Deadliest Roads | Jamaica: The Island of Blue Mountains | Free Documentary

foreign [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] in Jamaica a light fog seems to Die the mountains blue this phenomenon gave them their name the Blue Mountains it's magical and dreamlike except for the drivers who must find their way along the roads [Music] Vivia and his grandson she's 20 years old keep on high alert particularly with the old ride they use to get to their coffee plantation the car is perhaps a few years too old for this Mountain business [Music] the Japanese car is exhausted from the mountain incline a bit of fresh water should let it finish the journey but it is close to Breaking Point okay [Music] the car agreed to carry on but a few hundred meters further on the engine doesn't have the strength to face the Steep Hill two coffee Farmers turn around for the grandfather and his grandson it's the same story as every morning struggle after struggle but they never give up [Music] from an aerial view the island of Jamaica is a small Paradise bordered by beautiful white sand beaches Reggae on every street corner a peaceful way of life for the chilled Jamaican locals however so much for the Postcard image when you dig a Little Deeper the island shows another face out of its 2.8 million population 17 live below the poverty line [Music] in the Blue Mountains Farmers May grow one of the most expensive coffees in the world but is the journey to the fields worth the Harvest we have to stop about 10 times or even more not available right now I'm very tired everyone manages as best they can for a little money they don't hesitate to take risks look yeah look look at Ruby's family but these miners discover a rare and unsuspected treasure foreign the biggest income for Jamaica remains tourism burrow is looking for new tour routes he's having a hard time but he sees the glass half full watching these movies to just to see Adventures where they could be living an adventure these country roads aren't a game but whatever happens Jamaicans have a golden rule even in the face of danger you must keep your cool we going down the rough road [Laughter] [Music] life in this area of Kingston Jamaica is punctuated every day by the big sound as they say if it comes from this strange machine an unidentified rolling object as its inventor calls it foreign Kenroy couldn't afford to open a shop but he had a motorbike and a good idea he became a record shop on Wheels six months later his 120 decibels attracts customers like a magnet ism foreign thanks to his rolling disco Kenroy also known as DJ Flex knows no borders his music spreads into the surrounding districts on the motorway he's going 90 kilometers per hour his speakers keep up but his engine is struggling [Applause] the problem is I'm going to check it out if I just block flyer or anything I was driving about 100 on the highway going real good because at first I am beating out the engine like that maybe if that's the problem it kind of does it just kind of cut down speed and those black off I'm gonna play music while I relax and we'll be a time you know get a good mix the repairman will arrive when he can nothing slows down DJ Flex this bus lane is perfect for sales [Music] [Music] [Music] according to Kenroy this is the Jamaican Spirit bouncing back at the slightest problem [Music] I'm giving you one more chance [Music] the country's Road networks aren't in bad condition however in the Blue Mountains the tracks are numerous and there's no hesitation to come and Adventure here Boro is a tourist explorer that is to say that he's looking for a new circuit for Holiday makers seeking an adrenaline rush and given the state of the taxis there is already reason to be on edge like all this vehicle look like this brother you sure this can take us up to the Bloomington Blue Mountains right to the mountains because this guy look I don't know if this will make it I am 51 and I ban Commit This vehicle yeah this week is the first set of vehicle in the police Army in the police force so I don't know how old it is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] the Blue Mountains hold many secrets that tourists are itching to discover trick is to reach the villages but that's another story for burum this is serious hey this road is really serious man expect the unexpected enough [Music] [Music] as the car doesn't stick to the dirt ground very well when necessary the passenger climbs up onto the Bonnet he puts weight on the front wheels and even if the Ravine isn't nearby you have to know how to stay cool as they say foreign the driver was right his old car may be over 50 years old but it's reliable even though this car is much younger at 25 years old it doesn't resist the tracks in the mountains mutual help is a must you know rock it again [Applause] a few kilometers down the road a second driver is in trouble many would lose patience but burrow jumps at the chance to help come on [Applause] this is really an adventure today right and this is going to make me more serious to do to continue this type of tour yeah because people are watching these movies to just to see Adventures where they could be living an adventure in the mountains of Jamaica one doesn't have to look far for adventure especially as the village is still far away [Music] it I need for some good mountain you are sick we celebrate at the Blue Mountain Trail at wheat [Music] sung praises the beauty of the Landscapes only it forgets to talk about the chaos that lines the tracks of the Blue Mountains [Music] considering how old the cars are that drive through these mountains life is very complicated Vivian and his grandson cheese know the struggle too well getting to their coffee plantation is an ordeal just the day before their 4x4 broke down again the car looks to be on its last legs [Music] only the old man's Ingenuity can keep it alive yeah this is a convertible we are stunk the original gas tank it's the original town did right now but when it gets not so plenty we just use the job I just don't know you don't have any fire you wouldn't have been a problem I want the history of fire like a light I like dancing like that without a problem foreign [Music] the grandfather and grandson's Plantation is 15 kilometers higher up a 15 kilometer ordeal it's very wet there's a lot of grass is on both sides and even in the middle of the road so we have to [Music] so as you can see it's very difficult to go over and we have to hold on tight because as you can see it's very Rocky moisture is the friend and the enemy of coffee if this grandfather and Grandson don't pick the fruit every day part of the crop will be damaged today Viviana cheese won't reach their field the radiator has just broken yes it was through there would have been quite uncut it to get it more straight but the band is still there [Music] soon the coverings won't be enough the car will have to be replaced but with what money the coffee doesn't bring in as much as it used to thanks to his farm viviane was able to build a house big enough for the whole family he's been able to raise his grandson fatherless since he was two years old he would like cheese to take over but his daughter and his wife who manage the accounts don't agree [Music] maybe get a skill going to the soldier police something it's from me I would rather my grandson to go to fine America especially stay in the countryside [Music] [Music] will give you any problem thank you they will try for the third time to harvest their coffee like Viviana she's many Jamaicans struggle every day to get enough to eat on the other side of the island men struggle and sweat to get their daily bread [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] boots and soji are heading towards the evil cave as they call it the legend says that anyone who enters it risks being trapped there forever [Music] however it's not this danger that worries them [Music] thousands of bats hang from the roof of the cave boots and Soldier don't hunt them but they collect something else a problem the rats will only [ __ ] on you not too funny it is something we used to every day it does feel like a little Sun drain drop on you don't just feel cool and ready the flying mammals have been defecating in the caves for hundreds of years and over time their excrement has turned into a great fertilizer this soil that they come to collect it is cabbage tomato sweet pepper everything good for it good good vertify everything for no no chemical natural fruit while he digs boots is never fully at ease from the back foreign [Music] from the 21 year old manually stop so it's not it's not no several ideas I normally are 55. so I didn't know I do it about 23 years [Music] I will do it for myself but I will never let my children do it too hard for them I'll tell you straight from my house when I work for myself I work for myself this bag of soil sells for 10 euros a decent sum in Jamaica where the average salary is only 350 euros foreign being able to sell their produce still takes a bit of Courage really bad Road foreign it takes an hour on the motorbike and half an hour on foot to get to their best customer [Music] Jason grows marijuana but not just any marijuana must be a look at this this is like a good goal good for the marijuana let's say like 3 000 plants six different strains here right now from this side to this side it's all dark star yeah so all of these plants are actually ready to harvest just a few more days foreign [Applause] since 2015 Jamaicans have been allowed to grow marijuana for therapeutic purposes and small amounts for personal consumption [Music] hey guns I'll win award yeah let's step in high every year an international jury elects the best marijuana in the world these are my babies I will put my [ __ ] on and put water on mineral water and they just love it they'll just keep bearing on keep smiling yeah man it's a blessing so I said up to the time yeah the medical herb has a drug content close to zero but the plant is said to relieve some chronic pain in Kingston the capital it isn't therapeutic cannabis that circulates the streets drugs are a plague for Jamaicans close to the United States Jamaica has become a hub gangs regularly Clash the city is far from being safe [Music] with his disco on Wheels broken down on the highway the repairman comes to help Kenroy both of them work to fix the vehicle online videos yes we all know we're trying to investigation data comes from two men aren't phased by the buses that pass them by year of our Green Farm era bad bad Community we have young violence shooting robbery so we have to just be careful be brilliant and like we pass by let me maybe come on robots because I don't know we don't have any link we don't have any family here be careful foreign [Music] lives in one of the poorest areas of the capital [Music] he shares a house with friends and his collection of CDs isn't exactly legal foreign [Music] we get everything on it today if I'm going to go in in the Garrison era we call it the ghetto yeah we're going to bring the gospel and the fall Center to the people there foreign yeah [Music] [Applause] today the DJ on wheels goes to sell his CDs to the inhabitants of the biggest Dumping Ground in the Caribbean [Music] two and a half thousand people live here looking for scrap metal to sell this is one of the most dangerous places in the capital [Music] Ken Roy is at home here with his music he brings Joy bigger bigger I'm not special yeah fear because they are saying real scrap metal workers no all right it's your chocolate pot the rubbish yeah I'm gonna say mine is two of my washing machine [Music] make some money no once you don't say oh we go down you're fine and sometimes almost fine but I don't want to say oh yeah enough people out there go out of school gradient left remote oh 15. and he's very Tony is very popular here because it's a good Panda pot making and empty anyone say yeah because something super spoon [ __ ] you know I said everything that is essential so somewhere after use there's a moss for 20 years this dump has allowed Tony to survive in here just trying next to his house Tony has built a shed and his aluminum Foundry consent it was cursing at first and I'll more time meaning of the Quran added on to it now to come across the use aisle and test it I see that here it can work so if that's what I'm used to melt in the recycling this is my line oh there's a five car so if I put down more high five so it's it's the recycle it's not by the Dome cm8k and it works and quite well but it's not very environmentally friendly this mini smelter still heats up to over 600 degrees Centigrade enough to melt aluminum [Music] I am proud of it that's where it's all begins from engineering engineer too once the aluminum is poured into the clay molds it takes the shape of not only pots and pans just make this face it's a part of the artwork what these pieces like looking upon the TV and sebab fear something causes the icon and most of all is this thing what I'm doing if it's not the mall if yes more time it's about our soul one [Music] and I'm still not giving up There's No Limit it's to the overall extend you can do it so I'm going more that's what I'm doing in the Blue Mountains viviane and his grandson cheese aren't giving up either even if everything seems to be working against them foreign the old 4x4 is dragging on the track [Music] the two men try to harvest their coffee before the humidity spoils the beans but the machine is breaking down constantly [Music] after a three-hour drive to cover a mere 15 kilometers they arrive at their Plantation [Music] viviane and cheese grow Blue Mountain Coffee one of the most expensive on the planet the Japanese are so fond of it that they consume three quarters of the country's production but the two farmers rarely see the result of its success wonders about his future why do you think about a coffee smell you think we're going to make money off of it in the future when I really started taking it up from you we don't know what happened to the price of the copyright and it continued going down instead of going home so far the future I'm promised that we never let the farm we tried to advocate for the price of it to go up so we can make a profit out of it in the future when you pass around the farm to me and I can imply some other people so they can also make a profit and maintain their families but company ideas end up in jail dead ocean wasting police kill them bad boy kill them and things like that anytime you meet up in Bad Company are the Western yeah you admit up ain't nothing but weird at the end of the Harvest the same Journey Back awaits the grandfather and his grandson and time is running out guys we may be after this the original the 4x4 proves again to make their lives complicated mm-hmm full show some yes in the carburetor bowl that it can't start much easier [Music] as you were coming over it was telling me about the van and how to operate it better cause I was doing it wrong so it's personal is knowledge to me hoping that I pass it down to the next generation are you proud of your grandpa yes I'm very proud uncertain whether the car will survive long enough to see the Next Generation the engine is on the verge of imploding [Music] um the vehicle is overeating and spoiling so right now I'm waiting on it to cool down to throw some water into the radiator well if it doesn't stay internal we may we might have to push it go up the road make it put it in neutral and let it run down the hill the Harvest is still a long way from being delivered [Music] on the other side of the Blue Mountains burrow the tour guide is also wondering if the 4x4 he's hired will hold up on the trail foreign [Music] new places to show tourists he goes to the maroon Community where many descendants of African slaves live [Music] [Applause] [Music] well then and tomorrow ones are very important to the company his job to America guys these are the mountains are where they usually go to escape away from the slavery that we were endowing at the time and the Maroons came together and run away into the mountain in 1655 when the English took Jamaica from Spanish the African slaves exploited in Sugar plantations fled to the mountains but instead of staying hidden they took up arms to free the new slaves brought by the British [Music] burro has an appointment with the chief of the maroon community blessed blessed first of all right yes typical Maryland Colonel Sterling has prepared a little surprise for him that will surely be a hit with the tourists [Laughter] they had to find ways and means to hold with and to Old smart the the British army so one of those ways was to come after themselves in this cartoon when they're making the ambush so that is why we call this kakuni Warrior bush stories and legends taking place in these beautiful surroundings with Colonel Sterling burrow will have something to entertain the tourists with when you were going into battle Warriors will be disappeared I never did give knockout and they will come here on the dip what's the purpose of this noise that's all you appease the ancestors because this is their place and you ask them for their guidance and to give you for health and strength I'm thinking notorious is gonna be excited to see what happened here like hundreds of years ago all the Maroons managed to overpower and get their freedom guys I am and I'm a Jamaican I live here all the time and I've never seen anything like this British slavery and oppression have left their mark on the Jamaican people out of this suffering a movement was born in the 1920s that is known all over the world Rastafari considered as a religion its aim is to bring the descendants of slaves closer to their African roots Joe is a raster he tries to convert new followers when he can because the Fire gets hot I'm not saying that my God is a God I'm not saying that anyone else is God is not God because I am not sure but my teaching is different the Rastafarian religion is a mixture of Old Testament and Legend So sometimes it's not so easy to convince people but his dedication draws admiration from his wife Gilda and his two children I'm proud of them husband of what he's doing spreading the good news about rastafar rights rust people who are not rastas they are blind to the truth and Rasta is here to tell them the truth and show them the way it just so happens that today is a sacred day perhaps the most important one for rastas around the world Joe and his family head for the Blue Mountains where they will meet up with other followers to celebrate the anniversary of their messiah's rise to power [Music] once again the Blue Mountains are giving The Travelers a hard time [Music] [Applause] we're going down the rough road [Applause] it's a rugged Road the road is so tough but we still are trying Joe and his wife laugh about it but they are careful the slightest deviation can lead them straight into the ravine like this driver a car drive off the road down there for the driver don't dead you're going to check up or maybe it's drop us leave we don't know what happens but the corner you're very dangerous right off man all of that right shocked by the accident some Travelers have gone off-road thank you with a good command of the wheel and a bit of divine help Joe offers to help the driver out you want me driving yeah thank you foreign [Applause] a few extra hands don't go unappreciated well basically it's rough down there but we will get it taught by Joey you know my wife troubled me and called me King Kong sometime it's very strong 50 kilometers and three hours of driving later their destination is in sight [Music] 200 rasters gather here to protect Kingston the capital from any violence [Music] no gunshot nothing it's just peace and love and unity tonight the rasters celebrate the arrival of them Messiah The Story begins in the 1920s a black leader often uttered the phrase look to Africa where a black king must be crowned his prophecy came true 10 years later when Haile Selassie became emperor of Ethiopia the movement then took the name that the emperor had before ascending the throne and to communicate with him Rasta smoked the sacred herb ganja [Music] [Applause] I smoke it to meditate to keep calm because meditate and positiveness you know meditate and love and with the drugs some rather fantastic stories come about [Music] this Bible is of fiction cause them call them a UFO but we [Music] [Music] for the rasters God is not a Havana smoker but he shows signs to humans through the Mist as evening Falls everyone Waits For A Sign from the sky or from space on the other side of the Blue Mountains cheese and his grandfather wouldn't mind receiving some Divine help but tonight there will be no Miracle the old 4x4 can't go any further by the time it cools down chooses arms and legs to replace the engine it's the only way to get to the village in time to sell their coffee before the humidity ruins it very exhausting I'm young right now I'm very tired they've only got 15 kilometers to go but they've already been working for three hours a couple minutes after this stop being checking the battery filling up the radiator wide it's going up our street and we have to stop about 10 times or even more right now I'm just I just want to reach out because I know each other only when the engine starts again it doesn't last more than a kilometer [Music] [Music] after five hours of struggle they finally arrive in the village [Music] exhausted but relieved to sell their coffee 20 euros for their hard work but cheese is not about to give up his grandfather's Plantation he even plans to expand it one day [Music] Jamaicans are a mixture of cultures as goes the nation's motto out of many one people the people have made the best of this multi-ethnic Heritage giving them the strength and positivity to move their country in the right direction [Music] thank you [Music] thank you

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Length: 49min 25sec (2965 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 23 2022

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[u/webbens]

Thanks, what a great doc, I was kind of hesitant, but after the first minutes I was hooked.