World's Most Dangerous Roads - Benin: Blood Cotton
In northern Benin, each year from October to January, DRAMANE and ZACHARI, drivers of rattling trucks survive only to the rhythm of the cotton harvest. Like them, hundreds of drivers are trying to profit from this white gold which represents nearly 40% of BENIN's exports to rich countries. But in this very poor country, the cultivation of cotton dramatically impoverishes the soils of the countryside ... Because the immaculate flower requires astronomical quantities of water to grow ... water which in Benin is sorely lacking for the inhabitants who walk for kilometers on foot to find some ... In this painful context, ZACHARI fights to load the meager cotton crops with a rolling wreck ... DRAMAN he is seven days a week stuck behind the wheel of a huge truck, a TITAN. He rushes to the ground, ignoring the pedestrians to deliver the port of COTONOU as quickly as possible. Even if his meager salary forces him to live on a small business, he is not the most miserable like those they meet on the road: The farmers and their children who work only to survive, the women who break stones under the blazing sun or the dockworkers who are paid twenty cents to carry a 200 kilogram bale of cotton.
Congo: Jungle Fever | Deadliest Journeys
00:00 In South Kivu in Congo, the city of Shabunda is one of the most isolated in the country. Its access is so difficult that life is more expensive there than in any European city. Thus, the poorest families come to look for food there by bicycle or motorbike. These convicts of the road sometimes transport up to 250 kilos of goods for several days, without worrying about the dangers. Without ever giving up, these travelers are almost all considered heroes because he who does not travel does not know the value of men, according to the Congolese.
6:09 Long day awaits the driver
11:57 Stairways to hell
22:37 Abandon the truck !
35:25 Gold Rush causes illnesses
43:57 The curse of the road continues
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World's Most Dangerous Roads - Senegal: Into the Mud
00:00 In the rainy season, the water covers entire regions, including towns, causing a real climate exodus towards Casamance.
04:11 Gambia, a country with paying borders!
19:25 Without rice, they couldn't survive
22:35 Without these trucks, the whole village is in danger
31:21 To survive without the land, they rely on the sea
38:30 Accident jeopardizes truckers' business
42:35 The poorest try to steal the goods
World's Most Dangerous Roads - Tajikistan - Ice Death
A mythical road built by the Soviets to open up the Pamir region and subject it to the rule of the Empire. A daring journey suspended between earth and sky on what the Tajiks call the “roof of the world”. But since the Russians left in 1991, the road has not been maintained. The Pamir Highway is the route of all dangers: Rock falls, landslides, fords ... 900 kilometers on the side of the ravine.
Director: Daniel Lainé, David Geoffrion
World's Most Dangerous Roads - Guinea: Forgotten territories
The film reveals hallucinating realities: the hospital in a town of 200,000 inhabitants, Kissidougou, operates without electricity and the nurse on duty is content with the wreckage of an ambulance to go and save a pregnant woman in difficulty at 75 kilometers away. Poverty pushes families to put their children to work from the age of 6. In a roadside carpentry shop, no less than 102 children are found working and sleeping on the floor in what looks a lot like dormitories in a labor camp. According to Unicef, 25% of young Guineans take the road to work every morning rather than the often inaccessible school! In Guinea Conakry, the forest occupies more than a quarter of the surface of the country and beyond a national pierced with holes the inhabitants abandoned by the state had to create themselves bamboo ladders on cliffs to go from villages to villages. They borrow them at the risk of their lives ...
World's Most Dangerous Roads - Kazakhstan: Dead Steppe's
At the edge of what was once the Aral Sea, completely dried up by the overexploitation of the waters of the river that fed it during the Soviet period. Today it has given way to a desert of sand and salt whose inhabitants breathe toxic dust. A journey of the extreme, in the company of endearing characters, whose struggles never undermine their courage and dignity.
Tibet, the path to Wisdom | SLICE | Full documentary
Ani Rigsang has chosen a nomadic lifestyle in the land of white clouds. The Buddhist nun felt confined in Lhasa, and so today she has taken to the road to reconnect with her country’s spiritual traditions, which are now threatened by rapid modernisation and the reinforcement of Chinese control over the region.
From snowy mountains to green valleys, from monastery to monastery, this documentary accompanies Ani as she makes her way through Tibet. A moving testimony that brings together age-old traditions and legends, this film takes us through stunning landscapes, revealing to us a contrasting Tibet, jostled by modernisation and the upheavals of its holy geography.
Documentary: “Tibet, the path to wisdom”
Direction: Hamid Sardar
Production: DreamCatcherMotionProductions, les gens bien productions for France Télévisions & Ushuaïa TV
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LIBERIA: Robertsport to Monrovia. Petrol shortage and a broken clutch! // EPS 12
New challenges in a new country: On our ride from Robertsport to Monrovia, Liberia surprised us with a fuel shortage, a broken clutch cable and a market, that blocked our way.
A small country on the west coast of africa, with long shores of golden beaches, where dusty, red roads accompany you through lush green banana plantations to some of the highest mountains of West Africa: Liberia is still one of these rare places: a mostly unknown travel destination that is not featured on a lot of bucketlists due to it’s turbulent past. But it should be.
First stop in Liberia: the coastal town Robertsport and it's golden beaches. We watched the fishermen at work, stayed at Nana beach and learned more about Robertspot past before leaving for the capital Monrovia. But we didn't get far due to a broken clutch cable and the challenge to organzie petrol due to a fuel shortage and no petrol station carrying any fuel anymore. And then we got stuck again - this time in market. Watch the episode to see more of my journey through Liberia from Robertsport to Monrovia and Ganta on our way to the Nimba mountain range!
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