Lonely Planet: Roads Less Travelled

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Series 1 Episodes

Morocco

Episode 1: Morocco

Travel writer John Vlahides explores the road less travelled in Morocco on assignment for guidebook publisher Lonely Planet.

Next Showing on National Geographic Channel:

Friday, 8 June 10:30pm
Saturday, 9 June 10:30am
Colombia

Episode 2: Colombia

Setting out from the notorious city of Medellin, intrepid photojournalist Dominic Bonuccelli braves army roadblocks, kidnap warnings and gunslinging cowboys on assignment for Lonely Planet.

Next Showing on National Geographic Channel:

Friday, 15 June 10:30pm
Saturday, 16 June 10:30am
Laos

Episode 3: Laos

Over 35 years after he founded Lonely Planet, Tony Wheeler is back on the road, taking in elephant beauty contests, tribal love huts, caves and the enigmatic tribal people as he crosses Laos.

Next Showing on National Geographic Channel:

Friday, 22 June 10:30pm
Saturday, 23 June 10:30am
Israel & The West Bank

Episode 4: Israel & The West Bank

Amelia Thomas discovers there are two sides to every story as she explores the road less travelled through Israel and the West Bank.

Next Showing on National Geographic Channel:

Friday, 29 June 10:30pm
Saturday, 30 June 10:30am
Cambodia

Episode 5: Cambodia

Lonely Planet puts budding writer and raw recruit Tamara Sheward through her paces on a journey down the road less travelled in South-East Asia's latest travel hotspot - Cambodia.

Mexico

Episode 6: Mexico

Lonely Planet photographer Dominic Bonuccelli heads into the wilds of northern Mexico to chart a course through the rugged Sierra Madre mountains.

China

Episode 7: China

Shawn Low heads to the mountain valleys of Yunnan Province. He goes crossbow hunting for his supper and joins the dating rituals of a tribe.

Ethiopia

Episode 8: Ethiopia

Lonely Planet writer Katharina Kane blazes a trail through Ethiopia, a country more well-known for its droughts and desolation than its awesome tourist drawcards like a drug-fuelled trance vigil.

Spain

Episode 9: Spain

Lonely Planet photojournalist Dominic Bonuccelli blazes a trail through the far north of Spain, running with bulls, hunting for barnacles, wrestling wild horses and setting fire to his clothes.

Next Showing on National Geographic Channel:

Saturday, 23 June 9:30pm
Sunday, 24 June 4:30pm
Kazakhstan

Episode 10: Kazakhstan

Travel writer and archaeologist Iain Shearer blazes a trail through one of Asia's most enigmatic countries, where he hunts with eagles, sandboards dunes and helps nomads build their summer camp.

Australia

Episode 11: Australia

Travel writer Kerry Lorimer explores Australia's remote north-western region. Roughing it in the Outback, she tastes regional delicacies and shares tips for conversing and haggling with the locals.

Madagascar

Episode 12: Madagascar

It is a land of political turmoil, mysterious taboos and ancestor worship. Lonely Planet author John Vlahides encounters the natural, the unnatural and the supernatural in Madagascar.

Alaska

Episode 13: Alaska

Lonely Planet founder Tony Wheeler goes wild in Alaska, mountainbiking down glaciers, scaling ice crevasses, meeting walrus hunters, finding gold on the seabed, tracking elusive wildlife and more.

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