5 things we learned from Adventure Unscripted

The show is packed with travel inspiration and encouragement from its hosts, YouTube travel expert Drew Binsky and presenter Iain Chambers, as well as from highlight videos and interviews with the teams themselves. As one team member says, “If we can make it, you can make it, too.”

Seif – who is a surgeon as well as founder of an Egyptian tourism initiative – might seem an unlikely candidate for a grassroots travel experience like Red Bull Can You Make It?, but he explains: “If I was given a million dollars to travel the world, I would still do this kind of travel because it’s the best way to connect with cultures. You meet all kinds of people and learn from each person’s experience.”

Binsky, who provides insightful travel advice throughout the show, says, “You’ve really got to just be yourself, go with the flow and be spontaneous. All my best travel memories come from stepping out of my comfort zone. That’s exactly what I hope everyone watching will do.”

A compilation reel of team vlogs shows the excitement and exhilaration that team members felt when they went out of their own comfort zones, whether it was wakeboarding, skydiving, climbing a ship’s mast – or simply shaking off their inhibitions to learn a hand-clapping, foot-slapping folk dance.

In fact, sometimes it can be helpful if they don’t. Australian team-mates Nathan, Emily and Onye had lots of crazy-fun moments during their seven-day journey, but they explain how their unfamiliarity with Europe occasionally put them on the back foot (as well as how Emily literally ended up with one foot in an air cast).

Passant from Egypt adds that now, when she has the impulse to spend her subway commute scrolling on her phone, she thinks about what she might be missing: “We got to speak with so many people that otherwise I probably would not have met [because] I would be on my phone, not in the moment. You don’t get to meet this many strangers if you’re not present and speaking to the people around you,” she says. “And when you do, you bump into so much kindness.”