Camouflaged Ambush: Unexpected Encounter vA 131
Somewhere in Zambia. The bike is still here. Oh, nice! Morning, my friends. Wow! Oh, they're eating my tents. Oh, my God! Oh, I need to go away. Okay, so, guys, don't... Oh, look at that.
It's a disaster. It's full of holes. Don't camp on termites. Or I don't know what it is, but I think it's termites. The tent is dead. Oh man! Wow, look at that. So here's a better picture of the damage, which is not so bad in the end.
Look at that. There is big holes here. Everything else is kind of fine. Let's see how are things underneath. Quite a few holes. But this doesn't matter. Oh, my God. Oh, my God.
There's so many. Look at that. They started building... What the ***? What the ***? They started building their home on my, uh...
On this thing. On this tarp. Incredible. I was... They started transforming me into a termite house. Oh my God! Okay, I'm going to have breakfast, and let's get back on the road on our way to Mpika. Ah! Ah! Oof! Ho ho! Oh, my butt is painful, because if you don't know, this kind of bike, in terms of muscles, the hardest is on the butt.
I don't know why, but probably the position makes that the butt works a lot. And, oof, it's painful now. I rode a lot without using the engine yesterday so. Let's go. Let's go to Mpika, guys..
100 kilometers left. Let's go. Oof! Back on the road, guys. Oof! Oh, what's this noise? Ah shit! I lost the end of this. Oh shit! Okay, hopefully it's going to be fine like that.
Let's go! Look at this infinite road again. Oh, my God. All straight, all the time in Zambia. Ah, it's okay for me. Yes. -Hello? -Hi. -Hi. - Hello. - Hi. -Good. How are you? - I'm fine.
Good, good, good. That's an improvised camp. Good morning. How are you? - I'm fine. - Good. Hi. - Banana. -No, it's okay. Thank you. - Banana.
Thank you. Thank you. Nice toy. Hello, how are you? Nice toy. Hello, hello. PSG.
I don't know if the PSG is going around Africa giving jerseys because they're everywhere. Hello. Hello. How are you? - Fine. - Fine.
Chinese (for me). Hello. - Hi. - Hi. Sun City. And we arrive in a small town. I like the names here.
Sun City, small town. - Hello. - Hello. How are you? - Fine. - Good. good. Hello, hello. - Hello.
Wow! That's a forgotten town. Hello. - Good morning. - Good morning. - How are you? - Good. How are you? - I'm fine. - How far? - Mpika. - Hello. - Hello. - How are you? Tall guys! How are you? -Good, how are you? - Thank you, thank you. - Good, good, good, thank you very much.
Where do I go? - Hello, hello. - Hi, how are you? - Good. How are you? - Fine. I can see that the kids are sprinters here. They're not long distance runners like in Ethiopia and Kenya. They can't follow me for long, but sometimes when I have a big group of kids, there is always one kid that is able to run super fast on a short distance.
Oh guys. Oh **** hell ! ****! Oh, ****! What an idiot. All this. Oh it's been a while I didn't go upside down.
And all this is because... what an idiot I am! I wanted to show you... there is a chameleon. I almost killed it. There's a chameleon crossing the road. Look at that. Hello, hello. Do you see the eyes? He can look backwards. Incredible.
But he's going to get killed. Look at how slow he moves. - Very fast. - Very fast, yes. Parking to protect the chameleon. - From where? - From France. - France? -Yes. With this one? - With this one yes.
Oh man. Come on. Don't kill the chameleon. So skinny. Oh my God! - This is chameleon. - Chameleon, yes. - Is he looking at the chameleon? - Yes. Eh? Sorry. The Chameleon wants to cross the road. Let's get him to cross the road fast.
Come on go faster. - Nice eh? - Very nice. How are you? - I'm fine. - Good. What's your name? - Simba Gilbert. Simba Gilbert? I am Yves.
Nice to meet you. What's your name? Kennik. Kennik? Kennik Kasun. Kennik Kasun, nice to meet you. And you? -Kason Jamphuri. - Kason Jamphuri. Nice to meet you. I'm Yves. - Yes. Let's go. Let's get the chameleon on the other side safely. Come on. Faster.
Come on. Go faster. - Go faster. No cars. I think he's going to make it. He's going to make it alive. - How many days? - Two years. - Two years? - Two years, yes. 2 years? - 2 years.
Slowly, slowly. - 2 years? - 2 years, yes. - Ah good. Come on, let's go. Let's go, guy. Let's see if he changes colour when he reaches the thing.
But the eyes are incredible. His back has become a little bit more red eh? Chameleon? - Chameleon. Okay let's go eh? Let's go. He made it. He's almost in the grass. Okay. All good. - Okay. - Let's go. Bye bye. Have a good day. -Okay. -Bye bye.
I saw many chameleons on the way like this crossing the road but they are super hard to spot. Because you see them at the very last minute, and it's very hard not to kill them actually. Hello.
Hello. -Hi, how are you? - Good, how are you? Okay. -Oh, many. My new followers. -Yes. -Yes. -Oh, take.
Ah no, it's okay. Thank you. Thank you. They wanted to sell me oranges. But they're following me since quite a while actually. And now it's getting emptier and emptier. I still see people on the road but much less than yesterday.
Hello. - Hi. - Hey. Hello. Hello, hello. Hello, hello. Good, how are you? - Fine. - Fine.
Hello. Hello. Okay, I stopped a bit here. Let's see if I can eat something without having people coming to ask to take my food. Oh my God.
Look at the kids. That's so hilarious. The kids were slowly slowly approaching me, and I think they were confident because I was... They were confident because I was just... I didn't care about them. But then I turned my head.
And they all ran away! Anyway, what do I have for lunch today? So I found some corned beef at ShopRite in Kasama. Usually I'm not a fan of corned beef but I thought, okay, I do need meat to have calories when I ride so let's have some corned beef with some crackers. Great lunch. How do you open this? This is the can opener with my great Swiss knife.
Ah yes. I don't know why, why is it so interesting to watch a white person, a person with a white skin, just to watch him, why is it so interesting? My corned beef. - Hello. How are you? - Fine, and you? -Good. And that's the kids. Look at that.
It's so funny because they ran as if they were running for their life, really. Oh, putain! Hmm! Oh! Let's go, guys. - Hello. How are you? - Good. How are you? - Fine.
38 kilometres left to Mpika. Hello. - Hello. - Hello. How are you? - I'm fine. - Good, good, good.
Good, how are you? - Hello. - Hello. - How are you? - Good. How are you? Hello. And it starts raining now.
Oh man. And the rain comes out of nowhere. Oh man. There's a big squall there, and we cross again the Tazara train, the line, the railway, the rails of the Tazara train.
Sometimes here it's funny how these showers last 2 minutes. But it's really heavy heavy rain, but just for 2 minutes. Now it's totally empty. Wow. It's a bit boring then. Hello. - Hello. - Hello. Hello. - Hello. Hello.
On the left, it looks very bad, eh? There's some big rain coming from here. 15 kilometres left. The light is really crazy today. Here you have a storm there, and you have this thing on the left which is awesome. ****! Ah ****. What did I do? Didn't break anything.
That's what's annoying. When I hear a weird noise, I always wonder, did I lose something? So then I look back, and this time... usually I manage to stay on the road. but this time I did not stay on the road.
Ah, it's this. So I rode on this. It made the noise of a screw going off my bike basically. So then I looked back, and I did not manage to keep going straight.
Wow. I was close to having an accident. Because this touched, but okay it seems okay. Well, luckily the steering system is very strong because I touched the ground so many times with it, and it still didn't break.
How do I go back up there? No, I cannot ride back on the road. Hello. Wow! That's the first time I just happen to just jump off road suddenly. Oof! - Hello. - How are you? - Good, how are you? That's the big danger for me on those roads actually, on those African roads that don't have, because you know, they just do the road, and then they don't care about the sides. Often there are big gaps.
You see? There's a big gap between the level of the road and the level of the side. And if I go off road on something like this, I can break my bike and I can crash quite severely also. Because I have just 10 cm clearance to the ground and my trike goes upside down easily. Whoo. That was close. Hello, hello, hello.
I'm heading right into the storm now. Ah the light is incredible. I saved so much battery that I can go high speed now. Hello. - Hello. Hello. Good, how are you? Sorry, I was confused. Wow. The towns here are incredible. I was confused because look, straight ahead, this what you see is downtown Mpika.
Wow. Very remote here. Uh it's a big city in the region actually. It's the capital of a region I think. And we made it 216 kilometres without recharging the batteries. Three other stages like that and I will reach Lusaka. - Hello. - Hello. Hello, how are you? - How are you? Good, good, good. - How are you? - Good, how are you? - I'm fine, where are you going? - Good, good, I go here.
- Are you okay? - Yeah, I'm okay. - Yeah, yeah, yeah. - Wait! Wait! -How are you? How are you? - I'm fine. - Good, good. - Where you come from? France. France. I don't like those noises. I always think I lost a screw. Okay, I need to find, that's downtown actually.
Hello, hello. Oh, that's a big road. It's the big highway. Total there. Hello, hello. Oh my god, this town. It looks like the American far West in the 19th century. That looks fancy. That's where I intend to go. Northern Rock Hotel.
I think it's the fanciest hotel in town. How do I go there? I think someone is running after me since quite a while so I'm going to wait for him. I've been watching you on TikTok. Ah Okay. - Yeah, yeah. - You okay? - Yeah, I'm okay. I'm okay. Don't worry. - Yeah, yeah, okay. I've been really watching you. - Okay great.
Awesome. Nice to meet you here. - Thank you. It's good, you've reached Zambia now. Good yes. - It's a good place huh? - Eh here? - Yeah. - Yes I think so. Yeah yeah yeah. Yeah Zambia is very nice. People are very friendly. - Yeah we are. - It's very easy here.
- Good. 72 tribes and we are together. - Yes yes. - Yeah, yeah. - sIt's really nice. - Good to see you. I enjoy Zambia. - I am happy so much. Okay very good. - I have watched you on YouTube. - YouTube okay. You go to Zimbabwe whatsoever. - Yeah yeah yeah. - Yeah thanks. Awesome. - Okay. - Have a good time. Zambians are awesome. Really Zambia is... I mean there is some begging of course, but Zambia is really awesome.
So far it's one of the best countries I've been to in Africa for sure. Oh, here is the reception. Okay, chak. Hello. - Hello, how are you? Good, how are you? So it seems comfortable? - It's comfortable, yes.
It's made to be comfortable. Okay. Ooh! Ah! You're tired? - Yes, I'm tired. You're from where? - Kasama. Two days from Kasama. Me, I can't. - You can't? You can if you want to do it.
Hello. Do you have rooms here? Yes. For how much is it? For 950 kwachas. - Huh? 950 kwachas. - 950 kwachas? - Yes. - Oh. You don't have anything cheaper? - No.
Can I see just to have an idea or? - Okay, let me get the master key. You don't have different prices or? - We do have different prices. Ah, but they're all booked? The cheaper ones are booked? Yes. - Okay. Can I see for 950? Let me get the master key. - Hi. - Hi, how are you? - Good, -Good. Oh! The first page is advertisements. Oh my God.
950, that's a bit.. it's a pity because there is nothing really good... well it's hard to find good accommodation here. It seems if you want to run hotels, I think Zambia is a good country because there is a lack of accommodation in every town I've been.
They were always full. Verstappen. It's possible to pay by card, no? - Yes. - Okay. So, I can see the room. - Okay. - Okay. This way. - Okay. I'll follow you. It was hard to find? This is my bike, yeah. - It doesn't get wet? It's okay. It's it's it's... it can sustain the rain.
- Didn't you feel cold? - No, it's okay, no. - It's okay? - No, a little bit, I mean. Mzungu, hello. Mzungu, hello. In all the towns I have been, all the hotels are often fully booked.
Why is that? There is not enough hotels in Zambia or? You mean this month or every time you're moving? No this month I mean I just arrived now. But I've been to huh? I think they have a workshop, or conferences. - Ah, okay that's why. -That's why. -Okay. Because in Mbala when I arrived from Tanzania, the lodges were full, in Kasama I had to change hotel because my hotel was full at some point also. Because of the workshops and conferences... Okay, so when there is a workshop many people come at one point and they book all the rooms. Okay. - This is for 950. - Okay.
This is for 950... That's nice. That's good. There is Wi-Fi also? Yes. It works in the room?
Sometimes it doesn't. Sometimes it works. - Okay. Okay. I'll see. Anyway. Mastercard is okay, no? - Yes. - Okay. She's saying she wants to go with you. She wants to go with me? To where? To Lusaka? - On your bicycle - Ah it's a bicycle yes. It's only made for one person. - It's only made for one person yeah. She wants to go with me! Oh it's all wet. **** Okay let's go to my room guys.
I'm going fancy guys. Well, you rest better in fancy places, usually. Nice. What a nice place! That's my room guys. Let's see how you switch on the light here.
That's all. There's no more light. Where is the light? There is no more lights in the room. What the ***? So this is my room, well you see it's not very bright.
There is AC. It looks like a very big fantastic bed. Let's open here. Oh yes. That's better. There is even the Zambian...
Oh it's been a while I've not seen something like that. Look at that guys. Phone numbers of the world country. And I didn't show you the bathroom of the luxury hotel.
Look at that. A little bit rusty. Nice, very nice shower. Proper modern design. Well quite modern. What's this wire? What the *** is that? What's this guys? Retractable cloth. Ah you can hang your clothes here. In the shower. That's funny. The toilet looks clean. Ah there is this, awesome.
Fantastic. So from my luxury room here in... where am I? Where am I? I said it all day long. Mpika, from Mpika, Ciao, guys.
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