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00:00.
00:15Kids out, we're gonna go out and have some fun.
00:18We've been craving the beach, haven't we?
00:20Yeah. Craving like clear water.
00:21.
00:27Immortalised in the hit Leonardo DiCaprio movie, The Beach.
00:31Go!
00:33The coves and inlets of the Co-PP archipelago
00:36offer an opportunity for the stresses and strains of the race
00:40to drift away.
00:48It's like paradise.
00:50Yeah, it just feels like we're on holiday.
00:53I hope the next, like, has more of this.
01:00If you can imagine, a few weeks ago, they didn't know each other.
01:04When I was the kids age, I was married and divorced,
01:08so totally different experience.
01:09Completely different generation as well.
01:13They're bonding over this race.
01:15But then tomorrow, that will have to be put aside for the next few days.
01:18And then we'll have to do it again until the next checkpoint.
01:21Yeah.
01:22Having set the pace in the early legs,
01:24Eugenie and Isabelle are now two hours behind new race leaders,
01:28Betty and James.
01:30It's sad we'll last, but I'm kind of allowing us to go now
01:32and don't want to get too comfortable.
01:35This is a race.
01:36It's not a holiday.
01:44Good morning.
01:45Thank you so much.
01:46For the first time, Betty and James are first to learn where they're heading next.
01:53Oh, God.
01:56Buckettingy.
01:57Yeah, I have no idea.
02:00We were first.
02:01I don't think there's any reason now why we can't stay there.
02:04I think we've definitely both had our moments where one of us has had to, like,
02:07gear the other one up a bit more.
02:09Getting further into the race, we're learning more about each other.
02:14I think growing up in kind of a really small village has created this sense of wonderlust.
02:21You know, there's that kind of saying, isn't it, that you go travelling to find yourself.
02:24But it's true.
02:27Let's get the map out and then find out where the hell this checkpoint is.
02:32There. You got that?
02:32Buckettingy, yes.
02:34Indonesia is somewhere that I've always wanted to go.
02:37Twice as big as the United Kingdom, the rarely visited Indonesian island of Sumatra,
02:43where the sixth checkpoint lies.
02:462,000 kilometres away, the mountain-fringed city of Bukatingy.
02:55So, pretty much, again, straight south.
02:57To get there, teams will need to travel through Malaysia,
03:01the sixth country in the race.
03:03But first, they must say goodbye to Thailand.
03:06They could opt to go back on themselves through Krabi,
03:10making use of cheap and frequent transport links down the Malay Peninsula.
03:15Or choose to take the maritime route,
03:18island-hopping via Koh Lipe,
03:21affording one last glimpse of Thailand's famous white sand beaches.
03:26Ah, my beach!
03:28Hallelujah!
03:29Beach, beach, beach, beach.
03:32I mean, the other route sounds more straightforward.
03:35I don't want to go back to land.
03:37We want to be on the beach.
03:38And because we are first, like...
03:40Yeah.
03:40We can maybe afford to drop down one place.
03:43If there's any leg to take that risk, it's now.
03:46Glippi.
03:47Glippi.
03:48But it's very expensive.
03:50Can you do it cheaper, please?
03:55If it's something we really want to do, sacrifices need to be made.
03:58Yeah.
03:58With speedboat tickets costing over £80,
04:02the siblings now have just a fifth of their budget remaining,
04:06with more than a third of the race still to run.
04:09Feeling like we have just spent a full-legs budget on the first day.
04:14If we can get there and work,
04:16at least we've earned that bit of money back.
04:18I don't want to head inland yet,
04:20so I think we'll do the coastal route.
04:22It's going to be beautiful.
04:23Yeah.
04:24Also looking to island hop to Malaysia...
04:27Glippi, £9.30, how much?
04:29Steven and Viv, with the healthiest budget of all the teams.
04:33Whoa, it's a lot of money.
04:34Any movement on the price?
04:36We haven't got the money.
04:38OK, all right.
04:39Viv, you've got to stop walking off.
04:42We've been reigning in the budget for the last couple of legs,
04:45but last time, if we'd splashed the extra thousand
04:48and got the early ferry, we would have been coming in first.
04:51Viv!
04:52Colipi, yeah.
04:53Do you do old person rate?
04:54Viv!
04:55I'm a pensioner.
04:56She's not listening.
04:58I really don't want the same to happen again,
05:00so where we think we can gain a fair chunk of time,
05:03we need to take it,
05:04and I'm quite happy to take responsibility for the finances.
05:08That's the ticket to Colipi?
05:10Yeah, up there somewhere.
05:12It will be an expensive leg,
05:14but we've got a job working in a beach bar,
05:16and that, to me, is not a job.
05:18You know, that is, like, enjoyment.
05:19You've got to be in your bonnet today, haven't you?
05:22Yeah.
05:22I know.
05:23I'm on it, yeah, on it today.
05:24We've did that a bit in the previous leg,
05:26so I think we've just got to be decisive now.
05:29Malaysia, I know nothing about it at all,
05:31so I don't have massively high hopes.
05:33Leaving in third place...
05:35I'm actually not looking forward to this leg.
05:37Oh, it'll be fun, don't worry.
05:39..in the last leg,
05:40Alfie and Owen manage to close an 11-and-a-half-hour gap.
05:44Alfie's already on a bit of a downer.
05:45We haven't even left yet.
05:47We might have the most fun we've ever had since the start.
05:50Yeah. Like...
05:51Probably won't.
05:51If he's going to be all doom and gloom
05:53and not even make the effort to be open-minded,
05:55really, I'm not going to waste my time.
05:57I'm going to try and enjoy it.
05:58I really want to go to Kuala Lumpur.
06:00Go to, like, the Petronas Towers,
06:02I think that would be pretty cool.
06:03OK.
06:03That's what I'm in favour of.
06:05I'm kind of in favour of speed.
06:06Yeah.
06:08Whenever I'm telling someone about Alfie,
06:11I'm always like,
06:11you just have to meet him to understand what he's really like.
06:14Now that we've got back on track,
06:15if it were up to me, we'd kind of just go in.
06:17Getting out, yeah.
06:18Getting out of here.
06:19He doesn't have much of a filter on here,
06:20kind of just say whatever,
06:21was the first thing that came to his mind.
06:23Island hot from Thailand into a sea border into Malaysia.
06:26We've seen that there are boats that go directly into Malaysia,
06:29so I think we'll take one of those.
06:31They plan to get to Malaysia today,
06:34travelling one stop further than Kualipi
06:37to the island of Langkawi
06:38in a bid to leave their rivals behind.
06:44But before then,
06:47three teams are in the same boat.
06:49We have two couples on our tailpipe, literally.
06:55Apart from Eugenie and Isabelle.
07:01At the back of the pack for the first time...
07:05How's it feel to be back in Krabby, Mum?
07:08Exciting!
07:10Eugenie and Isabelle...
07:11We're last, but we do need to not follow the pack.
07:15Having reached the mainland,
07:17they're diverging from the others,
07:19making their way to Malaysia on terra firma.
07:24I think a lot of the other teams will be island topping,
07:26but it might mean that whilst they're waiting for ferries or boats,
07:30we're moving a lot further on land.
07:32There tends to be more buses than boats.
07:36Last, like, we regretted not working.
07:39Yeah.
07:40In terms of the budget,
07:41it's something that we're going to have to look at.
07:43Do you want to look at the classifieds?
07:46Is this one cleaning up boats?
07:48No, that didn't appeal.
07:50I think this leg might be quite intense.
07:52We're not very good with manual labour jobs,
07:54but if we can earn money,
07:56then we can just splurge at the end.
07:58Yeah, we need to know that when it counts,
08:00that we've got the money.
08:01Lovely organic rice farm.
08:03Yeah.
08:04Then we get to stay in the Malay thatched hut.
08:06That's an experience in itself, I think.
08:08Yeah.
08:09Last leg, it was more about enjoyment,
08:11and this leg, it's more about working hard.
08:15This experience is for me to step out of my comfort zone alongside Mum.
08:20It's not about kind of getting halfway and saying,
08:23OK, well, it was a really good experience.
08:25No, we're going to go all the way and win this race.
08:29I think we've done really well so far today, don't we?
08:31It's been like two hours.
08:33As mother and daughter steel themselves for some hard graft...
08:38..their rivals cross the Andaman Sea
08:41to Thailand's southernmost island, Koh Lipe.
08:47Known as the Maldives of Thailand,
08:50those who stay here face some of the highest prices in the region.
08:55Oh, we've got to pay a taxi over here.
08:57Bloody hell.
08:58Jeez.
08:59That is expensive.
09:02If we don't go anywhere, do we get our money back?
09:04We're just working at the bar and then we'll head off again.
09:07Right, we need to find a boat, but kind of subtly.
09:11Yeah.
09:12Blanca, oui?
09:13Blanca, oui.
09:14We need accommodation as well, yeah.
09:16That's fine.
09:17This island is just unreal.
09:19Yeah, it's incredible.
09:20I don't want to leave.
09:22The plan is to get away from the other team as quickly as possible,
09:25trying to not make it obvious that we're getting on another boat.
09:31All right, let's go.
09:33I really hope this will be the last time on the leg that we see them now.
09:36Get me to Malaysia.
09:38As the best friends steal a march across the Malaysian border
09:41to the island of Langkawi...
09:43We need accommodation for tonight.
09:45..back on Koh Lipe...
09:47My husband will say, what the hell have you done?
09:49What have you done?
09:50Right, I've booked it for 600 for two of us.
09:53It's nice, it's en suite.
09:55It has to be nice, it has to be cheap.
09:56It's en suite.
09:57It has to be cheap.
09:58It's en suite.
09:59It has to be cheap, no?
10:00Nobody else is in the pool.
10:03You're spending too much money today.
10:05And...
10:06600.
10:06My husband won't be pleased.
10:09Silly money, absolutely silly money.
10:12I think we plumped this too soon.
10:14No.
10:14Should have gone and looked.
10:15No.
10:19Less than 100 metres away...
10:21They say find a job you love and you never work a day in your life.
10:24Betty and James attempt to release the pressure on their budget...
10:30..by working at a diving school.
10:32There you go.
10:34Imagine a job that just allows you to stand in the sea.
10:38One, seven, four, one, one, zero, zero, five, five, five.
10:42Zero, zero, five, five, five.
10:4423.
10:45I honestly think that any job that requires me to wear bare feet is the job for me.
10:51This is what I crave every time I'm at home.
10:53No, I know what you mean.
10:54Coming to these places to leap, eh?
10:56Yeah.
10:56It's just a different life.
10:57It's just, like, so much better.
10:59I think it probably is, like, a bit of sense of...
11:03..like, escapism.
11:05But it's not like I'm escaping, like, my life at home.
11:09Would I prefer a life like this?
11:10Yes, of course.
11:12And, like, when I'm here, like, a place like this, I never want to leave.
11:15But you're going to hate some days here.
11:17Yeah.
11:18You know, when it's not sunny.
11:19Mm.
11:20Or a day at work, shit, are you real, or something like that.
11:22They're always going to be shit days.
11:25Yeah.
11:26Right, shall we head for a swim?
11:28Yes.
11:30Coming in on the boat will come, obviously, with risks,
11:33like, in terms of it could be a bit more expensive,
11:36island hopping's a little bit more complicated.
11:39But I think, to be honest, like, weighing up the feelings
11:42that James and I are experiencing, like, it's just priceless, really.
11:475.50pm.
11:49Oh, my days.
11:51Pretty cool.
11:52Pretty cool.
11:54Alfie and Owen are first to leave Thailand.
11:59Home to one of the world's oldest rainforests,
12:03Malaysia is a land of rich traditions
12:06drawn from its Malay, Chinese and Indian populations.
12:11Country...six?
12:12Six or seven.
12:13The boys have docked at the island of Langkawi.
12:17According to folklore, it's name derived from the red-backed eagle,
12:21still found in its skies.
12:25The archipelago's beauty means it has UNESCO geopark status.
12:30And Alfie and Owen have volunteered to help out with a local environmental project.
12:37Malaysians will eat using our hands.
12:41Are you OK to eat with hands?
12:43Yeah.
12:43Can do hands.
12:44With the job starting in the morning, an opportunity to get to know their colleagues.
12:51So, Shaban here is our most senior.
12:54If you are going into jungle, he's the expert.
12:57OK.
12:58What animals do you have in the jungle?
13:00The leopard.
13:01Oh, really?
13:02The leopard. I see it only two times in my life.
13:04That's amazing.
13:04The python.
13:05The poison animal or the cobra.
13:07Exciting!
13:08See some snakes.
13:09I think I had kind of a negative mindset towards the leg this morning, but quite excited.
13:13The family that we're staying with are lovely.
13:17So, welcoming, completely taking us in and they've put on an absolute feast for us tonight.
13:22So, my wife here, she's from the Borneo.
13:24The Borneo?
13:25Oh, really?
13:26How did you meet if he was in Kuala Lumpur and you were in Borneo?
13:28What?
13:29We meet on the internet.
13:32Oh.
13:32Tindar.
13:33Really?
13:34No matter how much you talk to locals and things like that, it's so rare that you get the opportunity
13:37to come and experience it as if you're living it.
13:40And that's a real privilege.
13:43You're married yet, no?
13:45Not yet.
13:47What do you mean, not yet? Like it's on the cards.
13:53Back in Thailand, as night falls on Kuala Lumpur...
13:57Four small beers.
14:00Stephen and Viv's bar shift is just beginning.
14:04I'm really enjoying it.
14:05Yeah, it's got a bit of a buzz about it.
14:07It's quite an eye-opener, actually.
14:10Just seeing the freedom that people have to travel these days.
14:13I think when I was younger, it was never an option to do that.
14:19I went through a phase where, as an adult, I didn't feel I had much fun.
14:23But I was a bit naughty as a teenager, really.
14:26I used to skip off school a bit, go to the park and smoke and go and see if there
14:31were any boys there.
14:34But then I became the wife and the mother, and I had to set a good example for the children.
14:39So there was 24 years or so of my life, I think I was a little bit of a more
14:44subdued me.
14:46One mojita.
14:48I think I stepped up this morning with a little more force than Stephen was expecting, actually.
14:53And he kept saying to me, how much? You know, how much have you spent?
14:56But I just felt good. I felt that I was carefree and footloose and fancy-free and I could just
15:01do what I wanted for a change, actually.
15:14I slept really well last night.
15:16Oh.
15:17It was so nice to wake up to this.
15:21For Betty and James, a night on their boss's boat, free of charge, aids their budget.
15:28I think this job's done us good, really, hasn't it?
15:30We kind of smashed it, actually, didn't we?
15:33I definitely feel ready for the day.
15:39Race heads going. We've spent a lot of money.
15:42I think for the restless leg, if we save as much money where we can on accommodation, food...
15:47Yeah.
15:49Saying farewell to Thailand, the siblings head to the Malaysian island of Langkawi.
15:56I now feel, like, quite fiery about the race.
15:59Bring it on.
16:02Already there...
16:03It's going all right.
16:04We're doing better than I expected.
16:05We haven't fallen in yet, so...
16:06Alfie and Owen, with a lengthy commute to work.
16:11Three kilometres.
16:14That is kind of far.
16:17It's so amazing.
16:29Seeing Malaysia in the light of day is a lot different to last night, where you couldn't really see anything.
16:35In this race, you get, like, tunnel vision.
16:37It's quite nice to just look around, really appreciate where we are.
16:43I didn't really know what to expect from Malaysia or Langkawi in general, but scenery is absolutely amazing, kayaking through.
16:57Kubang Badak is home to a mangrove forest covering more than four million square metres.
17:03After years of decline, the forest is expanding, thanks to a five-year-long campaign of planting.
17:12Okay?
17:13Let's give it a go here.
17:14From one tree, from one tree and one tree, one metre.
17:18Apart?
17:19Yeah.
17:20Spearheading the project, lead naturalist Shaban.
17:27Can you hear the bird?
17:29In this call, the brown-winged kingfisher.
17:31No mangrove tree.
17:33Nothing.
17:33No birds.
17:34No birds.
17:34No animals.
17:35No wildlife.
17:36Right.
17:39I'll cock this one up big time.
17:43The mangrove tree's dense root systems trap sediment and slow coastal erosion, as well as providing a sheltered habitat for
17:51wildlife.
17:53You see the boat here?
17:54Yeah.
17:5520 years ago, it had swami.
17:57Very bad.
17:57Yeah.
17:58That put it there?
17:59Yeah.
18:00Aye.
18:01The mangrove tree had the roof, the roof for stuff the wave.
18:04Right.
18:07Bosh.
18:08Hang on.
18:11There's a lot more litter than I kind of expected.
18:14Most of it is plastic bottles.
18:17It must be frustrating for these guys that so much rubbish gets washed up on the shores.
18:23It's been nice to see the difference that we've made today.
18:25Like, I do really, really enjoy making a difference when I can see the difference.
18:29I don't agree with tokenistic gestures.
18:31I don't agree with going vegan for the sake of the world.
18:36But there's climate change on a worldwide scale, and then there's making a difference kind of locally.
18:42Oh, ****.
18:43We can't destroy the planet.
18:45I feel like, you know, the planet's been around for billions of years.
18:47It's seen much worse than humans.
18:50It will always bounce back.
18:51However, there is a chance we wouldn't.
18:53You know, if everyone chips in a little bit, it will sure do something.
18:57But the ferry that we want to catch is leaving in about 80 minutes, so that's kind of what's primarily
19:02on my mind now.
19:05Still in Thailand.
19:13I should be quite sad to leave Thailand, actually.
19:15I think young Viv might have embraced this lifestyle of just being a bit of a beach bum and...
19:20Yeah.
19:21I've seen you in a bikini in those early photographs.
19:24You had ringlet-y hair and cigarette in your mouth.
19:27I can just see you on a beach here.
19:29Yeah.
19:29I was a bit of a rebel in my youth.
19:32We'd better make a move.
19:34Langkawi!
19:35Langkawi!
19:35Langkawi!
19:37We're the only people on this ferry.
19:39Yes.
19:39Could be your last position.
19:43Bye, Langkawi.
19:44Been short and sweet.
19:45Ahead of them, Betty and James have reached Langkawi and are setting sail once more to the Malaysian mainland.
19:53What's the boys?
19:56It's Betty and James.
19:58For God's sake.
19:59We just need to get ahead of them tonight.
20:02Yesterday, we got the lead.
20:04Now we're, like, back in the same place.
20:06Happy days.
20:08As two teams leave neck and neck, arriving in their wake...
20:15We need to get off Langkawi this evening.
20:18We could do with finding something out about where we're bloody going.
20:23Do you know where we're going after this?
20:24It would be quite nice if we were able to make our way to Georgetown.
20:28Ooh.
20:29Why?
20:29It looks beautiful.
20:30The guy did say that.
20:32It's got one of the prettiest streets in the world, innit?
20:34Is it?
20:36Viv's plan, travel south along the Malaysian coast, then hop to the island of Penang.
20:43To enjoy the atmosphere of historical colonial city, Georgetown.
20:50Getting to Georgetown tonight, pushing it, isn't it?
20:54And I think it's going to be quite tricky to get off this island and then to get down to
20:58Georgetown.
20:58Already sounds complicated.
21:00My feeling is we need to skip Georgetown.
21:04We're going to lose half an age of getting there and back.
21:07I know, but sometimes it's the payoff between experience and racing hard.
21:12I know.
21:13And it just looks lovely.
21:16Yeah, I quite fancy going there.
21:18It's got one of the prettiest streets in the world, innit?
21:21What is the cheapest, cheapest place to stay tonight?
21:24I might be able to twist his arm, actually.
21:26Will you?
21:27We'll see.
21:29We're going out of the way, because we've got to spend money to get there.
21:33Yeah, I think you're missing a trick there, though.
21:37Which...
21:37In what way?
21:38In that it's got one of the 17th prettiest streets in the world, apparently.
21:43Yeah.
21:43How the hell do they decide?
21:45You don't want to pass up the 17th prettiest street.
21:47Well, you know.
21:48Well, it's meant to be a beautiful place, a nice island and everything else, isn't it?
21:52Oh, glad you agree.
21:53I thought you were kind of stuck on not going to Georgetown.
21:57No, not at all.
21:58I'm trying to get it to flow, that's all.
22:01Right, then.
22:02That's the goal.
22:0480 kilometres away.
22:06Let me surf for you.
22:07Oh, you don't need to.
22:09No, you are my guest.
22:11Eugenie and Isabel have crossed the land border into Malaysia.
22:15To reach a homestay they hope will help build a war chest for later legs.
22:20Get more.
22:21More?
22:22Yeah.
22:22Yeah, yeah.
22:23In exchange for bed and board, tomorrow they'll labour for rice farmer Captain Zachariah.
22:29We thought homestays would help us to minimise the amount of money we spend on hotels.
22:33Turns out we are kind of in the rainforest in the middle of nowhere.
22:36There's frogs jumping everywhere.
22:37But we'll have somewhere decent to stay.
22:40OK.
22:40We have more there.
22:41Yeah, yeah.
22:42Don't shy.
22:43Don't be shy.
22:44If you shy, you will be hungry in the jungle.
22:48So, where did you get the name Captain from?
22:52My friend invited me as a captain for the ship.
22:56OK.
22:56A luxury boat.
22:57So that's why they call me Captain.
22:59Ah, OK.
23:00Clear?
23:01Very clear.
23:02No more questions?
23:03After this...
23:04I've got lots of questions.
23:06OK.
23:06How did you become a farmer?
23:09I put in my mind, I want to be a farmer like my dad, like my grandpa.
23:12Oh, that's nice.
23:13To supply food for the people.
23:15Yes.
23:16My dad, he was originally born in Jamaica.
23:19So his father, he cultivated land as well.
23:23But my dad didn't take that on.
23:25So he just decided to go to England.
23:28He worked in a luggage factory in London.
23:33Oh, there's my lovely dad.
23:35In these youthful days.
23:37I loved my daddy so much.
23:40My dad was a hard worker.
23:42And he always talked to us about making sure we had our heads in our books.
23:47So I remember when I was in secondary school,
23:50my name was called on the tannoy to go to the headmistress's office.
23:56And they were, oh, you're in trouble.
23:58Why have you been called?
24:00So I went to the office.
24:02My dad was sitting there with the headmistress.
24:05She said, your father said that you're bored when you're at school.
24:09And that's one of the indicators the child is not actually meeting their potential.
24:15Now, of course, my dad's sitting there just looking at me like this.
24:20What choice did I have?
24:22I had to go to the top set.
24:25So in terms of the influence on my family, it was that education is very important.
24:32That's been instilled with me from the day dot.
24:36I don't think I express enough how, like, appreciative I am.
24:39You obviously worked hard to send me to the private school,
24:43making sure we had all of those doors open.
24:49How about you?
24:50Your parents like what your parents do?
24:52Mum's a teacher.
24:55It's your mum?
24:56Yeah.
24:57Aye, aye, aye, aye.
24:59No woman nor cry.
25:02I only know.
25:04The two of us are starting to understand each other a bit better.
25:08Yeah, it just feels quite positive.
25:09Good night.
25:10We like a baby, okay?
25:12We will.
25:14Oh, God, is that a spider?
25:16There's bugs inside the net.
25:19How's that possible?
25:22Ah!
25:24Oh, in the hell!
25:25Stop it!
25:27Get out!
25:29Where are you going?
25:32Please!
25:34Are you just staying in the hotel now?
25:36No, we're not.
25:39To the south.
25:41Are you a taxi driver?
25:42Two more teams have reached mainland Malaysia.
25:45Come on, Jimbo.
25:47OK, let's go.
25:48Do you think we should head straight for the bus station?
25:50We'd have to get a taxi or something.
25:52Alfie and Owen aim to leave their rivals behind by catching an overnight bus 440 kilometres further south to the
26:00capital.
26:01We lost betting, James.
26:0325 ringgit, huh?
26:0420 ringgit.
26:0520 ringgit.
26:0620 or not?
26:06I don't understand what you're saying, sir.
26:08One taxi, 25 ringgit, not 1%.
26:11One person?
26:1220 ringgit.
26:13Per person?
26:14No.
26:15One taxi, 25 ringgit.
26:1725.
26:18That's fine.
26:19Ah, not 1%.
26:21So far, really, really happy.
26:23We're moving with incredible speed.
26:25We need a ticket.
26:26Kuala Lumpur, please.
26:27Now we're ready to head to Kuala Lumpur without paying for accommodation this evening, so feeling good.
26:31Thank you so much.
26:32I can't thank you.
26:33See you, bye-bye.
26:34I'm so wild.
26:35Yes.
26:38It's very, very hard to explain the dramatic change in life from the race.
26:44You know, it's not just like a new job, it's not like a new hobby.
26:47This is a new life.
27:00In the heart of the Klang Valley, Malaysia's capital, its rapid growth driven by an economic
27:09boom at the end of the 20th century, fuelled by vast oil and gas reserves, and exemplified
27:16by the Petronas Towers.
27:19Once the world's tallest buildings, their design is based on the Islamic eight-pointed star.
27:27I want to go see the Petronas Towers.
27:30OK.
27:32We need to drop our bags, ideally.
27:39Oh, bags are gone.
27:40Cool.
27:41Right, let's get out of here.
27:45My first impressions are how modern it is, also kind of how westernised it is.
27:49I like being where everything's happening, where everyone is.
27:53Seeing the tower in real life is really cool, you know.
27:55Not just the tower here, but all the surrounding buildings in this area is actually really nice.
28:00I'd like to come back here.
28:01I feel like it's got so much more to offer than what we've seen.
28:04If I do become a pilot in the future, which hopefully I'll get there, then I'll be able to do
28:08stuff like this all the time.
28:11I know exactly what I want to do in life.
28:13I'm hoping to become a commercial pilot.
28:15It was definitely a liberating experience flying for the first time.
28:18It's a sense of freedom you don't get really anywhere else.
28:21The school version of Owen was a permanent rock of anxiety.
28:24But as soon as he got with his pilot things, he started to just come out of his shell.
28:29He's so much happier.
28:30And yeah, I'm really, really proud of him.
28:33We're going to sound really sad when I say this.
28:34One of our favourite activities is plane spotting at Luton Airport.
28:37That is true. That is quite fun.
28:40That's pretty big.
28:41Just a massive champagne glass with a duck on top.
28:44What?
28:46460 kilometres north.
28:52Eugenie and Isabel's plan to work in Malaysia is underway.
28:56Weeding by hand to maximise the rice yield and to control pests.
29:02I'm stuck.
29:07You're actually doing well. I thought you'd be a bit freaky with this.
29:10Yeah, OK.
29:11Because whilst I'm in here, there's all kinds of stuff in here.
29:16Skating along on top of the water, over the water.
29:19I can hear what you're saying.
29:20There's one thing here and I'm not sure if it's some kind of nest.
29:24Yeah, OK, move.
29:25OK, no comment again.
29:27No more comment, sorry.
29:31Oh, there's something on me!
29:33Oh!
29:34I don't know what that was.
29:35That felt weird.
29:37See, Isabel is not scared of hard work, but this environment is really testing her resilience.
29:44The next place that we are planning on going will be another home stay on a farm.
29:50Can we suck it up one more night?
29:53I can do it if we have to.
29:55And there's going to be more bugs and insects at the farm, but just don't highlight them to me too.
30:00Don't mention anything?
30:01No.
30:02I can't say no to Mum about the farm thing.
30:05I think because we have a plan.
30:07I don't like not sticking to a plan, if I'm honest.
30:11Undeterred, mother and daughter are heading 140 kilometres to the city of Ipoh for more work.
30:19Oh, God!
30:23We wouldn't be doing this if we didn't want to win, all right?
30:27In Kuala Lumpur...
30:29Look how busy it is.
30:31Alfie and Owen are on the move.
30:33So we need to get the ferry from Malacca Port.
30:36With a new goal in their sights, 150 kilometres away, the port of Malacca.
30:42All teams will need to catch a ferry from there to the Indonesian island of Sumatra
30:47to make their way to the sixth checkpoint.
30:51Is there any way you could find out what time does the ferry leave from Malacca?
30:55Ferry from Malacca to Indonesia.
30:58Usually two ferries depart every day, but tomorrow there's just one running at nine in the morning.
31:05To have a chance of making it, the boys need to board an overnight bus.
31:10The best option for us is the bus.
31:12So if we could get one tonight, that would be great.
31:14We need to get our bags and then go to the bus terminal.
31:21What?
31:24Oh, don't do this to me.
31:26OK.
31:27OK, well that's...
31:29It's not working.
31:32Either, I don't know, something went wrong in the system or we put in the wrong number.
31:35I don't know.
31:36I don't know.
31:36I don't know.
31:37How does it go wrong?
31:38Oh, for God.
31:39We're going to miss this bloody...
31:40Yeah, I know we are.
31:41It's not open, is it?
31:44Stupid locker.
31:45Wait, what?
31:46It says it's available.
31:49What?
31:50We got it open this morning then.
31:51We put the number in twice.
31:53And then I opened it.
31:54I can't remember why I opened it, but I opened it for a reason and then shut it again.
31:59Single you...
32:01What does that mean?
32:02So you can only open it once.
32:04It's now okay.
32:05Are you sure?
32:06Yeah, we just need to get it out.
32:0718 quid on bloody baggage.
32:09Of course this happens to us.
32:11Oh!
32:12That is a pain in the arse.
32:19If we get on this bus, it's an absolute miracle.
32:22To the north.
32:24This doesn't usually happen.
32:25This is a luxury treat.
32:26Yeah, good.
32:27Make the most out of it.
32:29Very gentleman.
32:32Betty and James have stopped in the coastal village of Bagan Sungai Boorong.
32:37Go hello.
32:38Hello.
32:38Hello.
32:39That's beautiful.
32:41Tomorrow morning, there'll be deckhands for fisherman Toxie.
32:44While tonight, they get to enjoy some local hospitality.
32:48Hi.
32:49It smells so nice.
32:50Yeah, it does smell like that.
32:52Easy cooking.
32:55It's coming to the end and Malaysia might be quite short-lived really.
32:59And I think really the best way to see what Malaysia has to offer is live like a local for
33:03a day.
33:09Where's my bum bag?
33:11Oh, my God.
33:12I think I left it on the bus.
33:14There's passports in there.
33:16Shit.
33:18Here they are.
33:20Oh, ****.
33:24I want to go check the car just in case.
33:27Erm, I think I left my bum bag on the bus.
33:30It's got our passports in it.
33:33Without their passports, Betty and James won't be able to enter Indonesia, threatening an abrupt end to the race.
33:42Doesn't look like they're here.
33:44Anywhere else you think you could have put them?
33:45No, it's on the bus.
33:47On the bus.
33:48It was going back to Ippo.
33:56We've got a bit of a situation.
33:58Is there any way to ring Ippo bus station?
34:02Why?
34:03To see if there was a bag left on the bus that we got.
34:06Back?
34:07Yeah.
34:08And it has our passports in it.
34:09Oh, okay.
34:10In the bus?
34:11Yeah.
34:12Oh!
34:14They're very...
34:15Best.
34:16They're enlisting the help of Toxie's family friend, Suchiya.
34:20The terminal where we bought them was Ippo Meurama.
34:24It's a North Face bag.
34:26The bag is black.
34:28And it's...
34:28This is on the front.
34:30Thank you very much.
34:31Okay.
34:31You can see.
34:34More.
34:36I'm going to have a passport and I'll be paying for it.
34:40It's a heartbreak to lose it.
34:43But...
34:43Obviously, we do it as a team.
34:45It's a team thing.
34:49.
34:51Okay.
34:51.
34:52Let's go eat.
34:56Can you apologize to everyone for us being late?
35:00It's OK, they understand, huh?
35:04We've done all we can. It's just a matter of waiting.
35:12There's a guy standing here. Should we go and ask him?
35:15I've got this.
35:20250km north...
35:21We're looking for Kekchuan Street.
35:24Stephen and Viv are on the hunt for a local landmark.
35:28Apparently, it's the 17th most beautiful street in the world.
35:32It's quite far, it's far.
35:33How far?
35:35Jalan Magazine. This is Jalan Sahala, so she said straight on.
35:39I wouldn't say that's the 17th prettiest, would you?
35:42It is.
35:43Oh, to Kekchuan. Yeah.
35:45It's straight on, this is not it.
35:48I don't want to walk for hours to get there.
35:51Wild goose chase, all over the place, got lost, couldn't find it,
35:54came back, soaked.
35:57Now, that looks pretty.
35:59There's some murals.
36:01Oh, wow!
36:03It's just such a mix of dilapidated and then beautiful...
36:08And then beautifully preserved. Yeah.
36:10Yeah.
36:10The world's 17th prettiest street may have eluded them,
36:14but Georgetown's colonial architecture and burgeoning street art scene...
36:20That's really elegant, that. I like that one.
36:22It is, isn't it? Yeah.
36:22Yeah. ...have cast their spell.
36:26I like the feel that Georgetown has, I like the vibe.
36:30This was Viv's choice, and this was a bit out of our way.
36:36Look at this. Ooh, I say.
36:37Isn't that lovely?
36:38Oh, that's stunning.
36:40But I actually really enjoyed that effect, relaxed,
36:42but a cracking day, that's proper art. It is.
36:44Someone's taken time.
36:47I'm absolutely fine with Viv taking control.
36:49She's good at it.
36:50It's lovely to see a smile on her face.
36:52It's genuinely been worth it,
36:54as long as it doesn't put us out of the race.
37:00That was a nice evening.
37:01Really lovely stroll. Lovely evening.
37:02When I get home, I just have to Google that street
37:05and then see what I miss.
37:20It's so peaceful out here.
37:22What we wanted from the start was, what, beach, sea, chill, calm, peaceful.
37:28That's beautiful.
37:30After a restless night,
37:32an early start for Betty and James and Toxie's fishing boat.
37:36They're missing passports on their tired minds.
37:40I have felt like utter shit.
37:44Potentially, we are going home,
37:45because I didn't do the good old double-check.
37:49It's quite tiring, isn't it?
37:51I think, at least for James,
37:53he would be able to look back and say, like,
37:54he made the most out about every situation.
37:56Like, but, like, that's just not really the person I am.
38:00Like, we're clearly very, very different in that sense.
38:03Yeah.
38:05That's killing me.
38:07I think, above anything else,
38:08like, I just feel like I'm letting James down.
38:15I'm sorry, by the way I've, like, dealt with this situation.
38:19Why?
38:20Cos I've just been shit.
38:21It's fine. It is shit, though, isn't it?
38:23No-one knew, but I just dealt with it really shit.
38:28Yeah, but I knew how you were going to deal with it.
38:31It's the whole time.
38:36Nama! Nama!
38:37Nama!
38:52Nama!
38:54Oh, that's heavy.
38:56To the north, in Ipo, Eugenie and Isabel roll up their sleeves once again.
39:02Got it?
39:03Oh!
39:05This region is known for its pomelos,
39:07the largest of all citrus fruits.
39:10Oh, that's nice.
39:13OK, Mum, sharing.
39:16Wow.
39:16Weighing up to 11 kilos and widely eaten during Chinese New Year.
39:21Yeah, well done.
39:22They're a symbol of good fortune.
39:25This is kind of hard work, I guess,
39:27but there's not as many bugs as I was expecting.
39:31I actually feel like I can get stuck in.
39:35Oh, my God.
39:36Oh!
39:36Is it poo?
39:38Yeah.
39:38Poo poo.
39:40It's the poo.
39:41I just want the poo off.
39:43This leg, we've done two physical jobs.
39:45It's a lot harder than I thought it was going to be,
39:47but it's felt worth it.
39:48To save a bit of money.
39:50Mum and I can pass if we want to.
39:52We've got, what, two legs left.
39:54They're almost there.
40:02Oh, Malacca.
40:03Having managed to catch their overnight bus,
40:06Alfie and Owen have reached the port of Malacca.
40:10First established as a strategic trading link
40:13between east and west,
40:15today, the city gives its name
40:17to the world's second busiest shipping route,
40:20the Malacca Strait,
40:22which the boys hope to cross today.
40:25After this, you go to Indonesia.
40:27Yeah.
40:27Oh.
40:28Is it nice?
40:30I never been there before.
40:32It's the first time,
40:33I literally don't know what to expect from a place.
40:36I think our world is going to be turned upside down.
40:43Can we have two tickets, please?
40:45Two tickets.
40:46On the other side, the port of Dumai,
40:49gateway to the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
40:53Hukatingi's on the west side, isn't it?
40:55If it's the sixth biggest island in the world,
40:57then it will take us a hot set to get there.
41:01Let's think about it logically, right?
41:03Nobody else is here.
41:04This is the only ferry that operates today.
41:06Today, yeah.
41:06So, unless someone miraculously crossed yesterday,
41:09we're 24 hours ahead.
41:11Technically, yeah.
41:12For us.
41:14With Alfie and Owen pulling ahead,
41:18behind them,
41:19the race is on for the other teams to make it to Malacca.
41:24The job is done today.
41:26OK, thank you.
41:27Mum, come on.
41:29We're bobbing and weaving and making our way through this race,
41:33but the fact is, we're in it to win it,
41:36so we've just got to push through.
41:37So, this is direct to Malacca?
41:39Yeah. Oh, perfect.
41:42Can you tell me,
41:43is there a bus direct from Georgetown to Malacca?
41:47500 kilometres from the ferry terminal,
41:49Stephen and Viv have the longest way to go.
41:53I've really enjoyed Georgetown,
41:55but the whole process of getting here
41:57didn't work for us at all.
41:59We need to get there quickly, really.
42:02Right, come on in.
42:04Here we go.
42:12Beep, beep, beep, beep.
42:16Are you welcome?
42:17Oh, thank you.
42:19Oh, hi.
42:20Hi.
42:20Uh, it's two.
42:22OK, so, uh, the driver just, uh, called.
42:26Uh, you need to go back to the bus station
42:29and, uh, uh...
42:31Hi, can you still hear me?
42:33Oh.
42:34Oh, no.
42:35Jesus Christ.
42:40Yeah, we're not on a plane home yet,
42:43so that's good.
42:46Hopefully they're still there.
42:54It was, um...
42:56It was one of these buses.
42:58The transnational, yeah.
42:59One of these.
42:59One of these.
43:00Go!
43:01Run!
43:06You check, you check, you check.
43:09Let me check.
43:12OK?
43:13It's OK.
43:14Thank you so much.
43:23Thank you very much.
43:25Oh, I'm so happy.
43:28From now on out, I will be enjoying every moment
43:31because you don't actually know when it's going to come to an end.
43:35And if I don't, I'm going to give James permission
43:36to slap me around the face or something with my passport
43:40and remind me of this moment.
43:44Unfortunately, I do think we're a bit lagging behind now.
43:48Thank you very much.
43:48Thank you for everything.
43:50We're back. We're going to go.
43:51We're back.
43:53It definitely feels like we've got, like, a bit of a firecracker pub
43:55and we're going to, like, get moving.
43:58On the other side of the Malacca Strait...
44:01How are you?
44:02This place is absolutely nuts.
44:04Let's go.
44:05Alfie and Owen enter the seventh country in the race.
44:09Excuse me. Taxi? Taxi?
44:13Indonesia.
44:16The largest archipelago in the world,
44:20with more than a hundred active volcanoes
44:23and over a quarter of a billion people.
44:28Taxi?
44:29Oh, my God.
44:32To reach the sixth checkpoint in Bukatingi,
44:35they need to travel 370 kilometres across Sumatra,
44:40an island largely ignored by tourists,
44:43but home to 60 million inhabitants and 52 languages.
44:50Assalamu Alaikum.
44:52Assalamu Alaikum.
44:55What the hell?
44:58You got money?
44:59We have money, yes.
45:00We got money, yeah, yeah, yeah.
45:01What?
45:02You know where to go?
45:02Bukatingi.
45:03Bukatingi.
45:04Big bus station, yeah?
45:06Yeah.
45:06OK, that's real sure.
45:07I don't know how he end up in there, but...
45:10This is so random.
45:11This is not really a big bus station.
45:13This is going to be a shack at the side of the road.
45:17Don't tell me.
45:18Don't tell me.
45:19Don't tell me.
45:19What?
45:20OK, this is fine.
45:22Yeah, that's fine.
45:23Yeah, that's fine.
45:24This is as good as it could have got.
45:26Where are you from?
45:27Bukatingi.
45:28OK.
45:29Yes.
45:29OK.
45:31One second.
45:32Just let you check the time.
45:33What time is the bus?
45:347 o'clock.
45:35Tonight?
45:36Go to...
45:39In five hours.
45:42An encouraging start to their time in Sumatra.
45:45An overnight bus direct to Bukatingi.
45:50I'm not really bothered about being back somewhere that's developed, to be honest.
45:53You know, people still have buses out here.
45:54They still live lives.
45:56Like, I think...
45:56I think it's kind of easy to forget that.
45:58Just because it doesn't look as nice doesn't always mean it's not as good.
46:01Because I'm absolutely starving.
46:03Where's the shop?
46:04Yeah.
46:04Shop.
46:05Supermarket.
46:07Food.
46:07Food.
46:08Food.
46:08Shop.
46:09Shop.
46:10Shop.
46:10Yeah.
46:18Or a mart.
46:21This is a literal whole new world.
46:33Lovely.
46:33Thank you very, very much.
46:36Eugenie and Isabelle are the second team to arrive in Malacca.
46:39But we'll have to wait until tomorrow morning to catch the ferry.
46:43I'm exhausted.
46:44The whole leg.
46:45It's just been very difficult.
46:47I feel like we're a lot closer to building up our budget.
46:49But I don't know.
46:51It just feels like we're fast around Malaysia.
46:53And particularly because I reckon the others might have taken the sea route.
46:56I think we're significantly slower than them.
46:59Is there a lift?
47:00Lift.
47:05After grafting their way through Malaysia, they have the consolation of a hotel bed.
47:11Oh, stop.
47:13Oh.
47:14You just...
47:16Mum, it's stuck on the lip.
47:18If they can reach it...
47:20Just stop pressing buttons for a minute.
47:23I get claustrophobic.
47:24Oh, my God.
47:25Mum, it's not going to open.
47:26It's not.
47:27Oh.
47:31Help!
47:48Ticket counter.
47:49I can just see through that window there.
47:50Ticket counter at Five Ferry Times to Sumatra.
47:54Hello.
47:55When's the next ferry?
47:56Are there lots of tickets available?
47:59Hello!
48:00There's Eugenie and Isabel.
48:01Oh, you're kidding me.
48:04Well, the ferry's full, apparently, till tomorrow, I think.
48:07Don't you say!
48:07Yeah, we just bought the last ticket.
48:10The two tickets be one way.
48:12So, seeing Stephen and Vir, which is a good thing, because I think it means we're not last.
48:16Actually, suddenly seeing the team again, you go, oh, God.
48:19Yeah.
48:19The island hopping route just put us back a little bit.
48:21Competition has heated up again.
48:23It motivates us, doesn't it?
48:25Two more teams set sail for Sumatra.
48:29Already there, Alfie and Owen cross the equator to enter the southern hemisphere.
48:38The time on this bus has not been great.
48:41I'd probably go as far to say it has been the worst bus we've been on.
48:44Someone brought on their own chair.
48:47I've never seen a bus where you bring your own chair.
48:50It's just...
48:51Owen's now sat on said chair.
48:54That's ridiculous.
48:55Ridiculous.
48:57I would stick my neck out and say I am fairly confident that we first.
49:01I'm fair. I'm pretty confident.
49:04Goodbye, Malaysia.
49:06Last to leave Malaysia...
49:09Betty and James managed to catch today's second ferry.
49:12We're hoping we could write a sign to ask people to help us.
49:17Four hours behind their nearest rivals.
49:21Go.
49:25It's OK. Stay composed.
49:27I actually felt like I had to do something to make up for the fact we were delayed
49:30because I lost the passports and I feel like I just needed to come up with something
49:34that was going to project us into the race still.
49:37Yeah.
49:37Butt-a-tingy?
49:40So, there's actually direct buses to Butt-a-tingy.
49:43The signs work.
49:44We just read the signs and it helped us.
49:52There we go.
49:53It's going to Butt-a-tingy time.
49:56It's going to Butt-a-tingy time.
50:03Watched over by Sumatra's most active volcano, Mount Merope,
50:08Butt-a-tingy translates as high hill.
50:11Its strategic position exploited as a Dutch colonial stronghold,
50:16still evident today in its architecture.
50:21All right, we're moving.
50:23Is your bank ever so slightly damp?
50:30Taking Angot Mercy to Djangang 40.
50:35Angot Mercy to Djangang 40.
50:37I don't know what either of those two things are.
50:43Excuse me.
50:44Angot Mercy?
50:45Angot Mercy.
50:47Mercy.
50:49Oh, my God, that's so cool.
50:55It is just a tuk-tuk with a roof on.
50:58It's just also ran a red light, which I'm...
51:00To be honest, I'm really in favour of.
51:05..to reach the checkpoint...
51:06So, proceed up the stairs to find the clock tower.
51:09Up here?
51:10..called the Djangjang 40, but more like 100 steps.
51:15Oh, my God.
51:20Are you going two at a time?
51:21Yeah.
51:21Oh, my God.
51:22My leg's not that long.
51:23Just out of breath.
51:25Where the hell is the clock tower?
51:28Is it out there?
51:29Oh, there.
51:30Perfect.
51:30At the centre of Bukatingi, the Djangjang clock tower,
51:35built during Dutch rule, but nowadays,
51:38the call to prayer that marks the breaking of the fast of Ramadan
51:42is sounded from here.
51:47By any means possible, proceed to Menara Panorama.
51:51Don't look the monkeys in the eyes.
51:54Let's find us some monkeys.
51:58Wow.
51:59This is not what I was expecting.
52:00Look at this.
52:02370 kilometres behind.
52:04Very hot.
52:06Dryer.
52:07Dirtier.
52:08Two more teams land in Sumatra.
52:10The impression I get is it's not that, what can I say, high tech?
52:15I like this place, though.
52:16This is in the depths of the country.
52:20In search of transport to the checkpoint.
52:24Bus to Bukatingi.
52:25Bus to Bukatingi.
52:27Okay.
52:28Okay, got it.
52:29This will leave in 15 minutes.
52:31Yeah, that's fine.
52:33I just want to see what's round there,
52:36because it looks like there might be another bus ticket sales office.
52:40Oh, my goodness.
52:41There's Eugenie and Isabel.
52:43Can you wait two minutes?
52:46Stephen!
52:47I've found the bus going now.
52:49Right, okay.
52:50Yeah, they're waiting.
52:51The bus is going.
52:55There's one more.
52:56Stephen.
52:5718, 19.
52:59Seat 18.
53:00Thank you, thank you.
53:01Very quick.
53:04Now, all of a sudden, they're racing around everyone like blue-ass cars.
53:09Unlike Alfie and Owen's bus, this one terminates at Peckinbaru,
53:14210 kilometres short of Bukatingi.
53:17I'm a bit annoyed that they've turned up now.
53:21I just want to get ahead of them slightly.
53:25For God's sake.
53:30That way?
53:31That's someone's house, so...
53:32Do we go down there?
53:34Oh, no.
53:35Because it was there.
53:36Should we go around this way, then?
53:38Monkey straight ahead.
53:40Okay, there's quite a few of them now.
53:41That is a drop and a half, to be fair.
53:44At 900 metres above sea level, it is possible to spy out the Checkpoint Hotel.
53:50Below is Paddy Ecolodge.
53:53The building with the Gdang-style roof.
53:56So, how the hell...
53:57Did we get down there?
53:58Did we get down there?
54:00That looks like it does go all the way down.
54:03They couldn't have made these stairs any slipper if they tried.
54:07Oh, my goodness.
54:08Could do with you Janie's sticks.
54:10Yeah, I know what I'm saying.
54:12Oh, wait. Paddy Ecolodge.
54:14I think it's through the field.
54:15Oh, yeah.
54:16Maybe we go through here.
54:23Got to beat these buildings here, right?
54:25Check in this way.
54:26Yeah, let's go.
54:26Yeah, go on then.
54:30Oh, my goodness.
54:31Hello.
54:34Three, two, one.
54:34Excellent.
54:36Nice one.
54:37Well done.
54:39And nobody else is on the ferry.
54:40No.
54:41We're quite far ahead here.
54:43We've absolutely smashed this leg.
54:44We haven't made any mistakes in this leg.
54:46Not this.
54:46I can't think of anything.
54:47My first impressions of the leg were that it wasn't going to be what I was hoping for.
54:51I certainly got proven wrong.
54:52I've really, really enjoyed Malaysia, to be fair.
54:54Yeah, I think Kololomba's definitely, like, the favourite part.
54:56Having that good experience and also making some seriously good ground.
55:00To have an 18-hour, 24-hour lead in going into leg seven...
55:03That's big.
55:04...is crazy.
55:05It's going to put the others under so much pressure.
55:10Do you head to Bukatingi?
55:12Yeah, Bukatingi, yeah.
55:13What time?
55:16Where have they gone?
55:18In Pekinbaru, the hunter's on for a connection to Bukatingi.
55:23Bukatingi?
55:24Bukatingi?
55:25Bukatingi?
55:25I doubt there's anyone there.
55:26Come on.
55:27Come on.
55:29Come on.
55:30Come on.
55:32You want to Bukatingi?
55:34Yeah.
55:34Yeah.
55:35If you call by telephone, the bus comes.
55:39It's weird.
55:40It's like, when you want the bus, someone calls someone and they head your way.
55:45I think it just comes here when it gets it.
55:48We're putting all our eggs in one basket.
55:50We are.
55:51Smile and hope for the best.
55:56Bukatingi?
55:57Bukatingi?
55:58Bukatingi?
55:58Bukatingi?
55:58Bukatingi.
55:59I saw them getting on the bus, so I just thought, oh, you know, we can't be left behind.
56:05Bukatingi?
56:06Maybe that might not be the best decision.
56:09Oh, hello.
56:12Bukatingi?
56:14Oh, sorry, you've been asleep.
56:16Are you Bukatingi minibus?
56:18Yes.
56:19Oh.
56:20How much?
56:20When are you going?
56:21Tickets may be booked, but Sumatran timetables are not an exact science.
56:32Do you know what?
56:33It doesn't feel like we're in a race any more.
56:36Ooh.
56:37What is it?
56:38That's coffee?
56:39Yes, yes.
56:40Coffee, boo-boo, coffee, boo-boo.
56:42Buk-buk-buk-buk.
56:43Buk-buk-buk.
56:44Buk-buk-buk.
56:53I've just got this feeling that we're going to be competing against Steve and Viv when we get off the
57:00bus.
57:01Bottom line is, it's going to be close, and it's going to be close by minutes.
57:06The caffeine hasn't worn off yet, has it?
57:09With two teams standing still.
57:13I am actually so happy we've gotten a direct bus.
57:16Yeah, that's true.
57:16Because trying to make connections and stuff, I think it's going to be really hard.
57:20Betty and James close in on an 11-hour overnight bus straight to the checkpoint.
57:31Essentially a musical shed on wheels, yeah.
57:35It's a story, it's a journey, and we're so grateful to be here.
57:39All right, well, I'm going to go to some sleep, I reckon.
57:42Let me just move this bike out of the way for this.
57:47We are in a race against some other people.
57:49If anyone comes to you tomorrow, charge them millions.
57:53The penultimate leg, it's where everything matters.
57:55This is testing the comfort zone to its absolute limit.
58:01We need to catch up on Alfie and Owen.
58:03Yeah.
58:04The process took a while because the driver's friend's car keys were locked.
58:08You couldn't write this as a man.
58:11I just felt like at 16, like something was taken away from me that I couldn't control.
58:16Brave is now probably an understatement.
58:17Stop!
58:18Stop, stop, stop!
58:20You blew me a kiss, are you kidding?
58:39Yep.
58:50You caught your head in a racist world
58:52You caught my cheeks, and youえ this thing?
58:52All right, I've said, have you seen that.