The Vice Guide to Travel (2007)
Synopsis
The Vice Guide to Travel is a documentary-style travel show released in 2006 by Vice Media, as part of the VBS.tv online television division of Vice. The show follows Vice employees as they travel to dangerous, weird, and offbeat locations throughout the globe.
First Air Date: 2007-02-07
Last Air Date: 2014-03-11
Number of Seasons: 1
Number of Episodes: 36
Top Cast
- Shane Smith as N/A
- David Choe as N/A
- David Cross as N/A
- Johnny Knoxville as N/A
- Suroosh Alvi as N/A
- Pella Kågerman as N/A
Seasons
None (2007)
No overview available for this season.
Episodes:
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Ep. 1: Bulgarian Dirty Bombs
Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti shop for dirty bombs in the Bulgarian black market.
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Ep. 2: The Gun Markets of Pakistan
VICE visits the arms markets of Darra, Pakistan, where the area's holy warriors come to stock up on guns handmade by men who live in caves.
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Ep. 3: PLO Boy Scouts of Beirut
These kids are being trained to do whatever it takes, including turning their bodies into bombs.
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Ep. 4: A Day in Shanghai
Having a gay old time in China’s capital of consumerism.
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Ep. 5: The Radioactive Beasts of Chernobyl
Shane Smith hunts for mutant wolves in Chernobyl.
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Ep. 6: Filipino Feed Lot
Sampling some of Manila’s most questionable delicacies. First up: Soup No. 5.
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Ep. 7: Gypsies of Sophia
VBS tours the fetid garbage dump Bulgaria’s Gypsies are forced to live in.
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Ep. 8: The Last Aryans of Paraguay
South America’s lost Aryan colony.
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Ep. 9: The Dream Machine
No overview for this episode.
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Ep. 10: Jeepnys: The Rolling Carnival
Jeepnys are Filipino hotrods, and there’s no better way to get around Manila.
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Ep. 11: Nimbin Mardi Grass
No overview for this episode.
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Ep. 12: The VICE Guide to North Korea
VICE founder Shane Smith romps around the hermit kingdom.
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Ep. 13: Gorillas in the Midst
VBS travels to Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the endangered mountain gorillas - 200 of the Earth's last 720 — are in a desperate fight for their survival.
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Ep. 14: Wodka Wars
Vice Scandinavia correspondent Ivar Berglin travels to the front lines of the Vodka/Wodka Wars - and discovers that the tortured history of Russian-Polish relations can be saved in a bottle.
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Ep. 15: Mecca Diaries
Last year Suroosh Alvi, VICE Founder, went with his family to Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The world’s largest annual pilgrimage. He shot this footage with an old Handicam.
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Ep. 16: The VICE Guide to Liberia
Heroin dens, teenage prostitution, cross-dressing cannibals... Welcome to the VICE Guide to Liberia. Things are about to get really hairy.
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Ep. 17: House of The Setting Sun
VICE travels to Casa Xochiquetzal, a residential facility in one of Mexico City's shadiest neighborhoods that caters exclusively to the area's elderly sex workers.
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Ep. 18: Illegal Border Crossing Park
In El Alberto they offer tourists the chance to participate in a simulated illegal border crossing.
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Ep. 19: Last Dinosaur of the Congo
Legend has it that the last remaining dinosaur lives inside the Congolese jungle
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Ep. 20: Prostitutes of God
VICE travels to the Indian city of Sangli to meet a group of bolshy sex workers selling their bodies in the name of the Hindu Goddess Yellamm.
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Ep. 21: Mongolian Yak Festival
VBS travels to the vast epic-ness of Khovsgol Province in northern Mongolia to check in on the second annual Yak Festival.
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Ep. 22: Libyan Lockdown
Libya is the latest nation to experience the violent civil unrest that has plagued North Africa since December. But in August 2010 things were much different.
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Ep. 23: The Holy Thugs of Venezuela
The Santos Malandros (the Holy Thugs) are an alternative set of saints whose common traits include sideways baseball hats, cigarettes, and guns.
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Ep. 24: New Years Eve in Kabul
VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi travels to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, accompanied by photographer Ariana Delawari. Together they witness the vicious impact left by the Taliban regime.
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Ep. 25: Jesus of Siberia
Vissarion's church of the last testament is the only reason to visit Siberia.
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Ep. 26: The VICE Guide to the Balkans
To commemorate 12 years without a major attempted genocide in the Balkans, we decided to rent a Yugo and take a road trip through the remnants of old Yugoslavia.
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Ep. 27: The Warias
Indonesia's Muslim transvestites need a place to pray, too.
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Ep. 28: Takanakuy
Takanakuy is a fighting ceremony with roots in the Andes’s pre–Spanish, pre–Incan history.
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Ep. 29: The VICE Guide to Karachi
VICE founder Suroosh Alvi visits Pakistan's ultraviolent metropolis.
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Ep. 30: The Tiny VICE Guide to Doha
We tried to find the best shawarma in Doha but ended up searching for robot camel jockeys (apparently this is a real thing) and drinking in very strange bars.
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Ep. 31: Blood Sacrifice in Sumba
Where Shamans and warriors worship holy sea worms.
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Ep. 32: Human Safari
Tourists on India's Andaman Islands are taken by the busload to watch the Jarawa tribe go about their daily lives. The Jarawa are treated like animals in a safari park, with large signs urging visitors not to feed them or give them clothing.
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Ep. 33: North Korean Motorcycle Diaries
Last August, motorcyclists Joanne and Gareth Morgan embarked on their most ambitious journey yet: riding the Baekdudaegan, a mountain range that stretches the length of North and South Korea’s shared peninsula.
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Ep. 34: The Japanese Love Industry
In these difficult times, many Japanese are putting marriage and families on the back burner and seeking recreational love and affection as a cheap escape. We sent Ryan Duffy to investigate Tokyo's cuddle cafes and Yakuza-sponsored prostitution.
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Ep. 35: Miss Camel Beauty Contest
The desert may be one of the last places on Earth you'd expect to find a beauty pageant. But on Christmas Day, while you were busy testing the limits of your digestive system, VICE's Charlet Duboc was traipsing through sand dunes in Abu Dhabi's remote Western Region, all in the name of beauty.
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Ep. 36: Kingdom of the Little People
In a land far, far away, love flourishes in a kingdom quite unlike any other. In mushroom-shaped homes and old dormitories, a community of dwarfs—all less than 51 inches tall—can be found singing, dancing, and performing on a daily basis for visiting tourists. In this episode of The VICE Guide to Travel, we send VICE magazine's creative director, Annette Lamothe-Ramos, to visit the controversial theme park, Kingdom of the Little People.
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