Tourists Don't Visit this Secretive African Dictatorship

Tourists Don't Visit this Secretive African Dictatorship

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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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