1,000 Places to See Before You Die (2007)

Genre

travel documentary

Country

United States

Length

1 season, 14 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A couple travels around the world visiting about 100 notable locations from a travel book over five months. The show focuses on showing what each place looks like and offers basic observations from the hosts.

informativeleisurelycuriouswanderingneutralbreezyexploratoryrelaxedordinary

What happens

1000 Places to See Before You Die is a travel documentary that was shown on the Travel Channel in 2007. It was first shown March 29. It was also shown on Discovery HD Theater (now Velocity HD) in the same year. It is based on the book 1,000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz. The show, hosted by Albin and Melanie Ulle, a couple recruited for the purpose, travels around the world to ~100 of the places mentioned in the book over the course of 5 months. Reviewers have praised its portrayal of its various locales, and criticized the lack of "insightfulness" of the observations of its hosts. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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