A revolution in the business of going places, doing things, and telling people about the places you went and the things you did.
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.
Bulgarian Dirty Bombs
Feb 7, 2007
Shane Smith and Eddy Moretti shop for dirty bombs in the Bulgarian black market.
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.
PLO Boy Scouts of Beirut
Feb 18, 2007
These kids are being trained to do whatever it takes, including turning their bodies into bombs.
A Day in Shanghai
Mar 17, 2007
Having a gay old time in China’s capital of consumerism.
The Radioactive Beasts of Chernobyl
Mar 31, 2007
Shane Smith hunts for mutant wolves in Chernobyl.
Filipino Feed Lot
Apr 1, 2007
Sampling some of Manila’s most questionable delicacies. First up: Soup No. 5.
Gypsies of Sophia
Apr 1, 2007
VBS tours the fetid garbage dump Bulgaria’s Gypsies are forced to live in.
The Last Aryans of Paraguay
Apr 7, 2007
South America’s lost Aryan colony.
The Dream Machine
Apr 21, 2007
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Jeepnys: The Rolling Carnival
Jul 16, 2007
Jeepnys are Filipino hotrods, and there’s no better way to get around Manila.
Nimbin Mardi Grass
Dec 4, 2007
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The VICE Guide to North Korea
Mar 3, 2008
VICE founder Shane Smith romps around the hermit kingdom.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Illegal Border Crossing Park
Feb 1, 2010
In El Alberto they offer tourists the chance to participate in a simulated illegal border crossing.
Last Dinosaur of the Congo
Aug 31, 2010
Legend has it that the last remaining dinosaur lives inside the Congolese jungle
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jesus of Siberia
Dec 21, 2011
Vissarion's church of the last testament is the only reason to visit Siberia.
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.
The Warias
Feb 1, 2012
Indonesia's Muslim transvestites need a place to pray, too.
Takanakuy
Mar 12, 2012
Takanakuy is a fighting ceremony with roots in the Andes’s pre–Spanish, pre–Incan history.
The VICE Guide to Karachi
Jun 4, 2012
VICE founder Suroosh Alvi visits Pakistan's ultraviolent metropolis.
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.
Blood Sacrifice in Sumba
Jul 11, 2013
Where Shamans and warriors worship holy sea worms.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
