[Music] welcome back island hoppers today we're coming to you from zagreb croatia we just got
here into this beautiful country we're gonna do some exploring around zagreb and then head to the
adriatic sea so let's begin this tour of zagreb what's going on everybody this is island hopper tv
coming to you from zagreb croatia we're gonna go around this city here the largest
city in croatia the capital where most of you will begin your tour of croatia right here in zagreb
so let's keep cruising around here right now in the old town kind of pushes northwest of here
the population of zagreb is around 650 000 people total population of croatia is around 3.5 million
today's temperature outside it's going to be a hot one today 91 degrees fahrenheit 34 degrees celsius
it is august 2nd yeah it's starting to warm up for sure especially as i've gotten down south here
let's keep going so i've stopped in for some breakfast here
so we are on to calcium
and we're gonna go up these stairs here but we're gonna also walk around this street
which is the main street you will want to check out especially at night
up here you have like this market
lots of fruits get healthy that cathedral there
pomegranate watermelon look at all those bees
the bees they love to come up to your uh food
your fruit especially let's go check out this cathedral
real quick and then we'll go back on to cultica
i've asked a couple locals how to say to culturaka and it's not the easiest word to say
i'm actually a big fan of the croatian soccer team
for the world cup they're basically my favorite team so i'm hoping croatia wins the world cup
but we'll see it's not an easy task france always likes to win let's see here okay
i'm actually going down to the coast the islands today because in one week i need to be
in greece to meet up with my friend who's also going to be my cameraman with me
in greece into the greek islands hopefully into turkey and even israel we'll see
yeah so i've basically got seven days to do
and
montenegro i don't know if that's enough time so that's why i can't really spend too
much time here in zagreb since i didn't come here for a city i came here for the islands
because island hopper tv is ready to get back on those islands
that's what we do best right by the way if you're new here you like traveling around the world
consider subscribing to this channel this year in 2022 i've been to about 20 european countries
all right now we're heading back down to culture
yes i admit i wish i was more of a linguist look at all those little bees
these are like mine too so they just helped themselves they even had a beat
come up to my uh orange juice and just kind of hang out there i was like shoe fly shoo
you didn't get the point he just stuck around for about four shoes he finally went over to a flower
and down below the up top there there's actually a market down here too which is where they keep the
meats wouldn't want to sell meats up there with all those bugs and the bees
it's not terrible up there it's just the bugs are attracted to all the watermelon and fruits
down here it's very sterile and clean
but it looks for the most part kind of closed
but this is where you get your meat and poultry i mean it's open but not every stall
oh i got some shopping going on over there for
like desserts
it's a big bird
it's a wednesday afternoon here
and we're back out onto the main drag looks like there's like corridors going in all
directions like i could have gone that way and found action i could go straight
and find action so it's more than just one road kind of like what i saw in bratislava
oh great look at that
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what do you guys think of zagreb so far
i would say it's just a place you stop in for about 48 hours
you know you land you chill out go out for some drinks walk around the night right here
kind of recalibrate and then head towards the coast you could probably do 72 hours it's 48 to 72
hour here me personally i'm doing 24 just a little more than 24 hours because of my time constraint
first thing i'm going to do when i get to the ocean is jump in the water and get some vitamin c
four serious four seriously sri lankan curry bowl it's not every day you see that
this is definitely a place to go at night i'm wishing i would have come down here last night
and saw it it was actually raining yesterday for those of you who are on our other channel vertcam
i'll try to post a link below if you guys want it or you can just go to the channel vertcam where uh
we crossed the border from hungary to zagre or to croatia it took about five hours
on a flex bus which is a very common bus they're like the greyhounds
of europe but not like the greyhounds quality way better quality
but um yeah there you go over here
but yeah we had across the border they had to ask our passports
sat there at the border for 45 minutes that's the benefit of going to like shenzhen zone countries
in the eu croatia is not one of them so because of that you have to go through immigration whereas
if i go did that from like germany to france we just simply cross the border we don't stop
but it's okay
this is cool this is the spot to be at night you can tell it just gets going
all right so what we're gonna do now is head
to the other side of the old town which isn't very far from here
explore another street and see what we find in between some museums
just one thing i wanted to say is
croatia is home to about 10 unesco world heritage sites so it's a small
country in terms of population and size but large in terms of historical value
after all this is part of the balkans former yugoslavia former austria-hungarian empire so
it's been a bit of a war zone here before
i'm actually starting to feel a lot better
here we go
oh
that's church
takes you right up a hill there
we've got to get physically fit for greece for sure there's going to be a lot of walk in there
yeah yeah i'm excited for uh these islands and greece
actually don't know too much about montenegro but i've heard from locals here that basically
the islands in croatia and montenegro are both equally amazing someone i said which ones are
which islands are better greek islands or croatian islands and they said oh hands
down the croatian islands i said really why is that and they go well the greek islands are just
so prehistoric and primitive compared to the way that they built up the croatian islands
obviously dubrovnik is another city down there it's you know 65 000 people
it's not a huge city like zagreb but
it's big enough
so they have the dolek market which we visited teklava street
they have the sculpture museum now this way they have more museums you
can see there's just a list of some of the things they have down here i don't know if
you can scan that maybe try and scan that if you want that list
because i don't know if tripadvisor is going to give that kind of useful information
statue of some sort
oh whoa you gotta watch out for uh street cars huh
definitely staying hydrated here in the summertime is key to your success
you don't want to end up in a situation where you didn't drink enough water or get enough hydration
money dubrovnik hotel crypto we've got crypto here crypto cash
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i don't really see how cryptocurrency goes away
just keeps coming up everywhere crypto banks bitcoin banks
truly is a bit hot out here
definitely warming up quick
i know it's going to be hot as heck down there on the
water of the adriatic and then as i go towards the aegean the aegean will be hot there too
and even into the med you know you know it's just how it is
oh we've got a nice little park
that little buzzer
looks like the national museum of art right there
got some interesting architecture on the buildings it reminds me a bit of austria
but it probably came from down south here very greek like influenced modern greek
i think at one point in time this was part of the roman empire
i think even the ottoman turks were down here
the greek empire alexander the great was here so this is a place that's really undergone a lot of
transformation
and now it's about to be joining the european union empire
the guys in brussels the northern people because that's actually where the headquarters for the eu
is is it's either the hague or brussels went to both the hague and brussels in april
brussels brussels is an amazing city the hague's cool too seemed like the hague
is more of a beach hangout than uh administrative kind of place but they do have administrative
stuff there all right guys that's going to conclude this episode of island hopper tv
from zagreb croatia i'll see you guys down on the coast so do be sure to subscribe and tune
in to that because we're going to check out some croatian islands [Music]
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