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:
Julie Schwietert
Julie Schwietert Collazo is a writer, editor, researcher, and translator currently in New York, formerly of Mexico City and San Juan. She is Matador's managing editor and is the lead faculty member of MatadorU's travel writing program.
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