Joanna Lumley's Nile (2010–…): Season 1, Episode 4 - Episode #1.4 - full transcript

Now on the final leg of her journey, Joanna Lumley leaves Lake Tana traveling west to rejoin the White Nile. They were required to fly over large parts of the river as it was deemed too dangerous to travel down it. In Juba, southern Sudan, she meets the local beauty queens who are preparing for the upcoming pageant. It's the on to Lake Albert where she takes a ferry to Murchison Falls in Uganda where there is now a large game reserve. Traveling overland They stop on the way at a rhinoceros sanctuary. It's then on to Lake Victoria, originally thought to be the source of the Nile. In 2006, a new source of the Nile was discovered in the hills of Rwanda. Traveling up the Rukarara River, they come to the source, a natural spring 4,199 miles from the Mediterranean.

- We are traveling along
the world's longest river,

the Nile, 4000 miles from sea to source.

It's the most remarkable
journey I've ever made.

Wow, it's so busy.

It started two months ago in Egypt.

It's pretty unspoiled, isn't it?

Since then we've met the
Nile's most fearsome beast.

I'm leaving my sandals
on so the crocodiles

don't decide to eat.

Discovered Sudan's hidden beauty secret.

It's like being Joan of Arc going out



to choose which wood to be burned on.

Met Ethiopia's Olympic hopefuls.

Now you are all my daughters.

And thought about never going home.

I've got to leave Ethiopia now.

It pretty much breaks my heart.

We're nearing the end of the journey

with just 1000 miles to go to reach

the longest source of the Nile.

- Here we are.
- Oh my gosh.

Down there is The Sudd.

It's arguably the largest
swamp in the whole world.

It spreads over an area
over 12,000 square miles.

The Sudd is composed of
sort of huge floating



podges of papyrus.

Completely impenetrable.

The Nile pours itself into
The Sudd and spreads out

and this vast sponge just sucks it up.

The silt and the marshy
sediments go down six miles.

Somehow at the other end
the Nile emerges again.

Samuel Baker, the great explorer,

in 1862, when he came across The Sudd,

said it's heaven for mosquitoes

and a damp hell for man.

That said, I wish we were down there

battling through the swamp.

But because of widespread
tribal conflict in the region,

we've been told it's still
not safe in some areas.

So unfortunately, we've
not been permitted to film

on vast stretches of the river.

My journey along the Nile started

at the Mediterranean town of Alexandria.

We followed this great river through Egypt

and through remote
deserts of northern Sudan,

and on into Khartoum.

Here I picked up the Blue
Nile, tracing its path

into the highlands of Ethiopia.

I have now rejoined the White Nile

in southern Sudan.

From here, I'm traveling to Juba,

and then on into Uganda and then Rwanda,

where my journey ends.

Juba is the seat of
government for southern Sudan.

Here, in 2005, a peace
agreement was signed

ending Sudan's bitter civil war,

the longest civil war in Africa.

The ceasefire is fragile,
but it has allowed

something rather wonderful to happen.

Well, this is rather unexpected

because I'm on my way
to meet a beauty queen

here in southern Sudan, in Juba,

in this rather bumpy and
exciting street, beauty queen.

Well, beauty contests used
to be really popular here

in the '70s and '80s, but
when the troubles came

they were dropped
completely, and they've only

just been resurrected
in the last two years.

And the reigning queen, Miss Malaika,

is called Nok Nora Duany,

and she's apparently very
beautiful and very clever,

and she's grooming 12 candidates

to become Miss Malaika this year,

and she will crown them.

It's gonna be very exciting.

Isn't it lovely that after the war,

beauty comes back?

The beauty pageant isn't for two weeks,

but on the shady banks of the Nile,

the trainee beauty queens are
being put through their paces

by last year's winner,
28-year-old Nok Nora.

- You are a queen.

Try to look at everyone,

all the tables, people eating spaghetti.

- I think it's the
hardest thing to remember

is this thing of smiling.

- Yeah.
- And looking around the room.

And the other thing a very grand

old English actress told me,

she said she never walked on stage

without secretly thinking
that she has a secret,

like that self control of having knowing

you've got a fantastic secret.

She never told anybody what it was,

so you're smiling and secretive.

Here in southern Sudan, these young girls

do not have to respect the
modest Islamic dress code

imposed on women in the north.

In fact, events like this
would be banned by law

in northern Sudan, and
result in harsh punishment.

Nok, why was it important for you to

follow this path and
become a beauty queen?

- You know, since I was young

I used to watch Miss
Universe once in awhile,

and then when I came to Sudan,

I thought that I could
actually be a good candidate

to come out and be an
ambassador for South Sudan.

- You said when I came to Sudan.

Where had you been?

- My family were refugees.

We had exiled in the U.S. and then

we grew up there, we got
American citizenship,

some of us, and then when the
peace was signed we came back.

And you guys got to be closer.

- What does this competition mean

for southern Sudan?

- I think it's a huge step in

kind of showing normalcy,

and that everybody in South
Sudan, they're tired of war.

They're tired of all the issues,

and we just want to have peace,

and we want to do the things that

all the other countries do.

- Though beauty contests have become

unfashionable in the UK,

for these girls it's
seen as an important way

to campaign for women's rights.

When the judges say to you Friday

what would you like to do
with your year if you won,

what would you say?

- Gosh you're tall.

It's so nice to be with tall, tall girls.

- Thank you.
- It's lovely, lovely.

- Oh, thank you.
- You look wonderful.

Wouldn't you just wish that
to be in a beauty competition

all you had to do is just
powder your gorgeous face,

that's all.

At home, makeup going on for two hours

for something like this.

Here these gorgeous girls
just pat their faces like that

and then just look a million dollars.

I obviously only do the same.

Thank you.

The next day, I leave
southern Sudan for Uganda,

following the river to
the head of Lake Albert.

To continue up the Nile,
I must now catch a ferry

across the lake into the
Murchison Falls National Park.

Small roadside markets are
dotted everywhere in Uganda.

They sell everything from mangoes to nuts

to a uniquely African snack.

I thought I might buy some cassava.

In the same way we grow potatoes,

these people grow cassava.

Which is the best because
I've never had cassava before?

Which is the nicest?

This tuber is Africa's
most important crop.

Just break and eat it like this?

- Yes.
- It can be grown

almost anywhere, even during a drought

when other crops fail.
- How is it?

- Delicious.

Thank you very much.

Thank you.

Okay, that's actually
rendering me speechless.

It's completely

- That's our ferry over there.

I doubt we're all gonna fit on.

- When you're getting on the ferry,

everybody, you have to
put on the life jackets.

- Will we all fit on, all the lorries,

all the people?

There's not very much space.

We'll be all like this inside.

- No, no, no, no, no.

It's okay, it's okay, it's okay, yeah.

- But you don't have capsizing,

you don't have accidents?

- This is the only ferry of the day

and apparently it's always packed.

I think it's about standing room only

for about the next 2 1/2 hours.

Maybe a little light walking around.

Do deck games.

The lake is named after
Queen Victoria's husband,

Prince Albert, and the
ferry is now en route

to a huge river delta created by the Nile.

As the river flows into the lake,

it forms islands and swamps,

making Uganda's largest wildlife reserve.

For the first time on my journey,

I'm gonna get a chance to
watch the impressive animals

that live in the Nile.

This stretch of the Nile in Uganda

was made famous by the
great British explorers

of the Victorian age, who wanted to chart

the unexplored lengths
of this amazing river.

The race was on to map the Nile,

one of the last geographical
mysteries of the world.

In 1864, husband and wife explorers

Samuel and Florence Baker

were the first to travel upstream here.

The local tribes called
Florence Daughter of the Moon

because of her long blonde hair.

They'd already mapped Lake Albert

when they arrived here at Murchison Falls.

Samuel Baker wrote, "I
could distinctly hear

"the roar of water, and
upon rounding the corner,

"a magnificent sight burst upon us."

Just over there, the Murchison Falls.

I can't believe I'm seeing
it with my own eyes.

It is just fabulously exciting.

That's the Nile boiling
down through these rocks.

At the top, it's 164 feet wide.

The gap it has to get through is 23 feet,

so it comes crashing down,
all forced through that.

No wonder the Victorian explorers

were so utterly thrilled
when they found it.

They sent back just
saying we've seen these

unbelievable falls, and
remember this was the time when

America had been obviously
discovered and settled,

Australia had been discovered and settled.

Everybody knew about that, but nobody knew

about the middle of Africa.

Nobody knew where the Nile came from.

Baker said these are
the most important falls

on the whole of the River Nile,

and he named them after the President

of the Royal Geographical Society,

a fantastic body which then, as now,

still sponsors the great
explorations of the world.

Today Murchison Falls gives its name

to Uganda's biggest nature reserve.

It covers an area just
larger than Cornwall,

and is home to the great
creatures of African wildlife.

Running through the heart of the park

is the River Nile.

My guide is Zimbabwean, Andy Ault.

- This is a fantastic
group of hippo down here.

There must be at least 60, maybe 70,

maybe even 80 of them.

- But it wasn't always like this.

In 1971, infamous Ugandan
dictator, Idi Amin, took power.

With no interest in conservation,

he told his troops to use
the park as their larder.

Wildlife populations plummeted
to virtually nothing.

Then in the early 1990s,
with Idi Amin exiled,

the park was revived.

They seem to be very sociable.

Look how closely they stay put together.

- I don't know how they
can fit all those bodies

underneath all of the heads,

'cause you see the heads
are so close together.

- Yeah.
- And yet you know

that there's about a 14-foot body.

- Weighing what?
- About five,

six foot wide, weighing anything between

two and 3000 kilos.

Look at them.

They're just lovely, so lovely

with their big folds.

- Hippopotamus is
ancient Greek for river horse.

Until very recently, biologists thought

they had evolved from the pig family,

but now research indicates
that their closest

living relatives are whales and porpoises.

How long can they stay underwater?

- Usually six to eight minutes
is about a good average.

If they're stressed or
frightened of something,

then they might stay under for up to 15.

There's a calf.

- Yes.
- A tiny little calf.

If you wait, you might see the ears

come up and spin around.

That's quite cool as well to me,

when they come up and
spin their ears around

it creates a centrifugal
force in their ears,

so that's like throwing
bucket out of a teacup

or a coffee cup when you spin
it around and flick it out.

- It's just so incredibly exciting

sitting here with them, disappearing.

You can't really tell
where they're gonna pop up.

I'm starting to think this huge head

the size of a small car arrives,

ears going like that, pfft.

I've heard they're pretty fast on land.

Is that right?

- Yeah.

Up to about 40 kilometers
an hour, running.

- That's the equivalent
speed of an Olympic sprinter,

and surprisingly, hippos
are one of the most

dangerous animals in the Nile,

quite capable of upturning a boat

and crushing a man to death
between their powerful jaws.

I swear to God if we didn't
know what hippos were,

we'd be aghast at the
size of these things.

And they get that size by eating grass.

Unbelievable, fabled creatures.

- A couple of waterbuck bulls,

and a waterbuck female hiding
in the grass down there.

Yeah, you see they're displaying.

See how he's bending his neck?
- Yes.

- Arching his neck.

Now the youngster's being very submissive

because he's just learning some of the

sparring technique, I think,

looking at it, but the big bull,

he's being quite assertive.

All right, so let's keep heading down.

- We push on along the river,

dwarfed by huge floating papyrus islands.

This was the stuff
Victorian explorers dreaded,

as it made river travel almost impossible.

The swamp provides a haven for animals,

including Uganda's largest, rarest,

and most extraordinary bird.

I never thought we'd see one of these.

It's a shoebill.

You'll just have to
believe me when I tell you

this bird is as tall as my shoulder,

and lives for up to 50 years.

That's extraordinary.

It's literally like seeing pterodactyls.

They're just phenomenal.

Strange, almost animal face.

Doesn't really look like a bird at all.

Solid gray, and they're very rare.

Then we spot the creature

that's eluded us all
the way along the Nile,

the beautiful but quite
dangerous Nile crocodile.

It's one of the world's oldest animals,

and it even outlived the dinosaurs.

Andy? - Yeah?

- Why has it got its mouth wide open?

- Temperature regulation.

- Temperature regulation.

- You'll see them quite often just,

particularly on a hot day,

and they'll be lying there
with their mouth open

to let their heat dissipate.

- At this point, traveling on
the water would be perilous,

with rapids and waterfalls on every bend.

So our only option is to go by road.

But even that has its ups and downs.

Whoops, really sideways.

Made much worse by recent rain.

I'd like to get out, but it
would just be irresponsible

because it would make
the car so much lighter.

I love helping out in these situations,

but you know, just sometimes
you be a little bit selfless.

Yes!

Yes, finally.

Well done, well done,
well done, well done.

Just up the road from here,

is a remarkable organization
that's successfully breeding

one of Africa's most endangered species.

I'm following Tapan Rashid

to see a rhino called Bella and her baby,

which is not even two months old.

I think I just saw her.

Look.

Look at the size of her.

Oh, there's the baby.

She's absolutely massive.

I can't guess how high her shoulder is,

but maybe five foot at the shoulder,

and she weighs what,
two tons or something?

- Mm-hmm.
- Two tons.

Going at 45 kilometers per hour.

It's actually extraordinarily scary

being so close to
something which is so huge.

Here at the Ziwa Rhino Sanctuary,

50 rangers look after six adult rhinos

and their three calves.

Tapan and his team guard Bella

and her calf, Augusto, round the clock.

They're coming closer.

- Augusto go back, Bella go back.

Go back, go back, go back.

Go back, go!

Go back, Augusto, go back.

Bella, go back, go back.

Please cool down, down.

Down please.

Down, down.

- Don't think they're
carrying guns to protect us.

It's to protect the rhinos from poachers.

You just calmed her down
just there, didn't you?

- Yes, she smell me and she hear my voice.

- Yes.

- Said, oh, we have to be cool.

- Because their eyesight
is not very good is it?

- No, no, they're shorted eyes.

They don't see very far, but
they are very, very active

to smell and to hear things.

Yes, you can see the ears
is ever like antenna.

- Listening and listening.
- Yeah, listening to people.

- White rhinos actually
get their name from

the Afrikaans word, wyd, which means wide.

It refers to their wide mouths,

which are different from the hooked mouths

of their cousin, the black rhino.

It's perfectly adapted
to grazing the grass

of the African plain.

Here she comes.

La la la la la, just
walking very smoothly away.

Okay, Tapan.

- Bella, go back, Augusto, go back.

Go back, go, go back,
cool down, cool, cool.

Bella, cool.
- The reason I'm so scared

is that as a mother, Bella's job

is to kill us if we get
too close to her baby.

It seems awfully cowardly,
but I'm just sort of

always anxious around big, wild animals

because they're unpredictable.

Here comes Augusto again.
- Go back.

Go, go back.
- Extremely disobedient

and very big baby.

- Go.

- With a mother who's massive.

- Go back, go.

Go, go back, cool down, cool.

Cool, Bella, cool.

Cool. - White rhino in Uganda

had been hunted to extinction by 1980.

Today, poachers are still
after the rhino's horn

which can sell for up to a
quarter of a million pounds each.

Can you imagine killing
an animal like this?

It's unbearable, isn't it?

- Just to remove this small, small thing.

- Yeah, look, I'm not a doctor,

but I can tell you, it doesn't work.

Aphrodisiacs from horn,
it just doesn't work

so drop it, just lose it, lose that idea.

Send it across the Far East, this message.

It doesn't work, so stop it.

He's the sweetest thing, he
seems to be eating the mud.

Tapan just said nobody
has ever seen that before,

Bella wallowing like that.

Nobody's seen that before.

An immense rhino fart.

Let's go.

So far on my journey in Uganda,

I've crossed Lake Albert and
followed the Nile upstream,

passing the magnificent Murchison Falls.

Now I'm going to the
place Victorian explorers

believed to be the source of the Nile.

This is Africa's largest lake,

originally called
Nnalubaale, it was renamed

after Queen Victoria.

It's the size of Ireland.

Its shoreline is over 2000 miles long.

Right on the northern edge of the lake,

the River Nile starts.

Here, where the water
flows out from the lake,

the Nile begins its mammoth journey

all the way to the Mediterranean.

In 1862, British explorer,
John Hanning Speke,

claimed this spot to be
the source of the Nile.

To celebrate Speke's achievement

is a rather battered memorial on one bank,

and on the other, a more
polished statue to Gandhi.

This was one of several
places around the world

where India's spiritual leader
had his ashes scattered.

Just below his statue,
boat drivers tout for trade

to take you to the source.

Well, this is it, this is the Victorian

source of the Nile.

In 1862 when John Hanning Speke

had been searching and
searching, came across

this river pouring out
of this massive lake.

You can just see the beginning of it

coming from round there.

And this was officially
named the source of the Nile.

Quite extraordinary to be here,

but it's such a beautiful place,

and those explorers went
through such hardship.

They slogged and fought and checked

and traveled, and I can imagine
the sense of achievement

because people had been hunting

for the source of the Nile
for hundreds and hundreds,

and maybe even thousands of years.

The ancient Greeks knew about it,

the Romans knew about it,
the Egyptians knew about it.

People had come down and
been blocked by The Sudd,

gone back again.

They must have been jubilant
when they found this

and could say yes, this is it.

But oh, John Hanning Speke,

if I had a glass, I'd raise it to you now.

What a fabulous achievement.

But it's too soon to celebrate,

as this isn't the end of my journey yet.

In 2006, a new source of this
great river was discovered,

putting the Nile into the record books

as the world's longest river.

The person who made this amazing discovery

is modern-day Nile explorer, Cam McLeay,

who lives, for some of his time,

on this island in the Nile.

His expedition took
three months to complete.

Cam and two friends
were the first to travel

the entire length of the Nile,

from the Mediterranean to its
furthest source in Rwanda.

Cam, you're the first person I've met

who's done the whole Nile by boat.

Tell me why you decided
to do it the hard way,

which is going upstream the whole way

instead of just coasting
down the easy way.

- What we wanted to do on this journey

was to map the Nile and to
travel to its longest source.

- Yes.
- So our argument was

that if you're traveling the
longest river in the world,

then you don't go necessarily
to the highest source,

or the largest, or the furtherest
south, but the longest.

- And how did you measure it?

- With GPS's, so we used modern technology

and we recorded our
distance every 50 meters

from satellite. - Wow.

So accurate, as accurate as you could be.

- So we could come out at
the end of the trip and say

categorically the river is

6,718 kilometers long,

and there's the three
of us, Neil McGrigor,

Garth Maclntyre, and myself,

who did the whole expedition.

- Do you think the Macs
names will be up in the

Royal Geographical Society

up around there with Burton,
Speke, Livingston, Shackleton?

Wouldn't it be lovely?

- I don't think we quite belong up there

in that category, but I still...

- But you discovered
the source of the Nile.

- Yeah, I mean, I feel very proud

of what we did, and I'm very proud of

the fact that it's now in writing

for our children to read,

and my grandchildren perhaps,
but I think the thing is

that it's, you know, our
journey was very different

to the Victorian explorers,

and it was very hard in its own way,

but it's in a whole different
league to what they did.

- This is one of the three Zapcats

that carried Cam and his team
4000 miles along the Nile.

It would have earlier explorers
turning green with envy.

When they came across rapids
too large to navigate,

they used an unusual method
based on an Italian concept.

When this wasn't possible,
they had to resort

to other means,

carrying their boats, a
method known as portage,

from the French word, to carry.

- One, two, three.

- I can't believe how
laborious this is, you know?

How long is the longest
that you've had to carry it?

- About five kilometers.

It's quite a way.

- Thanks, Cam.

I can probably manage to take this back

on my own, if you like.

- That would be wonderful.

Okay, things are a bit easier now.

- That's okay, she's sort
of floating this bit.

The English phrase for this
is messing about with boats.

Oh, oh.

- Just about need your life
jacket on there, Joanna.

- Modern-day Nile explorer Cam McLeay

has brought me to Rwanda
to go on an expedition

to see the furthest source of the Nile

that he discovered in 2006.

To find this new source, Cam had started

at the Victorian source.

From here, he drew an
imaginary line across the lake

to the mouth of the longest tributary.

He then followed the Rukarara River

to where it rises in the
mountains of the Nyungwe Forest.

We are following the
last part of his route.

From the edge of the Nyungwe Forest,

we get ready to walk the final
three miles to the source.

I'm just gonna change this,

what I've got in here, put on my boots.

I can't really believe it, I can't believe

after how many weeks of shooting,

that we're going to do all
the rest of this on foot.

It's too fantastically exciting.

To make sure we have everything
we could possibly need,

we have 15 porters.

Hat, put it on.

Versace glasses, I think not.

Insect stuff, do you know, no.

Actually I wasn't gonna show
you this now, but I have to,

'cause you'll think it's strange.

I bought this in Jinja in the market,

and it's my little man in a boat,

and I want to set him off on the Nile

on a journey back, the
journey that I've done

starting off here, the
very source of the Nile.

There.

- Shall we go?
- Yeah.

All right, I'm following
in your footsteps.

- Now we're getting up high now.

- Yeah, this is extraordinary.

I hadn't really thought of it being at

7600 feet? - Yes.

- The height of Addis Ababa.

- It's incredible, isn't it?
- Amazing.

Oh, look, Cam. - Wow.

What we did is we moved through
the rock stream from here,

and got to a point where we said

well, there's a perceptible
flow of water here,

but really, we can't go any further.

- Are we going up there?

- We're going up there.

- I'm keeping a fair bit behind you

because I can see with
your manly slashings.

- Yeah, give me a bit of space.

These are the perfect thing for here,

the part where you can't see,

and if you need to, you
can stop and have a shave.

- It's staggeringly hard to get over

this enormous obstacle.

- And we still have our river

flowing beautifully here.

- This is the first Nile
water I've really drunk.

Everybody said drink from the Nile.

That's completely pure, sweet water.

- Fantastic, isn't it?

- Wow.

Everything's just...

- Yeah, aren't they gorgeous?

- Wow, they're so huge.

Oops.

Crikey.

Oh no.

Oh no.

Whoops, hang on, I've got my boot stuck.

- Oh, you're mack in that.

- Hold on a
second, I'm not quite in.

Can you... - I can assist anyway.

- That's one of the saddest
things you've ever had to do.

Thanks, Cam.

- 'Cause after all this we wouldn't really

want to leave them behind, would we?

- It's just 'cause
they're a little bit big,

they keep getting sucked right off.

- Moving around.

It's a bit more solid here.
- Yeah.

- And there she is,
still flowing beautifully.

- You're such a lovely, optimistic person.

I do think you're wonderful, Cam,

because if I came here

and saw this, I'm not sure I'd say

it was still flowing beautifully.

- Okay, we're getting very close now.

The longest source of
the Nile is just up here.

- How extraordinary this is.

Look.

Perceptible water, it's perceptible,

because I'm perceiving it.

There we go. - All right.

- So this is it, we've made it?

- Okay, okay.

We followed a false lead.

I lost the water down there,

so I was going to look for it again,

but I think we may lose it
completely just up here.

So let's go back and we'll try

up the other one.

Look for our perceptible flow.

- We're going back.

A little bit of.

I have to say I'm sort of beginning to...

Just beginning to

wonder about

the sanity of this venture.

- Well done.
- Lovely.

- Here we are.
- Oh my gosh.

- We can go no further.

- Look at that.

And look at the perceptible flow.

It's like a little crocodile's nose.

Just a little drip.

- 4199 miles

from the Mediterranean.

- To tell you the truth, I
never thought we'd get here.

I had this strange feeling that we'd

sort of have to call it off

or this bit would be too difficult to do.

Or it had stopped, I mean,
you know how you wake up

at night thinking what if
that source of the Nile

has dried up, and what
if we can't find it?

What if our cameramen
can't make the journey?

What if our sound man is
bitten by ants, you know?

All those sorts of things crossed my mind.

But they soldiered on, so I soldiered on,

and we're here, it's almost unbelievable.

When I think back to where we were.

Following this immense river
through five countries,

crossing 32 degrees of latitude,

traveling more than 4000 miles,

has been humbling.

One thing I half knew has been reinforced,

that without water, we couldn't survive.

It's been feared as a
devil and revered as a god.

It has transported goods and passengers

in war and peace.

It has drowned villages

and nursed civilizations.

It brings life to the deserts,

and has seen fortunes rise and fall.

It blesses marriages.

It brings hope for the future.

It floods every year,
and it never dries up.

It's held sacred and holy by
many different traditions.

I can't believe it how such a huge river

starts so quietly.

I think I've been told that this water

takes 3 1/2 months to
get to the Mediterranean.

And I brought my little
guy in his little boat

because I wanted him to do
the journey that we've done,

but in reverse, the proper way,

following the flow of the water,

which starts here, a
journey of 4199 miles,

the longest river in the world.

I mean, I think rushing water
is going to come here later

and I'm going to leave him here.

I'm going to settle him here,
so in the next rainfalls,

he'll start his journey.

He's thinking,

pensive, thinking of
his long journey ahead.

I think I'm just gonna
help him over the first bit

into that bit.

No, he says, don't push him.

I'm thinking okay, just
a little bit, there.

You can almost feel he's floating.

You could almost feel he's...

You could almost...

I think that I'm now stopping
the source of the Nile

by kneeling.

There we are.

Oh my God, Cam, look what
I've done to your river.

I'm so sorry.

Sorry.

I'm so sorry.

So this is it, this is
the end of the journey.

It's kind of the beginning of the journey

because we did it back to front,

beginning of the Nile,
and end of our journey.