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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 by season
Season01
- S01E01Bulgarian Dirty BombsFebruary 7, 2007—Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti shop for dirty bombs in the Bulgarian black market.
- S01E02The Gun Markets of PakistanFebruary 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.
- S01E03PLO Boy Scouts of BeirutFebruary 18, 2007—These kids are being trained to do whatever it takes, including turning their bodies into bombs.
- S01E04A Day in ShanghaiMarch 17, 2007—Having a gay old time in China’s capital of consumerism.
- S01E05The Radioactive Beasts of ChernobylMarch 31, 2007—Shane Smith hunts for mutant wolves in Chernobyl.
- S01E06Filipino Feed LotApril 1, 2007—Sampling some of Manila’s most questionable delicacies. First up: Soup No. 5.
- S01E07Gypsies of SophiaApril 1, 2007—VBS tours the fetid garbage dump Bulgaria’s Gypsies are forced to live in.
- S01E08The Last Aryans of ParaguayApril 7, 2007—South America’s lost Aryan colony.
- S01E09The Dream MachineApril 21, 2007—
- S01E10Jeepnys: The Rolling CarnivalJuly 16, 2007—Jeepnys are Filipino hotrods, and there’s no better way to get around Manila.
- S01E11Nimbin Mardi GrassDecember 4, 2007—
- S01E12The VICE Guide to North KoreaMarch 3, 2008—VICE founder Shane Smith romps around the hermit kingdom.
- S01E13Gorillas in the MidstOctober 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 72
- S01E14Wodka WarsAugust 22, 2009—Vice Scandinavia correspondent Ivar Berglin travels to the front lines of the Vodka/Wodka Wars - and discovers that the tortured history of
- S01E15Mecca DiariesNovember 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 th
- S01E16The VICE Guide to LiberiaJanuary 19, 2010—Heroin dens, teenage prostitution, cross-dressing cannibals... Welcome to the VICE Guide to Liberia. Things are about to get really hairy.
- S01E17House of The Setting SunJanuary 31, 2010—VICE travels to Casa Xochiquetzal, a residential facility in one of Mexico City's shadiest neighborhoods that caters exclusively to the area
- S01E18Illegal Border Crossing ParkFebruary 1, 2010—In El Alberto they offer tourists the chance to participate in a simulated illegal border crossing.
- S01E19Last Dinosaur of the CongoAugust 31, 2010—Legend has it that the last remaining dinosaur lives inside the Congolese jungle
- S01E20Prostitutes of GodSeptember 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 Yellam
- S01E21Mongolian Yak FestivalFebruary 20, 2011—VBS travels to the vast epic-ness of Khovsgol Province in northern Mongolia to check in on the second annual Yak Festival.
- S01E22Libyan LockdownFebruary 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 we
- S01E23The Holy Thugs of VenezuelaMarch 19, 2011—The Santos Malandros (the Holy Thugs) are an alternative set of saints whose common traits include sideways baseball hats, cigarettes, and g
- S01E24New Years Eve in KabulAugust 15, 2011—VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi travels to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, accompanied by photographer Ariana Delawari. Together they witnes
- S01E25Jesus of SiberiaDecember 21, 2011—Vissarion's church of the last testament is the only reason to visit Siberia.
- S01E26The VICE Guide to the BalkansJanuary 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 remnan
- S01E27The WariasFebruary 1, 2012—Indonesia's Muslim transvestites need a place to pray, too.
- S01E28TakanakuyMarch 12, 2012—Takanakuy is a fighting ceremony with roots in the Andes’s pre–Spanish, pre–Incan history.
- S01E29The VICE Guide to KarachiJune 4, 2012—VICE founder Suroosh Alvi visits Pakistan's ultraviolent metropolis.
- S01E30The Tiny VICE Guide to DohaJuly 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
- S01E31Blood Sacrifice in SumbaJuly 11, 2013—Where Shamans and warriors worship holy sea worms.
- S01E32Human SafariSeptember 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 li
- S01E33North Korean Motorcycle DiariesDecember 3, 2013—Last August, motorcyclists Joanne and Gareth Morgan embarked on their most ambitious journey yet: riding the Baekdudaegan, a mountain range
- S01E34The Japanese Love IndustryDecember 25, 2013—In these difficult times, many Japanese are putting marriage and families on the back burner and seeking recreational love and affection as
- S01E35Miss Camel Beauty ContestFebruary 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 t
- S01E36Kingdom of the Little PeopleMarch 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 d