodiles. Crocodiles are far from the enemy in some ways, they are even part of the same family. The spirits of the dead of the ancestors are sometimes reincarnated in these animals. The culture of their ancestors is transmitted through songs and dances.

Today it is a teenager who begins the crocodile dance. It is impossible to know which of the stories of the tribe is telling maybe this dance explains how to talk to crocodiles the aborigines believe in telepathy according to them it is a means to talk to animals from a distance I could see the crocodile I could talk to the crocodiles that you saw here today it is all this culture more ancient of the world did you do it? lipsticks and sounds the fire tells you the statement what you believe in what you see the fire actually tells you your philosophy of thinking see you today is a library library of bushes each of these that you saw when you see these are the layers the layers it is written our ancestors it is written for one thousand and seventy thousand years where we want to share this we want to share our beliefs our thoughts with the dominant world now they just have to wait for the crocodiles to come out of the water they have heard the calls of the tribe this little shark will be the bait perfect will convince even the most hesitant crocodile to join the noise of opportunity all you have to do is be patient Australia looks like a Wild West movie several parts of the continent are still virgin territories Russell drives like a conquistador at the wheel of his road train as if pushed by a strong wind these roads are like they were a hundred years ago it's like land there aren't many people traveling on them any kind of problem you might have you could break things um is this this is It's totally different traveling to the cities or the coast.

It is better to drive on a paved road, but there are many more people who use it. Yes, I prefer to drive here, for example, if I want to stop, I don't. I have to wait for traffic or see who is coming or going, I will just stop after his crocodile dance, the young man enters the water to show his bravery, but then what would he be afraid of during the dance? He spoke to the crocodile and the animal seemed determined not to hurt him but the young man remained careful and stayed away from the shore.

The animal heard his call.