Half the time you’ve got quite a sheer drop down to the sea below, albeit the very inviting, warm Indian Ocean, azure blue sea with a nice white beach along with it. It’s an enormous country and it’s absolutely spectacular. “It’s bigger than Germany, that’s what people don’t realise. The scope of their Madagascan filming location may sound surprising to many audiences, Clarkson claims: “Supposedly a very famous pirate scattered his treasure there and then threw clues to the crowd shortly before he was hung.” “I love the romance, the idea of a pirate era because I’m a child,” he declares.
It’s a topic of discussion that Hammond is passionate about: “Hammond is obsessed with pirates, so he jumped up and down and squeaked a lot when I said it, and then much to my better judgment, we decided it was going to be a pirate-based story.” “I’d never been, so I came up with this idea that we should go to Madagascar.”
