Not as good as the first two trips. That's quite understandable, how do you follow going around the world? Some of the magic is inevitably gone, and the advanced filming techniques and unnecessary attempt to build up tension at the end of each episode (often without even following up on that in the next episode at all) was just stupid. But what really irritated me, as someone who has travelled independently in these parts of the world, were two seemingly completely unnecessary things.
1) In Colombia they claimed they needed to take a boat to get around the Darien Gap, then took a flight from the south of Colombia to the west coast (actually accesible by road), took a boat a little bit up the west coast of Colombia, then flew a private plane to Medellin, which is a city in the middle of Colombia that they could easily have got to on their bikes, before flying over the Darien Gap. The first two flights and the boat trip were completely unnecessary. Why didn't they just ride their bikes to Medellin? Why didn't they, in fact, ride their bikes to the north of Colombia and take an actual boat around the Darien Gap? That would have been a lot more eco-friendly than taking three private flights, would it not? This whole thing was bizarre and not something I could imagine 'real' travellers doing.
2) The bus in Mexico. What was that all about? They did it so that they didn't have to ride through Mexico at night? How about just riding during the day like everybody else? How was driving in a bus at night safer than riding bikes during the day? It was just a bit weird and ruined Mexico, where they were actually in the midst of discovering what a great country it is when the bus thing took over. It was a weird and sad way to end these series, a complete contrast from the way the guys took on the challenges of Mongolia, Siberia etc on their first trip.
Overall it is a watchable series, but not one I'm likely to be rewatching like the first two. The two things I've mentioned here were just too farcically unlike what 'normal' people would do when travelling in Latin America.
1) In Colombia they claimed they needed to take a boat to get around the Darien Gap, then took a flight from the south of Colombia to the west coast (actually accesible by road), took a boat a little bit up the west coast of Colombia, then flew a private plane to Medellin, which is a city in the middle of Colombia that they could easily have got to on their bikes, before flying over the Darien Gap. The first two flights and the boat trip were completely unnecessary. Why didn't they just ride their bikes to Medellin? Why didn't they, in fact, ride their bikes to the north of Colombia and take an actual boat around the Darien Gap? That would have been a lot more eco-friendly than taking three private flights, would it not? This whole thing was bizarre and not something I could imagine 'real' travellers doing.
2) The bus in Mexico. What was that all about? They did it so that they didn't have to ride through Mexico at night? How about just riding during the day like everybody else? How was driving in a bus at night safer than riding bikes during the day? It was just a bit weird and ruined Mexico, where they were actually in the midst of discovering what a great country it is when the bus thing took over. It was a weird and sad way to end these series, a complete contrast from the way the guys took on the challenges of Mongolia, Siberia etc on their first trip.
Overall it is a watchable series, but not one I'm likely to be rewatching like the first two. The two things I've mentioned here were just too farcically unlike what 'normal' people would do when travelling in Latin America.