A true genuine Lebanese Hospitality | Bsharri | Qadisha valley | mE 11
let's go so guys so guys we are uh i'm finally starting my journey in lebanon and we are heading to baalbek i don't know if it's gonna take two or three days something like that because uh for the first part of the ride it's a climb of 55 kilometers from sea level to 2500 meters basically so it's gonna take quite a long time so let's go to baalbek and on the way we should see the kadisha valley and the cedars of god also so let's go so that's where hamed told us that there is a mosque and there is a church just next to it and that's the fortress built by the crusaders so as i was saying i'm starting my my tour around lebanon hopefully if i stay two months i i can go around all the country but yeah 55 kilometers climb from sea level to 2500 meters let's do it guys well as you can see it's a christian area it's funny because i think tripoli was a a big majority of sunni some muslim people from the sunni branch and and here in the hills it looks like it's a lot of christians oh my god it's insane yeah and as i talking to you i wanted to tell you uh just uh what a fact about lebanon which is uh quite impressive to me so basically in lebanon you have let's say approximately 7 million people living but in the 7 million people only 4 million are lebanese because you have like 2 million syrian refugees and approximately 1 million of palestinian refugees as well can you imagine that's that's really nuts, it's like almost half of the population of the country are refugees that's really crazy look at that view well the view is already almost gone because of the clouds it looks like i found some food there is a restaurant hello do you have food okay what do you have okay cheese i'll get with cheese manouche with cheese yeah okay one thank you and do you have a drink yogurt okay oh i think pepsi okay okay okay let's get pepsi to refill to get some energy and let's there so manoosh i think is the lebanese pizza i'm too tired to talk so that's the lebanese style pizza just the paste and cheese fantastic okay back on the road it's getting chilly it's already i'm already at one thousand meters high and it's it's getting very chilly ah 500 more meters to climb and i'm done for today oh my god and i discovered how you say hello here you just say bonjour like in french and this sign says one of the most beautiful villages of lebanon oh my god i'm dead it's just climbing constantly since this morning it's been three hours i'm just constantly climbing okay i see your first hotel on the way let's go to ask the price see if we can get a normal hotel for a good price like hussein on the ship told me uh that the hotels were very cheap now but the problem is uh often if they see you are a foreigner they increase the price a lot but still i wanna ask let's ask here maybe it's a little bit fancy but in turkey those fancy hotels were not expensive so maybe the fancy hotels are not expensive also in lebanon how much is it for a room here uh one night yeah just one night fifty dollars fifty dollars uh and in lebanese uh you have you have nothing cheaper one million 250. oh it's okay it's too expensive thank you let's just keep going and keep asking and maybe at some point uh i'll find a good price yeah because also when you you know when you negotiate if you say it's too expensive and you run away if they are overcharging you they will call you back and they will say oh let's let's talk about the price so if you say it's too expensive and so as i said now it's too expensive i run away and the guy doesn't say anything it means he doesn't want to lower the price so so i cannot do anything about it well i am arriving in the center and basically it's weird everything is closed okay so actually i am i discovered i am just 10 kilometers from bsharri but the thing is i thought it was a i had like a another big climb to get to there but apparently i don't have a climb so so i'll try to reach it's three half past three in the afternoon the sunset is very early here it is at half past four but uh i think if it's just 10 kilometers and just uh 300 meters to climb i might be able to reach um to reach a bsharri today actually and that would be great because uh there are cheap hotels there so i'll try my luck let's go to bsharri so that's ehden that's the lebanese garden of Eden only four kilometers left i think i will make it oh my god what a day i will have done about 50 kilometers and i used the both of my batteries entirely what a day oh my god i made it oh my god okay let's find a find an accommodation now oh my god sorry i'm in the front of the lodge no you you work here yeah yeah okay okay i would like to stay if it's possible to know if there is a room okay thank you do you have a reservation no no what's your name yeah why not a lot of climbing yeah I asked for the lodge and the neighbors told me to come up to their house and now i am in the house of the neighbors quite unbelievable so that's how you heat you heat the house with the with the wood oh diesel okay wow fantastic so that's the house of the neighbors of... good something like green tea okay no caffeine okay but that sounds good thank you so they want to offer me mint now oh okay yeah so it's the same uh oh it's the english word yeah mint is good sorry i am very weak because...
the day was hard i come from tripoli today it took you 5 hours, yeah something like that why the qadisha valley yeah why is it famous why is it a unesco uh actually i don't know a lot about the subject, they know more okay yeah so i'll translate it okay he is the one who knows it used to be central uh location to the uh catholic maronites okay okay those who uh apply to the rules of maroon okay if you know it i don't know i don't know i don't know much okay so he's everywhere in the streets on the road you have many many images of him okay okay and so he's from this valley basically uh he's from village okay just i was wondering because i see it's unesco but i don't know why so i wanted to ask thank you so that's mint right so they're offering offering me an infusion mint infusion i need it with sugar i was about to faint before i was like to say hello actually people say bonjour yeah, sometimes like everybody says bonjour since the french protectorate yeah okay yeah how many days you stay in turkey one month and one week something like that oh it's very beautiful yeah and people are very friendly also, now there is handmade cake i go down, and i come back yes after okay okay thank you so see you soon where do i go this way okay what a day okay okay so we are carrying the bags so i can get my room and uh get in the room for a 15 room then i'm gonna join the neighbors again it's funny to talk in the dark okay so that's my room in bsharri so the neighbors helped me to bring all my bags absolutely lovely my bike is in the garage of the neighbors and i think i'm just going to take a shower and uh and head back to the neighbors there to to go to go to see them they were fantastic and and i'm not gonna go to the pass tomorrow i'm gonna stay in the area for a few days and they told me also that the pass is dangerous because it's too late it's it's already frozen so i'll probably have to find another way to go to baalbek maybe head more south through the mountains and try another pass which is should be less high and hopefully there uh it's not going to be dangerous but that's going to be another story the story of today is the the neighbors in bsharri, i'm going back to the neighbors now so i guess i just enter so i i am back at the neighbors and uh it's very funny because uh so he works what's your name paul works also in the army and then so your... so her husband is here yeah but her sister husband told me not to go yeah and he told paul to tell me not to go and paul is telling me if you go tomorrow i go with you basically complicated so so now i'm thinking i am thinking uh maybe let's go i mean if you you can do it, before the storm, before the storm yeah yeah makes sense don't go but then let's go i love this house i'm recording it's all wooden house no just uh just these layers okay because it's better for winter no so now the the food is coming so they are offering me uh offering me food i think i don't know who to to who should i say thank you thank you welcome what's your name my name is micheline very french name it's the basic name in french, micheline so they are offering me very nice food thank you very much and so that's uh with cheese right yeah yeah and some vegetables what's that herbs green onions green oh green onion wow that's very good so bread with cheese and some vegetables let's try it okay you have tiktok okay let's try it i don't have very good and actually it was cooked it's very funny because you cooked it on there yeah it's the traditional stove okay traditional what okay uh yes so you're easy to cooking to cook to and to heat the house and everything yeah well that's great but it's very funny because actually they put the wood so you use that to heat to, and to cook so they put the bread here on under the under the thing for the tea and that's how the bread got cooked it's very funny are you grilling meat also on that chicken potato that's great it have an oven on the other side oh really oh wow that's fantastic i like the structure of the house this is hot water oh this is hot water for tea for tea for coffee for everything always hot water ready no but i like the structure also of the house because everybody faces each other so it's made to talk basically it's very nice okay let's eat and um okay so you see now the potato is getting cooked so this is a traditional house from the region almost all the houses with the same structure this is traditional sauce traditional sauce okay my sister made it, healthy homemade okay i'll try it looks good yeah you i i dip it inside or no half of the potato okay okay okay what's the name of the sauce and this is a chili yeah yeah you eat the chili just like this not everybody so let's try the potatoes grilled on the, oh it's hot, grilled on the on the thing with the salsa it's hot okay apparently it's something very important so i have to record now okay this one it is the arak, okay okay sec, without anything okay so okay okay oh sec you say sec, yeah like this is french okay about this this much okay add some water the magic oh this is i love you, ........ say i love you wow oh my god yes so i need to try the arak a lot of anise oh you taste it it's from grape it's from grape yeah okay it's good the main ingredient is grape we add some anise that's easier but how do you say i love you again it's so difficult i love you it's time to go time to go to sleep come tomorrow i will come to take the bike to go to the cedars yeah okay okay it's cold here in the night i guess so thank you very much for everything to you and all your family and welcome we do nothing no it's uh not everybody does that well i guess you can't see but what a sky
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