Deadliest Journeys: The forests of Gabon
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 พ.ค. 2024
- The forests of Gabon are some of the densest and most mysterious in the world. But there are a few adventurous souls who risk it all in this green hell every day. They are the drivers of enormous logging trucks that can carry up to 40 tons of wood at a time.
00:00 Heart-stopping, adrenaline filled stories and dangerous journeys.
02:25 Why do large trucks use these dirt tracks?
12:39 The Forest of Bees
35:14 Water Demon
37:40 Tightrope Walking Tour
It is on these giant logs that the entire country’s fortunes depend. The drivers race across the country in these huge machines to take the exotic wood from the Forest of Bees logging sites to Gentil port; it is a 350km feat of endurance and skill that is not for the faint hearted.
Who else just started randomly watching this during lockdown and is now addicted
yes
14:51 the bugs dont bother him
Me
Ya the south American countries got me hooked-those roads are insane😳
No more watching movies
Man it breaks my heart to see those huge trees cut down 😪
Same to me...a tree that has taken 100 years.it pains my heart
And just to be made into plywood. Damn shame.
I feel the same, hate watching those trees being cut...
@@GordiansKnotHere who cares the were all dead anyways in the next couple years
@@joebidenshearingaid1618 Speak for yourself... I plan on sticking around until they can at least create the perfect mixture of Meth, Fentanyl and DMT so I can traverse the fabric of time and space...
This narrator makes these documentaries so much better.
I love these. Better than other “professional” programming; these rival any documentary and they are true, clear and unbiased. Love them.
The commentary is very amateurish though...
@@135Ops Yèh........I too rather hear profeϟϟional Uncle Sam "commentary" 👍🥴
@@135Ops rubbish. It's fine & not over the top Americana. It's the British way & letting what you see tell the story with a gentle narration & giving people speaking a English translation with a touch of role playing. Top pro work by an actor.
@@135Ops Not amateurish, casual, I like this more than someone who doesn't stop talking or the "professionals" that keep blabbering jargon
The narrator should be awarded The best narrator in a documentary series. He is creative in his humour. I only watch this documentary when he's around.
almost like an actor,,,lol
He's the best bit about these documentary series - does anyone know his name? Some of them are narrated by others and just aren't the same.
What's is his name
I am pretty sure it’s an English actor called Roger Allam. It certainly sounds like him
The channel that never fails to entertain. It truly is one the best documentary.
Thank you for making the world know about our country!
Your country is so blessed...small population, with soo much resources...you can be rich like UAE
save the trees
I like the narrator. Likes for him!
These roads in Gabon are better than the most that I have seen on this channel.
These are so addicting. it's stuff alot of us take for granted, pretty amazing honestly.
I had one of the most extreme experiences of my life when the oil exploration company I worked for sent me to Gabon for nine months back in 1991. I lived in a tent in the jungle for five months, had several encounters with snakes, had ticks living in my armpits, balls and up the crack of my bum. Ate lizard, snake and crocodile, followed elephant trails, waded through swamps, lost the company it's one million hours safety record , took a large envelope of cash by helicopter down to the crew after three of my colleagues were kidnapped by some disgruntled local workers, stumbled into a black magic ceremony, got mugged in Port Gentil, slept with my first black woman, and second and third and fourth, saw a tree explode into flames. Things just seemed to happen there.
After all Gabon is one of the richest country in Africa , the old president in 1990’s haj omar bongo was one of the biggest shareholder in Barclays Bank Uk and his wealth was more the. 1.5 billion in his time ,now his son took over the presidency and God know what’s he’s got
Holly shit .ill be scared to death and runaway from that mission
You have an interesting story to tell
Haha you went through all those and you survived to tell a story 😂😂😂😂. Nothing i mean nothing can even scare you in this life😂😂😂
@@sharonngunza3757 And I forget to mention the curfew and smoking powerful drugs😁
I worked at Bordamur Logging Company .A Malaysian own company as a Logging Truck Driver for 6 years from 2002 till 2008. I'm also a Malaysian. Nice country and very friendly people. Thanks for sharing your amazing documentary. Good luck and may God bless.
This videos are sweet and satisfying 😍,i have come back to rewatch this one from gabon for a third time 😂💯💯 from Nairobi Kenya 🇰🇪
“Hundreds of trunks, called logs”
Ah yes, this is the first I am learning of this technical terminology
🤣🤣🤣👍
Jokes aside, I bet there are massive amounts of first world kids on their iphones (who keep crying about "nooooo don't destroy the forest!") who have absolutely no idea that they're even called trees 🤣
I love these videos and the people are very tough to say the least!! GOD BLESS OUR WORLD AND THE MANY DIFFERENT LIFESTYLES..
First viewer here from Kenya Kanairo City 🇰🇪🇰🇪🇰🇪
So am the second viewer,i love this series
@@annastaciakisilu3887 me third..
We should camp on one comment and urge them to do one on roads in 😊254
@@ericmbagara452 ukweli they should try and document north Eastern road especially during rainy season
How's life out there in Kenya
This is such an interesting and engaging documentary. It goes a long way to expose how people survive in various regions of Africa.
The smell of sweat!! I love this narrator. U are hilarious!!
Love these shows❤Thanks for sharing ❤ all the way to FLORIDA
Makes this American grateful. Good documentary
The best documentary so far. Very educative
Ótimo VÍDEO....África...República do Gabão.....muita florestas e rios caudalosos.....Madeira e muitas riquezas naturais....
Probably, one of the best episode of Deadliest Roads. Bravo!
The ingenuity applied in replacing the displaced log is amazing 😱😘
This broke my heart seeing those indigenous trees that have taken hundreds of years being fallen down in a couple of seconds! This is just saddening 😭😭😭
Cutting the trees wouldn't be such a problem but now there is no sustainability and communities are not benefitting from these resources. The roads are poor people earn next to nothing.
there were trees 5 times bigger than those in the ancient past,,they were all cut down by men,,some of those plateaus you see in deserts and forrest were ancient trees.
Why are we Africans so ignorant
Melhor canal internacional com documentário sobre a vida em outros países parabéns para o Criador do canal 👏👏👏🇧🇷
I am addicted to these journey, I have learn alots.On these shows. Amazing
Un grande abbraccio dall’ Italia , siete dei Grandi ! 🥰❤️
Thank you for making the world know about our country!. The ingenuity applied in replacing the displaced log is amazing .
Thank you Tony Comiti Production the best documentaries teaching us to appreciate what we have and 2 to never give up 👌 Watching from South Africa za
Great documentary… Thank you all!!!
I love watching this documentary because of the lovely narrator great fun.Thank you. 😘❤
he is the best
Please safe these TREES and find away to help this people to feed their families.This hurts..!!!!!
One of the last indigenous rain forest left in Africa,it takes decades some a century for one tree to mature.
@@marvinkapaya7817 who cares boo hoo , mans got to eat .
Find the way then... Don't ask other people
Honestly the narrator of this wonderful documentary is a Legend❤great voice over and ALL that😊
These drivers are legendary to drive on these types of roads.
Best documentaries ever watched on this awesome 👌 channel
Gabon has the chance to become a powerful country. I hope one day the Corporations in it take advantage of modern safety equipment and efficiency and make it a wonderful and rich country.
Litterally binge watched the rest . Happy to see more bein uploaded
Please make more of these series soon ,they are very popular!Use different countries/states!
Yeah, like here in Indian North-Eastern regions, Mizoram, we have one place about 40kms streach of road which we called the longest speed breaker becos the road is soo unmaintained for a long time
Anyone else impressed that the camera guys in the Nissan Patrol actually managed to get through those roads with the trucks.
mu husband was a CDL driver here in the u.s. cross country,,I hated him doing that job, we owned our truck,,a used one,,what a HEADACHE ,WITH REPAIRS,,HE MADE MONEY BUT AN AWEFUL AMOUNT WENT TO REPAIRS, LESSON IS. BUY A NEW TRUCK,, THAT WAS MY ADVICE TO HIM FROM THE GET GO ,BUT WHO LISTENS TO WOMEN? HE LIVED TO LEARN,,,,,,NOW he does UBER he is mostly stress free, makes much less money, sets his own pace,,but then again,,no breakdowns hundreds of miles away.
I am amazed that they pull all that wood with only a 350 horsepower TUG. I worked 2 years on TUGS while going through flight school and for a load like this we would use something around 800 horsepower or more, it also depends on how strong the river current is. I am amazed how these people make do with what they got.
These people are ingenious, they make do with so little, the bare minimum in most cases. Amazing
coming from ukraine, for european standards dirt poor, also with lots of old trucks, you make with tools you have otherwise you dont make it all. now living in middle europe it still amazes me what ne proper tech like trucks are capable of doing
Old ships had old engines, and huge numbers of horsepower were not available. (Each fool buys powerboats today and has no idea.) But we live in an exponential world. On boats, a tiny engine will push you to almost the same speed as a huge engine does. And here all you need is force on the wheels, you really need torque, and power is really not that important, it is not a steep hill climb, huh? And with those worn out tires, more power is a waste of money, anyway.
Are you a spoilt brat? More power is great when you can put it to the tarmac, and there are no police officers telling you, you are speeding, Sir. Here there is no tarmac and speeding is irrelevant. So, please, what are you talking about? Worthless comment, right?
It's called being poor .. We live on Hope that tomorrow will be a better day.
Literally not a single one of these deadliest journeys would be deady if people would just slow down and think
Ha! Then there'd be no film😂
Respect to that guy running on top of the logs at the river 4:15.
Awesome Brothers from the Motherland!!
"In Africa we throw nothing away, if it breaks we keep it anyway"
I great mindset to have (within reason of cause) and something long forgotten in the western world.. Before my time my father had a little business where he would "Repair" leaking radiators... these days they are just thrown out and replaced..
Imagine-these old growth forest woods are worth a fortune in Europe-these guys only get a fraction of the profit.
Plywood
Спасибо за видео,труд у людей очень тяжолый всем мирного неба над головой
This episode was the funniest so far
Thanx for the sorcerer's cooking
These guys earn every nickel.....got my respect
There was one guy who earned much much more than the others and that guy deserves prison time, not anyone's respect.
@@MasterCedar I disagree if you can get someone to work for that few of dollars , you’re smart man . Kudos to him .
The pain of watching those trees go down is unbearable. What a shame!
so sad, those hard working africans get to make a living and feed their families. sooooo sad
You have a furniture?
I bet you sitting on furniture from the very same wood
@@dabeatsmithsa lol
they are very important for the european economy.
really well done documentary good story telling and the narrator wasnt even annoying he was very enjoyable its amazing to learn about these other places and what people go through elsewhere in our world. i just wish they wouldnt get fined so much!
Fascinating video, thanks for uploading!!!!
I really love these docs. im living in Norway and during winter in hard icy slippery conditions we use chains. i reckon they would work great in those conditions.. but you cant speed above 60 or so km/h but i rather use chains than staying stuck for a week in the bush
Repeat upload i have watched this one sometimes back
Me too
Well, you guys are on your own.
Watching from Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India....Very Impressive..
Thanks...
Blessings to the 🇬🇦 Gabon people.
I love ALL of these.. Wish they would come out with some new ones
I agree. I have run out of them.
Parabéns pelo vídeo e saudações de Sergipe no Brasil
These guys are so innovative they have a solution to everything they fix driveshafts In middle of diry road with no machanic in sight this is quit remarkable
Very interesting and educational video . kudos ! Great job well done A Nigerian watching from lvory coast
I cant believe they turn those beautiful trees into plywood. Such a waste.
scandalous that such magnificent trees are used to make plywood..
ok tree hugger
@@joebidenshearingaid1618 unhappy little man who nobody likes
@@joebidenshearingaid1618 😂😂
Better for the people to starve to death then, misanthrope?
Wow. Respect. Heeektic. The tune at the end who knows more about? ❤ God bless Africa and glad trees are planted as taken out...Thank you for protecting Mother earth.🎉
This was one of the most fascinating episodes of all.
It is sad,on how fast we are depleting this natural resources. This type of logging is not sustainable. We need to come up with a reforestation plan. You cut one tree.You plant three to replace it.The government has spectacularly failed on this.Plus,what a shame that the authorities do not seem to appreciate the urgency of repairing this roads.
lol, the governments are broke. roads are costly to build. the tree part is understandable, but tough for the government to monitor. they should give incentives to people similar to my city whereby you get a reward for reporting companies that cut trees without replanting seeds. Plus they also need special permission to cut trees. You get a special paper to cut logs for that day and if you do not have it, you get very steep fines.
@@samuelkundael3503 I agree with you entirely my brother. Siku njema.
@@heraldloshi1864 Asante sana. :) how did you know am tanzania? googled me? have a nice day as well :)
@@samuelkundael3503 Karibu sana. I have a maternal Uncle by that name😂
@@heraldloshi1864 I wonder who it is :) lol, I am now watching the cameroon version of the show. you can check this th-cam.com/video/CRi3HqHOd_Q/w-d-xo.html . I have an uncle Herald kundaeli. He teaches at UDSM
Love this series.
Hope that they will not clear cut these magnificent Trees in Gabon. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks you for the adventure videos.
I really love this narrator
this is a well done documentary.
❤🇮🇳 and one oscar's awards for the best camera men team🎉🎉
🇯🇲🤔BOMBOCLAAT DAT MI A TALK BOUT...
INNITIATIVE.
QUICK THINKING.
WELL DONE ON THEIR PART IN USE OF THE CLIFF WALL TO PUSH BACK THE LOG.
EPIC!!!🙄💯💯💥🤟💥💥💥💯💥🤘🍾🍾🍾
The Bee and fly jungle would make me FREEEEAAAKKKK! no thank you!.
It's heartbreaking to watch those towering majestic trees being felled. Which took a hundred years to reach this stature takes just few minutes to bring them crashing down😥
the Amazonia counties are meeting today. Tomorrow the invitees - the Congos and Indonesia will join - that is start
Great documentary. Thanks.
So many hard job in this world. I'm so blessed with mine. Very grateful.
21:10, “The engines doesn’t seems to like cheap perfume” . Absolutely 😂
That trick works,seen in it on a petrol engine,but the truck was out of diesel little that enabled it to start was the reserve.
I just love the narrator, I'm kinda obsessed. Does anyone know of other productions that he's been involved with?
Me too he’s good
this is THE best narrator ever
😂🤣😆😁 this has to be one of the most entertaining ones I have seen. I need a part 2.
These men in this doucumentary really love their wife and kids all they speak about is them Blessings too you guys you really show how men supposed too love their family although some men don't even accept their family or children
The engine doesn't seem like the smell of the perfume but in the end the smell of sweat seems to work. These lines crack me up. 😂😂😂😂😂
Thank you for showing me the World
Muatan nya sangat berat tapi lari nya sangat kencang,mantap emang pwk sopirnya🇮🇩🇮🇩
Im no tree hugger but it is hard 2 see those huge trees get cut and whole forests go away from us
that is a tree hugger thought .
You really had to type "2" instead of "to" just to save a single keystroke? How lazy are you, anyway?
All of this focus on trees by you people instead of the extreme human suffering and poverty
Its beautiful there.
Thank you for this
commentator it's brilliant!!
nice to watch and always enjoy lol
Just wonderful
I'm A New Fan Too Ur Channel ..
Amazing I Love These Documentaries
Man, this really grinds my gears
This was quality entertainment, I laughed so much!
It make me sleep at night and is good for the soul
Feels sad to see those trees cut down but there is nothing I could do.
without those trees the europen economy would go down.
I'm guessing you have no furniture in your house, or even use furniture anywhere?
@@Time364 No this just wasn' t depending
on the trees of Gaboon
I enjoyed very much thankyou
The narrators voice as he interpreted what the prophet was saying😂. Incredibly well done.
This is beautiful place with beautiful people having rich culture.....Salute to their daily brave hard work...
I remember a trip like this on Jalan Penangah Telupid, in the heart of Sabah, Borneo 20 years ago. A trip like this is an experience, through a logging road.
Now, the road has been upgraded by the government. The road is paved and there are no more obstacles like this.
Jasni Gindono ,Aku pernah kerja di Gabon 2017 hingga 2019 selepas pandemik covid 19 menular seluruh dunia ,semua perjalanan keluar masuk dimana mana negara ditutup. Aku dulu di Gabon kerja sebagai Qc buyer grader sawn timber untuk dieksport ke europe ,middle east dan korea.jenis kayu yang dibeli adalah oukome dan okan memang quality kayu papan broty nya bermutu tinggi.Di Gabon jenis kayu mahal didunia ini boleh didapati. Kerjaku memang travel pedelaman keliling Gabon ,Pernah sampai ke sempadan Cameroun ,Congo dan E.Gienea kerna urusan.visa .Aku masuk dan tinggal disawmill sawmil yang dimiliki oleh pelabur dari China Beijing ,Sawmill miliki orang india ,Orang France dan ada juga tauke sawmill dari Malaysia ,dulu 90 an pernah buka sawmill besar di keningau ,Sabah . Sekarang sudah changih kebanyakan balak2 diangkut guna keretapi ke Nkok (GEsz) kawasan bebas industri sekitar 15 km dari ibukota Libreville. Panjang keretapi muat balak dan biji besi dan arang batu di Gabon ini lebih 500 meter panjang gerbak keretapinya.Hasil bumi Gabon ini melimpah sekarang sudah mulai rancak industri oil and gas. Tidak hairan Gabon termasuk negara makmur di Afrika dan dayatarik orang Afrika datang memasuki Gabon mencari rezeki ,Penduduk asal orang Gabonese ini hanya 2 juta orang. Presiden sekarang Ali bongo Ondimba ,orang muslim dan Gabon itu 90 % population non muslim ,jadi 10% muslim, Bahasa seharian kalau di bandar besar ,guna bahasa france tapi kalau dipendalaman guna bahasa lokal mix france.
Just a Mafia road contractor
what is stopping African governments to concentrate of roads? that is what makes a country literally run,,that and electricity and water,,,where is the rocket science? My husband was a cdl driver in the U.S, they get headaches here too,,but its never about road conditions, unless it is weather related, or an accident up ahead,
mAlaysan Borneo is destroyed
I am in shock to see the toughest survival of these people to fulfill the greeds of people including us.