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Madventures is a new show (new to me,anyway) on the Travel Channel. Two Finnish guys go to the the worst slum in Rio, where gangs, not cops rule. After that they go from the jungles of the city to the jungles of the rain forest. There they find a 92 year old Shaman who guides them into the world of the unknown. He prepares for them the very psychedelic root known as Ayahuasca, where they undergo a very long and intense trip.
If all that wasn't dangerous enough, the next episode they go to Burma, which is as secretive and totalitarian as North Korea.
These guys are real, as evidenced by the very first segment where a doctor implants a 3 carat diamond into one of the boys arm and stitches it up. If they get in a jam, they have a perfectly hidden item they can get a couple thousand dollars, anywhere in the world, in case of emergency.
No camera crew, just two crazy dudes.
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67 TRAV: Tuesday, September 22 2:00 AM
Travel

Brazil: On the River of Shamans
Riku and Tunna travel from Brazil's urban jungles of Rio to the rain forests of the Amazon basin in the footsteps of William Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.

Original Air Date: Sep 21, 2009

Future Airings:
TRAV Tuesday, September 22 2:00 AM Brazil: On the River of Shamans
TRAV Tuesday, September 22 2:30 AM South East Asia: The Long Road to Burma
TRAV Thursday, September 24 10:00 PM Brazil: On the River of Shamans
TRAV Thursday, September 24 10:30 PM South East Asia: The Long Road to Burma
TRAV Friday, September 25 2:00 AM Brazil: On the River of Shamans