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Five Lessons Learned from Watching 'Locked Up Abroad'

We like to cover a lot of television travel here and with the exception of Lost, all of the episodes we watch have been fascinating, entertaining, amazing and exciting with maybe a few gross-out moments here and there. (Bizarre Foods, anyone?) But most importantly, these shows usually have us saying at the end of the episode, "I want to go there."

Then there's the National Geographic Channel's Locked Up Abroad, a show about travelers who were either kidnapped or sent to prisons while traveling abroad. Watching this is like watching "Scared Straight", the documentary about prisons that high school teachers show their students to deter them from criminal behavior. "Locked Up Abroad" has left us with severe paranoia about getting thrown into a jail in a country where we don't speak the language.

If you have any travel lust coursing through your veins right now, this show will shut it down immediately.

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