The BEST episodes of Globe Trekker season 17
Every episode of Globe Trekker season 17, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Globe Trekker season 17!
Globe Trekker takes to on journeys to countries from every continent around the globe. Each unforgettable destination is hosted by one of the Globe Trekker team members, who dare to try or eat anything new. Join veteran Ian Wright, Justine Shapiro, Megan McCormick and their teammates on their journeys by tuning in your local PBS channels.
#1 - Top Ten African Adventures
Season 17 - Episode 8 - Aired 4/10/2016
We travel all across Africa – to Ethiopia, Kenya, Zambia, Madagascar, South Africa, Gabon, Cameroon, Nigeria, Niger, and Cape Verde – in search of the continent’s Top 10 adventures.
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#2 - Globe Trekker Roadtrip: Rust Belt Highway
Season 17 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/27/2016
A road trip through Pittsburgh, Detroit and Flint, Mich.; Cleveland, Toledo and Akron, Ohio; American industries; Rust Belt.
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#3 - Ruta 40 Road Trip: Patagonia
Season 17 - Episode 1 - Aired 11/8/2015
A Ruta 40 tour of Argentina features Volcan Lanin, the highest peak in the area; Seven Lakes Drive; the Lake District in San Carlosde Bariloche; and the former hippie colony of El Bolson. Also: Butch Cassidy's hideout in Cholila; Trevelin, a town that was founded by Welsh immigrants; and the Cabo Virgenes lighthouse.
#4 - Top Ten South American Adventures
Season 17 - Episode 3 - Aired 5/15/2016
In this Globe Trekker Special, we travel all across South America, to Guyana, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, and Brazil – in search of the continent’s Top 10 adventures.
#5 - Delhi and Agra
Season 17 - Episode 6 - Aired 4/3/2016
Delhi is an incarnation of 7 cities all borne out of a bloody history. It’s a city teeming with extraordinary life flowing through the 22 million plus inhabitants who make India’s capital one of the most vibrant in the world.
#6 - Poland
Season 17 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/28/2015
Poland is not a country one would normally associate with jolly travel destinations but think again! This country is rich in folklore and history – and surprisingly, not all of it is dark. Certainly, this is what globe trekker, Megan McCormick, discovers on her traipse across Silesia, Pomerania and Warmia Masuria for this very insightful Globe Trekker in Poland.
#7 - Isolated Islands: Saint Helena
Season 17 - Episode 7 - Aired 5/31/2015
In this program, Zay Harding embarks on a five day voyage from Cape Town on the last authentic British Royal Mail Ship, travelling 2000 miles across the South Atlantic to one of the world’s most remote inhabited islands – the tiny British Overseas Territory of St Helena, marooned over 1300 miles from the nearest mainland. The island is blessed with spectacular scenery and a fascinating history, but as yet it has no airport, so it’s very rarely visited.
#8 - Ruta 40 Road Trip: The Andes
Season 17 - Episode 2 - Aired 11/1/2015
A motorcycle journey along Ruta 40 in Argentina. Included: the Salinas Grandes; the natural wonders of Seven Colors Hills; and Tilcara, a city that dates back some 10,000 years. Also: pre-Columbian ruins in Pucara; and the National Park of Leoncito.
#9 - Rust Belt Part II: The American Rebirth
Season 17 - Episode 13 - Aired 4/9/2017
Spanning the American Midwest and its Great Lakes states for innovations that ignited an industrial revolution.
#10 - Mumbai City Guide
Season 17 - Episode 14 - Aired 7/2/2014
Zay Harding encounters a Bollywood artist in Bandra; explores Dharavi, India's largest slum made famous by the movie 'Slumdog Millionaire;' takes in the fish market at Sassoon Docks; checks in to the luxurious Taj Palace Hotel; tours the sea fort of Murud Janjira; visits the open-air laundromat, shops in the Chor Bazaar; flies to the World Heritage site of Ellora; tries his hand at the ancient form of pole yoga and meets Mahatma Gandhi's grandson.
#11 - Sacred Places – Great Mosques
Season 17 - Episode 5 - Aired 4/10/2016
We visit some of the planet’s most spectacular and grandest mosques. Islam, founded in the 7th Century in what is now Saudi Arabia by the Prophet Muhammad, spread rapidly throughout the Middle East and into Europe, Africa and Asia.
#12 - Hawaii 2
Season 17 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/4/2016
Globe trekker Zoe D’Amato sets out on a grand adventure to explore 4 of Hawaii’s mounds of beauty – Big Island, Maui, Oahu and Kauai.
#13 - The Rise and Fall of the British Raj
Season 17 - Episode 9 - Aired 4/10/2016
The “Raj” – stout British governors of 18th and 19th century India - gets the Globe Trekker treatment in a sweeping history special presented by travellers Bobby Chinn, Zay Harding, Katy Haswell, Holly Morris and Ian Wright. They span the Asian subcontinent to illustrate the spectacular story of the rise and fall from grace of the once mighty British Empire.
#14 - Wild West
Season 17 - Episode 10 - Aired 4/10/2016
In this Globe Trekker Special, Zay Harding, Sami Sabiti, Holly Morris, Justine Shapiro and Ian Wright explore the extraordinary history of America’s spectacular Wild West.