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The Vice Guide to Travel

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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.

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7th February 2007 - 11th March 2014
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Bulgarian Dirty Bombs
7th February 2007

Episode 1

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

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The Gun Markets of Pakistan
11th February 2007

Episode 2

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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PLO Boy Scouts of Beirut
18th February 2007

Episode 3

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

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A Day in Shanghai
17th March 2007

Episode 4

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

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The Radioactive Beasts of Chernobyl
31st March 2007

Episode 5

Shane Smith hunts for mutant wolves in Chernobyl.

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Filipino Feed Lot
1st April 2007

Episode 6

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

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Gypsies of Sophia
1st April 2007

Episode 7

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

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The Last Aryans of Paraguay
7th April 2007

Episode 8

South America’s lost Aryan colony.

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The Dream Machine
21st April 2007

Episode 9

No overview available.

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Jeepnys: The Rolling Carnival
16th July 2007

Episode 10

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

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Nimbin Mardi Grass
4th December 2007

Episode 11

No overview available.

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The VICE Guide to North Korea
3rd March 2008

Episode 12

VICE founder Shane Smith romps around the hermit kingdom.

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Gorillas in the Midst
27th October 2008

Episode 13

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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Wodka Wars
22nd August 2009

Episode 14

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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Mecca Diaries
25th November 2009

Episode 15

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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The VICE Guide to Liberia
19th January 2010

Episode 16

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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House of The Setting Sun
31st January 2010

Episode 17

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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Illegal Border Crossing Park
1st February 2010

Episode 18

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

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Last Dinosaur of the Congo
31st August 2010

Episode 19

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

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Prostitutes of God
17th September 2010

Episode 20

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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Mongolian Yak Festival
20th February 2011

Episode 21

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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Libyan Lockdown
22nd February 2011

Episode 22

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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The Holy Thugs of Venezuela
19th March 2011

Episode 23

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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New Years Eve in Kabul
15th August 2011

Episode 24

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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Jesus of Siberia
21st December 2011

Episode 25

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

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The VICE Guide to the Balkans
9th January 2012

Episode 26

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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The Warias
1st February 2012

Episode 27

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

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Takanakuy
12th March 2012

Episode 28

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

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The VICE Guide to Karachi
4th June 2012

Episode 29

VICE founder Suroosh Alvi visits Pakistan's ultraviolent metropolis.

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The Tiny VICE Guide to Doha
5th July 2012

Episode 30

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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Blood Sacrifice in Sumba
11th July 2013

Episode 31

Where Shamans and warriors worship holy sea worms.

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Human Safari
16th September 2013

Episode 32

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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North Korean Motorcycle Diaries
3rd December 2013

Episode 33

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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The Japanese Love Industry
25th December 2013

Episode 34

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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Miss Camel Beauty Contest
28th February 2014

Episode 35

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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Kingdom of the Little People
11th March 2014

Episode 36

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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