Planète insolite

This is definitely my favourite travel show ever made! It's funny, educational, entertaining, etc.

Every episode represents a country in their real light, with good and bad sides, telling us about their history, culture, costums, food, and even the most random stuff that you could never find in a travel guide book.

I especially love the episodes with Ian Wright as the host and traveller as he really does an incredible job with his goofiness and witty comments to the most random of topics.

If you are keen to learn something new about a certain country I would definitely recommend you to see this show!!

In Canada this show was titled just "Lonely Planet" I was glued to the TV throughout the 1990s watching every episode I could, until it disappeared. I would love to re-watch them all and all the ones I missed.

Globe Trekker or "Lonley Planet" here in America (I use to live overseas in the middle east)is extremely entertaining. From Mauritian waterfalls, to the Chinese forbidden city, to Indonesia volcanoes and orangutans, to Mexico's bullfights, to Kenyan landscape, to Londons modern cities, to the Rio Carnival, to Ghana's beaches, to Greenland. I love to travel where ever, whenever, or however. I myself have been to many countries and this wants me want to get back on the plane. It captures cuisine, nature, landscapes, culture, and history my favorite things in the world like ingredients and soup. If this show was soup no matter if I'm sick or healthy I wanting heaping teaspoons of it.

"Lonely Planet" is great! It is more than just a tour guide -you really get to know the place and the people (the theme song is also wonderful!).

All travelers are quite funny and creative - what makes the show even better.

I wish I had money to visit all those incredible sights. Who knows? Maybe someday there'll be an opportunity.

When this was originally conceived, it was meant to represent a guide to backpackers on a off the beaten path traveling. It's timing was just perfect for a couple of reasons. At its start in 1994, the world is just opening up as the cold war ends and everybody starts looking for tourism. People have started going to places where no outsiders have ever been. But it's not too late that these places start to turn into tourist traps, and the world becomes an homogenized place. In fact, that's what is happening to the show in the last few years. Everywhere is starting to look the same. This is not a pretty tourism production. At least it wasn't at the start. It was guerrilla filming at the time. That's when it was the greatest. Now closing in on 20 years, it is maybe past its prime.