In an interview conducted at Res Fest 06, LienMultimedia (check out their video channel) talks to co-founder Suroosh Alvi about the creationg of the VICE GUIDE TO TRAVEL
We went to such far-flung locales as the Pygmy villages of the Congo, the radioactive ruins of Chernobyl, and the bomb-pocked refugee camps of Beirut so that you never, ever have to go for yourself as long as you live. We took cameras so that we could prove that we went.
The largest illegal arms market in the world is in Durra, Pakistan. We took our team out there - it's just a short distance from the storied Khyber Pass - and saw the genesis of the guns that mujahideen from around the Muslim world are buying to fight the American army in Afghanistan. We even tried out a few handmade AK-47s.
Souces as reputable as Scientific American and the BBC believe that there may still be dinosaurs in the most remote jungles of the Congo. We sent some amateur cryptozoologists out there to look for the creature the local pygmies call Mokele-mbembe, or "he who stops the flow of rivers." What they ended up experiencing in the Heart of Darkness has to be seen to be believed.
