One of the most common truisms about NZ is that there are more sheep than people: around 40 million woolly residents, and 4 million humans. After being outnumbered for so many years, it looks like the kiwis have finally cracked.

The Vice magazine boys just uploaded a few clips from their gonzo travel documentary to Travelistic.

Travel headlines for the weekend of 1/7/07

Not the real kind, the kind that come and spend their dollars in Rio and Buzios, but rather the new slasher movie about a group of hot-but-dumb Yanks who get carved up by organ harvesters on a trip to the Amazon.

The results of the Condé Nast Traveler film poll are in, with the top 50 flicks, as chosen by readers, that captured a real sense of place and inspired them to travel.

Perhaps to give you something to think about during the hours you will spend at the airport if you’re flying during the holidays, USA Today has published a dubious list of “Great Airport Moments in Film.”

News about the opening of Casino Royale, and tips on how to make yourself over as a double-O agent.

People can’t seem to get enough of those crazy ‘Stans and their hodgepodge post-soviet cultures lately.

The travel pages kept it real this weekend, with stories on stunt trips and secret destinations, tips on how to find and avoid political hotspots, and news about how growing numbers of people are changing some beloved destinations.

There seems to have been a choice of two topics in the travel stories published this weekend: creepy, Halloween-themed tales, or serious newspapers (the WaPo, the NYT) trying a fresh take on the been-there, done-that subject of the Caribbean.