so who wants to take a guess as to where
I am this week be curious to know what
you think this week I am in Qatar
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so fancy no I'm not entirely sure how to
pronounce this country I've heard Qatar
Qatar hot damn hater
I'm not quite sure what it is
phonetically no I feel as if it's
appropriate to inform you guys at this
trade his whole entire experience
everything involved was not she in fact
this was by far the most expensive
flight I've ever purchased the reason I
make guitar is because I'm on my way to
Lebanon why am I going there okay
two years ago on a backpacking trip
across Europe I met three guys from
Lebanon named Michelle Samara and Thomas
and we really hit it off and I promised
them I visit them in Lebanon and I don't
like temporary promises so two years
later I booked the flight and now
knowing that's it that's the reason
that's that's the reason now Lebanon
just happen to have a level three
traveling from the US government meaning
they don't recommend that anyone visit
so why am I going well in the United
States of America we have a tendency to
believe that our country is the safest
spot the most secure most first world
and when it comes to any other country
specifically the Middle East we have the
sense of fear and a lot of it is valid
I'll admit but I'm not gonna let that
scare me guys I want to see it I don't
care maybe this is bad advice but just
go go places be smart about it don't be
dumb but go places dude maybe I'm stupid
but I don't care millions of people live
their everyday lives in these countries
that Westerners sometimes don't even
dare to visit how are we going to see
the reality of these places if all we
have is our television screen it's time
that I see this place for myself
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you sleep in the boarding guys I've been
living on what how did that happen like
how did I get here check out my friends
basement that I'm staying in this is a
movie set dude this is a movie set I'm
immensely excited and I feel as if I had
once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to see
this country let's go see some Lebanon
well you have a G even left America so
my friends didn't really explain to me
where we were going exactly I kind of
just got in the car and they led the way
I guess in a sense I kind of was
kidnapped but in a good way
the good kind of kidnapped we drove for
about an hour through the city and into
the wilderness and then we arrived to
this big forest and I still didn't know
where we were where we going guys
yeah I had no idea what your shoes was
ah shoosh
the timing of this game
got to come over the Fen Clemence over
fences all the time they instructed me
to climb over the fence which I probably
shouldn't question but I didn't because
I love climbing fences we're good to go
and then we hiked for a while until they
came across this beautiful Blue Lagoon
who would have thought places like this
existed in Lebanon like I literally
thought that Lebanon was all desert
stereotype crack number one Lebanon is
definitely not just desert
I saw some of the most beautiful
waterfalls probably on the entire planet
that no one even knows about like I
couldn't believe it
waterfall after waterfall they just
never ended like why don't want people
talk about this I was in complete sin in
of the unexpected and at peace I think I
was just in shock just what was around
me and how much these sites totally
crumbled my preconceived ideas of this
place and then I almost died next I was
told that Lebanon actually has Islands
wrong those are islands where we going
for going to rabbits island naturally I
got excited because obviously the only
way to get to the islands was by boat
and I love me a good boat hey guys so
I'm on a boat we were at sea for almost
a full hour the Mediterranean Sea at
that it was blue guys were on an island
after jumping into the water my friends
gave me goggles to wear and without
thinking much of it I put them on went
under and then opened up
you know I wish these shots could come
close into capturing what I saw and how
I felt being down there being in the
middle of the ocean and being able to
see so far realizing how big this place
actually is like you think about it and
you know it but actually experiencing
that honestly is life-changing I kind of
had a little moment on the boat ride
back watching the sunset thinking about
the sheer amount of beauty I'd seen in
the previous days this very country is a
place that so many people fear I
couldn't believe that there's a
possibility that I would have missed all
of this where are we guys middle of
nowhere really a nicer
nicer thing yeah so that's where they
hang people you don't know
on the last day of my stay my friends
wanted to attempt to drive to the
highest peak in the Middle East
sacrifice me it's a huge challenge
getting up there because there is a road
but barely guys ready to go off-roading
there was absolutely nobody on that road
for miles and miles and miles not a
person in sight
just us the Jeep and our goal to make it
to the top of the mountain we're going
it was crazy and to my surprise after
some driving we stumbled across some
snow right there is snow the stereotype
crap there is snow in Lebanon so that's
the desert that's the snow I was
freaking out that was freaky I was like
kind of good after a long long drive we
made it to the top
although it didn't really seem like it
we were at the highest point and the
entirety of the Middle East and that was
a victory furnace Zabuza marbles amor
opens amor Zamora booth Jammu Bajaj
aboard and the last stereotyped crack of
Lebanon and the people I'm not really
sure what the world thinks of Lebanese
people but I know what I think they know
how to have fun they know how to joke
around and just love life and even
though they pretended to kidnap me I'll
remember the times we had and in my
times where I feel down I'll remember
how they were so go ahead you can think
what you want you can believe what you
hear but in the end you're gonna miss
out on a whole lot of the world and I
don't know about you but I'm the type of
person that wants to see it all the good
the bad and everything it was three