Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman · 2007 · road

The follow-up to Long Way Round. Three years after riding east to New York, McGregor and Boorman set off from the top of Scotland for the bottom of Africa - fifteen thousand miles through eighteen countries in eighty-five days, on BMW R1200GS Adventures, with Libyan visas that nearly did not come through.

1. 1
   John o' Groats

   12 May 2007, and they start at the northern tip of Scotland with Ewan riding on a leg he broke three weeks before departure - and the American crew still without Libyan visas, which they never get.

2. 2
   Siena

   South through England and France into Italy at speed, because the ferry to Africa will not wait - the European leg being the part they rush, and the only stretch where the roads are entirely predictable.

3. 3
   Tunis

   Across to North Africa and the start of the continent the trip is actually for - and the problematic Tunisia-Libya border, crossed two men down because the Americans have been refused.

4. 4
   Tobruk

   Along the Libyan coast through a sandstorm that batters the team and takes the morale with it - the desert crossing that separates the Mediterranean world from everything south of it.

5. 5
   Khartoum

   Sudan, the country everyone warned them about, at the confluence of the two Niles - and the roads that stop being roads, which is where the trip stops being a European motorcycle tour.

6. 6
   Addis Ababa

   Into the Ethiopian highlands, mud, a traversed river, and Ewan seeing wild zebra for the first time - and the UNICEF visits that were the reason for the route as much as the riding was.

7. 7
   Nairobi

   Kenya, and Claudio's bike breaking down in country where a breakdown is a serious matter - and the long middle of the journey where the three of them are simply riding, day after day, south.

8. 8
   Victoria Falls

   Zambia and the bungee jump off the bridge that everybody who has seen the series remembers - and by now the pair are past the halfway mark and starting to count the days rather than dread them.

9. 9
   Cape Town

   4 August 2007, and Cape Agulhas at the southern tip of the continent - eighty-five days, eighteen countries, and two men who have now ridden the length of Africa and round the world.