>>1045813I agree with this.
Its by far the best realistic description of travel, they travel basically as any normal person would.
Lots of travel documentaries tend to be super scripted and completely organised, while these are good to learn about major tourist attractions and history they give you no perspective on the journey, have scripted interactions with locals, give no indications of problems along the way & offer nothing that is not on the tourist trail. Other major issue is that they often get media access & transport is not shown or is private transport (which is out of reach for most of us).
I also liked long way around for similar reasons as departures, people tell me madventures is good and others say they dont like it because they say it always goes for the shock factor.
