VICE TRAVEL

Spanish Bombs: Granada Unveils Joe Strummer Plaza

Punk rock was never meant to gain municipal recognition, but with time it often occurs that what was once rebellion becomes part of the establishment. Joe Strummer of the Clash has been no stranger to public acknowledgement, and yesterday the city of Granada, Spain, named a plaza in his honor. Full story

The Loneliness of the Village at the End of the World

Last year, director Sarah Gavron and cinematographer David Katznelson visited Niaqornat, a tiny village in Greenland, and made a documentary centered on the collision between the old and the new, and the residents’ struggle with climate change and government policies. Full story

I Tested out Three Cambodian Spiritual Practices



In the village where I live and work for a small NGO, folk religion is woven into the way locals experience daily life. People swap tips about the best local fortune-tellers and healers. They chalk skulls and crosses on their door frames to protect their homes from malevolent g… Full story

Meet the Malaysian Neo-Nazis Fighting for a Pure Malay Race

They realise that Nazis generally don't like Asian people, but apparently that doesn't matter. Full story

Interviewing South African Rape Victims Isn't Easy When You're Disfigured

Late last year, I spent a week in South Africa's townships researching the jolly topic of masculinity and child rape for an article. Being my first foreign assignment, I was expecting a bit of a rough ride into an unknown territory and the horribly distressing subject matter with… Full story

Weediquette

T. Kid Versus Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves

For the avid pot smoker, planning a vacation always comes with the caveat of finding a place where trees will be plentiful and the laws regarding them lenient enough that you can avoid the hellish prospect of a third world prison. By and large, I’ve found most European countries… Full story

My Strange Weekend at a Bicycle Race with Lance Armstrong and a Crack Addict

I had no idea a huge bicycle race was set to happen in the small Mexican town I was visiting, but within 24 hours of my plane landing I was shaking hands with Lance Armstrong and bunking with a guy suffering from a debilitating drug problem. Full story

Teaching Evil to Norwegians

Norway has been linked to grandiose notions of evil for centuries. Soltun, a school Norwegians attend for one year after secondary school in the town of Harstad, announced that it will be offering a new course devoted to a yearlong study of the evil that lurks in the hearts of me… Full story

Alabama’s Strip Clubs of Death

Most of the time, shootings in strip clubs are rare occurrences, the result of a drunk who’s thrown out of the club and comes back with a gun for revenge. But in Alabama the strip club murder rate is completely out of control. Curious to see the sites of such strange violence, I… Full story

The People of Hastings Still Do May Day the Traditional Way

May Day is a bullshit holiday thought up by a bunch of heathens in the BC days. Originally a celebration of spring, it's now primarily an excuse for Europeans to be obnoxious and take a day off work. One place in Europe keeping things traditional, though, is Hastings in East Suss… Full story

The Forgotten Russian Enclave of Kaliningrad

Sweden's former prime minister Goran Person once described Kaliningrad this way: “It is heavily polluted. There are illnesses there like AIDS and tuberculosis. There is atomic waste. You find almost every imaginable problem in Kaliningrad.” Full story

Welcome to Nakhchivan, the San Francisco of the Middle East

As my plane touched down into Azerbaijan’s Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, I half-expected to step out into a crumbling landscape ripped from a still of 'Enemy at the Gates.' Admittedly, I’d formed this image based on scant and stale stories, but the modern history of this massiv… Full story

Burma's Most Decadent Zoo Is Full of Fake Animals

In 2012, while covering the Burmese elections in Rangoun, I took a train to the city the Burmese never really lived in, the new country's new capital Naypyidaw. As soon as I got there, I realized there wasn't much to do, and ended up passing the time visiting a deserted gemstone Full story

Remnants of the Waco Siege: Mount Carmel on the 20th Anniversary of the Branch Davidian Disaster

After the Waco siege, gun owners, especially in the South and Michigan, banded together into civilian militias, calling themselves patriots and Constitutionalists. They practiced military maneuvers on weekends and told co-workers that a second American Revolution was brewing. One… Full story