today I'm visiting Eratraa one of the most isolated countries on Earth no ATMs no independent media no internet in most of the country the government controls nearly everything and most people aren't even allowed to leave it's often called the North Korea of Africa and for good reason manual government is not allowed to take a video traveling to Eratraa in the past was very hard and very expensive used to cost $1,000 for the visa but they have just opened up the war is over we start to develop our country we are a handsome boy oh wow this is a look inside a country that previously has not let the world in and barely lets their own people out but is that a bad thing maybe it's not let's go and find out what life is like in Eratraa good morning from Jedha Saudi Arabia today we're flying to Eratra to Asara Eratraa why is it so secretive it's one of the most secretive countries in Africa if not the world you know what let's go and find out this is quite a nice airplane mobile loads of loads of space i'm loving it i'm loving it fly NAS it's a Saudi Airlines of course it's nice so the flight is pretty pretty empty it's actually very hard for a trains to leave the country very very hard we'll talk more about this later there's no Wi-Fi there's no electricity in some areas there is mandatory military service for indefinitely and there is no free movement out of the country so I don't know how these people got passports but um yeah welcome to Asara Eratraa all right we have got through immigration that took nearly 2 hours but like I said guys welcome to Africa you just have to suck it up i'm not sure why but we got the visa and we're in oh I thought I was the only Westerner on the flight wait Kieran what are you doing here i'm here for the pizza mate i heard Iritria has got some amazing Italian food oh bloody hell well I guess we better go together then now Kieran's joining me on this trip because you know Africa is always fun with two so let's find a taxi and head to the hotel check in taxi taxi how are you brother salam can we go to Crystal crystal Hotel yeah $200 $20 yeah so which is uh salam you good menima Sami Sami uhhuh nice to meet you brother nice to meet you it's like a 20 minutes ride from here uh 10:15 10:15 okay well that's $20 badly spent but uh Wow every trail is very beautiful is it your first time first time yeah yeah yeah first time yeah making a making a YouTube video do you know YouTube uhhuh it's just kissful and like very chilled yeah unlike any North African countries yeah do you have a family why not yes I have like a wife mhm oh what how old are you uh 27 27 same as me 197 yeah 1997 do you have kids one oh well congratulations thank you very much oh guys I brings you on the bike thank you so much Paul nice to meet you i'll get your 300 now thank you bro thank you have a good day bro yeah have a good day you take it out of here so this guys is our hotel in Asara $60 a night this is the Crystal Palace Hotel and uh yeah I'd say it's pretty good no air con but it's nice and clean and we do actually have Wi-Fi in this hotel this is one of the only places in the country where you can get Wi-Fi there's Wi-Fi cafes and then this uh but no data no SIM card or anything like that so that's fine and we have views of Asar listen to that if you're in any other big city in Africa or any other city in the world it would be super loud outside but peace and quiet and we have a bday well you know who brought that say what you want about the Italians but they brought the bday and I'm happy about that because no bum gun so let's head out and explore Asmar for the first time also the good thing about bringing Kieran on trips is he's like a human chatbt see I'm going to test him now kieran can you give me Stop going in other rooms you little creep curious um can you give me some facts about Asmar or that I won't already know um it's known as the North Korea of Europe because it's run by a dictator north Korea of Europe right keep that in it's known as the North Korea of Africa because it's been run by a dictator since they became independent in 1991 there's a huge Italian influence here so it's going to be a lot of pizza a lot of spaghetti a lot of coffee a lot of gelato oh I'm excited that is actually sick i can actually eat pizza and it's the local food yes so first impressions of Asara it's very clean it's very nice it's a little bit quiet so we're going to see if we can get some interaction but obviously like I said no data no service so we're kind of freeballing it oh we got some we got some China men wow let's go speak to the China men hello niha niha hello what are you guys doing here uh we found a restaurant are you uh tourists or working working uh working here oh nice how is it are you enjoying it uh it's good it's good good environment whereabouts in China are you from oh nice nice awesome shanghai i've been to Shanghai okay awesome the only Chinese I know is Nisha where are you from uh England okay amazing nice to meet you guys have a good day so why is Eratraa so secretive well it's because of its history eratraa has been through a tough time historically it is perfectly geographically located for trade it's on the edge of Africa and it's near the Sewish Canal and near Asia so lots of powers have wanted to rule it including the Italians the Italians colonized during the scramble for Africa like when all of the European colonizers were taking bits of Africa because it was very geographically central for the sewers canal the Italians were here for at least 30 years finally after World War II guess who took over the bloody British oh we're back again but apparently not my words the British did actually improve Eratraa a lot they did some bad things they did some good things that pretty much sums up the British Empire but eventually Eratraa was federated with Ethiopia by the United Nations and then Ethiopia came and annexed Eratraa itans did not like that and they started the war the war with Ethiopia was a very bloody very long war it defines Eratraa now it was over 30 years long and over 300,000 people died in that war sorry this is a long long explanation but it's very important to show the history of Eratraa finally 1991 Eratraa gained independence but this is a big butt it's been ruled by one ruler ever since so it's essentially a dictatorship hello as I was saying finally it's been ruled by one dictator he's ruled with an iron fist and that has led to not much political freedom indefinite military service so many people here work in the military and you can stay for 10 20 30 years working in the military for very little pay they don't have access to the outside world there is no media it's one it's state media it is basically like the North Korea of Africa that's what it gets but it's not as tightly controlled as North Korea i was just in North Korea and it's nowhere near as as like controlled but it is like a little it's got similarities so that explains why is so secretive in a way you can kind of understand why they're so wary of the outside world is because they've been colonized they've been everyone wants a piece of Eritra so finally they've got their independence and they want to keep it so I kind of understand it but at the same time you got to give people their freedom so this is the most famous landmark in Asara it's the Fiat petrol station i know what you're thinking that's a famous landmark but it's a example of the art deco design which is very famous showing the Italian colonization and then there's lots of the the Fiat cars the vintage cars and the vintage coffee shops it's like a city that's frozen in time do you know where they rent bikes bicycles you guys are going wedding you're dressed for wedding oh nice very smart oh okay thank you so much what's your name samson samson harry yes nice to meet you have a good day brother looks like we're getting a bike this will do so this is great example of the the aerot trains of very very good cyclists cycling is their biggest sports here oh wow is that you yeah she was from air club before from Ethiopian government together likely German people german people now this one 87 are you in this one yes i'm here this is you wow turkey japan olympics my father was 164 in Japan so it runs in team for Eatria ethiopia ethiopia oh for Ethiopia okay nice i give a good bicycle for for two one days how much is it 200 Naga 200 Naka for for one day one day yeah 24 hours so this is Eratra's um most famous cyclist good and um yeah I didn't had no idea that they were so good at cycling here yeah yeah yeah he's very good you're you're cycling you also professional kieran can't ride the bike all right let's give it a go ready oh there we go as smooth as you like oh I can't do anything you said you wanted the [ __ ] advanced bike wait push don't break it can't even put the stand up probably a bad idea cuz we're on the main road now this is fun it's probably very uh windy i didn't bring my wind protector but a mosque hey how are you this is the main street in Hazara and as you can see it's still very peaceful this is Monday and uh lots of work going on this is the big the bustling city of Asara shoe cleaners shakan it's very hard to do it one-handed thank you all right i've locked my bike kieran can't lock his bike but you said you you said yourself this is the safest city in Africa in Africa though yeah but it's still way safer than London yeah to be fair I think it's safer than London but we're in the capital city of an African country and this is literally the center of a market so and everyone's now staring at us so anyway we'll either have two bikes back well one bike or we'll have none so yeah I think we're just we're too accustomized to London where anywhere in England actually if you leave your bike it's gone even if you leave it with a lock they'll cut the lock maybe record those people just in case uh the ones over there it's fine don't worry they're eyeing your You got to trust Africa bro classic Kieran speaking to underage kids i've not tried it i'm good nice to meet you nice to meet you hello what is your name my name is Harry harry what is your name my name is Mozana mozana well your English is perfect sorry i speak fine i speak very well where are you uh Harry you I already said you just finished you i'm from England england yeah yeah um you just finished school yes okay i finished school you finished early today what time you finish at You finish at 1 1:00 yes oh kids these days have it easy i finished at 4 anyway what are you going to do now today you're going home okay nice nice in school all of your lessons are in English yes oh for everyone lessons what job do you want to do when you're older when I grow up I want to be professor professor what about the What do you guys want to do i want to be a president president i want to guide and control for my our country you want to sacrifice your life for a trial she wants to be the dictator you want to be what i want to You need to arrest him cuz he's broken the law what What job would you like to do pilots pilots oh these are incredible jobs engineer football oh I can tell it's messy engineer doctor wow i think you will all get these jobs you got a great chance this is amazing they're all all such incredible jobs if someone asked me what job I wanted to do when I was older when I was younger I probably would have said like I'm going to be unemployed now we got the boys what's that how you doing chinese nice to meet you brother does he call me Chinese chinese what's good in your country too what's good nothing nothing is good nothing is good what no no no um football comedy we're very We like comedy nature nature yeah we like to fight sometimes yeah we we get we drink and then we fight oh my god i think you are fighting too yeah sometimes if we're going to go to the bar later maybe we fight okay ciao guys get home safe hey hello he's a baby he looks like he wants to fight you what do you know about Israel i know that you're the safest country in Africa safe yes yeah like I can leave my bike and no one will steal yes it's clean clean yes they're very good right very good at cycling you like to cycle yeah cycling in Binamay did you know Gurmay i know him you're so nice he's my friend yeah yeah no I'm joking is your friend i'm joking isria yeah we like it you can have it that's good very nice it's for you yeah and we are handsome boy oh wow and both of you oh very nice okay for me for you for you for for you all so I may as well just give it mine as well here you go oh that's all we have you have to share sorry it's for all three of you so many like side characters that keep being unlocked we've unlocked side characters with with those girls welcome to Medavaral Market again this smells of chili this is a chili chili farm chili store and this market is very famous because they recycle a lot of things and they have a lot of young kids working here and actually in the chili market they have a lot of uh women working as well see she's separating hello she's separating hello how are you what's up you would not think we're in Asara you know beautiful streets amazing roads and then this feels like straight out of a movie scene it's like from Peaky Blinders it's bustling this is the perfect time to come on a Monday morning hello how are you wow not many markets in the world where you see this many women working together elder women married women young women wow this is attack the smell is crazy it's so strong sticks of chili but it's not a bad smell good how are you i'm good brother how are you what's your name natu natu harry nice to meet you Harry how you doing this is Medaba Market oh nice oh you speak good English yes yeah what's your job here metal and woodwork metal and woodwork oh nice you recycle the metal or you make it from scratch from scratch and Oh also oh nice okay nice how is how is life in Eratraa it's good guy nice amazing everyone seems happy very good very nice okay perfect nice to meet you guys have a good day wow i have no idea what that is hey boys it's like imagine me walking into a a random factory in any country in the UK and just be like "Hey what are you making?" It's just It's just crazy but this is an open market so hey brother this is sick this is the trailer that I wanted to see holy [ __ ] hey nice to meet you nice to meet you england england come on wow that is manual labor if I ever saw it good job boss hello tattoo sticker sticker sticker yeah it's a sticker it's not real yeah this is not real it's sticker sticker it's haram you don't like tattoos in Eratra you don't like mafi oh he's he's a good man priest oh he's crazy hey boss how you doing what are you making cooking oh you made all of these today el 20 20 26 26 26 oh nice well done it's so cool how everyone's making completely different things it's like usually when you come to a market they're kind of all making the same things but everything is different it's so cool you're very very talented very good work nice to meet you bro what's your name it's Nom nom nom oh nice harry harry harry where you from england oh welcome thank you brother how you feeling in England yeah I love it i love it people are friendly it's very beautiful very clean very safe uh in England yeah you say like these people um very different very different very cold very cold not not not so not as safe not safe like here okay thank you nice to meet you brother hey have a good day thank you bro how are you i said the female not the male yala yala where you come from England aston Villa liverpool or Man United arsenal how much for one spade 150 do you like the Spade you going to get it it's a good spade good quality guess 27 younger 27 27 and you 27 same same 1997 and you 28 28 nice are you married yes yes oh nice congratulations no wife no wife no do I need wife can you give me lunch money you can come with me we can go for tea give me money i don't have I'm sorry brother i cannot give to everyone why because and he will ask and then he will ask and he will ask and he will ask we can go for tea but not nice to meet you have a good day i've pretty much unlocked i've unlocked the market now achievement unlocked let's head back to uh Ugabooga mr mr kieran the bike's still here yeah good congratulations see I told you this is one of their 10 cinemas that they have in Asara because again I guess that's the Italian culture coming through but they're all not used now they're all pretty dead because people download them on their phones now you can get them on your phone you can you can rent the DVDs so cinema culture is dying like it is in the rest of the world to be fair you might be wondering why is it so quiet well this population of Asmare is only between 600,000 and 1 million and the people East Africans are generally quite chill so that explains a lot it's also a Sunday so I guess all of these factors mix together but I I like the peaceful vibe this is for sure the most peaceful vibe you're ever going to get in Africa don't expect anything in the other African countries come here Lucky so it looks like there was a those were women wearing the army uniform maybe the women are conscripted into the national service as well military service sorry and guys if you are traveling around to any country where there is data there is Wi-Fi internet then you should be using an eim and I use Hollowfly eim they are available in over 200 destinations what are you waiting for use the link in the description below or the pinned comment discount code Harry Jagard all capitals or use the link in the description okay let's carry on all right we've come in to play some bowling it's like a sports center so this is the bowling alley very very retro they're playing loads of different games you got like the old guys just watching all day guys sorry we got pool we got FIFA and this place is famous because it's manual it's not allowed to take a video it's not allowed well that that sucks it's not that publicity really it's It's cool yeah it's very cool they wanted to show like so it's like one of the only places where they manually like people manually change the skittles are they called and they play pool by hand sometimes but they had the FIFA PlayStation so I'm not sure the guy just came over said you can't film the government doesn't allow that that's just a reminder again everything that I'm showing you guys kind of makes it look like a normal city but there are behind the scenes there are a lot of rules regulations that you don't necessarily see and that's unfortunate four click just 3 minutes 3 minutes 3 minutes only how much naka 10 naka 10 naka 10 okay yalaf where are you from guess I'm from England england yeah where are you from from Asara from Asara yeah okay nice what are you watching what's this this video normal video oh nice he's teaching me oh what's he teaching you about technology oh nice amazing holy B okay awesome you take a picture yeah youtube it's not good it's not good yes from England from London near London yes near London yeah what it's called Birmingham what about your friend where is your friend he is from London where is he i don't know he's probably looking for some Aatran girls this is very hard our culture is very hard really not like other countries they don't like foreigners huh no no they don't no no no no foreigners just our culture is very Oh they stay they stay together strong okay good i like that we are not at foreigners yeah yeah they are like us person i get you i get you yeah yeah yeah are you married yeah I'm married congratulations i have four children four children wow congratulations thank you thank you what's your name my name is Harry harry yeah how many hours do you work work it 12 hours 12 hours wow how much uh on average do you make in one day 150 150 okay 200 it is enough more than enough it's enough for your family we We love our country amazing you're very proud you You love your country i love my country yeah and I love my country good my family is fighters so they sacrificed for Islam i love my country they they were fighting in the war they were fighting yeah with Ethiopia ah okay my country is beautiful country it is beautiful it's beautiful it's very clean and it's very safe look at this dirty clean very good job and why is your your English is your English is so good how how Thank you no from from the videos from videos and uh and already 11 is great yeah it's so good if you come after 2 years everything is change after 2 years after 2 years you think it will be if you come here everything change why okay why do you think that we start to develop our country oh the war is over with Ethiopia okay and how is how is tourism tourism is slowly in now it started okay slow by slow because we are we are 80 80 years 80 years of war for for war oh wow we are in war now it finish we start to develop our country that's so good thank you thank you so much what's your name again harry harry yes and you my name is Aud name is not change but our ministry victory howard victory to victory amazing amazing thank you so much you're a very kind man i'm very happy I got my shoe clean with you wow that's very good price thank you okay i'm going to come back because you gave me the good price i give you this because you gave me a very good price this is for you it's um you're going to have to exchange it also give give him maybe like $20 because he's also working hard but I came with you okay you understand nice to meet you brother thank you Harry no worries have a good day see you brother so guys we have come outside of Asara to a tank graveyard i'll explain a little bit more about this later but we needed a a permit to come here if you're coming to Asari you need a permit to come here and this is like one of the top things to do here and it's definitely worth coming from what I've seen so far so guys this is a group of Russian T12 tanks there's multiple here you can see the guns here and the overgrown fora that's covered it now but you might be wondering what are Soviet Union tanks doing in a scrapyard in Eratraa and that is because of the war with the Ethiopia that I mentioned earlier the 30-year war and basically the Soviet Union was funding they funded four billion uh to the Ethiopians because they were trying to spread communism in Africa and so they funded the Ethiopians they had a war with the Eratran people the Epl the EPLF had absolutely no funding by any countries so they were just small groups underfunded and so they actually attacked supply lines they attacked the uh infrastructure and the these tanks as well they used to target the wheels you can see under here and then they would take them and they would repair them and then use them themselves against the Ethiopians so the Russians were funding both sides but not not on purpose and now it's a tourist activity there's also a few American tanks here as well i'll see if we can find some American tanks these are all Russian tanks but the Americans had a big army base here now it's turned into a scrapyard and like I said you need a permit to come here so this is why we came with our tour guide and you need a permit um because it's kind of sensitive this is awesome first time in a Soviet tank they've stripped out everything anything of importance has been taken off but you can still see oh so there is that is a little bit confusing because there's English writing which makes me think this isn't Russian they've got the different types of guns we could turn on and off 76 mm 30 cal and then the control box wow that is amazing luckily this isn't being used anymore look at this guys these are apparently all painkillers which I picked up you know you know what I reckon it is i reckon it's dehydration because they don't have still water in this country so all the migraines they had maybe it's uh electrolytes no it's definitely painkillers like when they're fighting the wars you know you hear about these they're all on drugs and this is uh the the ugly side of war that you don't see it's lunchtime in Eratraa and you know what we're having for lunch pizza pizzeria restaurant because this is the local food no one can tell me off for not eating the local food pizza here let's go in for some pizza looks like I think the wedding couple might be here hey how are you welcome to Portugal good what's your name brother yar yar yar meet Jared jared yar yeah harry harry harry like Harry Potter nice to meet you nice to meet you brother okay is this the best pizza in Asara number one yeah number one take Arabic speak Arabic uh no no no in Asara no Arabic no Arabic oh okay english italian italian no Italy but most of the people can speak oh they do okay amazing okay let's see what's on the menu we got hamburger we got roast chicken fish i'm waiting for it lasagna ooh pizza there's asarina yeah that's what I'm getting it's literally a margarita pizza with chili that just makes it bang do they have pepperoni oh yeah maybe ziggney oh ziggney come to daddy i'm literally horny thinking about this right now i'm going to absolutely destroy it and they got this looks like I want to say well I've had Ethiopian food before and it looks like this but I know that that might be a touchy subject so we'll we'll ask we'll ask what is the exchange rate again you know what that's none of your business £119 that means a shot of tequila is 1.77 are you thinking what I'm thinking i am thinking what you're thinking ziggney mean pepperoni ziggney meat okay one one ziggney okay one ziggney large like this big can you make this big no neither did I we very hungry we're literally like 10year-old humor but they love it they love it yeah 160 nykis is $8 $8 $10 for a pepperoni pizza large yes please so the question is we got our cappuccinos but the question is we're in Africa now so how long do we think it's going to take to get served my guess is 20 minutes i think it'll be longer i think it'll be about 40 minutes all right but this this see this doesn't feel like Africa at all like this is my 15th African country and the culture and just the way it is from walking around i would never in a million years guess I was in Africa apart from the black people but other than that feels like Birmingham they're having a wedding you can hear the This is a train music oh wow no way wow oh my god I got third row seats wow it's amazing i don't know if I'm invited wow that is a good introduction to Yes thank you oh oh and Kieran Kieran was right there's about 40 minutes is this going to taste nicer than Italian pizza i can tell you no but we'll give it a go yeah it's dreadful that's very disappointing pizza the wrong spot yeah we're going to have to try a different one cuz usually every place is pizza it's not dreadful i give it five out of 10 thank you keep keep the change i'm in Asara Eratraa and I'm going to get the football shirt national the national football shirt they're just opening and I'm holding her flowers you might be wondering why what's your name my name as a Yeah nice to meet you they sent to you i got these flowers for you Aier i give it before you no no no no you are guest no they're for you they're for you all right wow we're going to arrive this is amazing is this your This is your shop no oh okay there we go i keep here there you go thank you you're welcome but I I offer tea what do you drink coca-cola we just had We just had uh It's okay just water maybe your friend i'll take water as well thank you he'll probably have a beer how much is this one 200 naka only thank you 200 naga only i'll take it wow good you look very hand you look very handsome yes i'm now part of the area bel do you speak Italian yes my second language is Italian bonjouro bonjouro yes I speak no Italian do you speak Italian with your friends yes italian after English after small French french Arabic arabic ah Wow so how many languages you speak me five five languages i can only speak two you can barely speak one mate i can speak English and pigeon no you speak more than me oh okay okay wow she's wrapping up it's like Christmas like in my country always Christmas always Christmas amazing i like your pearl necklace customer is customer do you do this for every customer yeah because customer is customer amazing wow i think this is the best best souvenir I've ever bought because they've wrapped it up keep going oh it's not done yeah we're going to be playing pass the parcel with this you love I hope to see again i give you the flag of I think oh wow that's amazing thank you so much this is the best souvenir I've ever bought here you go thank you Shukran au thank you so much nice to meet you the same to you nice to meet you okay guys as you may know the internet is very hard to find in Eratra although they were the first African nation to get the internet they haven't updated it since those times and so it's very very hard to get Wi-Fi extremely hard you have to come to an internet cafe so I haven't had Wi-Fi for 3 days now i'm going to see what it's like apparently you need a VPN apparently it's very very hard a lot of things are blocked so we'll check it out ncs U and Fast Connection oh does this lovely lady come with it amazing oh this is the greatest establishment in Eratraa oh there's a little school next door oh here we go hello could I get some internet please internet how much is it 15 Naga for 1 hour 10 hours for 60 i'm going to chill here for 10 hours could we get 1 hour please okay so this is the code is it fast very fast okay so you sit down and uh everyone's just chilling on their phones probably they're all probably watching Lily Phillips and uh I'm also going to join them kieran you going to do it as well no I'm completely fine with my digital detox i'm just addicted to social media no I'm only doing it for the video it's working this is very slow yes we have the internet guys just to put this in perspective I'm trying to do a speed test to see how fast it is but the speed test won't load so that kind of gives you an idea as to how fast it is i think it's maybe I'm super impatient but I think it's unusable for me i'm trying to also connect to a VPN you need a VPN for most things i don't need the internet anyway maybe I should just enjoy it in the moment guys I give up i don't know what it was maybe you need a VPN but it would it I'm telling you now was not takes about 5 minutes to load a Google page like I I don't need it at that point like it's just infuriating but that makes you grateful for just having you know even basic internet when you have bad internet in a hotel makes you grateful for that and actually I've realized on this trip I'm grateful for a lot of things like for example just having an elevator in our in hotels not having to go up the stairs what else to be grateful for i just did something terrible without realizing what that man just said to me "I am hungry." And I just looked at him and went "Same." Cuz I wasn't concentrating you're the gift that keeps on giving Kieran i'm grateful for a lot of things in my country and I don't usually always I I usually always take them for granted yeah guys do not worry with no internet we have our own Google Maps look at this we got city map you know what I'm looking for right now i'm looking for a pub or the Italian version of a pub we want beers h I see a mosque i see historical sites you know what i'm just going to raw dog it and find some beers nice to meet you welcome to Thank you nice to have us thank you we're looking for beer beer beer go straight then to the right hand side okay the building is very tall okay perfect thank you so much the old gentleman's dressed very nice hello salam do you know where we can find a bar for drinking a bar like a beer beer just on this okay okay i like your I like your necklace thank you this is Eratrayan necklace you you have similar it it's for Christian christian okay my turn what's your name ara ara nice to meet you nice to meet you i like your tattoos as well lovely ladies everyone's dressed so well delicately and beautifully salam it's like a completely new world this is It's such an amazing feeling when you travel to a new country new sites new people new faces new languages it's It's really the best thing you can't beat it so this is the local coffee shop but it also is a bar maybe so we'll check it out they've got the European film festival and if you see I'll I'll put a picture on screen now it's the Italian style the art deco Italian style so it's very grand let's just head inside to show you guys we got some foreigners hello Niha how are you how are you nice to meet you nice to meet you nice to meet you too you're from China yeah China china oh Niha niha nice nice where are you from from England england okay yes making a YouTube video yeah yeah actually yeah yeah yeah are you guys living here no we just uh work here working here working yeah working working how is it how is it it's good it's good it's good do you miss you miss China yeah I want to go home oh really really yeah but your your English is very good no no no poor poor no no it's you speak perfect English better than my Chinese amazing so you you are here just for vacation yeah 3 days three days why choose this country i'm trying to go to every country and I thought this is a unique place in the world i like to go to places where tourists don't go to and this has a unique story you know Italian colonization and stuff very unique okay amazing have a good night so this is the Italian look at this big old movie camera god this is really really vintage fancy a beer mate of course all right salam how are you i don't speak uh to Gray sorry um could we get two beers please two beers no beer no beer oh no at 7:00 oh I thought this was a party place not a party place no after 7:00 okay we We'll just get two waters please yeah thank you so much these look like beers all right we're starting off strong with sparkling water cheers mate sparkling water oh 7 up what is it might be a Seven Up but No it says Darwa carbonated water yeah so the reason why they don't have still water apparently is because they're trying to save on plastic you could say that they could put still water in a glass bottle but I don't know it smells like sewage does it tastes a bit funny we're going to go check out the cinema wow this is one of their 10 cinemas that they have in Asar cuz I guess is that Italian cinema culture anyway the cinemas are dead now no one comes to the cinemas apparently because we all got the iPhones and the movies and the Netflix but this is like a theater very cool all right onwards it's beer: O' liy with a great big generator outside oh it's busy wow it's very busy no beer hello hello S how are you nice to meet you how are you nice to meet you we're looking for some beer beer beer sorry draft draft beer yeah draft you have Oh nice what is it what's your name michaela michaela michael michael yeah nice to meet you Harry thank you cheers mate cheers it's very good i don't We didn't ask how much it is but apparently Kieran says the beer is cheaper than the water oh I guess we'll find out it's my human chi you see even even here very peaceful no one's getting riled up angry there's no shout if this was an English club oh my god it'd be going crazy yeah there would be fights if this is a Weather Spoons I I dare to imagine what would be happening but very calm everyone's just watching the game very peacefully bit of air train music in the background sipping on some beer all right we couldn't really film in there so we're going to go to a different bar maybe just maybe we not might not film this anyway we're just enjoying a few beers but it's nice to see the they're watching the Premier League the football culture is very big in here in Africa and obviously they love Man United Liverpool and it was $1 that is one of the best prices in the world for beer I reckon for a pint we've unlocked a new area of the map and all I see is pizzeras and gelato shops it's like we're in heaven salam hello people are like very I would say shy and definitely worried about the camera i understand it i get it it's just Africa you got to be aggressively confident and just go up to people even though it's going to be awkward some people will say I'm being you know a little bit too pushy but this is how you get interactions here in Africa you got to push for it you got to be forward i hear music so I think there's bears this is a beautiful It's a beautiful [ __ ] tower i reckon we uh run this one yeah kieran smells beer thank you so much what's your Yeah yeah yeah i like it very good what's your name joelin joseline nice to meet you harry nice to meet you got to love an unbranded beer cheers cheers brother this is an English ball right here oh I used to be a bartender that's a bit sus there's no There's no froth you have to pour 90° but I didn't and there's no froth that means it's not a very good beer guess we'll taste it and find out what cities in the world not just Africa what cities in the world can you walk around at night with a big old pizza and a big old camera and look like nothing's going to happen i feel blessed this is East Africa guys this is Eratraa it's fine it's super safe and then the next shot is going to be me with no money and no wallet bloody hell god bless elevators i'm going to appreciate elevators we're back we're going to be quiet all right guys i'm going to go to sleep now good night so guys that was Eratraa one of the most closed off countries in the world yet one of the kindest a very clean African city despite the limits placed on them they carry on with strength and dignity amara is quiet and controlled but it's also beautiful and is frozen in time it's a very unique place to go it's got the amazing Italian and African culture mixed together 100% without a doubt I will go back because behind the headlines and the politics there are real people there and there are more places to discover in Eratraa thank you for watching
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