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Exploring the Super-Rich Arab Country Nobody Goes To
Exploring the Super-Rich Arab Country Nobody Goes To
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Rebels seize the presidential
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Palace that allegations of Human Rights abuses are awful
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more than $200 billion
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The Fragile ceas fire between Israel and Hamas
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is even more uncertain
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it seems in Western news
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that we mainly only ever hear two things coming out of the Middle East
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we either hear about these Monumental
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structures being built lavish
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Sports Investments and seemingly
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unlimited wealth flowing in the region
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or sadly enough as we've explored on our travels
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stories of War but as you zoom in there's only one country in this
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region that seems to be doing neither
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of those things rejecting what every other country is doing
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and enjoying its quiet and discreet
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existence away from the mainstream
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eye being both one of the safest countries
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remaining peaceful for many decades
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but also immensely oil Rich
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they are choosing to use their wealth very differently
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as friends who travel extensively
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around the world we rarely hear anybody speak
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about this country we also barely see any videos coming out of here so
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is there just not a story to be told
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or as almost every Source on the internet seems to claim
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is this actually the middle east's
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most underrated country we are heading to this discreet
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country of Oman for the next 3 days to
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out to start this trip staan and I left the island of saotra
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where we filmed our previous episode
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to fly back to the mainland of the Middle East where we met up
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with Amar see you
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to be together again yeah and like we usually do with our stories like
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this we were going with no fixed itinerary
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only with the hopes of getting to know the Oman people
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and to understand what makes this country
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so different what are you doing it's like a prayer you say every time
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you get into some vehicle
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traveling I've like grown up either me or my siblings saying it out loud
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and the whole car
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would repeat it after them it's almost like a reflex
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and what is the prayer saying dear God who
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has made this vehicle avail able for us may you bless our travels may
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you bless our mission
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of our travels it's like a asking for a lot of blessing
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you feel like a sense of protection saying it and being on the road
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you feel there's like a sense of Readiness
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as neither stuff on our ey grew up particularly
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religious we enjoy learning about small prayers
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like this one taking a moment to set a positive
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intention and asking protection for the journey ahead
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whether religious or not always feels like a good way to start a trip
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the first thing that caught our attention
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as unique about this country was the style of its Urban
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Design the architecture here is really pretty
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and there are no skyscrapers
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here so we've been to Qatar we've been to
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the UAE and it's skyscrapers
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everywhere but here nothing seems higher than a handful of stories
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even the new buildings are built with a flavor that that makes it feel
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like you are an OM man Aman's economy benefits
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massively from their local oil industry
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in other countries like Saudi Arabia
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or the UAE they use a lot of their oil profits
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to build towering futuristic
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skyscrapers ERS but Aman distributes
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its wealth much more differently
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by providing free land to its citizens aiming to promote home ownership
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and economic stability they also have decided
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to not build any skyscrapers
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this results in an architectural
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landscape that sprawls horizontally
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rather than vertically with distinct
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design characterized by simple
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yet elegant lowrise white or Earth toned buildings
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which reflect the intense heat and helps the building blend harmoniously
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with the desert and mountainous
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Landscapes the unique urban planning highight
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oman's emphasis on respecting their history and tradition
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preserving their cultural Legacy amidst an everchanging
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modern world it feels nice to be somewhere where
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grown up across the sea from my mom actually spent her childhood here something
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I remember from my childhood is the is the head wear of men
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being very very beautiful here
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it's like very classy and very
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tasteful our first stop of the trip was to visit the sultan
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kaboose Grand Mosque the large
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mosque in Oman and one of the country's most iconic
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landmarks wow oh my
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God are you kidding me
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we're not even seeing it fully
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and this mosque already looks like one of the most beautiful buildings I've ever
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seen we're hoping to get to go explore inside
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and pray with Amar for the first time in 10 years
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but we were quickly stopped in our
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we weren't able to enter during the mosque's prayer hour as it was closed
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to tourists well unfortunately
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they are very strict
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about non-muslims going in during visiting hours which is a bummer I've been led
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into mosques everywhere in the world so it's a bit strange that even when
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we wanted to come pray we weren't let in but uh
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that's all right so Amar went to explore the inside
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by himself pretty bummed that I can't take the boys
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for this prayer but hopefully they get to catch another prayer somewhere else with
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with me wow it is so
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beautiful it's one of the most beautiful mosques I've ever been to
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wow it's so vibrant
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after being denied entry to the mosque
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we felt like our trip wasn't
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necessarily off to the best start
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but just as we were about to leave
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stfine decided to approach a friendly look local who immediately
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insisted on showing us
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around must saying the best of names
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ah so me andar will join
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Muhammad you're a very kind soul Muhammad
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welcome we say bis
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bis before before before driving the trip to M has officially beun yeah EXA
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well as Quenton our videographer
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and I were following them
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none of us in either of the cars had any clue where Muhammad
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The Stranger we had just met
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was taking us but as our goal was to let the locals take control
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and show us their country
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we happily went along for the ride okay I've been told nothing we're just
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following them we have no
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itinerary of like where we're going we can't lose them oh there's already a
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car between us you should work with us
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Muhammad okay now free
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yeah now now you're our tour
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guy wait we are in like a residential
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area are we going to his house this is like a very unusual
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start of a video we get turned down from the place we wanted to
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go and now I'm following
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a stranger's car to
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loc that I don't know
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we're driving further and further away from civilization
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I love these cat THS you don't know what's happening
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quick question where the
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we welcome to Muhammad's Adventure
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let's dip our feet
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this is really warm and
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nice heavy this is great
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it is really warm we've been following you guys in the car having no
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freaking clue where we're going
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I would have not guessed this
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if I had a 100
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guesses just a bunch of Bros with our man dad
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and we've been adopted
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I feel refreshed thank you Muhammad's
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arrival in Oman just
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perfect just clean your feet
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feel good you know hot spring we would have never found this place
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yeah I wasn't expecting to be
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adopted right on upon arrival
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but it does show
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and this has been my experience
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in most Muslim countries that I've traveled to that there is a very
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strong sense of hospitality
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and people will go out of their way
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to show you around and to introduce you to their culture
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let's see where we're going next
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see that does not look touristy
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whatever what's happening yeah well we are in Muhammad's
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world so this is like a fish
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market yeah you got to grab a fish and then we're going to drop
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it up at the grill
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what the does that mean
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like what do you mean drop
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ah and then you give it to
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them this feels like the most local place we could have possibly had our
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meal after deciding on the spot to dedicate half his day to being our
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tour guide Muhammad had to return to his family so we said our goodbyes
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and we were once again
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left on our own
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were an angel Muhammad he cleaned our feet
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took us on our guided tour now some
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food oh god oh wow
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wow Muhammad is not with us but we are still in his
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world that's I could eat that for the rest of my life I kept
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sing in the car I hope he's taking us to food I hope he's
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taking us to food
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we finished our first day by watching theti full Omani
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Sunset over the ocean
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while we had been blessed with meeting Muhammad and having him show us some
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local spots overall we were having a harder time than we expected
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interacting with strangers almost all the people we met seemed very put off by
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our cameras we ran into the same issue on our last trip in
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sakota CA where as some of you pointed out in the comments
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no women appeared in our last story
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something which hadn't really happened before
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it wasn't because we didn't see any
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it was because the ones that we met asked us not to film them
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and so out of a respect we compined
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however we met many other female Travelers that felt perfectly safe traveling in the
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country and one of them even traveling there completely
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by herself nonetheless our goal of filming here seemed even harder
10:14
than we expected as this time around both the men and the women seemed
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uninterested in appearing in our story
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so we decided for our second day
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to leave the city
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however this time we forgot to account for the fact that it was Friday
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which is the holiest day day of the week for Muslims
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so it was a bit
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of a ghost town we have arrived at our first town outside of musket
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we're the only one driving around us there's no one here
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I thought the problem was going to be is that we were going to
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meet too many people and now we're not meeting anyone
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the circumstances are working a little bit against us but this is the city
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center of Nal there's no one in there
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the stores are empty
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where are we where the
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are we there a barber open
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it's it do they have coffee down
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he's inviting us for
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lunch there's something that in Egypt that we call
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the invite of fisherman
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which is you're a fisherman in a boat and then you see another Fisher
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in a boat and you be like come on come on over like it's
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not really po but
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it's you're not leave your boat and
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so this is this was the fisherman
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in he's like a you four come come me for love I
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a I have that dentist appointment
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having not had much luck so far we decided to get back in the
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car and drive even further out into nature
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oh my Lord that's beautiful
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this is the first
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place where you feel some sense of awe here this is incredible
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it looks like the Grand Canyon and they call it the Grand Canyon of
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the Middle East where we are right now
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and it's pretty amazing that there are roads going
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through the canyons and we are just surrounded
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by these spectacular Mountain formations
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all around us and apparently if we keep going here we'll H hit a
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dirt road and then there's a small village at the edge of it that
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should have some interesting scenery
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too well we are going into this Canyon now properly it's like 20 km
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this we needed a Land Cruiser for this
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not a p little French car
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okay he's saying he's saying it's a really steep
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incline and the car could like just roll off the hill you need one
12:51
of these big boys
12:59
don't okay so we went back to to talk to a local
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asking him about the town that we're trying to get to and then he
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just goes and then he just goes you're going to kill
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yourself okay he's coming towards
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us we have realized we need a car like that not a car like
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this he's going to going to take us
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y let's go this is the trip we need man we need this moment
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to happen we need Adventure
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we need this man
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so he's saving us he was like yeah you're going to die in this
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car so I'll take you this is the Beautiful Moments
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people helping amazing I am
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better nice to meet you better
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well I think he just might have saved Our Lives
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man ah it's up here
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ah we went the wrong way well it was a turn here
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wow he not only saved us he also put us back on the right
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Road bidder is a local farmer who sometimes helps locals
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without proper Vehicles travel deeper
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into the mountains and somehow
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right before turning on to the really dangerous road while asking for directions
14:22
out of some Divine luck we were saved
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by this man you see you see this little thing that he has on
14:27
there yeah that's the prayer the traveling
14:35
prayer people often have it in their cars
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yeah okay this is steep
15:02
I'm happy we're not here with our car
15:05
holy wow this was
15:09
we would have been in trouble here
15:11
our I think driving ourselves
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would have been sketch
15:15
like I trust you
15:16
but this is like
15:17
this is like crazy
15:19
you want somebody who lives here to drive you like I've driven on
15:23
what is classified as the world's
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most dangerous road and it looks similar to this it's making the list for
15:29
my top five as soon as we hit this road seemed like every car
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passing waved at us there's like a sense of openness
15:43
that returned it's like the world is so big every time you leave your
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like very limited perspective
15:48
you just come here and you see this man and his wife just setting
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up in the most beautiful Valley just
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having dinner they don't know anything about
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the US elections they don't know anything about what's happening in Europe just they're
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living their own lives and world is so big
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and we have so much space to create whatever reality that we
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want I love how we're doing an interview with him and we're like dodging
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cars on the edge of the cliff
16:17
guys it's it's pretty pretty
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high I just got like scared again now looking down
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it's so high it's pretty wild that this is his backyard
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it's like I'll show you my
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he's showing us like the famous like one of the most famous features here
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Snake Canyon I didn't see this coming
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what does um being Omani mean for you
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after a full day of travel
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we finally arrived to our destination
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B wow that's a
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beautiful village with Paradise hidden in the mountains of omong
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this place is stunning
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so green and Lush in the middle of this
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Valley wow saying that's the fort up there
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a fort nice to meet you you live in this town
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yeah I am local here
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amazing it's a beautiful
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place thank you do you live here now or you just visit yeah I
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come come I live here just now because I have a joke
18:10
I come here only in weekend
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ah okay so you're coming back for so I have hostel there
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near my my job
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you have a hostel
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yeah oh that's so cool
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nice so now you're here cuz it's Friday and yeah my family here your
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family is here yes my family here that's amazing
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life always feels different every country that we we travel a lot
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and in small towns you get to feel what real Community
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feels like if we were in musk and it was hard to meet people
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and then we come here and
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you just came and said hi immediately you're like okay
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now we're meeting the real people
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in living lives yes
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the putting on the kids to yes Theory early on
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and getting subscribers he's telling them children
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we really need to reach 10 million this year
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please hit the btom that's what he's telling this show so how many new
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ones do we have on
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so that's nine closer to 10 so if you want to help us get
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for like subscribe com
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subscribe now I know what you're probably thinking to yourself
19:44
right now how the heck did they have the phone data
19:47
to be able to access their YouTube channel high up in these remote mountains
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of Aman well that was a problem we solved back when we first arrived
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at the airport there's something called eim cards where you basically
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add a Sim card without taking yours out to your phone and the partner
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that we use for this is s
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you open the app you explore plans
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and then you just type which country that you're in in this moment we
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now I have 5 GB of data
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harder to navigate a new country you can't use Google Translate you can't use
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we okay we arrived as they had just finished
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the the prayer I want to like still follow the tradition of what they
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do so I want to like and I still haven't prayed
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this prayer so it'd be nice to have you guys join
21:38
done this in Project 30 with Thomas and Matt and uh haven't haven't had
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this experience with you yet to me one of my
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favorite things about Islam is
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the word Muslim itself
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just means the one who submits to the Oneness of God like we believe
21:51
that you know Abraham and Jesus they were all Muslim because they all simply
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submitted to the Oneness of God and I think we're all here
21:58
Believers in that so
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you know I I love that I can
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go in with you guys and do a prayer and even though you you're
22:05
not going to be saying what I'm saying but still
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we can all tap into the same energy and the same frequency
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and you know with a lot of devotion a lot of just respect for
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the place it's yeah be
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beautiful smells incredible the
22:23
incense so peaceful wow
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imagine that this beautiful mque is hiding here in his
22:37
allahar love what does going into a mosque
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and doing a prayer like this reminds you of from your
22:44
upbringing and culture to be honest I
22:47
didn't connect as much
22:49
with these practices because it was just like you're an autopilot
22:52
right you're growing up you're seeing what it is
22:55
I've learned to appreciate
22:56
a lot of a lot of d
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different practices when I left because I could just see it from a completely
23:01
different perspective I've become
23:05
more spiritual and more
23:07
religious as a result of
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you know leaving and gaining more perspective and going deeper in my own way
23:13
into studying my own faith and have you know developing my own understanding of
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it and of course I'm like
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I am not a perfect Muslim whatsoever and it's you know
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and I I I do I do so many things that I'm not supposed
23:25
to do but I in inside
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I feel very fulfilled
23:29
with the relationship that I'm establishing
23:31
with God and myself in that Contex right now it was very lovely that
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it was led by Amar I don't think we've done one that you led
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yeah true so it was very nice and it felt very intimate since it's
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only Us in here yeah said what a unique place to
23:44
to have a first prayer the three of us together
23:46
yeah only because I said this in a video that I made in 2020
23:48
free child one of my 10y year goals from 26 to 36
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was to take take my dad
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on a pilgrimage and I'm doing that on Sunday
23:57
so in two days
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going to take him for his 69th
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birthday so I'm going to be heading from Oman to Mecca
24:04
next this is like a postcard
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and we're the only ones
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here where you guys
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going where the party at
24:14
tonight we not sleep
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he's saying that was our fate
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that we meet and that's how it happened
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cuz we were just thanking him for like
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taking us here and how none of this would have happened
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and he goes no no no it's all fate and this is your
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fate saying you didn't even know that you know yesterday you couldn't have dreamt
24:41
of coming here in this way and now now it's happening and now you're
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now you're all here inah
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and better now you are here with your four Sons
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not the director the whole thing would be ruined
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so he's actually not
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wrong don't think we' have
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good video of didn't go through this so we're playing on the field that
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Audi built that's a really sick field
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yeah that's going to be
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dope do these kids know what I'm doing I defended against Eden Hazard
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they're about to get destroyed
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I remember that game game you slipped actually
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yeah we don't need to we don't need to show that
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part they're waving us over already remember that these dudes are playing at altitude
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we are going to be gassed
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very fast yeah oh I forgot about that we're about 4,000 ft above
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yeah oh I should have been there
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my fault boys fault
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the altitude is like
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I don't know how they do it
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do one Sprint and you're
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my heart is just a better
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good play man thank you wow
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thank you so since you were kids you've been playing
26:38
here so nice meeting you thank you for
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inviting our final goal on this trip was to visit the incredible fort in
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the town of bahala
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but we did not realize
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once again is that the road to get there is more of this
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so we were hoping that our savior beded
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might be be spontaneous
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enough to go on an overnight
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adventure to get to it we're trying to decide
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what we're going to do and he's he's seeing that our plan was
27:06
so bad and yeah he we're like showing him was like oh you're going
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on even more dangerous road to get to these stands that you want to
27:13
get to so he's he's being very gracious and saying yes to us
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his adventure with us he could take us to a town that will get
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us pretty close to where we want to go which is where this EPIC
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Fort that we want to visit
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is and then he'll sleep with us there
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and then in the morning he will sleep with us there yeah and then
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in the morning he'll take
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and then bring us back to the car
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so he's pretty much saying that he's becoming our father and he's taking us
27:33
on a road trip in om
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it sounds like it you would just go like this
27:53
too he's he's like us he's saying
27:56
same here he doesn't have anything and that's it no one has a toothbrush
27:59
no one has a changing clothes
28:00
we're just going to
28:02
okay give it up for Papa
28:08
better I am not looking forward to these roads at
28:18
night this is crazy that he's
28:21
imagine just he was just walking he was just minding his own business
28:25
we saw that one guy who went to ask him
28:27
he's like yeah I'll just take you all the way to this super far
28:30
remote place on this dangerous road at night he has to drive this car
28:33
on this road for another 2 hours
28:35
to get us there
28:36
not V what did he say this is was a Land Cruiser
28:39
a way better car than the one we had I actually I thought the
28:42
guy that we met down at the bottom was being dramatic when he says
28:45
when he said like oh you flip the car or burn it
28:48
this car burned because it was too much on the engine
28:51
to keep going uphill
28:52
until the just engine blew
28:54
so it just burnt and they left it there for
28:56
are you serious yeah
29:09
moly seems so casual
29:11
have you told your family better that you're not coming
29:30
okay time for some
29:42
food we are in a y restaurant
29:45
with our Omani Dad where Egyptians are cooking us the
29:48
food this is a Melting Pot of the Middle East right here somehow
29:52
me and Thomas are by ourselves now so we are using Google Translate
29:55
to speak with our
29:57
Omani dad it's you me
29:59
Thomas and the translation
30:00
app now when Amar is not
30:05
here no problem no problem
30:07
exactly that that is the motto of this trip and cotra
30:11
trip no problem there is no problem
30:14
ever it's amazing how days can turn around in Split of a second our
30:18
GPS glitched we stopped and asked the local
30:21
he said this is going to be very dangerous
30:23
he introduced us about it and now now we're about to eat some amazing
30:27
food oh wow food in the Middle East for me
30:40
can't beat it wow
30:48
delicious W okay so more it's happening
30:53
better decide to have us show up in style tomorrow
30:56
so yeah he called his homie to
30:58
come in traditional outfits
31:01
man outfits 20 9 in the evening we're doing
31:10
business this is actually where we're
31:17
staying I'm pretty tall
31:19
oh this is these are his own personal
31:30
what are we doing with these we're
31:39
them lost here on the sidelines but I think this man gave us his
31:43
personal on for tomorrow I guess
31:45
what's happening yeah he just like lent us lent us his own uh
31:49
his own that's so nice
31:51
question to you in the comments you can let us know would you lend
31:54
clothes to a group of foreigners
31:57
that some guy picked up
31:59
on the side of the road
32:00
if if You' say yes to that let me know in the
32:04
comments okay thank you
32:06
thank you amazing and we're going to sleep in our town I don't know
32:11
where we are like
32:12
like I have no idea we we haven't paid for this hotel
32:15
nobody knows who we are
32:16
we're just pointing the camera at them they don't know what we're fing for
32:20
this guy is lending us his clothes
32:23
like what is Happ
32:26
on that note see you Tom
32:44
what where are we this is incredibly
32:51
beautiful morning wow he's already awake
33:17
last day in and we are fully
33:20
integrated we finally reached what we crossed the dangerous mountain pass for
33:24
the bahala Fort this UNESCO world heritage site has defensive walls stretch
33:29
for about 13 km
33:31
enclosing the fort and parts of the Town
33:34
inside there is a maze of watchtowers
33:36
prayer Halls Wells and narrow passageways
33:39
that feel like taking a step
33:41
back in time uh they actually just integrating
33:49
the building with the with the hill itself
33:52
and they usually just would would go off to take the biggest hill in
33:54
the city so they have the the best vantage point I believe this is
33:57
medieval Islamic architecture as its finest
34:01
alayum welcome to Om
34:04
hello thank you yes yes
34:07
Beyond its formidable defenses
34:09
bahala was a center for Islamic learning and renowned
34:13
craftsmanship with its Pottery traditions
34:15
still alive today nice meet
34:26
you these are fresh
34:29
huh what's your name mamed
34:32
Muhammed muhas you like it
34:35
it's good good you you like the outfit Omani
34:37
oh good good wow there's like
34:42
some spices in this it's
34:50
nice the guy who was speaking
34:53
he's the owner of the Suka and he's like very intentional to make sure
34:55
that this is not just like place where just
34:57
money out of tourist but rather no it's like preservation
35:00
let's show people our
35:02
culture there's some guys waving at us back here very good idea to wear
35:06
the local outfit as a way of like respecting the local culture
35:09
especially in places where it's very common to wear it like these gentlemen sitting
35:13
right here so they love it when they see you wearing their clothes they're
35:16
like nice do you like our outfits
35:25
like yeah amazing nice to meet you
35:31
have a good day have a good
35:43
day okay so he he's he's showing us
35:47
where we drove last night because obviously you know we drove in the dark
35:49
we didn't see the terrain but it's actually quite
35:52
uh it's quite impressive how much he's how much he drove last night so
35:55
all all the way over there is the town that he drove
36:02
too Papa we have insurance
36:05
don't worry don't worry we have insurance
36:08
inshah insurance that could be a banger of an insurance company
36:12
inshallah insurance no problem is
36:15
the father no problem
36:17
no problem no problem
36:30
uh this is what they call
36:32
the Grand Canyon of the Arabian Peninsula
36:34
and this is the entrance
36:36
to the Snake Canyon
36:37
which a lot of people go and do a bunch of trekking through and
36:40
you need like mountaineering
36:41
gear but if you do come to a mountain and you have more time
36:43
than we do this is definitely an adventure to sign up for if you
36:47
ever want to come just find bed
36:49
you'll be you'll be taken care of
36:51
Mountain Water oh my God
36:55
what the hell Come On Son you got it
36:59
you got it VI
37:21
King so he was very gracious to invite us to his farm so that
37:24
we can have like a final lunch he he's pretty bummed that we're we're
37:27
leaving and he keeps saying we have to come back and he has to
37:30
we have to let him just design the whole
37:33
trip clap it up for better clap it up for better
37:36
was a blessing from the sky
37:38
inshah we met inshallah
37:41
in the Last Supper
38:02
last yeah entering this trip without a plan and then struggling to find much
38:07
on our first day certainly made us question
38:10
our approach on this one
38:12
can we really just arrive in al man and hope to find the yes
38:15
the magic we so often find elsewhere
38:17
well after trusting the process and getting saved right before
38:20
this immensely dangerous road
38:22
bid and all the lovely humans we met following
38:24
certainly proved to us that the Omani hospitality
38:27
we' heard so much about
38:28
and yes the spirit was very much alive and well
38:32
here traveling for us at this point means meeting other humans
38:35
and seeing their world through their
38:45
lens good coffee one
38:50
if we don't walk away with some deeper sense of understanding for the place
38:53
we visited it wouldn't feel like a trip
38:56
and although required some further digging from us for its magic to reveal itself
39:01
we certainly think that it's clear to say that this
39:04
is the middle east's most underrated country
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