When Anthony Bourdain died by suicide, he was in France filming the 12th season of his CNN show, Parts Unknown. After realizing that they’ll never understand why the celebrity chef’s life was cut short, fans began to wonder what would happen to the final season of Parts Unknown. CNN finished the season and will air seven new episodes starting on September 23, Eater reports. Five of the episodes are based in specific locations. Which makes you wonder: Where does Anthony Bourdain travel on the last season of Parts Unknown? Here’s what we know so far. The 12th season of Parts Unknown begins in Kenya Take one last ride with Anthony Bourdain. The final episodes of #PartsUnknown start Sunday, September 23 at 9p on @CNN. pic.twitter.com/HeVKpdHnOI — Parts Unknown (@PartsUnknownCNN) September 14, 2018 The premiere of the 12th and final season of Parts Unknown takes place in Kenya. As Travel + Leisure reports, CNN released a trailer that shows comedian W. Kamau Bell reflecting on the time he spent with Bourdain in Nairobi. In the clip — which you can watch on Vulture — Bell says, “Everybody who had dreams of traveling with Tony, it’s exactly as cool as you think it is. He wasn’t making TV for TV’s sake. He wasn’t just doing a job. This was his life’s work.” The trailer also shows an exchange between Bourdain and Bell as they sit on a hill, overlooking the plains of Kenya. Bourdain shares that it’s hard to believe all the opportunities that his career afforded him. And he also explains how grateful he felt for all of them. “17 fucking years,” Bourdain said. “As soon as the cameras turn off, the crew will be sitting around; we’ll be having a cocktail. I fucking pinch myself. I cannot fucking believe that I get to do this.” In a press release, CNN recounts what happens during the episode. Bell and Bourdain talk to locals in Nairobi. They take a Matatu party bus ride and share a meal of goat’s head soup. They also visit a boxing academy for young women, go to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, and spend time with a Maasai community. Anthony Bourdain also visits Asturias, Spain The season premiere is the only episode of the 12th season of Parts Unknown to feature Anthony Bourdain’s narration and full involvement, Vulture reports. But the show continues on to other locations. CNN reports that the second episode of the final season of Parts Unknown takes viewers to Asturias, Spain. As his traveling companion on this episode, Bourdain selected chef and humanitarian José Andrés, who “makes a return to his homeland.” During the episode, Bourdain and Andrés hike to a remote village in the mountains for traditional fabada. They scale ocean cliffs for gooseneck barnacles. And they visit secret cheese caves which — CNN emphasizes — are in undisclosed locations. Bourdain also tries pitu de caleya with local musician Pablo Und Destruktion. And CNN reports that Andrés “saves a special surprise for the end.” The chef travels to Indonesia for the final season The third episode of the 12th season of Parts Unknown sees Anthony Bourdain traveling to Indonesia, a large nation in southeast Asia comprised of thousands of volcanic islands and diverse ethnic groups. CNN reports that “a shadow puppet performance provides an entry into understanding Indonesia, a country comprised of thousands of islands whose people endured political turmoil, and one in which, Bourdain discovers, food is the great unifier.” Bourdain visits a variety of regions in the vast country. And he highlights unique traditions in each one, CNN reports. In Jakarta, Bourdain dines at a Padang Restaurant, where just about every item on the menu ends up on his table. And in Bali, he visits the beach and participates in a traditional Balinese funeral ceremony. Bourdain even travels to ‘Far West Texas’ When season 12 of Parts Unknown goes to Texas, it doesn’t just visit Texas. Instead, Bourdain chose to travel to “Far West Texas,” as CNN puts it. His destination? Big Bend near the Mexican border. The network characterizes this region of Texas as “an area that pits man against nature, and in which the land usually wins.” CNN reports that in this episode, Bourdain shares meals with “working cowboys who have made peace with the rough terrain.” And he also spends time with an anthropologist who decoded the White Shaman mural, a prehistoric landmark near the Pecos River. His last destination is the Lower East Side of Manhattan The final location that Anthony Bourdain visits on Parts Unknown is much closer to home for him and many of his viewers: the Lower East Side of Manhattan. CNN explains that on this episode, “Bourdain takes a personal journey through this formerly bohemian New York City neighborhood.” The episode shows Bourdain meeting and sharing meals with notable figures in the worlds of music, film, and art. That includes Richard Hell, Deborah Harry and Chris Stein, Lydia Lunch, Fab 5 Freddy, Danny Fields, Amos Poe, Jim Jarmusch, Kembra Pfahler, John Lurie, Clayton Patterson, and Harley Flanagan. CNN reports that these icons’ “collective cultural impact in the 1970’s and ’80’s has sustained through the decades.” The season also includes two specials Season 12 of Parts Unknown also features two specials, in addition to the five location-based episodes. CNN reports that in an episode titled, “Bourdain’s Impact,” viewers learn “how Anthony Bourdain’s unique perspective and voice altered the world of food, travel, and culture, and in the process, reinvented how audiences watched television and engaged intimately and actively with the world around them.” The second special, called “Behind the Scenes,” takes viewers inside Bourdain’s relationship his crew, CNN reports. The team traveled with the chef around the world. And CNN explains that “In this episode, the people who made Parts Unknown select moments from their episodes and pull back the curtain, to talk about collaboration, creative freedom, moments when Bourdain had their back or called them out, the times when he was caught off guard or forgot the cameras were even there.”<doc-sep>Anthony Bourdain As Anthony Bourdain's final season aired on Sunday 23rd on CNN's Parts Unknown, Kenya's Lewa Wildlife Conservancy was its centerpiece. In an emotional episode, the first since Bourdain tragically passed away, he shows his journey to kenya accompanied by W. Kamau Bell who is a host on CNN's United Shades of America. At Lewa, Bourdain and Kamau experienced the Conservancy’s work first-hand in protecting endangered species, including the black rhino and Grevy’s zebra. They met with the Lewa team to discuss conservation best practices and went on an anti-poaching patrol with rangers. The duo and their team stayed at Lewa Wilderness, one of Lewa’s five lodges. The lodge is tucked into a hillside overlooking a valley, and has stunning views of wildlife and rolling plains. They enjoyed spectacular wildlife viewing, and got to see some of Africa’s most iconic species during their stay. But not before they enjoyed a wild ride in the famed Kenyan matatus and sampled unique Kenyan cuisine. The trip was Kamau’s first trip to Africa and to a country that has a great personal significance to him. His name, Kamau, is of Kenyan origin, belonging uniquely to the Kikuyu tribe. After digging deep into his ancestry, he also discovered that he had East African ancestry. Here are some reactions to his final episode on CNN Watching #PartsUnknown and am reminded of Tennyson’s Ulysses; Anthony was a modern Odysseus, a legend in his own rite. What a loss, but such a legacy. @CNN @Bourdain pic.twitter.com/z9MrGKqFzG — Lindsay McCandless-deHaan (@lindsaymelissa0) September 24, 2018 The #UnitedShades crew watched tonight's #PartsUnknown. We have always been inspired by Tony & his crew. Tonight was no different. I know Tony would never have invited me w/o the work of the people pictured (& many others not pictured) to make #UnitedShades what it is. Thank you! pic.twitter.com/3UGoq0MeY5 — W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) September 24, 2018 @wkamaubell the love in Kibera was amazing. It’s so extraordinary that the people who have the least, give the most. I’m certain your life has forever been changed. Get back when you can #PartsUnkown — Politicking (@RealCharity919) September 24, 2018 “It’s as meta as it gets.” - @anthonybourdain and @wkamaubell ???????????? @PartsUnknownCNN #PartsUnkown pic.twitter.com/y5eUMEwHuQ — Ana Lydia Monaco (@analydiamonaco) September 24, 2018 Patiently waiting for a @MagicalKenya ad to come through on this @CNN #partsunkown ##anthonybourdain — Kimathi Jamhuri Wear (@JWKimathi) September 24, 2018 if there’s anything Tony taught us, it’s how to be a good guest”,@wkamaubell says:#PartsUnkown #UnitedShades https://t.co/YgxEnezMzh — Roman Schukies (@RSchukies) September 24, 2018 Anthony Bourdain did Kenya justice on his newest episode of #PartsUnkown #kibera #nairobi #mombasa — Dare2beGreat (@dojochanda) September 24, 2018 Still so sad he's gone, but looking forward to watching. #RIP #AnthonyBourdain #Partsunkown #CNN https://t.co/5myTrihE3o Related Topics — TrueFoodies (@True_Foodies) September 18, 2018<doc-sep>On Sunday evening, CNN premiered its final season of Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown. The season premiere features the late Bourdain’s fellow CNN correspondent, W. Kamau Bell, the host of United Shades of America, on a tour of Kenya — a first-time destination for Bourdain’s roaming television crew. The Kenya episode may be the first of the season, but it’s also the final complete, conventional installment of Parts Unknown; the rest of the season was produced after Bourdain’s death in June. The six remaining episodes will feel different: In lieu of Bourdain’s classic narration, they will feature voice-over commentary about the reporting locations from each episode’s guests. The final two episodes will pay tribute to Bourdain, concluding his show and recapping his legacy, which endures far beyond any one destination. In Kenya, Bourdain and Bell discuss the African diaspora. Bell enters the episode as Bourdain’s guest, but he quickly establishes himself as the episode’s dominant perspective — an African American comedian and civil rights activist who is anxious to visit his ancestral home for the first time. Throughout their travels together — at modest dining tables and atop gorgeous hilltops — Bell describes the disparities and tensions between black American identity and black African identity. Bell explains his trepidation about “doing right by this culture,” which gave him his name, Kamau. Bourdain listens. The final, posthumous season of Parts Unknown will end with all-consuming tributes, but it begins with Bourdain doing what he does best — eating, talking, listening. Cable channels and video-streaming services have followed Bourdain’s example: There’s now far more thoughtful and adventurous food programming than there was at the start of Bourdain’s television career 16 years ago. Michelin-star television, such as Chef’s Table and Ugly Delicious, is now a subgenre unto itself. In 2018, prestige television has at last welcomed a great variety of middlebrow food programming, with expensive production values and regard for culinary auteurs the world over. Still, paradoxically, there are no shows quite like Bourdain’s original food travelogue, No Reservations, or his second series, Parts Unknown. No Reservations, which the Travel Channel aired for nine seasons, marked Bourdain’s roguish, experimental phase: The dauntless host blended his boundless (and often disastrous) appetite with political insights and prevailing humanitarian convictions about his subjects. In Parts Unknown, now in its 12th season, Bourdain styled himself more as a TV journalist at-large, a true CNN correspondent, reporting on a scandalous political feature from Tehran and interviewing Barack Obama in Hanoi. In the course of a decade, Bourdain outgrew the basic expectations that viewers might bring to a food show. Bourdain’s travelogue became reportage. His culinary career became a sustained political critique about various reactionary concerns, including totalitarianism, colonialism, and U.S. foreign policy. Ultimately, Bourdain crafted a longform reporting style that resembles no other serialized programming on Western television. Bourdain’s travels were enviable, even when his accommodations were far from extravagant or even peaceful. His segments were smart and purposeful, but also as fun as any good night out on the town. Bourdain revealed the distance between food criticism and political concern to be nonexistent. His affable manner and journalistic curiosity (and a few beers) helped Bourdain reconcile the two realms with humorous ease. Television forged Bourdain’s stardom, but it wasn’t the entirety of his life’s work. He left other unfinished business that only he, the global foodie ambassador, could have dreamed up. For four years, Bourdain led an effort to develop an international food emporium, Bourdain Market, at Manhattan’s Pier 57. Bourdain Market was an ambitious but unwieldy project — the news reports surrounding its troubled development described a mythical bazaar to host all the world’s chefs, ingredients, and cuisines. Ultimately, Bourdain scrapped the project, citing frustrations with local real estate and international visas. Bourdain shuttered the project six months before his death. In the three months since Bourdain’s passing, there’s been an outpouring of sympathies and remembrances, but there’s been no attempt to revive the monumental undertaking that summarized his diplomatic ambitions — an undertaking that might have ideally memorialized Bourdain with a communal liveliness befitting his global mission. Still, we’re left with his television show, his writings, and his indelible impression. In television, Bourdain’s genre now bears his influence: The shows are provocative documentaries about culture, history, and politics now. Parts Unknown will pass into reruns, carrying Bourdain’s authoritative tenor into a syndication that can only faintly answer him. In his show’s final season, Bourdain’s guests will host the restless traveler one last time.<doc-sep>Anthony Bourdain tragically took his own life in June, so the final season premiere of his show, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown, was bittersweet for both his fans and his colleagues. In the first episode of Season 12, Bourdain traveled to Kenya. During his opening narration, Bourdain said, “Today’s Kenya is phenomenally beautiful. There is a growing middle class, a highly rated educational system and an enthusiastic and multilingual professional sector. Which is to say this is decidedly not a s***hole.” Bourdain was referring to comments President Trump made about African countries, among other poorer nations, that he called “s***hole countries.” Food. Geography. Language. But more importantly social, political and cultural consciousness. That’s what made #PartsUnknown SO special. — Angel, MS, CRNP (@UrbnHealthNP) September 24, 2018 While in Kenya, Bourdain met with members of the persecuted LGBT community, visited a gym that trains women how to box, and of course sampled the local dishes. And it is those all-encompassing elements of his show that many so admired. This conversation me and Tony had on the hill was one of the best experiences in my life. I knew it at the time & I means even more now. Thank you, Tony. #PartsUnknown #UnitedShades #ShadesUnknown pic.twitter.com/BLhK8oxs3S — W. Kamau Bell (@wkamaubell) September 24, 2018 Bourdain’s traveling companion for this episode was United Shades of America host W. Kamau Bell, who live-tweeted during the episode, “This conversation me and Tony had on the hill was one of the best experiences in my life. I knew it at the time & [it] means even more now. Thank you, Tony.” Story continues The episode ends with a haunting reflection when Bourdain says, “Who gets to tell the stories? This is a question asked often. The answer in this case, for better or for worse, is, I do, at least this time out.” This final season will consist of five standard episodes and two special tribute episodes, so fans can enjoy Bourdain as he tells at least a few more stories. Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown airs Sundays at 9 p.m. on CNN. Watch as Trump’s hurricane comments become a children’s book on The Late Show: Read more from Yahoo! Entertainment: Tell us what you think! Hit us up on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram, or leave your comments below. And check out our host, Kylie Mar, on Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram.<doc-sep>
After gracing televisions since 2013, Anthony Bourdain: Parts Unknown will premiere its final season on Sunday, Sept. 23 at 9 p.m. ET. By the time this travel show concludes, which was hosted by the late chef and TV personality, it will boast 12 installments, with episodes exploring everywhere from Punjab to the Bronx. And although Parts Unknown Season 12 has fewer episodes than its predecessors, the final chapter promises to be a mix of the show's usual fare and a heartfelt goodbye to their inimitable host. Bourdain died in June while filming an episode of Parts Unknown in France, per CNN. Fans, coworkers, celebrities, and politicians alike were quick to share both their heartbreak and admiration for the late host, and it was clear just how beloved he was. "'Low plastic stool, cheap but delicious noodles, cold Hanoi beer,'" President Obama tweeted on June 8. "This is how I’ll remember Tony. He taught us about food — but more importantly, about its ability to bring us together. To make us a little less afraid of the unknown." People from all walks of life shared just how important Bourdain had been to them. For that reason, it will be incredibly bittersweet for audiences to watch Bourdain's final season of Parts Unknown. And while Seasons 10 and 11 featured nine and eight episodes respectively, Season 12 will have just seven, according to the L.A. Times. One episode will feature Bourdain traveling to Nairobi, Kenya alongside comedian and United Shades of America host W. Kamau Bell. This was the only episode which Bourdain had done the voiceover for previous to his death, per the same L.A. Times piece. "Everybody who had dreams of traveling with Tony — it's exactly as cool as you think it is," Bell says in a trailer for Season 12, later explaining, "Nairobi is super technicolor, and so it's a lot to take in. It's one of those things about [Bourdain's] show that he did amazingly. It was a place that nobody would go to who didn't live in that town." And yet, as always, the chef looks right at home. According to an op-ed Bell wrote about Bourdain for CNN, the pair first met at the 2016 Emmys. Bourdain suggested they work together, and the comedian enthusiastically agreed. "Once we got down to it, we decided that Kenya would be the location, because although I'm not Kenyan, my name 'Kamau' is Kenyan (Kikuyu to be precise)," he recalled. "For years, Kenyans have told me that I needed to go to Kenya." And so Kenya it was. A preview clip on the Parts Unknown site shows Bourdain and Bell preparing to eat goat's head soup. The comedian looks, wide-eyed, at a literal goat's head, which is chopped up in front of them. "I hear the words goat head soup, and I think, 'Oh yeah, it'll be meat from the goat's head in a soup,'" he confides with Bourdain. This season will also take audiences to Manhattan's Lower East Side, the Big Bend area of Texas, Indonesia, and Asturias, Spain, per the L.A. Times. However, Amy Entelis, the executive vice president of talent and content at CNN, said in the same article that these episodes were completed by directors and other crew members. "Each one will feel slightly different depending on what’s gathered in the field," she said. "They will have the full presence of Tony because you’ll see him, you’ll hear him, you’ll watch him. That layer of his narration will be missing, but it will be replaced by other voices of people who are in the episodes." What's more, the show will also include two specials: One will feature the cast and crew talking about creating the show, per the L.A. Times, while the final episode will be a tribute to Bourdain and how he impacted the world. So while this final season of Parts Unknown will surely be heartbreaking, it will also be bittersweet for fans to watch Bourdain take them on one last tour around the world. Like Bell said on Twitter, "while it will be a very emotional episode w/ his passing, I don't want to forget that we had a really good time & we laughed a lot." If you or someone you know is experiencing suicidal thoughts, call the National Suicide Prevention Hotline at 1-800-273-8255 or text HOME to the Crisis Text Line at 741741.