
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.”
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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Cast
Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Bulgarian Dirty Bombs
07-02-2007Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti shop for dirty bombs in the Bulgarian black market.
- Ep 2
2.The Gun Markets of Pakistan
11-02-2007VICE 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
18-02-2007These kids are being trained to do whatever it takes, including turning their bodies into bombs.
- Ep 4
4.A Day in Shanghai
17-03-2007Having a gay old time in China’s capital of consumerism.
- Ep 5
5.The Radioactive Beasts of Chernobyl
31-03-2007Shane Smith hunts for mutant wolves in Chernobyl.
- Ep 6
6.Filipino Feed Lot
01-04-2007Sampling some of Manila’s most questionable delicacies. First up: Soup No. 5.
- Ep 7
7.Gypsies of Sophia
01-04-2007VBS tours the fetid garbage dump Bulgaria’s Gypsies are forced to live in.
- Ep 8
8.The Last Aryans of Paraguay
07-04-2007South America’s lost Aryan colony.
- Ep 9
9.The Dream Machine
21-04-2007 - Ep 10
10.Jeepnys: The Rolling Carnival
16-07-2007Jeepnys 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
03-03-2008VICE founder Shane Smith romps around the hermit kingdom.
- Ep 13
13.Gorillas in the Midst
27-10-2008VBS 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
22-08-2009Vice 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
25-11-2009Last 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
19-01-2010Heroin 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
31-01-2010VICE 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
01-02-2010In El Alberto they offer tourists the chance to participate in a simulated illegal border crossing.
- Ep 19
19.Last Dinosaur of the Congo
31-08-2010Legend has it that the last remaining dinosaur lives inside the Congolese jungle
- Ep 20
20.Prostitutes of God
17-09-2010VICE 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
20-02-2011VBS 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
22-02-2011Libya 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
19-03-2011The 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
15-08-2011VICE 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
21-12-2011Vissarion's church of the last testament is the only reason to visit Siberia.
- Ep 26
26.The VICE Guide to the Balkans
09-01-2012To 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
01-02-2012Indonesia's Muslim transvestites need a place to pray, too.
- Ep 28
28.Takanakuy
12-03-2012Takanakuy is a fighting ceremony with roots in the Andes’s pre–Spanish, pre–Incan history.
- Ep 29
29.The VICE Guide to Karachi
04-06-2012VICE founder Suroosh Alvi visits Pakistan's ultraviolent metropolis.
- Ep 30
30.The Tiny VICE Guide to Doha
05-07-2012We 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
11-07-2013Where Shamans and warriors worship holy sea worms.
- Ep 32
32.Human Safari
16-09-2013Tourists 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
03-12-2013Last 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
25-12-2013In 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
28-02-2014The 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
11-03-2014In 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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