All right,
we are back down by the water for day number three in Beirut.
Take three on getting a boat,
as I mentioned in the last vlog, which we never ended up doing,
Luke's gonna be showing off his negotiation skills.
Target is about 300,000 pesos, right, Luke?
Pesos or Liras? (Right Liras)
I only brought 300K so so is we don't get...
So 300k is the target.
So, yeah, you heard it.
300,000 to make it happen.
And it's funny because the guy originally
told us when we walked up the other day, it's like, 250,000.
And then he's like, where are you guys from?
Australia, United States.
And he said I got a special deal for you, something like that.
400,000. So we'll see what happens here.
But I'm excited to see Pigeon Rock from down below, because it was stunning
when we saw it the other day from up at Petite cafe.
If you're looking for a place to see an amazing sunset, Petite cafe is your spot
but we'll see once we get over to the boat spot. What is good, we're back.
1 hour.
How much?
1 hour? 400,000.
400k? You said 250 yesterday, right?
No, we need 1 hour. About 20 minutes, 250, but you need 1 hour,
then they would take time,
you will enter two caves, ok? Two caves, yeah.
And you'll enjoy big boat, music, and...
Which boat? The blue one.
The blue one.
Just me and, me and my friend,
I will give you a nice captain. Well who is the captain?
It's him. It's him.
I will give you a nice captain.
I always send a good captain with you.
All right, if we get a good captain, then 400K is fine.
Shukran Shukran.
You're welcome man.
In reality, the price of 400,000 right now
is $20, maybe a few dollars less than that,
so it's obviously still extremely inexpensive.
$10 for a private boat tour to go all the way to this stunning Pigeon Rock.
I mean, it's a great deal.
As Luke said, it's like, right now,
everything's so cheap, it just feels weird bargaining.
When we went to Sabra Market, we didn't bargain on any of the things
except maybe just the shoes that I bought
'cause I thought they were just a little expensive.
But everything else I accepted the price right away
just because it's that inexpensive.
So it looks like we're getting on the biggest boat in the entire
marina right here,
right? Full speed ahead
let's get it. Shukran captain.
Welcome.
All right.
This is a nice size.
All right, we got this cruiser, this nice cruiser, all to ourselves here.
We're taking off.
How much time is it to get to Pigeon Rock?
How far is Pigeon Rock? (15 minutes)
15 minutes. So from right over here
we're going to be cruising just a quick, (15 minutes go see the rock,
15 minutes, you want to swim 20 minutes
and come again from here. All right, perfect.
You heard that itinerary right there.
We're gonna be cruising this right this way, right into the sun here.
Beautiful views along the coastline of Beirut
here. We got all the locals swimming here.
You can tell it's a Saturday,
there are so many more people out today
than the other days.
It is a beautiful day to be out on the water.
I am pumped to see Pigeon Rock from down below.
(How much extra?) You pay me now for for 100,000, pay me 60,
I stay with you and take you swim and take you
from today on a bit.
Let's decide after we go to Pigeon. No problem with me,
I want to stay with you all the time you want.
Understand? Perfect.
Yeah, thank you so much.
So our guy, kind of hit us up with custom tours,
pretty much happy to take us wherever
make this boat cruise as long or as short as we want, which is great.
So we've got the options here,
as you can see out here, though, there is some choppy, choppy waves here.
I see why he's saying no swimming.
This would even scare an Australian.
Look at these views.
It definitely has a bit of a Portuguese vibe here.
If you've seen any of my videos on in Lagos, Portugal,
very similar looking cliffs.
Absolutely stunning.
And this golden hour just absolutely lights them up to a nice color.
You can see the reflection of the sun right up there.
This is it yeah?
This is Pigeon.
We're going straight through here.
It's gonna be a tight fit.
It's gonna be a little choppy.
Here we go.
Alright, we didn't flip it.
Funny
whenever you're going in with a boat through tight spaces,
it always feels like it's gonna be, like, so much tighter than it is.
Once you're in there, it's like, oh, you actually have more space than you thought.
There are some pretty sick places to live right up here looking over Pigeon Rock.
It's funny, though. I'm not even sure if it's called
Pigeon Rock because they're pronouncing it way differently.
Maybe that's Arabic to say pigeon?
Yeah, I don't know.
Drop it in the comments
if we're saying it wrong or confirm that it's right.
Very good.
Look at these waves we got coming in here.
You can see the views.
Found the swim spot.
Now swim here. (All right,
this is the spot.) It's pretty good here.
Please, please stay behind the boat, ok? Behind the boat ok?
Take the boat with you. (All right) Cause the water
will take you. You understand, the water will take you.
(Oh the current, are there sharks?)
No, no shark here. You swim very good or not very good?
(Yeah, yeah good)
Canadian or American?
American and Australian.
American? (American and Australian.)
Go swim and don't say aahhh! Ok?
Why, is it cold?
How's that current?
Good or not good? Very nice.
All right
now Luke's got me all concerned here.
He's like, oh, man, what's under there? Even in Australia,
in Australia's where you got the Great White Sharks.
But let's send it in here. All right.
I can't say,
Here we go.
That's super warm.
Very good, very, very good.
If you fly into Beirut around this time,
you see the planes that's right along the coastline.
I've seen this in a TikTok.
You can see amazing views of the whole side of Beirut just lit up.
It's stunning, yeah. Right,
airport's right up there.
That's littering, littering.
Oh, that's litter out there. (not shark)
Okay (I think it was not shark)
Yeah,
Luke's figured it's a shark out there and it's just litter.
(Is gone because people in Lebanese) Do people from Lebanon think that in one
year from now or two years from now it's gonna be better? (No.)
Every people here, he speak ten years,
the Lebanese, he's come again, very good.
Ten years.
Ten years. Ten Years
Very good. Yeah.
Now one dollar, one dollars,
20,000 Lebanese.
(It's so much and 2) $100, 2 million.
Lebanese. (Yeah.)
You go to eat sandwich
13,000, 14,000, every people cannot eat sandwich.
Yeah
it's too expensive.
This engine's oil, Yamaha, one kilo, $5. Now
$5, 114 Lebanese.
114 Lebanese.
No gasoline, no eat.
And how do you get your gasoline? Do you have to go wait in line?
Yeah. Marina, from Raouche, from Marina, one tank.
Nice people, they were checking on us.
They cruised on the boat right over here to make sure we were all right.
Gave us the thumbs up and kept cruising.
That's Lebanese people for you.
They're always looking out.
I was speaking with another Lebanese guy near the Marina and he thinks he has hope
that in the next couple of years, Lebanon will recover.
Every people is coming out here from Venice.
Very good. Why?
Because the dollar is up
(Right) and the Lira down. (Yeah.)
And other days,
the dollar down and the Lira up. Every people is very good.
Now the people, no hospital.
(No hospital) No eat, no electric,
everybody is not good. From the boom, Beirut,
The boom.
(Yeah, the explosion) From the boom, Beirut, every people is not good.
(Kind of traumatized them after it) Yeah, everyone go to a hospital.
Wow.
Me, this is not good.
(From your hearing because of the explosion) Now I'm not swimming because this is not good.
Where were you on the day of the explosion? Were you on the boat?
No, I'm sitting in the town, where you speak with me.
Yeah. Oh, you were sitting there.
Yeah me and the brother Amir, I stick with him.
The plane is come and wooosh.
Me and him go on another round (in the water, in the water, yeah?)
No.
now, speak with you (now yeah)
the boom has taken down, me and him. (Wow.)
Yeah. (Very sad.
Very sad.)
Anytime you want to come, tell him I want
Abdul. No problem with money with you, you understand? No problem with money.
Shukran, Abdul.
You want to pay, pay, no problem.
I want your brother for me. You understand?
Brothers, yeah?
You go to Canada and him Australia or Canada, (Australia) go to Australia and him America.
My brother in Lebanese Abdul, okay? (Absolutely, brother Abdul) As friends
okay? (Friends for sure.)
Shukran. Alright
we're cruising back to shore after a quick little 1-hour cruise.
Abdul hooked it up with a nice sunset boat cruise.
Kind of exactly what
I envisioned, got around,
spent some time at Pigeon Rock, got a couple of photos, swam at
some semi-sketchy water and now some nice sunset views to finish it off.
Salaam.
Beautiful golden sunset.
I loved it, yeah, it was very good,
very good. Yeah.
Amazing time.
(This man is very nice and very good.)
Yeah, he gave us a great experience here.
Let's get an on-three yallah.
Yallah. One, two, three. Yallah!
Here you go, boss.
Thank you.
Looks like we got a little locals' photoshoot going on right here.
It is
a beautiful spot for it right here on the Marina.
Do you want a car to take you to Maram?
No we can, we actually
we go to Hamra.
Barbar is really good.
Yeah. There we go.
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There is shukran, brother.
After a nice little sunset cruise, had to quickly rinse off because the salt
water just totally dries you out after getting sunburned all day here.
But now we're heading to go find some more traditional Lebanese food. Here's
our buddy there, yes
speaking of, he's got the super good falafel sandwiches.
We'll be back. We'll be back.
Oh, Jeez. That's, the other day
we have those falafel sandwiches that were absolutely delicious
and that was our guy right there. But there's
like, three or four different Barbars right here on the corner.
And so we made it to this one,
we made it to the one we just passed. And I think what, Luke
that's the last one we have.
It would be weird not to try all three. Exactly.
Yeah, I think we'll try out that one.
Whatever it is, who knows?
It kind of looks like Subways feel.
Yeah, it's the Lebanese Subway here.
Let's see what's going on.
It smells really good here,
but there's three Barbars here, you actually have no idea where
the smells are coming from, but they all look delicious.
They have all been delicious.
Everyone around here recommends Barbar
for all different types of Lebanese cuisine.
So I'm excited to see what this place tastes like.
Let's go. A lot of really good options here.
I've had those, actually, when I was in Egypt
and these are really good though
it was when I was having some Lebanese cuisine
and I think I've had these.
Good food? Delicious.
Delicious food yeah? Perfect.
Perfect.
What's your recommended best Lebanese thing here?
Try and take Francisco. (Francisco
yeah?) But I'm going to tell you to take chicken subs.
Chicken subs is
like a breast chicken that's very thin, cut up on the grill, on top of fat cheese.
Oh, all right. And that's just Lebanese
yeah? Yes.
Everything here is Lebanese.
I want to try this one. Yeah.
Let's go with your recommendation.
Oh, man, I love taking local people's recommendations because I'll be honest.
Unless someone tells me to try something, I always go for, like, default stuff.
So that's why at most restaurants,
whatever I'm traveling, I'm like, just give me what you recommend.
As long as it doesn't have, like,
mushrooms in it, I will absolutely devour it.
So I'm excited to try it, What'd you get, Luke?
I got the San Francisco specialty sub. (Sounds pretty Lebanese) Another,
another recommendation.
We'll see whose chicken is better.
Yeah, exactly. We'll see,
we'll see. Update on that
it's called a Francisco not a San Francisco
like Luke was calling it.
I was going to say San Francisco didn't sound super Lebanese.
Is this where we're cooking off the chicken at?
Oh, man. This is where it's done.
That's it right there yeah?
Oh,
man.
It's tastes like cheese melted into the chicken.
Oh, Jeez. You guys know how to hook it up.
Shukran, many Shukran.
And a little press at the end, too, oh there we go.
We have, but I'll say Luke's looking
a little jealous, he's looking at my sandwich mouth water in here.
I wish I got, oh I haven't tried this one yet, but I think you won, it looks delicious.
Oh, yeah, there it is.
Oh, Shukran, Shukran.
See that thing right there, yum.
That is what we call a freshly made
delicious sandwich.
Oh, yeah, there it is look at that,
you can just see the cheeses oozing out.
I took the guy's recommendation on a sauce that looks a little bit like green yogurt.
But honestly, if he didn't recommend it,
I wouldn't have tried it because I'm not a huge yogurt fan anyways.
It has like a similar texture, but he said it's that good.
So I was like, I got to try it.
It's hard to get this thing out of here
it's just like, squirting the garlic out of here.
Alright let's give it a shot.
That melted cheese is a game changer.
And the way it's basically cooked
into the chicken, you saw them frying that right into it.
It adds, it's almost like a quesadilla-type texture to it that makes it that good.
Exactly what you needed after doing some swimming.
Which one do you like better?
So this one's good, but by far the one I selected.
Yeah, I like this one better as well.
But I will say if you toss some garlic
some of that garlic right over there whatever it's called on this,
this would make it that much more at par.
But I think that just adds that extra,
like zing or whatever you want to call it tthat makes it taste so good.
Overall, Barbar is so good.
This was our third restaurant right here on the block.
So if you're in Beirut, you'll definitely want to try out all of them.
Trust me. Like, all of them.
These sandwiches were so, so good.
We had the Francisco to recap, and we also had just a chicken sub.
And make sure you get that garlic sauce on there.
That is what honestly made the sandwich.
You can put them on pretty much any
sandwiches and absolutely blows out the flavor.
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