The Vice Guide to Travel
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The Vice Guide to Travel

A revolution in the business of going places, doing things, and telling people about the places you went and the things you did.

2007
1 season
36 episodes
Documentary

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.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Bulgarian Dirty Bombs

    07-02-2007

    Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti shop for dirty bombs in the Bulgarian black market.

  • Ep 2

    2.The Gun Markets of Pakistan

    11-02-2007

    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.

  • Ep 3

    3.PLO Boy Scouts of Beirut

    18-02-2007

    These kids are being trained to do whatever it takes, including turning their bodies into bombs.

  • Ep 4

    4.A Day in Shanghai

    17-03-2007

    Having a gay old time in China’s capital of consumerism.

  • Ep 5

    5.The Radioactive Beasts of Chernobyl

    31-03-2007

    Shane Smith hunts for mutant wolves in Chernobyl.

  • Ep 6

    6.Filipino Feed Lot

    01-04-2007

    Sampling some of Manila’s most questionable delicacies. First up: Soup No. 5.

  • Ep 7

    7.Gypsies of Sophia

    01-04-2007

    VBS tours the fetid garbage dump Bulgaria’s Gypsies are forced to live in.

  • Ep 8

    8.The Last Aryans of Paraguay

    07-04-2007

    South America’s lost Aryan colony.

  • Ep 9

    9.The Dream Machine

    21-04-2007
  • Ep 10

    10.Jeepnys: The Rolling Carnival

    16-07-2007

    Jeepnys are Filipino hotrods, and there’s no better way to get around Manila.

  • Ep 11

    11.Nimbin Mardi Grass

    04-12-2007
  • Ep 12

    12.The VICE Guide to North Korea

    03-03-2008

    VICE founder Shane Smith romps around the hermit kingdom.

  • Ep 13

    13.Gorillas in the Midst

    27-10-2008

    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 s...

  • Ep 14

    14.Wodka Wars

    22-08-2009

    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...

  • Ep 15

    15.Mecca Diaries

    25-11-2009

    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.

  • Ep 16

    16.The VICE Guide to Liberia

    19-01-2010

    Heroin dens, teenage prostitution, cross-dressing cannibals... Welcome to the VICE Guide to Liberia. Things are about to get really hairy.

  • Ep 17

    17.House of The Setting Sun

    31-01-2010

    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.

  • Ep 18

    18.Illegal Border Crossing Park

    01-02-2010

    In El Alberto they offer tourists the chance to participate in a simulated illegal border crossing.

  • Ep 19

    19.Last Dinosaur of the Congo

    31-08-2010

    Legend has it that the last remaining dinosaur lives inside the Congolese jungle

  • Ep 20

    20.Prostitutes of God

    17-09-2010

    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.

  • Ep 21

    21.Mongolian Yak Festival

    20-02-2011

    VBS travels to the vast epic-ness of Khovsgol Province in northern Mongolia to check in on the second annual Yak Festival.

  • Ep 22

    22.Libyan Lockdown

    22-02-2011

    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.

  • Ep 23

    23.The Holy Thugs of Venezuela

    19-03-2011

    The Santos Malandros (the Holy Thugs) are an alternative set of saints whose common traits include sideways baseball hats, cigarettes, and guns.

  • Ep 24

    24.New Years Eve in Kabul

    15-08-2011

    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...

  • Ep 25

    25.Jesus of Siberia

    21-12-2011

    Vissarion's church of the last testament is the only reason to visit Siberia.

  • Ep 26

    26.The VICE Guide to the Balkans

    09-01-2012

    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.

  • Ep 27

    27.The Warias

    01-02-2012

    Indonesia's Muslim transvestites need a place to pray, too.

  • Ep 28

    28.Takanakuy

    12-03-2012

    Takanakuy is a fighting ceremony with roots in the Andes’s pre–Spanish, pre–Incan history.

  • Ep 29

    29.The VICE Guide to Karachi

    04-06-2012

    VICE founder Suroosh Alvi visits Pakistan's ultraviolent metropolis.

  • Ep 30

    30.The Tiny VICE Guide to Doha

    05-07-2012

    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.

  • Ep 31

    31.Blood Sacrifice in Sumba

    11-07-2013

    Where Shamans and warriors worship holy sea worms.

  • Ep 32

    32.Human Safari

    16-09-2013

    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...

  • Ep 33

    33.North Korean Motorcycle Diaries

    03-12-2013

    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 S...

  • Ep 34

    34.The Japanese Love Industry

    25-12-2013

    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 in...

  • Ep 35

    35.Miss Camel Beauty Contest

    28-02-2014

    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...

  • Ep 36

    36.Kingdom of the Little People

    11-03-2014

    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 b...

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