What the media doesn't show you about BAGHDAD, IRAQ | S8, EP29
Jassan, Iraq Season 8 - Eps.29 Goodbye! Good morning Internet! It is I think, 9:15 in the morning and welcome back to the channel Welcome here in Jassan I am leaving today Mohammed is just going to ride a little bit with me. See me off And then he's going back to the border for work And then I'm going to continue to Baghdad We're just avoiding a big traffic jam You go back? Yeah Take care! Until next time Bye Goodbye! Okay, here I go again on my own Baghdad Passport Passport - Passport, yes Russian? Holland Russian? Holland - Holland I am in Baghdad So my plan is to first make it to.. .. A hotel Very stunning mosque there Okay, this is my room in Baghdad I do have a window here Which is nice Okay, I am going to explore Baghdad on foot and by taxi Because Frankie is parked quite literally inside, inside the hotel! Kind of inside the lounge room To keep her safe which is great But then it's not really handy to like take her in and out every time So I'll just leave Frankie safely there and explore the city like this, which is fine And I don't have to wear my motorbike gear either I also decided to not go and find a mechanic here in Baghdad I made a new plan. It's actually been going fine just the way Frankie is running now In the end, I decided against doing some temporary fix to some wires now And then changing the wiring loom soon anyway So I have a plan in place with Moritz to get a new wiring loom, which I can probably just put on myself But I'm not going to send it to Iraq, so I just have to last a little bit longer Uh, until I'm at a place where I can get the wiring loom And yeah, there I'm just going to change everything I think that's better than to now spend a lot of time and effort on a temporary solution Whereas in the end, it's fine as it is I'm still kind of on the road so I think all is good So that means that uh, I'm just going to explore some places in Baghdad And the first place I'm going to go to is the Al-Shaheed Monument It's quite a special place, so see if I can find a taxi Al-Shaheed - Where? Al-Shaheed Monument - Yeah Thank you It's not officially open today but they let me take a picture from the distance So this is the Martyr Monument Which was built right in the middle of the Iraq Iran War in the early 80s So that war in Iran started in 1980 so it was Saddam Hussein started a war with Iran And the war lasted from 1980 until 1988 and ultimately, I think in total more than half a million people got killed during that war And this monument was actually erected by Saddam Hussein himself during the war still So I think it was in 1982 or 1983 that this monument was built here But now of course, over time it's kind of became the symbol for all the wars that followed as well And of course, IS so a lot of Iraqi soldiers have been fighting against IS, Islamic State And so that monument is now also for those fallen soldiers Okay Hello How are you? - Good So I just had a nice cup of tea And now I'm walking, I think this is a.. part of old, old town. Old Baghdad Noraly - Noraly I think this guy is going to show me the building He's like, you want to look inside Or at least, I think that's what he said I don't really know what building this is Hello Good - Good Pretty nice view from here So yeah, in the background you can see the highrise And then here are all older buildings See It's actually a very beautiful building I don't know what this used to be but this looks like they're restoring everything here Beautiful Goodbye Okay, that was a really random encounter Okay, let's have some of this Hello Thank you So good All right, it is the dinner time now It's gotten dark already And I am going to meet someone here at this restaurant to have a dinner Um, I met her actually in Kurdistan, her name is Aya and she is from here, she's from Baghdad And she works as a local guide, so we met when I was visiting that monastery in Kurdistan And she said, oh when you come to Baghdad, let's meet up So I sent her a message and uh yeah, she invited me for dinner in this restaurant so So I'm really looking forward to seeing her again and obviously, have some good Iraqi food Hi Nice to meet you - Hi Again - Yeah again In Baghdad Ahmed - Hi My partner - Noraly, nice to see you Have a seat Oh, it's hiding underneath or not? - Yeah Ah ha With rice - With rice Ta da da - Wow! That looks amazing Some pickles So this is masgouf - The fish? The fish. This is our national dish
And uh, it's a Mesopotamian recipe so it's like thousands of years old recipe And as I said it's our national dish and our favorite dish, obviously It's a carp fish. You know carp fish It looks amazing So this is how it works You choose a fish So how long would it take for one fish to.. Um, it depends but from like 1 hour and a half to two 1 hour and a half to two Because you see it's not directly like very very next to the - Exactly It's like slow cooked - Yeah slow cooked There is also another way of making it, but this is not like orginal way This is a fish - Ah Some people like it this way - Then it's a bit faster Yeah This is the open style Ah, this is where they make the bread Finished already, so quickly So I had a really lovely dinner last night with Aya And now I am in a taxi on my way to meet up with her again And then we're going to explore the city a little bit more on foot I think mainly The only thing is I'm a little bit stuck in traffic Morning traffic in Baghdad it's.. it's very busy
There she is Hi So Aya is taking me to the copper district which used to be a big part of the market But unfortunately, this trade is slowly disappearing He's also making - Aye,yeah But because of war, and they are not selling that much and also because now there is like, cheaper stuff coming from China and other places - hello, how are you, how are you You can go inside it's like a hole See, this is Iraqi handmade and this is Indian Made in India - yeah The people in Iraq, like the Indian things They like it more? Really? And the people, foreign people, they like the Iraqi more I guess Iraqi people.. like shiny stuff - This is better Ah, he's saying this piece is around 60 years old Oh, okay It acts like a holder You can actually put like, you know the chai cup, that we are Ah, so you can put a chai cup in there - It's like an extra Okay - Like a.. accessory or something Here is your cup A cup holder maybe we can give it a test later in the.. in the coffee shop - Yeah It's these and he have some original ones Saddam Hussein.. made Switzerland
This is not original but it's just a copy but this is original - This is original one How much Dinar is this? Oh, 25 Dinar So the inflation has been significant Yeah, there used to be one Dinar is like $3. 3 US dollars 1 Dinar in used to be 3 dollars, now 1 dollar is 1500 dinar Look at this pencil wall This entire wall is made out of pencils Made in Iraq in the 1960s Wow That is so amazing, look at that So the man at the pencil shop, Ali, he gifted me a pencil This one, which says Made in Iraq The name of the factory where it was made and the price which was 20 cents at the time But this pencil was made in the 1970s Nowadays, Chinese products are flooding these markets There is a like, a whole library selling English books There's a lot actually Like all these uh.. Back then it used to be houses but now most of these are like storage - For books For books. Yeah Some like, sometimes we go inside and then you try to find the book you want Like um.. university students High school students Novels, whatever. You can find everything here Really everything This is the place Established - Ah, yeah Let's go King Faisal, the second The third picture over there - Uh huh And that's the first one is King Faisal, the first This is like the King of Iraq Here is your halal wine Halal wine Dried raisin juice Dried raisin juice Make from grapes you know Oh, it's very nice It's very sweet You're going to have a sugar rush after this You want some? No I'm good So this is.. they are making it in these.. - Yes
Over there So all of those marks are from the American invasion Bullets Grenades maybe? Like, grenades also maybe? On this building, I'm not sure but it's bullets I mean, they used a lot of stuff All sorts of weapons Oh wow! This looks amazing Thank you So we're having some kunafa ice cream which is, that's the most popular It's the most popular one right? Uh, like in this shop, yes - In this shop He kind of invented that somehow Looks amazing Kunafa and ice cream is like the best combination Oh, that's very good Oh I haven't had an ice cream in so long So what does this statue represent? Uh, it's called saving the Iraqi culture statue It's a pretty modern one Five hands representing, each one presenting a group of religion in Iraq And a group of people Kurdish, Arabs and so on And they are all trying to like, you know, save the Iraqi culture and the Iraqi history So this is the.. the idea from it - Very nice It's open! You wanna go? But no, nothing is moving No Yeah because no one is there I didn't expect to go in a roller coaster in Baghdad So maybe it's something we should do it If it's working - If it's working yeah Another one on the other side, and it goes like this That's also pretty scary Oh, this is.. I think for uh - This one goes up That one goes up and down Okay, the roller coaster is closed, unfortunately Because of maintenance We're going to see if there's anything else that we can go in It doesn't stop, so come! Ah okay okay There we go It's been a long time since I did go in one of these things Almost at the top now I think right or not? Almost at the top Okay, so the sun is now almost going down So another day in Baghdad finished I just wanted to say that if you want to visit Iraq, whether it is Baghdad or any other place Then Aya can help you and organize wherever you want to go We'll put our Instagram, it's called Safraty tours They can send me a message and tell me uh, what they need and what they want And can help with the visa, with the tours and everything on the ground So yup So please do so, if you want to visit Iraq Um, then I'm going to end this video now That was it for today. I really hope you like this video
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2025-01-20 22:10
