The VICE Guide to Travel

Season 1

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.

Where to Watch Season 1

36 Episodes

  • Bulgarian Dirty Bombs
    E1
    Bulgarian Dirty BombsShane Smith and Eddy Moretti shop for dirty bombs in the Bulgarian black market.
  • The Gun Markets of Pakistan
    E2
    The Gun Markets of PakistanVICE 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.
  • PLO Boy Scouts of Beirut
    E3
    PLO Boy Scouts of BeirutThese kids are being trained to do whatever it takes, including turning their bodies into bombs.
  • A Day in Shanghai
    E4
    A Day in ShanghaiHaving a gay old time in China’s capital of consumerism.
  • The Radioactive Beasts of Chernobyl
    E5
    The Radioactive Beasts of ChernobylShane Smith hunts for mutant wolves in Chernobyl.
  • Filipino Feed Lot
    E6
    Filipino Feed LotSampling some of Manila’s most questionable delicacies. First up: Soup No. 5.
  • Gypsies of Sophia
    E7
    Gypsies of SophiaVBS tours the fetid garbage dump Bulgaria’s Gypsies are forced to live in.
  • The Last Aryans of Paraguay
    E8
    The Last Aryans of ParaguaySouth America’s lost Aryan colony.
  • The Dream Machine
    E9
    The Dream MachineMind-altering stroboscopy.
  • Jeepnys: The Rolling Carnival
    E10
    Jeepnys: The Rolling CarnivalJeepnys are Filipino hotrods, and there’s no better way to get around Manila.
  • Nimbin Mardi Grass
    E11
    Nimbin Mardi GrassEveryone in Australia knows about Nimbin. Whether they’ve scored drugs there, gone as a tourist to buy rainbow hippie shit, or read about how it’s a fractured town filled with ageing idealists whose dreams are being trampled under a stampede of smack, speed, and ice, most people hold some sort of opinion about the village. We finally decided to check it out for ourselves, at the peak of its craziness: the annual Mardi Grass Festival.
  • The VICE Guide to North Korea
    E12
    The VICE Guide to North KoreaVICE founder Shane Smith romps around the hermit kingdom.
  • Gorillas in the Midst
    E13
    Gorillas in the MidstVBS 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.
  • Wodka Wars
    E14
    Wodka WarsVice 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.
  • Mecca Diaries
    E15
    Mecca DiariesLast 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.
  • The VICE Guide to Liberia
    E16
    The VICE Guide to LiberiaHeroin dens, teenage prostitution, cross-dressing cannibals... Welcome to the VICE Guide to Liberia. Things are about to get really hairy.
  • House of The Setting Sun
    E17
    House of The Setting SunVICE 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.
  • Illegal Border Crossing Park
    E18
    Illegal Border Crossing ParkIn El Alberto they offer tourists the chance to participate in a simulated illegal border crossing.
  • Last Dinosaur of the Congo
    E19
    Last Dinosaur of the CongoLegend has it that the last remaining dinosaur lives inside the Congolese jungle
  • Prostitutes of God
    E20
    Prostitutes of GodVICE 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.
  • Mongolian Yak Festival
    E21
    Mongolian Yak FestivalVBS travels to the vast epic-ness of Khovsgol Province in northern Mongolia to check in on the second annual Yak Festival.
  • Libyan Lockdown
    E22
    Libyan LockdownLibya 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.
  • The Holy Thugs of Venezuela
    E23
    The Holy Thugs of VenezuelaThe Santos Malandros (the Holy Thugs) are an alternative set of saints whose common traits include sideways baseball hats, cigarettes, and guns.
  • New Years Eve in Kabul
    E24
    New Years Eve in KabulVICE 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.
  • Jesus of Siberia
    E25
    Jesus of SiberiaVissarion's church of the last testament is the only reason to visit Siberia.
  • The VICE Guide to the Balkans
    E26
    The VICE Guide to the BalkansTo 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.
  • The Warias
    E27
    The WariasIndonesia's Muslim transvestites need a place to pray, too.
  • Takanakuy
    E28
    TakanakuyTakanakuy is a fighting ceremony with roots in the Andes’s pre–Spanish, pre–Incan history.
  • The VICE Guide to Karachi
    E29
    The VICE Guide to KarachiVICE founder Suroosh Alvi visits Pakistan's ultraviolent metropolis.
  • The Tiny VICE Guide to Doha
    E30
    The Tiny VICE Guide to DohaWe 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.
  • Blood Sacrifice in Sumba
    E31
    Blood Sacrifice in SumbaWhere Shamans and warriors worship holy sea worms.
  • Human Safari
    E32
    Human SafariTourists 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.
  • North Korean Motorcycle Diaries
    E33
    North Korean Motorcycle DiariesLast 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.
  • The Japanese Love Industry
    E34
    The Japanese Love IndustryIn 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.
  • Miss Camel Beauty Contest
    E35
    Miss Camel Beauty ContestThe 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.
  • Kingdom of the Little People
    E36
    Kingdom of the Little PeopleIn 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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