EXPLORING ABANDONED TOP SECRET ISLAND GUARDED BY MILITARY
welcome to TF this is D4 in Albania and our journey to travel to every country in the world altic order in this episode we start with a quick visit to Barack Castle before hitting the road again along the way an unusual sight grabs our attention the hour and then it's time to step onto a real boat to explore the top secret saan Island a place where tourists are banned from Trump coming Bo would Resort on our journey back a hidden cave lures Us in for a Scenic swim insane dude wow and Scattered bunker systems remind us of country story P wo this was actually built out to cap it off Heaven kicks off a series of challenges what musle group is this [Music] good morning are you ready to go on a boat today are you ready to go to saan Island yeah yeah yeah did you sleep good yeah you feel warm yeah it's really hot in here let's go explore okay you look hot right now sh you really do let's go come on get up let's go get breakfast good morning from verat and I wanted to get ready early cuz I wanted to go to the market to buy some snacks for the car for our long drives for the boat ride we have today I kind of just wanted to show you the town before we start our day before everybody wakes up it looks like we someone selling produce here it's beautiful in the daytime we did not get to see it in the daytime cuz we got here late last night let's go find this market and see see what they got so I'm out here walking on my own I have a GoPro with me I decided not to bring the big camera because it kind of could be a little dangerous to walk morning and I feel pretty safe being out here as a woman I wasn't quite expecting that i' like always have my guard up when we're in new places even when I'm home in La I always have my guard up got to make sure but it feels really safe here hope I'm not ignorant by saying that but I feel comfortable leaving on my own without without the boys okay let's check out the market hi hi good morning momy ooh [Music] got it all I want to Google how much that exactly is just neckies and hi good morning oh how much is this $2 I only have five thank you so fake or sneak I know I'm saying that wrong I'm going to have to ask Samuel what what this is oh postcards instead can I do two yeah yes thank you that's okay that's good I'll just do that thank you thank you thank you have a good day bye anyways I was saying I got all those snacks giant bottles of water everything for about $14 which is pretty good I think in America that would be double if I got three giant bags of goodies from a 7-Eleven and then I met that nice man right when I walked out who sold me another snack that I've never heard of but I want to try everything here and that one was $2 and then he gave me a postcard so it's a win-win here's back to our hotel and then we're going to have breakfast I regret this jacket I'm sweating okay we're getting there I think the uh the hike yesterday really has my legs tired did we get a cool shot of our hotel in the daytime all right let's get breakfast [Music] m avenges m aveng morning how are you where'd you go I got snacks so snack I got all this for $14 no way yeah so much stuff [Music] right Samuel what is this uh dry figs dry figs oh okay someone sold it to me on the street they're pretty wood yeah yeah yeah okay we'll eat them on the [Music] boat what a beautiful city yeah right I I think we're two for two now for seeing places at night time and then seeing them in the daytime and being like holy crap we have yeah [Music] what was that he'll do it he'll do it on camera by the end of this trip he said he's going to teach us to dance off camera then we can do it on camera give it a couple days you'll be dancing on the camera okay if you promised to keep it for yourself of course nope it's not n nope I promise the people want to see it I promise I will keep it to myself we just need to give you some of that uh grape alcohol if I drink enough probably yes I know what we're doing tonight [Applause] so next stop is the lake the Island the island which island suan yeah suan okay yeah so we'll take the boat on the on the docks and we will visit the peninsula of carab and S perfect let's go [Music] this is so cool are we in a major town right now or is this just this is a village in each uh day of the of the week villager Market going on every single day yeah every single day for example if you are in one day it's in kamish which is a village the other day it's in Dak it's another uh yeah yeah yeah oh that's cool we can get some look Jinger I can get my wedding outfit here look at that some of those are actually kind of cool where does most of this stuff come from cuz this is obviously like secondhand yeah secondhand yeah yeah yeah they imported from abroad from all over Europe okay for example one t-shirt here costs 10 cents wow 2 cents wow I can get my wedding I can get my wedding tou here for about 9 90 come on dude because B they're probably I've seen soccer shoes actually I've seen cleats no balls though not yet grab one oh they have everything here yeah tapestries clothing food tools it's this like a tradition because uh 30 years before uh we didn't have good roads it was very difficult for a villager to go from his village to to the to the city where the the shops were ah yeah so they moved it to the the the good road so that way everyone could get to it and now even though there are good roads it's stuck like a tradition let's see it's also kind of hard to ignore it you know you have to like drive right through that's in wow it keeps going now most of the food that's being sold here is it domestic or is that also import yeah like like all these food stands on thetic okay only things that bananas avocados pineapple pineapples so things that aren't produced here we we for okay oh it's cool it's like a mile long [Music] what it right it's literally a boat house it's a boat house it was originally supposed to be a restaurant then an entertainment complex and now it's just abandoned and for sale it could be haunted it looks haunted that's so funny I didn't know it was abandoned I thought you could uh like stay in it and actually like rinse it out and stuff what birds are attacking the Drone I think so yeah dude this is so crazy look at from The Backs side what does it look like 1 2 3 4 5 six stories and then there must be a basement or something of the nature it's so weird it's so cool though my favorite part is that it has an anchor yeah Anor to the have an anchor you know someone's like we should add an anchor and someone's like nah you don't need to no no we got to add an anchor [Music] [Music] [Music] go [Music] [Music] so if that's our boat what's the chances of you getting sick horribly high like aggressively high if we stop and do this I'm done if we just go I'm fine we can't stop basically so we're swimming or we're not swimming oh we're swimming filing baby yeah I've Haven been shaved my legs in like a week ready all I mean I don't like it he likes me hairing okay that's crazy no you didn't see that no no no no no you didn't see that first one of the day no way did you clip that God dang it there's our boat for the day that's our boat how far are we going right now I don't know which one we're going to do first saan or carab but probably an hour to get there [Music] gool Sam I really don't want to die like this I haven't shaved in so long my body looks good what you think about that you died today that's easy bu at least I got pineapples I have a pen oh everybody oh just leave it oh you don't even need it just in case no just in case just for Jerry just just for Jerry I need three you should make live t-shirts you know what I mean instead of life jackets oh like like avalan backpacks for skiing yeah yeah yeah t-shirt a little life shirt that's good like a life shirt I wait I'm just confused are we talking to Elon right now or sque Elon okay you can tell by the accent okay sque do you like modeling no it'll make you like [Music] it yeah so there's the lighthouse and there's the a bunker and tunnel system right there over there somewhere over there it's got like graffitis and and murals and all whole tunnel system inside of it are we going to be able to go see that today if you want to clip jumping somewhere on this trip yes tomorrow fth day so your job with us of course of course of course okay let's go how high is the cliff defense I don't know 3 m four me not that's a ledge come on honey got you honey a I never done this oh let's find one the most dangerous animal in the sea that you guys worry abouty jellyfish prob oh okay that's that's a little sketchy jellyfish or scary I I never got stunned by jellyfish before you want to practice of if you did I'll pee on you Costa Rico one of my friend got stunned by a jellyfish we just all peed on him no way swear to God on his leg Yeah all of you it's like two of us two wait like a buy or just like enough to like I don't know we didn't know we were just like he ah we're like all right has to do what you got to do he got Su on his face no no no oh my God imagine and then we got the Lifeguard and whatever happened happened LIF guard was like arrested all of you for public indecency we did it behind a rock that's creepier you like come here buddy you dragged him by the ankle get over here there's a whole stockpile of military buildings on this is the island right ancient empires killed for this island then it became a top secret Soviet submarine base now we can swim where they used to store chemical weapons this is saon a beach Paradise in Albania that was forbidden to step foot on until 2015 here's why sitting at the mouth of Vora Bay or the Adriatic and ionian seas meet this tiny 2 square m Speck has been a geopolitical mosh hit for over 2500 years you'd think this island had a conquer me sign on it by the number of Empires who tried to hold it it's a long list the ancient Greeks macedonians Romans byzantines Anu of Naples Albanian Lords Phoenicians and Ottomans all clawed and fought their way onto this rock but why was everyone so desperate to plant their flag here the Island's location is key it's a natural choke point for controlling traffic in and out of Albania whoever held suzan could potentially dominate a huge chunk of the Adriatic Sea that made it a prize worth bleeding over for every Empire with Naval Ambitions in the area the modern era brought even more drama the British seized it in 1815 handing it to Greece in 1864 who quickly lost it back to the Ottomans Italy stormed in during 1914 holding on until 1947 post World War II negotiations returned it to Albania who then allowed their Soviet allies to turn it into a shadowy base for submarines and chemical weapons until 2015 this military zone was completely off limits to civilians now suan is open for business this former Fortress has transformed into a summer hot spot where pristine beaches meet Cold War relics but suan isn't just about its human history it's a natural wonderland too the island is home to over 400 plant species and 39 bird species like the European sha that either reside on saon or use it as a migratory stopover as part of the cabaron saan national Marine Mar Park since 2010 the island is under strict Environmental Protection visitors can explore abandoned bunkers swim in secluded Bays or scuba dive shipwrecks but are reminded to take nothing but photos and leave nothing but Footprints suzan's history is like a book with endless chapters of conflict and mystery but now that its Shores are open we plan to explore and hopefully contribute to its next more peaceful page found out the reason why we can get on violence because they didn't officially again the T season get there the problem is this because saan will change forever the uh we build the resort oh really yeah Donald Trump billion dollars invest yeah there's a lot of like tropical Wildlife here they starting to build like hiking trails and like different things that you can see kind of sounds like Catalina like it'll be like you can hike you can snorkel you can dive you can do all these things the water is so blue here The Bluest water oh that's nice that's actually really nice this I would jump in you serious it's so cold it's so cold this is like California Water California water is freezing I mean I guess this is [Music] cool this is cool blue balling me here just swim and just you know you fell in and you had to swim to shore hold it as straight as you can high up and you do not let go until I tell you to go good [Music] [Music] oh I see the jellyfish really actually they're very small look small small jelly fish scary that's scary is he not scared of the jellyfish but it's not it's not a big deal really if you get stung but a little bit thank you [Music] I can't get back to the casino spend my I know where the chicks go dude this is crazy you can just see them all the way up the hillside [Music] yeah what a tease yeah right well at least we got to explore the island a little bit step foot on suan island so if anyone ever comes here during tourism season you're allowed to walk and explore the whole island these are the taziki flavor ones I'm excited first snack of the day it tastes like that that yogurt thing that we have yeah that's what they called really it tastes like what it advertises mhm very flavorful very way better than a sour cream and onion remind me of that but better give this n out of 10 tick if you think about getting tickled you feel like you're getting tickled yes think about it right now stop I'm thinking about it that's why that's why I'm all shed up right now gu just told me what who gets tickled a lot very easily Lo will love his wife very much I love my wife my non-existent wife at the moment but hey whoever's watching this if you were my wife one day just know that I love you very very very very very much and I mean it oh my God [Music] we had a deal for what we go in you go in okay okay okay all right right there okay okay Sam yeah Sam you're for hop in going to hate this it's freezing you're just trying to warm up all right it's cold it's cold it's cold oh yeah oh yeah I get come on ginger okay 1 2 [Applause] 3 okay okay it's so fun it's beautiful yeah woo oh that's not bad think you're better to St nothing yeah feels good now now that I'm not in there anymore it feels I feel great are you excited I'm afraid to hear the noises I might make yesterday just jump in do a flip do a flip yeah oh good yeah yeah this is so cool look at this insane dude wow how's it feel Jerry really good you haven't gotten your hair wet yet how was it Evan it actually wasn't terrible compared to yesterday is this your first time jumping in a cave I oh God yeah I think this is my first time this your first time go yep the sun thank God for the sun golly way it's cold that was really cool that you just jump right in though that was very ballsy of you squeal you like went in the water I was like oh is she okay okay okay it's so fun all right your turn huh your turn come on Cherry Jerry Cherry yeah here we go a cowboy would you do why would you do that oh my God I can't even fit W yeah w w we just got dropped off on the peninsula because from the sea Elton saw a little tunnel that he wanted to investigate so our boat left us and now we're walking on this Trail to check out the tunnel so crazy to me that all over Albania our abandoned Resorts military bases bunkers houses they're now starting to refurbish everything do you have an and all things abandoned now would be the time to get out to Albania cuz as I said saon island is now going to be in its final season for tourism where they completely renovate it who knows what'll happen to all the other hidden gems here that we don't know about whoa what in the world well can't see anything oh bats bats wait it keeps going yeah oh my God there's so many oh my god wow look at them all oh yeah throw back to bat cave huh insane yeah it doesn't go anywhere it just ends right here it must have been storage bunker look how like unreal that looks doesn't that look like a portal like in a movie dude like it just looks like a portal to another world wa this one's actually built out you can open and close this crazy there yeah yeah these have to be all of like the end H storage systems that you built [Music] out concrete yeah wow I wonder how many there are of these 700,000 defense bunkers but how many like storage bunkers then how many other like Intel like building things how how much they really build like over a million tactical buildings I mean the bunkers are small but yeah wonder if you built like over a million concrete like defense buildings they just hidden throughout this entire country nice this calls for bake rolls all right team our first bake roll M add this to the salad I will eat salad more and more often this is like cout the first thing you think of is I would eat a salad if this [Music] I day three Country 2 we're estimating there to be an average 7 days per country 7 * 228 is a little bit more than 1,500 days oh my God wa I just realized at the end of the series so we are on, 1500 videos wow it's going to take 7 to 8 years at this tape we're going to older way older's going to have four kids we going to have four kids I went to bring this in [Music] there a big one why you holding my head down dog it's not me it's not me God okay okay all right all right let's go see a floating Monastery and abandoned power plants in the city of independent yeah we still a lot more D today nice look at this it's cool can we try this mom yeah okay we give you so many strip or Flinter strippers this PS will give you so many strippers can I climb it uhuh TR what the you try you try I can I can yeah yeah you can I can we saying can or can't you can well you can't first I can't prove that you can't first pro a little I'm not I just don't want to you know what I mean okay all rightone wants to do it nope okay okay Evan [Music] EV okay that was really good good job anyone else beat that no I can't beat that all right good these are the figs that she bought on the street oh that's so good bought from a guy on the street ooh got a boo boo I don't know what a boo boo is the boo I'll show you owie I'll show I show you I'll show you I'll show you where your boo boo where your boo boo you got a little booo that's a boo boo boo okay okay then okay then he was like come on man come on bro did you ever think you'd be kissing an Albanian man's hand while smoking a cigarette on an abandoned Beach nope you can use that Bo oh oh oh Shir shirt's coming off boys coming off you know what I'm saying we're going to do a push-up competition and see how many push-ups can we do consecutively that's how push-up competition work dog oh do a push-up I'm stretching do a push-up what do you mean proper technique push-up good I want you to do a push-up but keep your your hips on the ground you now yep that's one come on do one one rep no no I I want do push-up sorry yeah push-up yep no no come on wait keep your keep your hips on the ground keep your hips on the ground one push-up I don't get it keep go back to why one 2 3 wait we got to catch up for Evan four 5 10 11 okay 12 20 21 25 26 27 28 oh my God the Dr Dr 29 30 oh my wa hey we have a winner you know my my arms from holding the camera all day so I I've been working out like you you Dro you but I I was one away from Jerry no I I just felt bad that you you know I just that compares to that hold on a second come on come here let's settle it uhoh okay got to make sure cheating here a lot on the line here okay Jerry stop your families are on the line here their dignity their Heritage their history everything they've ever given you is on the line right now let him know what you're going to do to him right now I'm beat your how I'mma pound it real hard okay what time of night are you going to do that all night every night all night every night every night fast or slow Jerry slow and fast sloppy baby you going to spit on it before you do it how do you respond Evan that was intimidating my voice just cracked I will not let you p slow or fast bring it up you're going to arm wrestle and count of 69 yep 64 65 66 67 68 69 hey hey hey he want Fair Square baby Fair Square baby was Fair Square what the I'm supposed to pound you I'm taking your pound time dog that really hurt I was really trying to pound his ass what do you feel about how your family is going to disown you now you're going to hate me so much cuz I didn't get to pound it's okay all right sorry it's always tomorrow it's always tomorrow a one a two a three you trying are you no yeah yeah that's good that's good oh yeah you're stronger than me oh what the oh [ __ ] look at I can't beat him really can't beat him come on bab come on bab can't beat him you're being serious yeah I'm being serious my arm doesn't bent like that what the [ __ ] TI that to his body what the [ __ ] is going ony T was going e on you are you I think he's trying yeah I'm trying what muscle group is this what muscle group is this go go go ahead the you doing how the are you doing that whatever you want me to to act a little bit what do you mean act let's do it so side to side no he's being legit all right ready oh [ __ ] one two three what a crazy muscle group right there where how only in the forearms what that's crazy 1 2 3 [Music] go you see how much I'm shaking Shing dude he is freaking don't act why not me why not cuz I I want if Samuel beat Elton and Jerry beat Samuel he is a champion but I beat Jerry that means I'm but I beat you all in the push-up competition that's different so yeah I'm back to winning wrestle 100% wow wow he's strong Samuel I can't do that it's like a a girl oh my God what happened girls this feel like 10 people just unsubscribed right now I don't blame him that was weird I feel uncomfortable really yeah oh was kind of sexy imagine someone's like in bed trying to go to sleep enjoying an Albania video that's just what they see why is she sleeping like that it's kind of impressive it hurts my back Ascend to heaven Evan EV give him CPR give him CPR EV you're safe you're alive baby let's go baby oh oh imagine ghost hunt on those thank you thank you so much thank you so much thank thank you oh hey what's up everyone sorry you caught me mid workout but U hey thanks for making it all the way to the end of the video and uh hope you're enjoying everything from Albania there's a lot more coming if you want to see the extended version of this video and all the other videos head over to our patreon and of course if you haven't please subscribe so you can plant a tree appreciate all the support and everything that's been sharing the videos and uh yeah make sure stay fit stay healthy stay Innovative all right let's get this done yeah
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