All Seasons

Season 1

  • S01E01 Morocco

    • November 1, 2009
    • National Geographic

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

  • S01E02 Colombia

    • National Geographic

    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.

  • S01E03 Laos

    • National Geographic

    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.

  • S01E04 Israel & The West Bank

    • National Geographic

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

  • S01E05 Cambodia

    • National Geographic

    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.

  • S01E06 Mexico

    • National Geographic

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

  • S01E07 China

    • National Geographic

    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.

  • S01E08 Ethiopia

    • National Geographic

    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.

  • S01E09 Spain

    • National Geographic

    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.

  • S01E10 Kazakhstan

    • National Geographic

    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.

  • S01E11 Australia

    • National Geographic

    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.

  • S01E12 Madagascar

    • National Geographic

    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.

  • S01E13 Alaska

    • National Geographic

    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