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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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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