EXPLORING BEST PRESERVED ROMAN RUINS in AFRICA (ALGERIA)
welcome to TF this is day four in Algeria on our journey to travel to every country in the world in alphabetical order in this episode we set out on a journey to Constantine stopping first at the ancient site of jam and these are considered the best preserved Roman ruins in the world here history isn't just preserved oh what in the world it's aive is the man who stole my CA as we press on the landscape shifts leading us to the iconic city of bridges it's a pretty insane view for unexpected encounters with locals leave us a maze why why just time to get up okay let's do it to the airport hi cockroaches by cockroaches okay off to flight one of two of the day good [Music] evening all right bye-bye Janette bye Janette bye Janette it's been a pleasure all right 6 a.m. flight one done yay flight number two coming at you [Music] what's up dude hello how you doing man nice to meet you [Music] pleasure okay so where where are we so here we are in Jamila one of the seven UNESCO Welter sites in Nigeria it's a very extensive s with this covered by the French uh later on in the 19th century of course this uh site is very impressive in terms of the location and setting situated in the enclosure of the mountains it's uh very astonishing buildings with the very interesting history as well holy yeah dude wa and these are considered the best preserved Roman ruins in the world yeah in Africa mainly in Africa okay gotcha in Africa not in the world right duh Italy would have the best ones yeah Pompei Gage right all these int intricate buildings intact buildings we can see all around the hills and it goes all the way down to the Old City our visit we start from the 4th Century all the way down to the 1st Century which means that we're going to go backward in time to the to the northern gate what does this remind what is your accent remind me of I can't figure it out David bur no no no it's it's like a certain movie okay we'll figure it out we'll figure it out yeah please do okay I'd love to watch the movie what is it oh my oh my God it's bugging me that I can't figure it out this guy it almost sounds South African a little bit yeah it's very close South Africa probably Hugo wiing that is I don't think so the villain of Matrix oh really he's South African no he's Nigerian oh okay someone please comment who he sounds like I can't figure it out right now which means it'll bother me until this video comes out in 5 months the Romans built cities across three continents but this one broke all their rules with these ancient Engineers achieved in Algeria was revolutionary this is Jamila here's why it's incredible and why it's Vanishing before our eyes high in the mountains of Northern Algeria sits one of the most perfectly preserved Roman cities in the world but what makes Jamila truly special isn't just its preservation it's the absolutely insane engineering feat of building a complete Roman city on a narrow mountain ridge at 3,000 ft founded in 96 ad as qule Roman architects faced an impossible challenge how do you build a standard Roman City layout with its perfectly straight streets and massive public squares on a triangle of rock between two mountain Torrens their solution was genius they modified the classic Roman blueprint carving massive platforms into the mountain side and Engineering an entire city to work with the terrain rather than against it the crowning achievement was the arch of carala a huge monument that still Towers over the city's entrance today built in two 26 ad to show just how powerful this Mountain City had become by the 3rd Century qule had grown so wealthy from agriculture that they actually demolished parts of their own defensive walls to expand they built a completely new Forum filled it with Incredible mosaics showing gods and daily life and even constructed a Temple dedicated to the emperor's family a massive Flex a political power but jamila's most fascinating chapter came in the 400 unds as Christianity swept across North Africa an entire new quarter was added to the city they built three massive basilicas a baptistry and other religious buildings that would become some of the largest Christian structures of their time these ruins tell an incredible story of human adaptation but they're under constant threat from earthquakes vandalism and even illegal grazing every year more of ancient qule crumbles away taking its secrets with it all right into the museum [Music] so this is what he meant by will'll go down so the oldest yeah so we're up there right now yeah first question was all of this like brought in from yeah la on the floor it was relocated from The Institute and was taken off to the taken to the museum it was glued here with the GRS you see the grounds here small T so it is a painting work to take all of these Mosaic from the situ to the side got it this is on the floor was on the floor and then they brought and decided to put it here so put it on this got it said for the display also to preserve the you're not steing on it anymore that's remarkable that piece right there yeah this is the one of the most well preserved Mosaic it's one of the piers of its kind because this has a hunting scene Romans used to take these animal to hunters from Africa take them to Rome for glador combat got it spus against particles and Beast against the Beast and the Beast against the human very intricate details as you can see if you look at the scale we are here on the topside the great plan so jam was founded for the veterans for the retired soldiers to settle after the service for many years so this place is a rewarding place for them to settle like many facilities in Roman cities in the world we have the Forum the main Square the Main Place the main plazza where people meet and discuss different things they place where the people goip and uh gather making a gathering beside this Temple of Venus we have this uh very fun house you know why because this house was named after the Mosaic that was relocated from the C it's called the Victor is donkey Asos Nika Nika from the word Nike which means Victory and Asos is as donkey Nike actually mean victory victory like n i k exactly how did I never know that how I never know that it's a GRE goddess and uh is a counterpart of this godess is Victoria Victoria is a Roman uh so the Romans bored this godess as a the goddess of Victory with the two Wings it's a lady holding a beacon on the top after this Victory is probably it was a cynical way of mocking Christians by the pagans because you know the Jesus Christ went to Jerusalem on the top of a donkey but in this case the donkey went alone he became Victorious or the donkey the Conqueror for example the triumphal arch of caracella this is very interesting during the reain the French occupation F on Philip the jke of oron so he wanted to dismantle this Arch and take it to Paris at the time when he came to this place but fortunately he died in 1842 otherwise you won't see this year you have to go to Paris to see this to keep people healthy you have to have a fountain to um Supply this fountain with water they have to create reservoirs and also gravity plays a big role so the water coming all the way down through the clay pipes and the method of reduction they reduce the diameter of the pipelines to add the uh pressure of the fountain on the top and the it works like a giant out or air conditioner to keep people healthy and fresh feature engineering actually Romans are innovators not inventors so they borrow everything from the enemies and they assign them as theirs the thing we're going to see here which is the house of bakus the good of wine the Mosaic that was founded here in this uh huge imposing house is glued on the top of the wall okay so noted so that one used to be in the Floor of one of the r here this is these are all from here every single one of these mosaics everything you see is original even what you're stepping on Oh I thought it was a bug very interesting poem written on top it's very unique of its kind I'm going to just read the two first lines actually you know Ginger knows how to read Latin I didn't know that yeah yeah you didn't know that yeah absolutely yeah you reading that please yeah no problem but in his accent try perfect [Music] perfect yeah I also see the word honor up there and F resurrection of the last word oh I was about to say that too she's aidite okay what curse did you on my mother yes just very bad word from you all right this is like appraising to this uh the church how the church is gleaming how the altars are shining this is not the work of the Nables this is the work of pronus in which is name the bishop of uh the church in which name prevails wait how many languages do you you speak then I speak a little bit Finnish okay I just asked you for I just asked you for a number I didn't ask you to bre okay I just said how many languages did you speak I didn't say speak to me in all these languages I I'm too stupid to understand riab Russian Latin [Music] uh v v Kremlin Kremlin Kremlin polish a little bit I keep trying to get a number from him and he just starts saying more languages he doesn't know the number there more conversational languages I'm not really an expert in languages I can only speak three languages but all of these are conversational so I can't catch exactly what you saying that's so that's that counts that counts so even Japanese yeah yeah do you speak Japanese wow I'm feeling real stupid right now I'm feeling real real stupid dude I'm too stupid to be [Music] here can you find the stalk I think so to be honest I don't actually know what animals we have properly in the wild yeah we do have those it's a slave actually a slave no no no we we don't we don't have why is it upside down because there is no space to make it all the other have to prze the hunting SE oh it goes all the way around oh my god dude I'm running out of it's bigger than the than the tower D all that blood just went through my head [Music] hey this is oh that's even better crazy actually all English are coming I'm going up I'm going home water oh I out of your mind did you have a master or something how many Masters do you have yeah how many Masters do you have just give us a number please don't start giving me lectures one one what's your Masters then apply Linguistics oh this makes sense this makes sense this makes a lot we're starting to cat on we are so are you one of those people that can like go to pretty much any place in the world and very quickly adapt to their language absolutely like a chameleon there's there like a couple people whose videos I watch that will show up to like remote tribes and within like an hour they can squeak it fluently yeah that's what he did with the taric tribes when he went uh in a tribe there was like women sitting all the way around and I just um spoke some random words in their language and they start interacting with me and that's was interesting they were corrected me correcting me you got to teach me your ways bro teach me dude he would be the best ghost hunter ever he'd hear every Panasonic recording and just like prian language we cannot understand I cannot Define this now he's saying words that we don't know not just languages we don't know in other word peridia wait so if we ever wanted to go to like a a village or remote island or somewhere that has a tribe that's like most people can't communicate with if we brought you do think you'd be able to like I will adapt to the language I speak of course why not what why not why not yeah all three of us combined barely speak English can I can possibly mimic the sound you can mimic the sound of course how about this one nope no closer I removed my T on mm-m not it m but nice try what can we talk to about that only we know we know more about some stuff V rules you know about Tom and Ariana who see see got him got him St St that dumb we got it okay we went to ruins in Albania yeah and like that was really cool but this is remarkable yeah it is yeah yeah this is incredible this is only my second or I guess technically third like Romanesque ruined place I've ever been to so this is really cool I've never seen any of the ones in Italy so never no no [Music] nothing so what are we walking through right now so here we are in literally in the ecclesiastical quarter where the Christianity lived here I mean Christians usually lived in these places around this facilities for example we have a cathedral all the Mosaic you have seen in the museum we're laid uh laid on the ground here yes ah it was right here absolutely I mean Mosaic is specifically the um mostly the metric poem was here oh the poem this place on the name so you're saying all that was literally on this ground here and they just took all of this off and took it to the museum and glue is on the wall which was relocated mainly from here let me show you a very nice fragment of the Mosaic you're going to have an idea ofic this is pretty dang cool oh yeah look why did they leave this wa they had no time to relocate all these to museum they took just a shrunk the S like a fragment hold on you're saying they didn't have enough time so they did 99% of it and just left didn't see we're good yeah whatever there's no other tiles this is so cool [Music] though 20,000 people lived here in its peak in that time was 20,000 considered a large City or is that like a small no 20,000 is a peak the climax okay so that is one of the largest cities of the time would be 20,000 residents exactly okay and how many of these types of cities Peak population cities were there in Africa Northern Africa is this like one Ming the mingled Society usually the Romans and Africans so the legion that came to to settle here and they were revaled this place in general so they called mared with the bers and the bers usually uh mingled with the society with a given Roman citizenship okay it's crazy so was this area right here this is a small Basilica I mean if you see the cedral is bigger inside than the Basilica but here in the Basilica have a very small this is the earliest Basilica of the ecclesiastical quarter what you're going to see here is a small Mosaic fragments they covered the on the top of the uh place so you won't be able to see what is here wa I love how you can just the small this is what we call the Tessa Tess is Tesa Tess tessaract Tess like loky tessaract no no Avengers not Infinity war no this a typo Tess okay okay so we look at the at the pigmentation of these they are different they go to the mountains they collect the stones and they cut them with the pins and they have these small cubic fit them together like a jigsaw puzzle which create this very interesting patterns this was from the 4th Century ad we're not talking about paintings but this is a mosaic can you can you hear me a mosaic yeah I can hear you Mosaic next time you do any kind of cooking video just please express your ingredients onions onions garlic garlic yeah dude that's such a funny character for a cooking video though these Raw Hair are onions they're so raw now we going to cook them I have a way to test if you really can speak every language I can't get over it I can't I can't I've never met anyone like him I've never met anyone that could just willingly speak any language in the world for funsies how are you going to test it you only speak one language no I know how to test it I want you to prove how good you are with Linguistics in all the various languages can you speak at least five different Love Languages to Jerry right now what do you know what the love languages are no French janger what's the first love language physical touch is that physical touch touch no no who needs a master's degree drop out of school like I did and we were just given permission that we can stand and walk on these things which is going to be a problem for me cuz I like doing that oh what in the world can we go down there no oh you can't it oh really why don't they let people down there is it fragile there will be a glood this horror combat over there so you won't be able to survive and you will die and you will be buried I mean I'll fight you down there if that's what you're saying can you fight me you want to wrestle yeah okay I'll do it I don't know why I'm not joking can I can't tell if you're joking or not now you got him wait what I think we can't go down there oh there's people down there that's so cool 3,000 seats right how you do with that cuz we did some homework all right I will say I am very excited for the day that the technology exists where you can put on like augmented glasses and walk through here see the horse and carriages see all the people that lived here see the buildings like completed as they were yeah I feel like that's going to come going be it remember they have it in Iran oh yeah that's right yeah so when we get to the letter I then we'll be able to do that finally that day will come [Music] that's so cool not going to lie that one moved a little [Music] bit why you think B me with a selfie stick the whole time well why are you holding selfie stick the whole time cuz I'm filming I'm trying to make a YouTube video it's the reason why we're here to make a YouTube video trying to get BTS of you okay well you know what hey Elon holy what in the world it's a temple of SE after they died so the uh Imperial family became gods they were deified in this Temple oh in they make offering this in here in here holy cow incredible very [Music] [Music] this is cool Jerry this is so big no it's it's insane this where they store the grains of wheat ready to be transported to Rome say that again wheat wheat wheat sorry sorry green dur wheat got it got it it's where they store the wheat yes oh my God what in the wow well this is cool I can't wait to hear him sing his hit songs yeah so exciting when he coming outet how about these tickets for a lot of money where is this guy look at the face this expensive what kind of performances would they do here mostly was uh performance oration and uh drama so the backstage you can see the backstage with the stones so down there there was a stage there was a backstage with a dressing room and here we we have oration there's a natural the microphone sound uh travels on this enclosure in the him cycle building and comes back to you so everyone can possibly hear you it's a Greek invention it was bored by the Romans at the time so if you stand in the middle the axis if you speak up you will hear you always back do it again wao oh that's cool dude you can hear yourself you can hear yourself right here really W woo oh that is super cool right here yeah W okay oo all right what are we going to make them do all right let's say um Shakespeare in drama Elan is Thom Holan you are the uh the protagonist of the film okay and Jerry Jerry is an antagonist of the film he's a Yakuza from a Japanese Mafia so mostly he does the parkour and jumps off the stones and he uh par athlete okay all right hold on did you just combine every Japanese stereotype into one character yes I did okay he's uh he's Yakuza ninja it's basically what yeah Yakuza ninja is U mostly oh oh what is my Prof you have to find the villain find a villain what about like his side job like how does he like earn some cash on the side probably hmer cupper you're fighting me yeah that's how that work you're the bad guy Jerry because you stole all his copper I think that Elton has to be heartbroken it was the last of his copper he's out he can't make any more money without this copper she's better direct than me actually it's sad he's angry he's turning his anger into muscle and power momentum Jerry stole the copper he doesn't care at all he has no regrets No Remorse just wants to show off his parkour moves with his bag of copper not enough where is the man who stole my [Music] copper is it thou you you th the man that speakest stealth my copper man D what are you going to do about it why art thou steal mine copper why art thou steal from such a poor man a but a peasant because why not I don't care about you you don't care about the people that live here I like your copper that copper is all my family had that was it those last pieces were what we needed to forward weapons to sell to buy bread you took it and so what so what my family will go hungry they will die my 6-year-old son is still breastfeeding next week I'll have to breastfeed him I don't get that copper I what you going to do yeah where the copper God s it I'm rich what do I need to do to get my metal back peacefully nothing you can do I will find you and I will find my father why are they dancing what he's leaving bravo bravo wo see you next week with other racist stereotypes now we're in the old section going to the temple of Venus this is just a temple of Venus genric jully Caesar used to be believed the descendant of this goddess but um it was kind of Mythology assigned to julus Caesar who was a general before the first emper Octavian adopted by Julius Caesar but here this is Temple of Ven genitrix gods of Love guess where we are Jerry we are now on before before you make a guess look around mhm think really hard yeah squeeze the brain no harder squeeze literally squeeze your brain I don't see squeeze it we're in Algeria okay yep let's get more specific Aleria good what city squeeze your brain Jerry it's in there I just don't want to pronounce it wrong squeeze your brain Jerry make your head's in Orange Jam Jamila okay now where are we within this is this is this was built in the first century late first century late first century okay but I don't know what specifically squeeze your brain Jer this sque your brain again squeeze your brain again squeeze that orange of a brain Jerry of no p no P ju juice no pul just juice where are we Jerry I pooped we're at the form we're at the form this is the form yeah we're at the farm you made it parot this is and where would they stand to make the announcements over there right there so Jerry yes can you run on top don't make a poop joke we've turned into a new person hello mate oh wait no wrong era wrong era sorry wrong wrong place today's weather report is wind's about going Northeast about 5 mph clear sky a bit hot it's cloudy to me what hey you're give me the right sorry that was yesterday's report overcast stalks uh waivering their wings which means it will be raining you're wrong oh that's an actual stor that's actual St yeah that's an actual St what the hell is a St hover Wings means it we be raining so Jerry's lying what is a STK hold on where do you think babies come from what do you mean the sword deliver them oh those are the one that carries them and go look it right there it's really a St right I've never seen a STK in the wild you're about to be a dad Jerry fatherhood hey you thought you could leave the country and skip out on child support huh the found you Jerry I just wanted to pop one out in every country there we go yeah what is this this a Jenny emerging from the face this is a chalice actually tendrils swirling around this Gess but if you look on this side here we find something really interesting this low relief of the three animals sacrificed for the God of War Mars wow I see the bull the rooster and the ram we have a libation fish we have U we have a SE Fire have this executioner holding a double X trying to execute the B possibly it was estimated by ecologist that this place is where the sacrifice of the bull took place so the bull is attached to this small ring and the Executioner bring his axe down to his throat so slaying the bull was common in Roman time it's a ritual this is the altar actually why would they slay the bull to collect the blood and the blood will be splited on one splattered one one of the soldiers asking for blessing on the one of the god this is like a one of the riment beliefs by the Romans very bloody sacrifice is it weird that my first thought when I saw this is that I have a thought too that what this is the original Starbucks yes that's what I was thinking Starbucks it's a reference to the Starbucks was inspired the Starbucks it's a siren right yeah siren yeah oh this is for Real you're being serious yes yeah oh wow yeah it's a siren yeah the original this is where Starbucks got its logo from yeah so it has this has insired s the Starbucks guy came here yeah it came from right here yeah this this structure right here is called the some colors to the logo so that's why yeah what you're this Hol so that's right that's the siren that's the Starbucks logo this whole thing right here is a venty m and the other side venty like the size of the and then and then what we're in right here is a grande oh my God yeah and then this right here is called the Moki a dude that all makes sense and then you see this color you see this color caramel that's crazy [Music] there's significantly more it was uh set up by two brothers cinos Maximus and Primos who founded this Marketplace out out of their own funds can see this County shop surrounding the area we have also the measurement table the measurement table is very interesting because you can't find these in the world except in some Roman Roman ruins what is really interesting in this Marketplace is the sculptures every count shop is sculptured differently how long do you think it would have taken to build something like this I have no idea could have taken them too long to like decades years couple years years couple years not decades and possibly was a rotunda on top of here covering the whole oh that's cool there was a fountain in the middle because we exp the gutters all around the area let's go expl together yeah that's [Music] cool can you read this of course I can but as dramatically as possible maive [Music] [Music] oh yeah I see what you mean now but every table has something different bottom of that one this oh yeah they're all completely different over there we have the the juice side the Gan look at that that right there yep is what I want my body to be yeah that's a determination have to do this all the time I assume the bottom half did exist somewhere no low relief it's not a statue is not a proper statue it's more like a bust see that would have been a massive statue if it was full length yeah it's crazy that people like eted their name into it and just don't care knowing that it's a Saturday and that it should be one of the busiest times ever there's basically no one here we ran into a few people every once in a while I think it's even just the same people honestly do what we're doing and for 130 dinar to come here and be able to like walk around freely so so worth it such an incredible visit and something just stabbed me so hard oh you walked into that plan this beats any like Museum or something that like I've seen in La like where we grow up this is beond views in general like sitting inside of this Valley great oh is this the restroom hilarious oh my God I thought you saying you actually wanted us to leave you were actually taking us yeah the restroom how people used to see together together H number two together that would be so much cheaper to build in our house oh boy look he's just smoking a pipe no he smoked a pipe there's a SE sponge what is that Spong Spong works like a toilet papers in all so it's supposed to be like a oh wow they're actually the cutouts are still here and everything no no no [Music] oh this is kind of nice I feel we should bring this back instead of being on my phone to just be able to talk yeah it's kind nice yeah would you guys make eye contact the whole probably yeah I feel like the next time they build an arena called like the Forum or the Coliseum or anything that steals a name from Roman times the bathroom should also match this is from the old parts of the at got [Music] it we found the dungeon we're going in oh I don't mind the dungeon on a hot day good wow huh more spacious than I thought smell like piss this is the other bath okay Jerry and this was actually used as like for criminals and punish people right for perpetrators they stay here overnight temporary you can't go nowhere here oh yeah look at that oh yeah it's yard I think this is fully enclosed yeah I think this was the other other side of the yeah the support pillars it's the same as that one [Music] Ginger look at that timing we're leaving red as the 100 kids show up y we're not wrestling you're tired now yeah oh convenient next next time we're here yeah the next time we're in Jamila so gymnasium for wrestling which means all of the different stages of the bath houses hot rooms cold rooms like that we're all throughout here the first bath I mean the gymnasium where people rest will sweat up in the pores go the next chamber dressing room remove the clothes and then we have a passage room we still have some Mosaic still on the floor or preserved it look like a carpet here wow yeah you know that bathing is very vital during the ramen time hunting bathing playing laughing this is living this howly s time you should start living by that model I'll skip the second one what was the second one a does anything like that exist like in the United States like a Roman bath house with all these different chambers and there's like Korean Spas with like different there's no place where I can go like wrestle a stranger get all sweaty no we could open [Music] one okay we've been here for 3 hours and 10 minutes saw everything incredible these is insane now we're heading back to Constantine and maybe sop for ice cream is what I heard yeah to our drive but uh incredible visit well worth it absolutely highly recommend come here bring a picnic spend 5 hours here it's so pretty and hire a guide my suggestion and bring water bring water we didn't bring water okay three giant bottles of water and three different ice creams grand total 300 dinar yep so not bad at all really great [Music] bye see you tomorrow see you tomorrow see you tomorrow man thanks I'm excited for this okay I love of you yep that's why I like you oh okay all right sick oh my gosh I'm going to drop in the bag Welcome to our room 406 best view in the whole hotel wow thot drop Into Darkness seven of the world's most dangerous Bridges 2,000 years of Empires risking everything to build the impossible this is Constantine algeria's city of bridges where an entire civilization lives and dies on the edge of Oblivion here is its story sitting at top a massive Rocky Plateau the city surrounded on all sides by a natural moat a colossal Ravine that plunges up to 1,000 ft straight down it's like nature decided to build the world's most dramatic Fortress and humans just moved in but what truly makes Constantine EX extraordinary are its bridges seven of them span this massive Chasm each one a monument to different eras of engineering the most dramatic the CDM seed a suspension bridge that dangles 575 ft above the gorge floor making it one of the highest bridges in the world when it was built in 1912 think about that in 1912 they built a bridge higher than the Washington Monument in a city most people have never heard of before French colonization Muslim archit had already created the stunning El Cantara bridge in 1792 using the ruins of a Roman Bridge as its foundation because that's the thing about Constantine every layer of History here is built quite literally on top of the one before it 30 centuries of continuous human habitation have left their Mark the numidian Kings made it their capital in 300 BC naming it Serta the Romans rebuilt it and renamed it Constantine after their Emperor the Arabs fortified it further the ottoman Turks added AR Ural flourishes and the French mainly just added more bridges each of these Bridges tells its own story about ambition necessity and the human drive to connect and build even in the face of what seems impossible some like the tiny Devil's Bridge are just wide enough for people to cross others like the massive City rut head Viaduct with its 27 arches are engineering masterpieces that redefined what was possible in their time but there's something especially poetic about this place in a region often divided by its differences constantines Bridges don't just connect one Cliff to another they connect the past to the present tradition to modernity and most importantly People to People starting on the balcony we have our view boom we have one big giant squishy bed with lots of pillows yep um hold on no roaches nice zero roaches that's good that's a win we have big big closet extra blankies and over here that's top secret the nicest hotel we've been in since night one Afghanistan yeah you're right which is good cuz I feel like I've gone a month without a proper shower so I'm ready for that tonight but first food what you guys doing finding some snacks healthy snacks getting some raisins and nuts yeah elon's first purchase in Constantine oh we just stopped to like Lally buy some snacks to just have somehow we had a conversation with Muhammad and the other two gentlemen using your phone and translate we talked about how we don't have a plan for the rest of the night so I said what do you like to do around here I thought maybe he would say like oh go to this bar or do this thing and and it went from that to basically being like there's no hope in this country there's no work there's no jobs it's in shambles like literally all hope is lost but we don't have opportunities like you to travel and to see other places and you almost like we have this luxury to be traveling with a camera and he's just like what do you mean what what is there to do for fun around here and then when we finally explained like we're here to make videos and learn more about countries and share that he started like unraveling everything in a lot more detail and just talking about like the uh economic collapse there's like literally no job opportunities he considers Algeria a third world country he talked about like the corruption and bureaucracy and how there is no justice there's no hope for children unless you're part of the elites within the country tree meal in Constantine P pasta we're having some pasta why yall from New York oh [ __ ] get out of here New York let us have our food thank you o we have jili powder po baby all right B I keep missing the lightning there's lightning back there where I hope it's lightning oh you know who I miss Thunder our doggy well view here is pretty cool oh my did really did I miss it yes hold on I just want to leave it here until I see the lightning and then I'll feel satisfied there it is but it went out of focus stand with it though it'll look cool it look cool if you have it in Focus stop stand leave it no I got it I got it that's all I wanted that's all I wanted I got it I got the lightning strike all right back to the hotel long day tomorrow maybe hit the gym 14 hours of ofing tomorrow maybe hit the toilet probably hit the toilet okay I got to say I'm really jealous of your beard why I just wish I could grow a beer like that two things I want to point out about Constantine that I'm noticing one it's 8:24 p.m. on a Saturday night there is basically no one out at all and the other thing I've noticed I've have not seen another female since we've left the since we've left the restaurant I've not seen another female out at all anywhere because you are Japan like me uh you're you're Asian yeah you're Asian you're Japanese why with me though uh because I'm Asian why why just s my picture okay sure got the picture nice to meet you what just happened with Jerry happens 15 times a day yes depending on where we are sometimes more sometimes left it even happened to Jam they asked to take a picture with you and only you yeah kids adult families like I had three different families at the ruins going like picture picture can you take picture with you I had no idea why I thought you know Taurus maybe but no I think it's deeper than that how does it make you feel uh I'm okay I mean like I don't think of it as racism if that makes sense okay maybe again they're not exposed to people like me right maybe they' actually never seen an Asian person person or maybe they have it's like once in a lifetime or TV or whatever right so I don't know I don't know I'm never really thinking of it in a negative way if that makes sense and if they are which we've met a few people that have right that truly I believe it was racist don't get bothered by that Stu no I I think I have a thick scense for it but again like that was innocent for me Jerry up baby uh California from London you're from London what brings you out here cuz I have family in here do you live here now uh no no no I'm just here for vacation just vacation how do how do you like it we've only been here a couple days how do you like it h Algeria is very good you're in the best city actually really I've seen the views I've seen all of them it's crazy you don't find it somewhere else have you been to that restaurant over there yeah we just left there dude if you guys need anything like we here everyone is cool but I feel happy because you know before I leave I haven't seen no tourist before in here really yeah yeah there was no tourism like 3 or 4 years ago it was nobody at yeah at all yeah how how old are you you don't I'm 21 21 we just met someone not too long ago who's basically saying there like there's no jobs yeah do you feel the same way so basically there is jobs but people feel like they don't pay enough okay so everyone will turn into a hustler people think that this money is not enough for them to eat it's enough for them to eat cuz most of us we live in houses we don't rent people in London or America 18 they have to to go rent if they don't work no one will put the food on the table but here everyone has like a place you think that the the wages that are being paid here are they enough for people to live comfortably to to eat yeah like yeah that's waiter average is a th000 din the day th000 din the day oh oh okay it's enough for you to eat it's enough for you like to buy pack of cigarettes for now with the inflation it's getting harder well 3 four years ago it wasn't like that for example somebody who's a student he won't feel confident enough to go and get a job because he knows like it's not worth it what makes you the happiest about Algeria all of this in you guys see you guys that like that's crazy for me right now like I would like the people to know our culture as well cuz we're very welcoming people we have a lot of stuff to show so that's what I'm talking about stay connected man me take care what the hell just down the [Music] sidewalk okay night night everyone the video the exact same time that's crazy thank you so much for making it to the end of the video that's it's honestly incredible that you made it this far into the video and I really do appreciate it and I just want to say thank you and then I'm going to put this clip right there right now and then I'm going to hit render and then this is going to be this is going to be done
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