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Bourdain visits Madagascar's unspoiled paradise with acclaimed film director Darren Aronofsky as his travel companion.

(CNN Press Room)

Season five of the award-winning CNN Original Series "Anthony Bourdain Parts Unknown" continues on Sunday, May 17, at 9 p.m.

Bourdain visits Madagascar's unspoiled paradise with acclaimed film director Darren Aronofsky as his travel companion. They explore the island nation off the southeastern coast of Africa, their journey starting chaotically in the crowded capital city of Tana and through the oft unseen countryside via a first class car on a crumbling French-built rail network.

Food to be seen in this episode includes the cuisine of Malagasy chef Mariette Andrianjaka, seafood, goose and chicken-ginger broth. Aronofsky mixes drinks for them on the train and nice-guy Bourdain passive-aggressively takes his travel pal, a vegetarian, to Looks Ramasy for a meal of pulled pork. The director lucks out, though, when he finds meat-free sides of manioc leaves, beans and rice.

The eight-episode season will also take the acclaimed chef and global explorer to New Jersey, Budapest, Hawaii and Beirut. Take a sneak peek at Sunday's episode below and watch Bourdain and Aronofsky travel by train across the country's verdant landscape.