What Media Won’t Show You About IRAN | [E78]
oh god and here Salam hello yeah, yeah yeah yeah good morning all my beautiful people I hope you're doing well I'm ready to go and eat some breakfast I have 30 minutes left for the breakfast I slept a long time uh so I better get going and eat pack and go I'm not going that far today it's pretty close but I want to be in that area for a little while and explore because it's so cool so breakfast let's go and eat pack and go let's hit the road [Music] good good equal closed, stuck ready to go I have such a problem with my breath these days I think it's the heat as fast as I do something I get so I lose my breath anyway I'm going to get up and we're going to a fuel station first of all but what direction is to the left to the left so my second fueling here in Iran hope it goes better after that we go for my other destination so just let's enjoy the road the Iranian road, is not that hot yet and he's not seeing me little kid yeah let's enjoy the road let's get some fuel first Salam hi can I help you I'm okay thank you I'm fine thank you I'm looking at the map Benzine , go there I'm come from sweden okay yes and you from here okay okay he wants to translate it but I'm pretty sure it's right there it was just my phone got a bit it died that was the problem because of the heat so was there I think Benzin here yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yes benzine there or there I think very good that's okay okay very good Merci okay bye-bye thank you Merci hello it's Benzine very very good very good huh which one can I do Benzine maybe here yesterday I was so tired so I didn't explore anything in sirjan I was working on a video and then I ordered some food on the room and fell asleep yeah I know sometimes there are days like that new country New Impressions you get tired but my next destination is going to be something I really looking forward to it's not going to be in a city it's going to be on the countryside which is great because I was born on the countryside so that's why I love to go out in the nature and all that unfortunately cities stressed me a little bit so, ale go somewhere around there I'm going along those mountains uh yeah I know it's going to be a short tour through Iran um in the beginning I was supposed to go from turkey and through Iran but then I felt like visiting more countries so Iran is a little bit shorter than expected but still I got to experience this amazing culture and people snacks, snacks snacks yep drink popcorn for tonight and some water all good I took half of the water that couldn't fit to my camelback and pour it all over me it is so nice. I'm like a new person so I'm going to a place called meymand and there they have a eco Lodge and where I will stay for the night I'm so looking forward to stay on the countryside it is this wow I think I see it wow this hole in the wall in the rock this is so amazing wow is it a UNESCO heritage site as well really I think I see this sign so I will meet with pman he is the one who has the eco lodge so I will continue a little bit further up I think it's so peaceful and so quiet hey hi how are you very good thank you sorry I was misunderstanding everything there we go can she stand here or yeah exactly truly truly how are you pman yes indeed yes and Kristina is here thank you so much oops check this out you see all the houses or the rooms over here surrounding the village it's so cool and in here this is where Krikko stays so so cool this is the door a lot of history here can do like this and here is the room nice ey so here you have all the different kind of tools they had back in times and stuff decorated really nice here and uh we need to find some holes uh here the stored valuable stuff for maybe food who knows shelf yeah same there a little hole in there where stored stuff and shelves here is where I'm sleeping it's the Next Room mhm two rooms like this Cozy area there bed there rocks my stuff little cozy area as well this is so cool I'm staying actually in a real Stone House now I sort of did it in Turkey a little bit but not like this this is the real one so amazing and one of the best things as well is that is so quiet and I'm middle of nowhere far from the civilization I can think I can breathe feel like home and we don't need an air condition here outside it is probably 35 degrees right now inside 24 22 it's great so great $20 I paid for this room come on and you can charge all your stuff you have WiFi a great host so so the villagers here they are sematic which means that they raise their animals on the mountains pastures depending on temporary settlements. so during the winter months they they go further down because it's cold in the mountains so they go down and find some caves and and sleep there it's amazing I'm going to go and meet with my host and we're going to go and little a tour around here in a short while so let's go for that [Music] these are grapes yes oh this called ore not grape and other things so it's very sour so it's good for cholesterol uh and in salad sometimes people use it okay and that's it nice try yeah I love sour stuff oh god I wasn't really ready for that it was good yeah nice a little bit bitter and we're going to go and explore a little bit around the area he going to show me around and you said how many caves were they here uh around 2,500 caves here oh it's turle day salom and uh very old maybe 2-3,000 years old oh wow, minimum, that's a lot of caves eh yeah do we know when they started building them when they came here for the first time no nobody didn't know no no hello watch out to your head yes, Mind your head hello hello how are you this wooden is mine yeah perfect they're gorgeous, this is all our friends work Ha lovely a lot of rocks are the Rocks there from here or are they do they no and the turquoise uh mostly is from here this is the yard of the school oh lovely yeah not bad I could go to school here is this the the wild pistach you no no no this is not another kind of okay and this were a bathroom bathroom yes this is the rooms of the school and what age like from 7 years old up to 14 you know, because 50 years ago uh the people is so crowded okay population 10,000 people living here 50 years ago 10,000 people [Music] wow but then everyone went left and went to the cities to work yes yes yes sure what is this this is called namad this is uh using by felting the wool but what do you use it for the ground or for the for the table yeah also for ground yeah it's warm and this is the National sign of Meymand, they comes from maybe Mithraism okay very old sign this is the Sun yeah I could imagine exactly before Islam and Zan they are Mithraism and you can see some sign from that culture up to now the lock is the lock on my door as well that's the one yes this is the key like have a specific key that is amazing, a little big a little, don't put it in your pocket but put it here that could be exactly yes round your neck wow this is the branches of wild almond the branches of them and they make them yes yes make them and what do they have inside like a basket like a basket put something in it to keep fresh brilliant yeah wow cuz the air coming out coming down coming out, in and out it's really really good a meal for grinding grain a wooden bowl for making dough licorice nice do you know yes we have a lot of licorish in Sweden, we make a lot of candy of it this is pistachio wild pistachio yeah these are the guys exactly when I went there we saw some trees and these are the what do you call it the the nuts mhm yes almonds and walnut what what is what is this no a smoke because people used to smoke inside the caves for cooking and for heating so maybe the oil of the wood or the oil of the dishes uh is sitting on the on the roof yeah exactly and it's good for caves to doesn't collapse if you have a caves empty for a long time some sometimes people come inside and uh take fire M yeah of course because of the wet humidity yeah yeah yeah so it's started to collapse like this yep that's really good they made it happen that's true whoa wait wa wait did these are the the antlers the Horn of the yeah of the goat goat wild goat do we know what this is uh yeah wow okay it's gravestone gravestone yes a carved marble which is mine from Ravis mines placed over a grave yeah okay of course we have a public bath here so the whole village can come here and take a swim old bath uhuh I also I can go here and wash my feet sit here together with other people washing my feet hanging out okey you know all they needed they built not built they carrying they carrying it carrying the you know their Stones all they need like fire temple School Mosque you know and bath old baths they didn't build anything only they are carrying strong and this is the for light uhuh here we have it natural light for for warming the water so to make wood in the yes yes sure sure and over the pond of cold water you can choose cold or hot what they want do you ever get water here again yes in winter winter it comes yes of course no meymend is super nice I'm very impressed by it it reminds me a little bit of cappadoccia but less tourism yeah and before like 2018 before Corona there was a lot of Europeans coming here as well but unfortunately changed so they're not here anymore not too much now it's more Iranian people coming here and visiting this place so it's pretty untouched but I'm here I am here [Music] i'm gonna have some dinner here this is amazing look some traditional Iranian food it's pretty warm with this scarf but the temperature outside now is brilliant with 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2024-09-16 15:37