S21 E7
Status
Continuing
Next episode
TBA
Airs
Sundays 8:00 PM on BBC One
SEASON
VIEW ALL EPISODE

Season 21  "Burma Special (2)"  21x7

Aired 10 years ago - Mar 16, 2014

Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May continue their journey in three ancient and barely functioning trucks, heading toward their final challenge - building a bridge over River Kwai in Thailand. Having climbed mountains and endured a Burmese trucker stop, they must now venture into the Shan state, an area rife with civil war and normally closed to Western TV crews.

Mouse over thumbnail for slideshow

Or scroll and see one by one:

Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 2 #2 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 3
'Here, in a region that is bigger than England and Wales put together,
#3
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 4
So what the government is essentially saying to these
#4
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 5
He's off his face. Oh, dear.
#5
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 6 #6 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 7 #7 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 8 #8 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 9
'and we decided to make camp in a small town.'
#9
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 10
Well, apparently this is as amazing as that in Burma.
#10
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 11
Listen, help yourselves to a drink, because I've had a thought.
#11
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 12
This is a cicada, a cricket.
#12
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 13 #13 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 14 #14 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 15 #15 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 16
Literally the slowest I've ever been.
#16
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 17
He's broken my headlights, radiator. My bull bar is broken. The mirror.
#17
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 18 #18 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 19
What is it, dried grass? Oh, relax. That's not going to be a problem.
#19
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 20 #20 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 21
Oh, it's bad in here and it will be worse in Jeremy's lorry.
#21
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 22
How's your vertigo, May? I'm not looking.
#22
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 23 #23 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 24 #24 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 25
Don't say anything. I don't think he's very happy.
#25
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 26
Nearly.
#26
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 27
19 miles of easy-going on smooth roads.
#27
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 28
to the lorry struggling and screaming and straining to climb another hill.
#28
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 29
"Work on the bridge starts at 0500." What?!
#29
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 30
Well, when I say Hammond and I...
#30
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 31
all adding strength.
#31
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 32
What?
#32
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 33 #33 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 34
Alec Guinness made that very plain in Bridge On The River Kwai
#34
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 35
they would employ some local young chap, cover him in jam,
#35
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 36
I'll tell you what, I'm going to sleep tonight. Absolutely.
#36
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 37 #37 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 38 #38 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 39
But, with stronger cables, we soon had my crane the right way up.
#39
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 40
This side, the blue pegs, represents how far we should have got by now.
#40
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 41 #41 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 42
Quickly, go! Let's get it.
#42
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 43
I just don't get it.
#43
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 44 #44 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 45
'and we were desperate to get home
#45
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 46
There was a guy called Captain Drauer
#46
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 47
But...
#47
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 48
I on the bridge over the River Kok.
#48
Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 49 #49 Recap of Top Gear Season 21 Episode 7 (S21E07) - 50
but it is across and is bouncing to celebrate the moment.
#50