The Vice Guide to Travel (2007)
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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Episode 1 - Bulgarian Dirty Bombs
Release Date: 2007-02-07Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti shop for dirty bombs in the Bulgarian black market.
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Episode 2 - The Gun Markets of Pakistan
Release Date: 2007-02-11VICE 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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Episode 3 - PLO Boy Scouts of Beirut
Release Date: 2007-02-18These kids are being trained to do whatever it takes, including turning their bodies into bombs.
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Episode 4 - A Day in Shanghai
Release Date: 2007-03-17Having a gay old time in China’s capital of consumerism.
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Episode 5 - The Radioactive Beasts of Chernobyl
Release Date: 2007-03-31Shane Smith hunts for mutant wolves in Chernobyl.
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Episode 6 - Filipino Feed Lot
Release Date: 2007-04-01Sampling some of Manila’s most questionable delicacies. First up: Soup No. 5.
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Episode 7 - Gypsies of Sophia
Release Date: 2007-04-01VBS tours the fetid garbage dump Bulgaria’s Gypsies are forced to live in.
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Episode 8 - The Last Aryans of Paraguay
Release Date: 2007-04-07South America’s lost Aryan colony.
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Episode 9 - The Dream Machine
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Episode 10 - Jeepnys: The Rolling Carnival
Release Date: 2007-07-16Jeepnys are Filipino hotrods, and there’s no better way to get around Manila.
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Episode 11 - Nimbin Mardi Grass
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Episode 12 - The VICE Guide to North Korea
Release Date: 2008-03-03VICE founder Shane Smith romps around the hermit kingdom.
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Episode 13 - Gorillas in the Midst
Release Date: 2008-10-27VBS 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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Episode 14 - Wodka Wars
Release Date: 2009-08-22Vice 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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Episode 15 - Mecca Diaries
Release Date: 2009-11-25Last 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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Episode 16 - The VICE Guide to Liberia
Release Date: 2010-01-19Heroin dens, teenage prostitution, cross-dressing cannibals... Welcome to the VICE Guide to Liberia. Things are about to get really hairy.
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Episode 17 - House of The Setting Sun
Release Date: 2010-01-31VICE 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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Episode 18 - Illegal Border Crossing Park
Release Date: 2010-02-01In El Alberto they offer tourists the chance to participate in a simulated illegal border crossing.
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Episode 19 - Last Dinosaur of the Congo
Release Date: 2010-08-31Legend has it that the last remaining dinosaur lives inside the Congolese jungle
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Episode 20 - Prostitutes of God
Release Date: 2010-09-17VICE 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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Episode 21 - Mongolian Yak Festival
Release Date: 2011-02-20VBS 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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Episode 22 - Libyan Lockdown
Release Date: 2011-02-22Libya 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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Episode 23 - The Holy Thugs of Venezuela
Release Date: 2011-03-19The 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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Episode 24 - New Years Eve in Kabul
Release Date: 2011-08-15VICE 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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Episode 25 - Jesus of Siberia
Release Date: 2011-12-21Vissarion's church of the last testament is the only reason to visit Siberia.
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Episode 26 - The VICE Guide to the Balkans
Release Date: 2012-01-09To 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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Episode 27 - The Warias
Release Date: 2012-02-01Indonesia's Muslim transvestites need a place to pray, too.
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Episode 28 - Takanakuy
Release Date: 2012-03-12Takanakuy is a fighting ceremony with roots in the Andes’s pre–Spanish, pre–Incan history.
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Episode 29 - The VICE Guide to Karachi
Release Date: 2012-06-04VICE founder Suroosh Alvi visits Pakistan's ultraviolent metropolis.
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Episode 30 - The Tiny VICE Guide to Doha
Release Date: 2012-07-05We 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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Episode 31 - Blood Sacrifice in Sumba
Release Date: 2013-07-11Where Shamans and warriors worship holy sea worms.
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Episode 32 - Human Safari
Release Date: 2013-09-16Tourists 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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Episode 33 - North Korean Motorcycle Diaries
Release Date: 2013-12-03Last 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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Episode 34 - The Japanese Love Industry
Release Date: 2013-12-25In 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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Episode 35 - Miss Camel Beauty Contest
Release Date: 2014-02-28The 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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Episode 36 - Kingdom of the Little People
Release Date: 2014-03-11In 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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Episode 37 - Miss Camel Beauty Contest
Release Date: 2014-02-28The 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. In the West, we think nothing of beauty contests for dogs, horses, flowers, even women. But the leggy, doe-eyed lovelies on parade here are of the four-legged variety, and are judged on such criteria as having a nice firm pair of ears and floppy lips. Just like supermodels, at the height of their careers camels can command millions of dollars. Who knew? While the super-car or the SUV has replaced the camel as the most popular means of transportation in the modern Emirates, the animal retains an important place in the nation's heart. "Beautiful camel" may strike you as something of an oxymoron. But many a bedouin or sheikh will think nothing of dropping up to $3 million dollars on a so-called prized beauty, in the hope that she'll bring home the coveted Bayraq—the fairest camel in the land. In this episode of The VICE Guide to Travel, Charlet finds herself the only woman in the desert, looking for the elusive beauty in the beast.
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Episode 38 - Kingdom of the Little People
Release Date: 2014-03-11In 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.