you know it's like I always say a delicious meal prepared with love we'll turn any house
into a home so with that in mind Welcome to our home for last night and this morning where
the lovely Ivana has prepared a beautifully arranged breakfast here right down uh on the
dock by the water basically we are trying to recapture the magic of pruchatch lake and
so we're trying to book some accommodations right near the water so across the river here
is Romania and obviously the whole scenery here very beautiful although the Danube doesn't
quite have the green water at least not at this part that Peru church has but with the
Danube blacks in inviting swimming water it makes up for an incredible history because
just like two minutes drive from here is golu bats Fortress which should provide for some
a good Adventure as well as some good scenery and so after we eat our lovely breakfast I
think we'll go down there and uh start the day I think this is Serbian road trip day
12.
I don't remember 14.
not sure anyway let's eat and then uh the day will begin come along with us [Music]
[Music] thank you oh check it out we're gonna drive underneath the fort look at this that's
pretty cool right
mighty fine Drive-In let's drive it underneath the castle [Music]
all right guilty as charged because probably 10 times on this channel I've described a
place as straight out of Lord of the Rings but this has got to be one of the most lord
of the ringsian places we've ever visited so I'm gonna say it once again here today
feels like I'm about to go explore Helm's Deep and for that I'm very excited so let's
go foreign [Music]
so this place has clearly undergone an absolutely masterful restoration job they've even got
a full-blown Museum inside one of the towers where every single signboard is also written
in English which is great for a guy like me not to mention all of the great artifacts
what I really love is all of the stonework they've done to rebuild the Fortress really
matches in with the original stuff and so I feel like I'm being transported back in
time to the 1300s when this place was built now this Fortress has successfully defended
itself against enemy armies more than 120 times although despite that it still changed
hands a couple of times Hungarian into Serbian into ottoman the list goes on I'm sure what
I really love is that on the ground level here they have these trebuchets as well as
catapults because this Fortress was built before the invention or discovery of gunpowder
so you can imagine people fighting for their lives here before artillery and cannons truly
a medieval stronghold we are now walking through now what's unfortunate is the big staircase
they've built is unfortunately closed today for some reason so we can't go to the top
of the tower which would be a good vantage point to see why this location is so geographically
important because I guess the Fortress is built right on what I'm learning is called
the iron gates so if you look one way from The Fortress you see the Danube River it almost
looks like a lake it's so big and so vast whereas right on the corner where the Fortress
is the River Narrows and so if you control this Fortress in history you really controlled
who could access this portion of the Danube River you could impose your taxes or fight
off enemy ships much easier so we can add this Fortress to the places along the Danube
that we were really really impressed by if you guys remember just uh just last year we
were on the Romanian side where we saw the massive statue of King decibel carved into
the side of the Danube not to mention the incredible Viewpoint up at orshova uh I feel
like if you're planning a Euro trip you can almost plan a trip all the way down the Danube
all the way from Germany and drive your car all the way down and see all these different
historical sites maybe it's a bit of a North American perspective but I didn't realize
that Daniel was so important and so beautiful until I started traveling Europe so uh with
that being said let's go so we like the Austrian hello I'm watching your apartment oh thank
you thank you for watching sure let's take a picture this is your wife yeah okay let's
take a picture
just Canadian Canadian yes never mind it's Asians she's from Indonesia from from Philippines
we are the same yes thank you yes bye-bye [Music] okay there you have it guys sure you'll
see yourself in the video okay bye bye so nice Okay a Filipino Serbian couple watch
our programs and we're watching you read for Starbucks yes right okay road trip continues
wow just wow amazing I love it if Steve said his favorite Fortress was the mud leaks Fortress
oh I might take it back I might change my mind you change your mind oh gosh every week
is a new favorite Fortune this was really something special and we didn't even get to
go to the top which what I was looking forward to very nice amazing amazing when you drive
through it doesn't look that big from the road but when you get here it's huge yeah
like wow wow must visit
oh my gosh wow
you know [Music]
that's good driving very nice oh God Steve Hands on the Wheel
[Music]
all right so our second stop today is an archaeological site and I know what you're thinking that
sounds boring but let's give it a chance and check it out name jet leg Warriors nice hello
from Serbia oh good
ah thank you thank you voila there you have it now let's give the archaeological dig a
chance we don't really know what to expect but it is remnants of an 8 000 year old civilization
that lived right along the banks of Danube so let's check it out
all right so as it turns out this place is absolutely incredible and in fact a must visit
I'm sort of embarrassed that I thought it might be boring the thing is about archaeological
stuff if the budget is not there to present this stuff in an interesting way it can just
be a pile of dirt the good news is this place has a huge budget and really interesting information
as you can see from this massive Dome here with all of the findings down below me and
they've got some pretty good exhibits here including something where they animated my
face as a prehistoric man
it's a good exhibit
now they start you off with a 15-minute movie when you walk in the door and buy your ticket
which shows you everything they found here and how the archaeologists discovered it including
136 houses which were arranged in a sort of city with an actual main square or Center
Square to the town as well as stone tools and even bone tools which is something new
for me and of course some human remains which were arranged in a sort of interesting way
that indicated some sort of ritual or belief system at the very least regarding the dead
and here we have a recreation of what each house might have looked like so to be clear
these are 8 000 or 9 000 year old people and this was their dwelling unit I guess it's
all made of wood and sticks and stuff you can find along the Danube I guess each one
has a fire pit which is probably why there's like a top window go here which is less of
a window and more of a Smoke Hole I would guess where people could light their fire
and kind of hang out in there uh I don't know this is a yurt or what you'd call it TP we
might be a North American term but this is their housing unit it's funny that nowadays
if you build some of this you could charge a lot on Airbnb for a for a uh you know authentic
uh accommodation wow really nice place here really enjoying this experience yeah very
cool yeah so I guess what's great about archeology is every time you discover something new and
you get one more answer you sort of end up with two or three more questions so one of
the theories or the hypothesis is the reason these hoses are all shaped like this and the
reason the whole sort of community has this similar shape over and over again is because
of this rock which is just on the other side of the Danube has the same shape so the Assumption
or the guess is that maybe they had some belief system worshiping some religion or some sort
of idolization of that rock and they've sort of copied the shape in their houses as well
as their society very interesting to see what the archaeologists might be guessing is going
on and these types of things because uh it really triggers your imagination I tell you
what they have done an absolutely six star job of maintaining that place I am a little
embarrassed I thought it would be lame I was nervous to just be a pile of dirt and they
say people used to live here but they've got great exhibitions in there and really elaborate
way of presenting the information I would say it's a month visit yes
yes is it like is this a stone age or not uh yes yes because it's like the Flintstone
okay that's a cartoon where they're living with dinosaurs but it is a stone age because
they had stone tools which to me puts into stone age there was no metal around it I didn't
I didn't see in there right okay what they discovered also they had bone tools which
is very amazing right which is kind of cool it shows you that the Danube is the gift that
keeps on giving in prehistoric times it gives you life with water and animals in medieval
times they gave you defense with the fortresses and in modern times it gives you tourist attractions
and selfies which what's more important than that so with that being said let's go have
some lunch you know yes hungry let's eat
right so lovely little here with a great view of the Danube and I guess the river has been
a theme of our video today so with that in mind I could have ordered fish but I couldn't
resist the poor connection so maybe I'll let the lovely Ivana take away the food Vlog she's
got catfish yes which is it doesn't look bad looks okay yeah and I'd love to mention this
uh this bread is amazing I know I usually don't like bread as you know I'm a rice person
but this bread is amazing it's so good I want the recipe is this just a normal jalapeno
traditional bread right I don't know if it's a live opinion but it's bad but from here
it's definitely homemade yeah you can tell it's homemade texture is amazing I hate to
say this it almost tastes a bit like beer fermented for sure Taste of fermentation I
think texture is so good texture is very good I think it's from yeast yeah you can taste
it yeast in it yeah it's the best bird ever had anyway let's eat let's eat I'm hungry
look at this catfish really big portion of uh catfish yeah oh foreign
it's a big piece of fish isn't it
what can be bad this is potato salad and
okay good job so usually guys we'd bring you through our accommodation but tonight our
accommodation will be in Romania we're going to be there we're going to be across the river
tonight so um stay tuned if we're going to be in Romania and in Bulgaria and then back
in Serbia so the Serbian road trip is not over although we are taking it International
right thanks for watching everybody yeah good day bye