The Vice Guides to Travel
For the past few years, VICE magazine has been dispatching correspondents to far-flung, weird and dangerous parts of the world — places you would never, never think of taking the family on vacation — and they’ve been coming back with amazing footage. North Korea, Chernobyl and Liberia have all been visited by VICE’s foul-mouthed hipsters, who seem unusually eager to put themselves in harm’s way, get harassed by foreign police, and generally make a nuisance of themselves. It’s always fascinating.
These are clips from a few of my favorite episodes — you can watch more of them on vbs.tv. A warning to sensitive viewers! These guys swear a lot, and they find heavy stuff to film — weapons markets, crazy ritual dances, drug use.
Part one of a long series about North Korea, during which they almost get thrown in North Korean jail several times.
A preview for the guide to Liberia, which looks really intense — one of their guides is an ex-soldier who used to drink the blood of children.
The gun markets of Pakistan:
Shopping for dirty bombs in Bulgaria:
Hunting the radioactive beasts of Chernobyl:
The PLO boy scouts of Beruit, where kids are taught how to strap themselves with explosives (among other things):
This is only the tip of the iceberg — check out more at vbs.tv.
