Beyond the Beaten Path

The brothers hitch-hike from the ancient Inca capital of Cuzco at 3399m, down the spine of the Andes Mountains to Lake Titicaca. They get robbed, suffer acute mountain sickness, get mixed up with police, get high on coca leaves and meet some wonderful locals as they battle their way across the Andes.

From Marrakesh, the brothers take a series of local Berber taxis over the High Atlas Mountains and down into the Draa Valley; they take the taxis until the road ends at the edge of the sand sea of the Sahara, where they bury some treasure.

Doing a traditional ramble through the Yorkshire Dales region of northern England, the brother's stride through the moors and dales and peaks and valleys.

In this episode, the brothers shun the more famous areas, Tokyo and Kyoto, and head to the isolated, ancient island of Shikoku. Their route is the ancient 88 Temple Zen pilgrimage circuit

By pick-up truck, the brother's route is the culturally and geographically rich island of Cape Breton and the Cabot Trail. Lobster fishing, mussel farming, hooking, kayaking, kitchen parties, moose sightings, Bingo, Scottish ceilidhs, Mi'kmaq drum session, it's all happening in this episode.

Disaster and triumph set this show apart. The brothers start out with a near-death boat disaster in the southern Philippine Sea but bounce back and end up attaining their goal of reaching Donsol village, the whale shark capital of the world.