Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope (1)
Joseph Rosendo's Travelscope
1 / TV-GThe Daytime Emmy-winning travel series Travelscope – now re-titled Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope – scales new heights of adventure, natural splendor and cultural richness this season. Host Joseph Rosendo journeys from the California coast to the islands of Hong Kong and to Chile’s Tierra del Fuego. Along the way, he encounters the heights of natural beauty in the Cariboo-Chilcotin Coast region of British Columbia, celebrates Christmas in Switzerland and circumnavigates the tip of South America. The series’ hallmark remains the rich cultural interchanges between Joseph and the local population. He joins the parade of medieval guilds during Zurich’s spring festival, shares devotions with a holy man in a rock-hewn church in Lalibela, Ethiopia and explores the mysteries behind the stone figures on Easter Island.
Seasons & Episode
Travelscope heads to Lausanne, Montreux and Basel, Switzerland to bask in the glow of a Swiss-style Christmas at some of the country’s best Christmas Markets.
Joseph climbs aboard the Regent Seven Seas Mariner for a Mediterranean cruise adventure. Onboard he joins National Public Radio and other Public Television journalists on a PTV at Sea cruise experience—meeting, greeting and speaking with his Public Television viewers.
Joseph and Julie are California Dreamin’ as they celebrate their anniversary along the state’s romantic coast. They join up with a coastal tour which begins in Southern California in their hometown of Topanga and then follows the golden state’s winding shoreline north to Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and to the edge of the Big Sur.
Joseph travels to the most remote inhabited place on earth during his Easter Island adventure. Located more than two thousand miles off the coast of Chile, Rapa Nui (the island’s native name) offers a world of mysteries - many that still remain unanswered.
In this little known expanse of British Columbia, Canada, Joseph discovers a world of adventures. “Land Without Limits” is the region’s slogan and Joseph has experiences from the ocean to the mountains that range from smoking salmon with the First Nations Nuxalk people.
Joseph travels to Northern Ethiopia to uncover its ancient history and discover its spiritual present thorough cultural adventures, myths and legends.
On his visit to Ontario, Canada, Joseph proves there’s more to the Niagara Peninsula region than Niagara Falls. He begins his explorations in Toronto, Canada’s most cosmopolitan city, where he finds one of the world’s most multicultural cities.
The spirit of Magellan is alive and well as Joseph circumnavigates the tip of South America on an expedition passenger ship. He sails through Tierra del Fuego and around Cape Horn on his latest Chilean adventure.
Joseph hits the trail to Southern Alberta, Canada and follows the path of the province’s settlement from the early days of the buffalo and the Blackfoot people to present-day ranchers and cowboys.
Joseph makes his way to San Miguel de Allende, Mexico for the annual fiesta in honor of its patron saint. While taking part in miles of processions, enjoying the world’s greatest fireworks display and dancing the night away to the music of dozens of local bands, he takes time to acquaint himself with the history and beauty of this UNESCO World Heritage colonial city, famous for its artistic soul.
We find out what Sechseläuten really means when we join Joseph on his springtime visit to Zürich, Switzerland. Considered a dry, formal, business town, Zürich casts off the stereotypes and its residents slough off their inhibitions when they welcome spring in celebration with the town’s historic medieval trade unions.
Joseph’s adventure begins along the shores of Lake Abaya and Chamo, two of the lakes of the 2,400 mile Rift Valley where modern man is said to have originated.
The Daytime Emmy-winning travel series Travelscope – now re-titled Joseph Rosendo’s Travelscope – scales new heights of adventure, natural splendor and cultural richness this season. Host Joseph Rosendo journeys from the California coast to the islands of Hong Kong and to Chile’s Tierra del Fuego. Along the way, he encounters the heights of natural beauty in the Cariboo-Chilcotin Coast region of British Columbia, celebrates Christmas in Switzerland and circumnavigates the tip of South America. The series’ hallmark remains the rich cultural interchanges between Joseph and the local population. He joins the parade of medieval guilds during Zurich’s spring festival, shares devotions with a holy man in a rock-hewn church in Lalibela, Ethiopia and explores the mysteries behind the stone figures on Easter Island.