Lonely Planet Six Degrees Season 2
Lonely Planet Six Degrees is Lonely Planet's flagship travel show, hosted by Asha Gill and Toby Amies. The show is centered on unique people living within locations, rather than simply famous tourist attractions, with one of the hosts meeting with one contact in a specific country, who in turn leads them to another contact, and so on, following the idea of six degrees of separation. In the first season Asha travelled to Mumbai, Buenos Aires, Kuala Lumpur, Melbourne, Auckland, Cape Town, London, and Singapore; while Toby travelled to Sydney, New York, Havana, Hong Kong, Berlin, San Francisco, Mexico City, and Paris. The series ran for 3 consecutive seasons and showed on Discovery Networks and dozens other international channels.
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Presenter Toby Amies hooks up with genial prankster Marc Horowitz and his partner-in-crime Jon Brumit for a heart-stopping race down San Francisco’s steepest and twistiest street – on a child’s plastic tricycle. Marc and Jon conduct Toby in a 60-second symphony, before making him coffee in the park with the help of the world’s longest extension cord.
Presenter Toby Amies hooks up with alternative arts guru Pancho Lopez, who exercises his democratic right to eat wherever he damn well pleases by staging elaborate dinners in public places – including a traffic island smack in the middle of a busy Mexico City thoroughfare.
Presenter Asha Gill hooks up with Chris Ntombemhlophe, an African shaman with a direct line to the ancestors. Chris takes Asha trance dancing in the city’s biggest black township and introduces Asha to outspoken diva Odidi Mfenyana, who’s reclaiming the Afro for Africans.
Presenter Asha Gill does her bit to save London from submerging six feet underwater, counts the city’s bat population and peeks inside the tomb of Kama Sutra guru Sir Richard Burton with nutty naturalist Bridget Nicholls.
Presenter Toby Amies meets charismatic Hong Kong fashion tracker Davena Mok, who kits him out with the latest gadgets and accessories he needs to thrive in this pulsating town. Social columnist and feng shui expert Nury Vittachi gives Toby an insight into three Hong Kong passions – money, horse racing and feng shui – and invites Toby to a fancy dress cocktail party thrown by the wealthy Harilela clan.
Presenter Toby Amies hooks up with puppeteer Christian Bahrmann, explores his ‘hood and helps put on a puppet show for Berlin kids. Christian introduces Toby to Natural Born Golfer Thorsten Schilling, who’s taken the distinctly unsexy game of golf and reinvented as an extreme urban sport. Thorsten and Toby play the ultimate game of golf through Berlin’s urban landscape.
Presenter Asha Gill hooks up with Andy Mac, the figurehead of Melbourne’s prolific street art movement which has taken art out of the galleries and put it on city walls. Andy celebrates the opening of his latest street exhibition with a block party in one of Melbourne’s signature alleyways and enlists Asha’s help stencilling the club banner of one of Melbourne’s biggest Australian Rules Football clubs.
Presenter Asha Gill meets the elf-like Misery, Auckland’s most distinctive graffiti artist whose spooky cartoon faces have invaded both the walls and the galleries of New Zealand’s biggest city. Together they spray a campervan - providing Asha with a psychedelic vehicle for her journey and Misery with a unique centre piece for her Exhibition.