In this travel show with a difference, Charley travels from Sydney to Tokyo with a selection of locals who help him to seek out the unique stories and characters along the way.
In Australia, Charley hitchhikes up the coast to Byron Bay and experiences life with the Royal Flying doctors as they visit their Aboriginal outback clinics, before flying from up the Cape York peninsular on a Marine Survey plane and hopping over to Papua New Guinea.
In Papua New Guinea Charley experiences the variety that the country has to offer, while continuing his challenging journey – from visiting tribes deep within the jungle with an anthropologist to sailing along the coast in a banana boat.
Then it’s on to Indonesia and the Konjo boat builders of Sulawesi and the bizarre funeral rites of the Toraja people. After crossing over to the Philippines Charley joins the Navy on one of their sea patrols and joins a ridewith a local biker gang called the Mad Dogs.
The journey must continue, and as Charley reaches Taiwan, he is able to experience the contrasts between the country’s ultra modern bullet train and its rugged, mountainous, dirt tracks. Finishing in Japan, Charley travels in the uniquely Japanese Decotruck, before riding into Tokyo on Japan’s most famous form of transport – the motorcycle.
Episode 1 premieres 8 August
Episode 2 premieres 15 August
Episode 3 premieres 22 August
Episode 4 premieres 29 August
Episode 5 premieres 5 September
Episode 6 premieres 12 September
Subtitled in Bahasa and Traditional Chinese.