Episode 76: Crossing the UN Buffer Zone into Northern Nicosia Cyprus
[Music] wow okay welcome to New destinations we are in larnica Cyprus and we are at our hotel which is a wonderful Hotel named High hotel I think I'm standing right I'm also losing my voice for this episode so please bear with me a little laryngitis um not kovid um we have a nice beach side kind of side view that they can offer at this hotel we like it it looks pretty cool and it's got a kind of an Alleyway here to lead to other other places anyway where are we going today today to the main city to Nicole yes we're going to switch cities and go from lonica to Nicole Nicosia or Nicosia yeah we're not sure what the pronunciation is but take whatever one you prefer uh and it's going to be a very unique city right because it's kind of like where the what the U.N um it's defined it in like two countries like uh Greece and in the north it's uh turkey yeah so in the middle of Nicosia or Nicosia there's like a a border patrol where we have to show our passport to go to the other side of the city yeah it might get a little scary at least you know because it'll be just like a whole nother place like being in Turkey so it's going to be very fascinating so stay with us and join us we will see you in a minute [Music] you don't know how the door works just open it like this she's new you're new you weren't here yesterday okay we met your friend oh I think that's her yeah yeah you're back I thought you weren't coming in how about you very good and you this is Jackie the one that was that Mr flight I missed her flight last night [Music] all the crazy flights from Amsterdam but I miss my connection in Vienna so after that has to take like three other flights oh no yes but I'm here so did you have a good rest yes yes we could sleep longer honestly but yeah okay I have a quick question we would like to take the city bus but how do we get tickets from the bus you can get it oh okay yeah see you later okay thank you take care all right bye-bye what's your name Nadia Nadia thank you Nadia nice to meet you yeah happy New Year bye-bye thank you bye-bye oh is it raining ah hello how are you good to see you all right that's right what I met yesterday oh really the maintenance woman it's very nice yeah the weather is incredible it's ideal weather I don't know how to describe it though yeah and you kind of need a jacket but you don't I mean that's our first impressions of the weather you can carry a jacket or you can just roll like this another first impression is that it's very very diverse here notice yeah it's hard to tell who's actually from Cyprus and who isn't uh just a lot of different races and cultures and things like that we're gonna probably try that right at some point are we gonna try that yeah I say we should get in at some point don't you yeah yeah and it's also not like right now not at all there's hardly anybody here yeah I think I I won't come here in summertime but like for now it's really nice people are playing yeah volleyball and stuff right now foreign [Music] thank you I had him last night he's really nice it's probably a lot of money this would be like a lot yeah no that's it's fine now send her the next one the next bus okay oh another coach it's another coach oh it says the Cozy on it look this is it only passed by now we're in the back it shouldn't have moved yeah does anybody know how much it costs to go seven Euro okay thank you well I think seven going seven back seven all around trip wow cool that's pretty inexpensive to go across the country okay awesome we'll buy it now yeah I'm sorry thank you can you let us know when we get there so this last station okay thank you yeah all right you want something to drink all right I'm gonna wait and hold everything until we get there it's only an hour and a half I don't want to have to use the bathroom passport yes check check double check [Music] thank you foreign [Music] this is the last stop so this is where we go bye-bye thank you very much Ain't Enough okay we've arrived in the cosia Nicosia we're gonna head to where I'm going now well we're like very hungry so uh Stars yeah that's like an hour from so it's like yeah one and a half and a half hours so now we're hungry we're gonna get a bite to eat stay with us [Music] we're in the typical City Center shopping district it's beautiful you can see up above the cool old school balconies imagine if this place was getting touched up how cool that would be oh wow what about this place right here let's try it it's got vegetarian dishes so I think this should work for us oh that sounds great let's do it yes we Love Vegetarian stuff yeah there's a lot of there's a lot of Veggie choices on the menu which is cool well we'll take the vegetarian platter yes two and um two orange juice [Music] nothing like fresh orange juice it looks amazing thank you so much wow I don't know where to start try this [Music] um you take it off it's just for decoration oh yeah you just scrape it off [Music] wow yummy first Greek was that your first Greek or I should say Cyprus Cuisine experience yeah it's yummy vegetarian Style I don't want me yummy yummy these Muslim men like you today okay so now we're gonna try to go to a mosque on the Greek side interestingly enough right yes all right let's see oh look a CD store yeah see those very often at all and look at the guy inside the owners just like sleep wow I love it I will have to go we'll have to come back here and shop and make that guy get awake all right let's go inside the mosque oh there it is wow the mosque and the Basilica in one place living together very very cool right it's cool right very cool yeah all right let's go inside can a woman go in No Woman No Woman you may sit outside okay you can't go inside you may sit outside yeah or maybe I will wait I'll go since we don't have time I'll go another time yeah we're all the way no no I don't want to be without you we'll just go another time all right that's a good point too bad Jackie couldn't come in here it's gorgeous women can come in women can come in here yeah this side is the women's party how does my girlfriend she wants to come home just come through here you said no who did the man dude no because I came in with my husband and uh let's see if I can get her in yeah sure okay thank you I saw a woman I said you what are you doing here and she said she came in so you come in you come in too you gotta hurry though while the getting's good you may have to put on this now look honey a head wrap is she okay like this should she put head wrap on it yeah it's best to it's just respectful okay respectful be respectful I think it's your hair right for my hair yeah yeah okay is everything else is okay there you go that's so nice of her to help us yes it's very sweet and hurry before they find out you're a woman so okay perfect it's interesting yeah there's no one here though hardly maybe it's the time of day or everybody's at the Turkish site oh yeah that's a good point I didn't think about that yeah yeah wow well we just saw a very very interesting difference between the Greek side well the creek side is empty I'm now actually in the section where only women can go so here you come in this is the place for the women's brain can do your laundry to go before they before they enter a woman in here let's get out of here okay so where to next we are going to the history of Cyprus to see him oh I want to learn a little bit more about Cyprus let's do this yeah let's go hello it's a museum yes okay cool this way okay [Music] thousands before Christ yeah I did hell yeah I mean we're right in a cradle of civilization I mean think about like where where Cyprus is located this is an archaeologist's dream Museum right here the images look phallicy [Music] I mean come on that one right there has got to be the one straight in the middle I mix it up that's number two and number two says Limestone figure in a phallic shape okay all right I knew we were going to something yes this is really cool this is like that thing in The Exorcist [Music] yeah well I'm sure that all of this stuff look was found on the island see this yeah yeah look at this so detailed and fresh as if they were made today [Music] what a great museum you did good thank you this is where I can just go around in every inch of this Museum wow that was the amazing Museum wow what's the name of it Cypress Museum or yeah the Cypress Museum of lethkocia unbelievably good wow if you find yourself in Nicosia you want to hit this Museum up I know I know what you're thinking museums can be boring but this one had some phenomenal things again I could have probably just gone through this each one by one looking at them in detail and reading anyway that's yeah it's for free and it's for free yeah before they made a mistake we don't know um it's your dress and my face anyway we're gonna head over now to that what that security that the Turkish side let's do it all right stay tuned [Music] we're back now we don't have a lot of time should we head up to that buffer zone that EU buffer zone the Turkish side yes or should we do a little more to the Greek side first is there stuff we need to do here we come back but I'm really anxious to go over to that side yeah see what it's like see the difference we could even try some Cuisine over there yeah exactly some dessert for laters yeah okay let's go do this you got your passport I got it all right I think it's right ahead of us is it yes oh wow did you know that uh no I didn't know okay all right we're about to do this we're about to go over to the Turkish side could be a little dangerous or getting it I will say though what I do know is that a U.S passport will get you there in EU will get you through I don't know about the other countries and how they accept them over there but these definitely get you through there hopefully uh and it may be tough I'm gonna whisper this it might be tough to film over there because those cops don't like to be on camera so I might have to take it off camera but we'll see you know how we do on New destinations sneaky all right follow us thank you on the buffer zone side right here first this is where the buffer zone is kind of like the No Man's Zone area you know you could even see the sign right here that says one Cypress [Music] uh yeah I think we do [Music] oh thank you officially on the Turkish side and man do I see the instant difference what's really interesting isn't it wow looks like you're directly coming in on a like of a summer yeah it feels like that I just feel immediately I feel like I'm in a Islamic territory I don't know what it is but I just do oh right away one the people the people you see right away look different things like that the cuisine right away is different I see our favorite foreign it looks a little bit like oh we have seen the turkey back then what's more much smaller scale yeah I think the calmness comes with the fact that we're still in winter time though I'm sure that this would be like packed with people on a different like if we read here at a different time or season yeah wow why'd you want to see this what's important about this is I've never heard of it no it's it's building the awesome times and um it was like inside there's a mosque and it have been like um firstly it was for people just to to sleep there when they were traveling and then later in um when the britons took it over it was uh became like a like a prison okay let's go look at it yeah it's like a prison no no it's like a um a place where where people sell stuff and there's like a small mask is this actually it okay wow it's really gorgeous wow you did good this is truly truly gorgeous yes wow so picturesque and beautiful and peaceful we should have probably eaten lunch here on hindsight you know yeah all right let's walk around and explore so wow oh this one is nice wow it's really good looking it's made in Cyprus cool it's like a pair of jeans turned into a bag I love it that's pretty cool right I like that [Music] what's up [Music] excited [Music] wow beautiful rice very [Music] after going around for a minute here it is totally fascinating it's like we've just we're in the same we're in one country but we've just gone to a whole nother culture would you agree yeah like I mean it's yeah quickly quickly you get the feeling of being in Turkey right away yes as opposed to Greece where we were just before just 10 minutes ago anyway unbelievably fascinating and an experience I'll never forget all right let's keep going yeah um all right so this is the baby version of where we just came from New Mahari I can't remember the name but we'll put it up on the screen for you this one is like I don't know which one I like more now I'm like this is so quaint and cute I definitely like the big I like come on you got to make like bigger things better right yeah that's true yeah the bigger one was better and it had that dome in the center this one doesn't have that Dome [Music] um [Music] you know it's official when you hit your dorm I mean that was it that was so strange to hear coming right from you know the Greek side [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] keep on talking but I can understand just what they say the thoughts I'd fill my head about tomorrow what am I to do back to today one freedom and the skin and dream reality till one day the city people will be asking for an apple that has come before the tree and what was the answers [Music] uh we cannot end this episode without trying our favorite Turkish dessert baklava you might remember that episode where our friend was the tour guide to forget his name uh yeah it doesn't matter the guy over there he yeah he gave us that baklava was so delicious well we're gonna try it here and see if it's just as good all right it's a little bit touristy right here I ain't gonna lie it's right yeah it could it could have that touristy taste so let's let's see if it's any good all right let's do this is it okay to buy two pieces of this can we try this I don't know we can't buy two of these no right there yes I mean we're going to buy it we're going to buy it you can't buy two of those you two slices yeah that's what you want to do I thought you said I want to try but it's American we say that in America we're gonna try it we just it's the same meaning yeah American slang that's all I was working with American Air Force Base almost like 16 years oh okay yeah Americans say try but it just means buy yeah oh what do you think it's sick my brother from another mother yes um that's probably true we just don't have time on the way back next time yeah we had time I definitely would it's delicious right it was really good we're gonna we're gonna pay pay you it's okay that's wonderful man oh that's so sweet thank you thank you so much wow all right that's a really good baklava and that should end this episode right here now we're gonna go back over the Border again and see if they'll let us out of here but that's all for now we'll see you in the next episode bye-bye [Music] thank you baby [Music] the way I do turn around [Music] come back come back come back come back come back come back come back okay pretend like we don't know that's there and we're gonna say all right ready all right get serious [Music]
2023-04-12 04:27
