Following the massive response to Hector’s travels throughout Asia and Central and South America and numerous other countries around the world, TG4. decided to send him off travelling again.
Over six episodes Hector travels 5000 miles from Cairo to Cape Town passing through Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Zambia and South Africa.
We follow him as he begins his adventure on the Banks of the Nile in Cairo with a spot of Bellydancing and Pyramid Hunting before embarking on an epic trip through the Sahara Desert and chilling out with his new found Bedouin Brothers.
But, it’s not all chat and chilling, as Hector enters Ethiopia and sets off on a hot, dusty, dangerous trip to the remote Southern Omo Valley. Stopping for a quick word with Haile Gebreselassie, he meets Hippos and Crocs along the way before venturing into the land of the Mursi People in the Omo Valley … Where things go from bad to worse !
Hector loves a party even if it does involve slaughtering sheep and drinking blood. He is guest of honour at a Samburu Tribal Wedding in Northern Kenya. Hector always loves tea and checks some out some at a local plantation before trying to take a baby elephant from the Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi home to Ireland for keeps.
He goes wild in Tanzania as he sets off on Safari in the Serengeti and survives a night in the wilds before eying up Kilimanjaro and meeting a man in an Offaly jersey.
Mourning is the same the world over as Hector meets up with the Chief of the Tongans at his aunt’s funeral in Zambia. But soon he picks himself up and is back spinning some tunes in the local community radio station before heading down the Zambezi and getting drenched at Victoria Falls.
After weeks on the road, with a Rudolph nose and dreaming of returning home, he crosses over into South Africa, checks out Nelson Mandela’s Wheelie Bin and tracks down some White Rhino before getting on the Blue Train at Limerick Junction to get him “to the Table” in Cape Town but not without a short prayer with some Irish lads before they dive in search of the Great White Shark.
Throughout his trip through the countryside of Africa, Hector meets the locals and spins them a line of codswallop which endears him to just about everyone he meets.
We’ve tried very hard to leave Hector behind on one of these traveling trips, but try as we might, he just keeps coming back for more …….
Hector san Afraic – ó Cairo go Cape Town
Programme 1 : Egypt
Hector begins his adventure on the Banks of the Nile in Cairo with a spot of Bellydancing and Pyramid Hunting before embarking on an epic trip through the Sahara Desert and chilling out with his new found Bedouin Brothers.
Programme 2 : Ethiopia
It’s not all chat and chilling, as Hector enters Ethiopia and sets off on a hot, dusty, dangerous trip to the remote Southern Omo Valley. Stopping for a quick word with Haile Gebreselassie, he meets Hippos, Crocs and even Rastas along the way before venturing into the land of the Mursi People in the Omo Valley … Where things go from bad to worse !
Programme 3 : Kenya
Hector loves a party even if it does involve slaughtering sheep and drinking blood. He is guest of honour at a Samburu Tribal Wedding in Northern Kenya. Hector always loves tea and checks some out some at a local plantation before trying to take a baby elephant from the Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi home to Ireland for keeps.
Programme 4 : Tanzania
In Tanzania Hector goes on Safari as he sets out in search of the Big Five. He stares a lion in the eye, balloons over the famous Senengeti, meets Masaii Warriors and manages to survive the night in a tent in the wilds. Not bad for a Navan Man !
He then meets one of the remotest tribes people in the world, the Hadzabe Bushmen of Lake Eyasi and he goes hunting with them with their bows and arrows.
He makes his way across this beautiful country until finally he ends up at the base of one of the most famous mountains of the world, Mount Kilimanjaro.
Programme 5 : Zambia
Zambia begins on Lake Kariba, home of the great dam, where Hector gets up close with some of the biggest breeding crocs in the world. He then meets up with the Chief of the Tongan people who once owned the lands flooded by the dam and attends a Tribal Funeral here which actually reminds him of home.
After spinning some tunes in Maz FM, the Sweet Station and getting down to basics with a bubbly nun, it’s time to go …. Down the Zambesi he goes by speedboat before he rides a microlight and gazes in awe at one of the wonders of the world .. The Falls !! … The Smoke that Thunders . Victoria Falls !!!
Programme 6 : South Africa
After weeks on the road, with a Rudolph nose and dreaming of returning home, he crosses over into South Africa, checks out Nelson Mandela’s Wheelie Bin and tracks down some White Rhino before getting on the Blue Train at Limerick Junction to get him “to the Table” in Cape Town but not without a short prayer with some Irish lads before they dive in search of the Great White Shark.
