Fox Reality has announced that LONG WAY DOWN with Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman will premiere August 2nd at 9:00 pm (EST). The duo embark on the motorcycle adventure of a lifetime, riding 15,000 miles through 20 countries from Scotland to South Africa.
LONG WAY DOWN will take viewers along for the 15,000-mile ride across two continents starting at John O'Groats in Scotland, through Egypt, Libya, Ethiopia, Uganda, Rwanda, Tanzania, Botswana and finishing at the most southern post of South Africa - Cape Agulhas. Riding BMW R 1200 GS Adventures, the friends experience some of the most incredible natural and cultural wonders the world has to offer, including the African wildlife. In addition, the duo partnered with UNICEF to lend a hand to the charity bringing health care and mine awareness to the children in Northern Uganda and Ethiopia and child care to orphans in Malawi.
LONG WAY DOWN is a follow-up to the hit reality series, LONG WAY ROUND, an epic journey that Ewan McGregor And Charley Boorman took in 2004 circumnavigating the world from London to New York, riding East, via Eurasia and North America. It became an instant television series hit in Europe and the United States and has since sold over one million DVDs and 900,000 books worldwide.
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