The Vice Guide to Travel

Season 1

36 episodes · Feb 7, 2007

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  • S1E1

    Bulgarian Dirty Bombs

    Feb 7, 2007

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

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  • S1E2

    The Gun Markets of Pakistan

    Feb 11, 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.

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  • S1E3

    PLO Boy Scouts of Beirut

    Feb 18, 2007

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

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  • S1E4

    A Day in Shanghai

    Mar 17, 2007

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

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  • S1E5

    The Radioactive Beasts of Chernobyl

    Mar 31, 2007

    Shane Smith hunts for mutant wolves in Chernobyl.

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  • S1E6

    Filipino Feed Lot

    Apr 1, 2007

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

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  • S1E7

    Gypsies of Sophia

    Apr 1, 2007

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

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  • S1E8

    The Last Aryans of Paraguay

    Apr 7, 2007

    South America’s lost Aryan colony.

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  • S1E9

    The Dream Machine

    Apr 21, 2007
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  • S1E10

    Jeepnys: The Rolling Carnival

    Jul 16, 2007

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

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  • S1E11

    Nimbin Mardi Grass

    Dec 4, 2007
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  • S1E12

    The VICE Guide to North Korea

    Mar 3, 2008

    VICE founder Shane Smith romps around the hermit kingdom.

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  • S1E13

    Gorillas in the Midst

    Oct 27, 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 survival.

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  • S1E14

    Wodka Wars

    Aug 22, 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 a bottle.

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  • S1E15

    Mecca Diaries

    Nov 25, 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.

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  • S1E16

    The VICE Guide to Liberia

    Jan 19, 2010

    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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  • S1E17

    House of The Setting Sun

    Jan 31, 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.

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  • S1E18

    Illegal Border Crossing Park

    Feb 1, 2010

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

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  • S1E19

    Last Dinosaur of the Congo

    Aug 31, 2010

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

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  • S1E20

    Prostitutes of God

    Sep 17, 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.

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  • S1E21

    Mongolian Yak Festival

    Feb 20, 2011

    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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  • S1E22

    Libyan Lockdown

    Feb 22, 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.

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  • S1E23

    The Holy Thugs of Venezuela

    Mar 19, 2011

    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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  • S1E24

    New Years Eve in Kabul

    Aug 15, 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 regime.

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  • S1E25

    Jesus of Siberia

    Dec 21, 2011

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

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  • S1E26

    The VICE Guide to the Balkans

    Jan 9, 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.

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  • S1E27

    The Warias

    Feb 1, 2012

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

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  • S1E28

    Takanakuy

    Mar 12, 2012

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

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  • S1E29

    The VICE Guide to Karachi

    Jun 4, 2012

    VICE founder Suroosh Alvi visits Pakistan's ultraviolent metropolis.

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  • S1E30

    The Tiny VICE Guide to Doha

    Jul 5, 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.

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  • S1E31

    Blood Sacrifice in Sumba

    Jul 11, 2013

    Where Shamans and warriors worship holy sea worms.

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  • S1E32

    Human Safari

    Sep 16, 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 signs urging visitors not to feed them or give them clothing.

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  • S1E33

    North Korean Motorcycle Diaries

    Dec 3, 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 South Korea’s shared peninsula.

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  • S1E34

    The Japanese Love Industry

    Dec 25, 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 investigate Tokyo's cuddle cafes and Yakuza-sponsored prostitution.

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  • S1E35

    Miss Camel Beauty Contest

    Feb 28, 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'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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  • S1E36

    Kingdom of the Little People

    Mar 11, 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 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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