"Trabant vs. South America" "(Sub rip; utf-8; unix; 25fps)" "And now we are going" "Into Tram-tram-tram-tram" "Tramtaria (expresion for very far unknown place)" "By by by by by by Trabant" "Who never tried will never experience (understand) that with Trabant behind the wheel we are free" "Tra tra tra tra tra tra tra tra tra tra tra tra tra" "I am already on south hemisphere" "Poles are already there, because they didn't notice it" "Really, really wide river" "I would like to be prepared, that we can run out of water" "How would you like to prepare for route, which is not known to be passable." "Impossible, impossible (German guy with 4x4)" "And there we are, BR319 almost 1000km of abandoned route through rain forest the places with broken asphalt are terrible the places with mud are OK" "But driving on the remnants of asphalt horrible..." "500km of holes even Poland never saw is in front of us." "(Polish swear word)" "By the end of 70s it was bright new asphalt." "10 years afterwards the route was marked as impassable." "Too many cars during rainy season broke it into pieces." "Keeping this pace 50km/day we'll drive it 10 days." "Do you want a ride?" "Yes." "Get in..., hurry" "I'm just telling you it's irresponsible walking outside when there is 40°C" "What would we do if you faint." "We don't know how many km is ahead of us and we have only few gallons of water." "It's not only about me, you have to think of all." "The water is common." "If one told us that this route was bombarded, we'd believe that." "The holes look like produced by garnet." "These holes are ... almost ... beyond our limits." "(light Czech swear word)" "Push" "Wait a sec" "Let's go." "3 2 1 ... go" "BR319 takes it's toll." "Bridges are the notorious part of this route, built from whatever was around." "There are 120 of them." "If possible we avoid them." "It's funny that the original route was built there." "Like that." "This pipe was buried under it, but the water took everything away." "I think a bridge like this is a ideal place to celebrate 25th birthday." "You have a birthday?" "I'm on the way 28 years already." "You can wish me the best and I'll give you this." "So happy birthday. ..." "Tomek said nothing, he's like that." "On your health (cheers)" "What was it like, the PatMat thing (famous Czech bedtime kids series)" "Like that." "Now when the bridge looks wide like our cars we don't look at holes and just drive over." "I hope we'll survive." "(lightly stronger Czech swearword)" "It's good that Trabant is big, it won't fell through." "(light Polish swear word)" "It's hard, we drove on the left side on timber, but here is one missing." "It holds you all, but it failed for us." "(slith Czech swear word) my key fell down." "Let's take waffle, at least it'll finally come handy." "Now when I see it I say it's a great luck more of the planks did not crush and you did not fell down." "It's almost there." "1 2 3 ..." "Great." "Trabant is survived." "Radek finished his another cigarette and went for a bath." "Only he forgot to quench it." "The bridge is on fire." "What?" "The bridge is on fire." "Come extinguish it." "It was already full of holes..." "Does it burns that much?" "Yes, a lot." "The pillar." "Look what you did." "What?" "There, look what did you do." "I extinguished the fire." "You set it on fire first." "This bridge was "good"." "There are holes, but it's passable." "We do only 10km/hour, but we are progressing." "This can any-time turn into a wet dirt (poo) and we would never make it." "We were worried that it starts raining and the route becomes wet and guess what, it just started." "Let's hope it'll not be for long, because if this get's muddy, we're screwed." "It looks only like a shower... (medium-core Polish swearword)" "We have to hurry, because if this stays for couple of days, we're finished." "The rainy season came is here." "The delay from Gorge town takes it's toll." "We are too late here." "Right, right" "No, no, no, I did not say that." "(light Polish swearword)" "Gas, gas, gas, gas!" "(light Polish swearword)" "Stop, stop, stop!" "Halt!" "It's becoming dodgy as the holes are filling with mud." "Our greatest fears came true, the rain which broke BR319 is not going to spare us." "Aleš, do you hear me?" "Aleš, do you hear me?" "Do they hear us?" "Yes." "Are we stopping or should we return?" "Return back, we are in mud." "Stop" "You have to go slowly, the car is inclined." "Let me see." "Just go very slowly and pull the car out." "Or let's tighten the rope first." "It's raining hard." "We have to move on before it get's muddy." "Let's go." "Let's go." "Give me vodka...." "It's fun for Marek." "Yes, just because Java is doing great." "Do you want something dry to wear?" "No, it's just a small shower." "We crossed it." "It'll probably rain till the end of the forest." "I hope you're wrong, because otherwise only you would be able to continue." "If this persists for even a while, we'll be screwed with those overloaded 2-wheel-drive cars." "It's completely black over there." "We have to hurry!" "We can put the cars here." "It's 17:30 in half an hour it's dark." "We can't risk that." "Here it'd be perfect." "It's hard in here." "I'm fine with that." "The thing is, if we found a nice place in 10 or 30m..." "If we're down there, the water would take us." "But this route is raised everywhere." "It' never down." "It's here." "I haven't seen many places so wide like this one with 2 lanes without grass." "Yep, we haven't seen it either." "It's always overgrown." "True." "Left side for parking and right side for driving." "Camping on BR319 is quite simple, there is impassable green wall on both sides, so you can sleep only on the remnants of the road." "Grass is for sleeping, asphalt for cooking." "Have you seen any bread, the old one, toast-like." "This is my spoon." "Take your spoon!" "Morning is not better than evening." "The water is still around and the route is getting worse." "We are tired." "Instead of going around puddles we go through them." "The signs of fatigue is everywhere." "No, we can't push it out." "We are all exhausted." "Everybody is exhausted and we are making silly mistakes." "Tell Dan to go easy." "Catastrophic, holes, rain, mud, rocks, sticking planks." "It'll be rough." "(light Czech swearword) this is some kind of clouds, or something just above our heads." "The good thing is no water is coming from it." "Probably some kind of shamanic incantation to get the rain away." "We are in the middle of Amazonian rain forest and it looks like around Křivoklát (Czech castle)." "Except the palm trees." "No monkeys..." "I had seen monkey when I was driving first." "Yep." "I wanted to tell you." "Which one?" "Maopa." "She run across the road." "Just a small one, like this." "You should have drove her over so we could see her too." "I had no time." "It was just a rat." "But it looked like a monkey." "You also have monkeys in Banska Bystrica (Slovakian city), don't you?" "Yes, sure... (joke, there are none)" "Radek, you have to amputate my hands, do you have a knife?" "We did 80 or even 90km today." "That's good." "More importantly the cars are good." "We are praying to the asphalt God." "Every piece of solid asphalt is a blessing." "(ironic)I'm not sure how others, but I'm really disappointed from the trip." "(ironic)It's rainy." "(ironic)It's cold." "(ironic)Nothing around, just green hell." "(ironic)No food." "I don't known." "I want home..." "Kuba is the only one in easy." "He solves things by not solving anything." "... it's maybe because he can't see ahead." "(light Czech swearword) this is really a bad one." "I'm glad we get out of the cars and not just drove over." "Guys from Poland are first." "Ha ha ha." "This one is "good"." "I'll be giving the planks from down there and ..." "This one looks good." "We are building the bridge again, not even remembering what number." "Any mistake could be fatal." "This one is you gave me is (light Polish swearword)." "Let me give you this one." "What can we do with it?" "Put it here, ... or do you want to split it to stages?" "Look there, it's an old VW Transporter, bottom to top." "(Czech swearword)" "This is what you call bad luck." "Fortunately we have good luck." "Next drive on trapeze is prepared." "The only missing thing is the safety net." "I'll drive carefully and you show me the direction." "OK, good." "Let's do it." "No, not like that." "But I can't fit, it's too wide." "Look, when this wheel is here, the other is here." "I can't have both wheels on." "Tak two short planks and drive over." "?" "bridge." "This is the over." "Good, good, good..." "Stop, stop!" "Now direct." "This is fine, completely fine." "Aleš, this started to move." "I can fit between those two, can't I?" "Give it a try." "I'll stand in the middle so they don't move." "You can't see a thing from the car." "This is classic." "Squeaking of an old bridge in the middle of Amazon." "I'm in the middle inside Trabi, one is shouting to the left, the other to the right." "It ended well." "Which?" "Fourth day on the BR319." "We are slightly behind the middle." "It's crazy how the road disappeared inside the rain forest." "Originally there were two lanes, we are driving in the right lane, the left's one used to be here, even the line is here, but the lane had completely disappeared." "Eaten by the jungle from here, eaten by the jungle from there." "What a great tuning, maybe slightly inclined." "Out of the sudden a continuous strip of asphalt appeared, hard to say why it withstand, perhaps they built it on Wednesday." "One problem disappeared, the other aroused." "How much fuel do you have on the roof?" "Together around 19l (?" "), the consumption is crazy." "Very crazy." "I don't know if we make it." "We'll see." "There is no way to lower the consumption." "The terrain is difficult and the cars eat." "If we make it, it'd be just." "We can't make it into the Porto Velho." "No way." "The first gas pump on BR319" "I don't think they prosper." "BR319, km 500." "The road has over 800km so we still have 300km to go." "BR319 was a mistake of Brazilian government." "They built across rain forest, but nobody wanted to drive it." "The danger was too great." "What a post-apocalyptic scenery." "During the end of 80s they left it alone and the jungle is slowly taking it back." "This island in the middle of nowhere must have been accommodated by quite a few people." "Gas station with roadhouse was the only checkpoint between Manause and Porto Velho, now there is nothing." "What an amazing design of 80s." "Monolithic houses." "This used to be popular." "Laminated" "You see how old the road is." "Now only toads and snakes lives here." "Unbelievable." "(ironic)We filled the tanks, bought the cold drinks, beer, lemonades... (ironic)We have everything." "Thank you gas station." "We are slowly running out not only of gas, but also water." "Luckily there is plenty of it around." "We took from the river some liquid fluid, the cleanest we could find, no we'll pump it through our beautiful filter and we'll have something to drink." "Yes, this is clean." "Can you explain me, how the centipede got in there?" "Good, do you want to taste it?" "Centipedes are dangerous, but this snake is completely fine." "170km, but Tome says 250km but I still believe the end of this blog uses a different point than you." "Small town, food and gas." "Listen me, just go." "Lets just go, we'll see." "It shouldn't be more than 250km." "The road improved only to turn back to road-hell." "We hope that we'll make it." "If the engine had fallen off, we would let you know." "They hit the oil pan." "They removed the metal to improve cooling, but they are still going." "1st gear, this is how it sounds-like in Maluch." "To all kids who does not know small Fiat we'd like to present what gear no. 1 sounds like in Maluch." "First you hear short raspy sound, then squeaking of Fiat." "All users of this brand know this." "Characteristic squeaking." "Our cars are producing lot's of sounds." "It's essential to distinguish what is normal, and what is problem." "And there are so many of them." "Oil is leaking from Maluch." "Maybe it's just an outlet valve." "It's the oil pan." "Good that it broke here, on asphalt." "Leak in oil pan is a problem." "If we didn't notice it soon, the engine seizes." "Let's keep something in canister in case Java is needed for rescue mission." "Do you have a spare oil pan?" "No, that's clearly just seal." "In the end it's much worse." "(light Polish swearword)" "The engine is split." "This big." "No way, you're kidding." "Unfortunately not." "It's still small, but it can increase any time." "Yes, it's split. (Czech swearword)" "This is our last 6l of petrol." "Only diesel, that's in (Czech swearword)" "There is no way around." "Great ascension ahead of us." "I'm driving on 2nd gear, 4070m above the see we are driving on 2nd gear.. not anymore."