Have you met Mark & Olly?

02/9/09  Print This Post Print This Post    2 Comments   Popular   Written by Julie Schwietert
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Bubbly Samantha Brown

Brash Anthony Bourdain

Bold eater Andrew Zimmern…

Three travel show personalities who have become household names thanks to the Travel Channel.

But have you met Mark & Olly yet?

These are my types of TV travel show hosts– two guys (one a former British soldier– that’d be Mark–and the other, Olly, an investigative journalist)– who really try to get deep inside a place and understand it as participant-observers. This season, they’re embedding with the Machigenga, an indigenous Peruvian community.

Just one episode into the first season, the guys have already been initiated into tribal life by drinking a powerful hallucinogenic “potion.”

If you haven’t met Mark and Olly yet, it’s not too late. Check out a clip from the first episode here; then watch this behind-the-scenes sneak preview of episode 2:


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Julie Schwietert is the managing editor of Matador Network. She contributed a chapter to the recently published book, The Voluntary Traveler, and is currently working on five features for Fodor's Puerto Rico, 6th Edition.

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  • danmur replied on February 10, 2009

    I love Mark and Olly, and Bourdain. Can't wait to see more episodes of Living with the Machigenga!

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  • Judy replied on February 10, 2009

    This is a good show, Saw the episode with the hallucinogenic “potion.” that was wild. Also the episode where they ate a bat. I don't watch it that often once in awhile.

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