CAPE TOWN: British actors Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman arrived in South Africa on Saturday at the end of a 24,000-kilometer motorcycle journey from Scotland.
The actors set out May 12 from John O Groats, Scotland, traveled through Europe and African countries including Libya, Rwanda, Zambia and Namibia before arriving in Cape Town, on the southern coast of South Africa.
McGregor, who played Obi-Wan Kenobi in the Star Wars films and stared in Trainspotting, Moulin Rouge and Down with Love, said the journey – dubbed the Long Way Down – had been fantastic.
I d quite like to turn around and just carry on back again, he said as the pair posed for photographs on the beach against the backdrop of Table Mountain.
The two actors met on the set of the 1997 film Serpent s Kiss. The pair bonded over a shared love of motorcycles.
McGregor may have mastered his motorbike over miles of rugged African terrain, but he was no match for a champagne cork. After struggling unsuccessfully to uncork his celebratory bottle, he took a swig from Boorman s champagne bottle.
The two previously circumnavigated the world by motorcycle, in 2004, passing through Russia and ending up in New York on a journey televised as the Long Way Round.
