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The Vice Guide to Travel

TV·2007–2014·1 season, 36 episodes·Documentary

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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

Season0136Episodes2007–14AiredSeason avg
  1. S01E01Bulgarian Dirty BombsFebruary 7, 2007Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti shop for dirty bombs in the Bulgarian black market.
  2. S01E02The Gun Markets of PakistanFebruary 11, 2007VICE 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.
  3. S01E03PLO Boy Scouts of BeirutFebruary 18, 2007These kids are being trained to do whatever it takes, including turning their bodies into bombs.
  4. S01E04A Day in ShanghaiMarch 17, 2007Having a gay old time in China’s capital of consumerism.
  5. S01E05The Radioactive Beasts of ChernobylMarch 31, 2007Shane Smith hunts for mutant wolves in Chernobyl.
  6. S01E06Filipino Feed LotApril 1, 2007Sampling some of Manila’s most questionable delicacies. First up: Soup No. 5.
  7. S01E07Gypsies of SophiaApril 1, 2007VBS tours the fetid garbage dump Bulgaria’s Gypsies are forced to live in.
  8. S01E08The Last Aryans of ParaguayApril 7, 2007South America’s lost Aryan colony.
  9. S01E09The Dream MachineApril 21, 2007
  10. S01E10Jeepnys: The Rolling CarnivalJuly 16, 2007Jeepnys are Filipino hotrods, and there’s no better way to get around Manila.
  11. S01E11Nimbin Mardi GrassDecember 4, 2007
  12. S01E12The VICE Guide to North KoreaMarch 3, 2008VICE founder Shane Smith romps around the hermit kingdom.
  13. S01E13Gorillas in the MidstOctober 27, 2008VBS travels to Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo where the endangered mountain gorillas - 200 of the Earth's last 72
  14. S01E14Wodka WarsAugust 22, 2009Vice Scandinavia correspondent Ivar Berglin travels to the front lines of the Vodka/Wodka Wars - and discovers that the tortured history of
  15. S01E15Mecca DiariesNovember 25, 2009Last year Suroosh Alvi, VICE Founder, went with his family to Hajj in Mecca, Saudi Arabia. The world’s largest annual pilgrimage. He shot th
  16. S01E16The VICE Guide to LiberiaJanuary 19, 2010Heroin dens, teenage prostitution, cross-dressing cannibals... Welcome to the VICE Guide to Liberia. Things are about to get really hairy.
  17. S01E17House of The Setting SunJanuary 31, 2010VICE travels to Casa Xochiquetzal, a residential facility in one of Mexico City's shadiest neighborhoods that caters exclusively to the area
  18. S01E18Illegal Border Crossing ParkFebruary 1, 2010In El Alberto they offer tourists the chance to participate in a simulated illegal border crossing.
  19. S01E19Last Dinosaur of the CongoAugust 31, 2010Legend has it that the last remaining dinosaur lives inside the Congolese jungle
  20. S01E20Prostitutes of GodSeptember 17, 2010VICE 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
  21. S01E21Mongolian Yak FestivalFebruary 20, 2011VBS travels to the vast epic-ness of Khovsgol Province in northern Mongolia to check in on the second annual Yak Festival.
  22. S01E22Libyan LockdownFebruary 22, 2011Libya is the latest nation to experience the violent civil unrest that has plagued North Africa since December. But in August 2010 things we
  23. S01E23The Holy Thugs of VenezuelaMarch 19, 2011The Santos Malandros (the Holy Thugs) are an alternative set of saints whose common traits include sideways baseball hats, cigarettes, and g
  24. S01E24New Years Eve in KabulAugust 15, 2011VICE co-founder Suroosh Alvi travels to Kabul, the capital of Afghanistan, accompanied by photographer Ariana Delawari. Together they witnes
  25. S01E25Jesus of SiberiaDecember 21, 2011Vissarion's church of the last testament is the only reason to visit Siberia.
  26. S01E26The VICE Guide to the BalkansJanuary 9, 2012To 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
  27. S01E27The WariasFebruary 1, 2012Indonesia's Muslim transvestites need a place to pray, too.
  28. S01E28TakanakuyMarch 12, 2012Takanakuy is a fighting ceremony with roots in the Andes’s pre–Spanish, pre–Incan history.
  29. S01E29The VICE Guide to KarachiJune 4, 2012VICE founder Suroosh Alvi visits Pakistan's ultraviolent metropolis.
  30. S01E30The Tiny VICE Guide to DohaJuly 5, 2012We 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
  31. S01E31Blood Sacrifice in SumbaJuly 11, 2013Where Shamans and warriors worship holy sea worms.
  32. S01E32Human SafariSeptember 16, 2013Tourists 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
  33. S01E33North Korean Motorcycle DiariesDecember 3, 2013Last August, motorcyclists Joanne and Gareth Morgan embarked on their most ambitious journey yet: riding the Baekdudaegan, a mountain range
  34. S01E34The Japanese Love IndustryDecember 25, 2013In these difficult times, many Japanese are putting marriage and families on the back burner and seeking recreational love and affection as
  35. S01E35Miss Camel Beauty ContestFebruary 28, 2014The 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
  36. S01E36Kingdom of the Little PeopleMarch 11, 2014In 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

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