Synopsis
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.
Episodes
Season 11E1Bulgarian Dirty BombsShane Smith and Eddy Moretti shop for dirty bombs in the Bulgarian black market.2E2The 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.3E3PLO Boy Scouts of BeirutThese kids are being trained to do whatever it takes, including turning their bodies into bombs.4E4A Day in ShanghaiHaving a gay old time in China’s capital of consumerism.5E5The Radioactive Beasts of ChernobylShane Smith hunts for mutant wolves in Chernobyl.6E6Filipino Feed LotSampling some of Manila’s most questionable delicacies. First up: Soup No. 5.7E7Gypsies of SophiaVBS tours the fetid garbage dump Bulgaria’s Gypsies are forced to live in.8E8The Last Aryans of ParaguaySouth America’s lost Aryan colony.9E9The Dream Machine10E10Jeepnys: The Rolling CarnivalJeepnys are Filipino hotrods, and there’s no better way to get around Manila.11E11Nimbin Mardi Grass12E12The VICE Guide to North KoreaVICE founder Shane Smith romps around the hermit kingdom.13E13Gorillas 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.14E14Wodka 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.15E15Mecca 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.16E16The VICE Guide to LiberiaHeroin dens, teenage prostitution, cross-dressing cannibals... Welcome to the VICE Guide to Liberia. Things are about to get really hairy.17E17House 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.18E18Illegal Border Crossing ParkIn El Alberto they offer tourists the chance to participate in a simulated illegal border crossing.19E19Last Dinosaur of the CongoLegend has it that the last remaining dinosaur lives inside the Congolese jungle20E20Prostitutes 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.21E21Mongolian Yak FestivalVBS travels to the vast epic-ness of Khovsgol Province in northern Mongolia to check in on the second annual Yak Festival.22E22Libyan 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.23E23The 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.24E24New 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.25E25Jesus of SiberiaVissarion's church of the last testament is the only reason to visit Siberia.26E26The 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.27E27The WariasIndonesia's Muslim transvestites need a place to pray, too.28E28TakanakuyTakanakuy is a fighting ceremony with roots in the Andes’s pre–Spanish, pre–Incan history.29E29The VICE Guide to KarachiVICE founder Suroosh Alvi visits Pakistan's ultraviolent metropolis.30E30The 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.31E31Blood Sacrifice in SumbaWhere Shamans and warriors worship holy sea worms.32E32Human 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.33E33North 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.34E34The 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.35E35Miss 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.36E36Kingdom 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.
