Worlds Apart
Season 1
Imagine dropping a middle-class suburban family from the US into small towns with no electricity, plumbing or phones to live amid a traditional tribe for a journey that turns their world upside down.
Where to Watch Worlds Apart • Season 1
13 Episodes
- East Brunswick, NJ meets KenyaE1
East Brunswick, NJ meets KenyaImagine dropping a middle-class suburban family from New Jersey into the barren Kenyan desert with no electricity, plumbing or phones to live amid a traditional Kenyan tribe for a journey that turns their world upside down. https://web.archive.org/web/20030809030614/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/daily/20030427.html - Oakton, VA meets Papua New GuineaE3
Oakton, VA meets Papua New GuineaImagine taking an overscheduled, overachieving suburban family from Virginia and dropping them into a tranquil village off mainland Papua New Guinea to live among the people of the Trobriand Islands, a place known as the "islands of love." Will they survive living off the land? More importantly, will they survive each other? - Katonah, NY meets IndiaE4
Katonah, NY meets IndiaImagine dropping a middle-class suburban family from New York into the hot Indian countryside with little electricity, no toilets and no easy way to reach the outside world to live among a traditional Rajasthani family for a journey that turns their world upside down. - St. Louis, MO meets MongoliaE6
St. Louis, MO meets MongoliaWhat happens when an urban family from St. Louis Missouri is transplanted to the steppes of Mongolia to live with a family of semi-nomadic horse herders? Dropped into a world of collapsible houses, wild horses and back-breaking work, the Nobles learn as much about themselves as they do about this untouched terrain. It isn't called "Outer Mongolia" for nothing. https://web.archive.org/web/20031023010714/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/daily/20031117.html - Detroit, MI meets PeruE7
Detroit, MI meets PeruImagine dropping an urban family from downtown Detroit into the soaring Andes Mountains of Peru to live with Descendents of the Incas for an experience that will turn their world upside down. https://web.archive.org/web/20040229162815/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/daily/20031208.html - Traverse City, MI meets GuyanaE8
Traverse City, MI meets GuyanaImagine plucking a happy-go-lucky family from their quiet midwestern life and plummeting them into the stark realities of South American cowboy culture. Toss in some whips, some maggots, and triple-digit temperatures - and what do you get? - a family not quite sure if they should run for cover, or get back in the saddle. https://web.archive.org/web/20040224235321/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/daily/20040119.html - Chicago, IL meets MoroccoE9
Chicago, IL meets MoroccoWhat happens when an urban family from downtown Chicago forgoes their cell phones and fast food for a simple, communal lifestyle in a Moroccan mountainside village? https://web.archive.org/web/20040203163642/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/daily/20040126.html - Darien, CT meets PanamaE10
Darien, CT meets PanamaWhat happens when a wealthy family from Darien, Connecticut jets to the remote jungles of Darien, Panama and tries to survive as members of the Wounan tribe? The name may be the same, but the living conditions are not. https://web.archive.org/web/20040606155102/http://www.nationalgeographic.com:80/channel/ET/daily/20040306.html - NYC meets Namibia Part IE12
NYC meets Namibia Part IWhat happens when four cosmopolitan New Yorkers trade the comforts of the Big Apple for the harsh realities of tribal life in northern Namibia? https://web.archive.org/web/20040606211526/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/daily/20040320.html - NYC meets Namibia Part IIE13
NYC meets Namibia Part IIWhat happens when four cosmopolitan New Yorkers trade the comforts of the Big Apple for the harsh realities of tribal life in northern Namibia? https://web.archive.org/web/20040606211526/http://www.nationalgeographic.com/channel/ET/daily/20040320.html