Good afternoon from here in Jounieh
specifically, day two here in Jounieh and our last full day here,
and we're going to be spending it doing a couple of things.
First of all, though, here with Luke again.
Howdy dowdy, how are we all?
We are cruising down the main street.
As you can see, it's pretty dead today,
but we're heading over to a place where I caught the sunset last night,
which is Palms Beach House, specifically in Lebanon and specifically in Jounieh
there are a lot of super beautiful restaurants that sit right along
the water, and so they're best to, of course, see during sunset.
And then we're going to do some paragliding.
It's one of the best things to do here in Jounieh
so I'm excited to share that with you guys.
We'll tell you more of the details after we get some grub inside of us.
Let's go.
This is it.
Yeah, the Palms right here.
So really nice ambience when you walk out here.
What time do you guys open every day?
(At nine) At nine
So some pretty cool wall murals over here.
Very nice ambiance.
Quite a bit of seating here, too.
So thank goodness we've got the shade options.
We've kind of gotten used to being in the air conditioning now.
When we were in Beirut
we only had AC for a period of the time.
And now we've been spoiled in the Madison Hotel with 24/7 AC
so coming outside, it feels a little bit hotter, but it's probably not actually.
Do you have any recommendations for, like, Lebanese food? See this hummus, well-known hummus
toppped with cherry tomato? All right,
so the only Lebanese thing we got in this meal was hummus.
Finally, hummus is like one
of my actually, probably my favorite Middle Eastern food.
You got some nice olive oil in there at the bottom.
So let's get a nice scoop from right down in there.
Oh yeah, some sort of pepper maybe on there.
Now I've had a lot of American hummus, and it's okay.
Gets the job done. But this is so fresh, so good.
Let's go ahead and dig right in before the full course comes.
They give you so much, too.
Are you supposed to put just a massive heaping scoop?
(Yeah, I think 50-50 right here.)
Yeah, 50-50 when it's dripping the oil of it.
All right, let's give it a nice, big bite here.
That is a hummus bite.
Honestly, this is better,
this is a better choice than the strawberry smoothie anyways.
All right
here our Lebanese side of the things today.
I got a quesedilla, but keep in mind, we got our hummus.
So we have a little taste of Lebanese food.
But you know, sometimes you need a little bit of comfort food, too.
So can you blame us?
And a quesadilla was just yelling my name,
Loading that up with a little salsa there.
Oh, yeah.
We got some cheese on there,
got some peppers, and let's give her a bite.
It's like we're back in Mexico baby.
Let's try it out.
We'll get a little hummus on the quesadilla.
It actually works.
It actually works quite well.
Just finished a pretty delicious meal here at Palm Beach.
I was feeling pretty full now at this time, and we're looking out here.
There's a lot of water sports going on.
We've got boats, jet skis, even
what is that thing they do with the jet skis that they were doing?
(I've done it once, I don't the name.) Yeah.
(Aqua, Aqua boarding)
All right we just finished up here.
We got our taxi driver coming through here.
We need to go to the paragliding right over here.
Here we go.
We're doing the old Middle Eastern Street crossing
where, oh,
oh, Luke almost
oh, man, we got to, we got to make, at least make it
to the paragliding first bro, almost had an Aussie down.
As you can see, we're arriving to the Teleferique area.
We already picked up the tickets earlier
today for $50 per person, but it does change.
We asked the day before and it was $60 per person
so here we go, though.
Hello. (We have returned)
(Hi) We're here ( We are ready to fly.)
We got them now, yeah excatly, we remembered. (Perfect)
(Would you want to wait to the, they move at 5:15) 5:15, thank you.
All right, so it's time to join up to the group, maybe 6,7,8,9 people.
I think we're probably, like, six, yeah six to seven.
Oh, yeah. Got the Gopro.
Gotta get the footage.
(I'm not afraid to do bad film.)
Exactly. What's your name?
(Rajah) Rajah, nice to meet you.
(I'm pilot from two days.) Oh, sweet.
It's perfect, perfect. (They lost all their pilots.)
(They fall down the mountain) Yeah, exactly. Yeah
we want a good story to tell. (I am once the driver,)
(so they showed me, I have only to say around)
and that's what they told me) Perfect so you're going to (And the we say oh, sh*t.)
Oh, perfect.
Can you land us inside one of those cable cars?
(We try, we'll try, we'll try.) Perfect, perfect.
Are we riding your van?(Yallah)
Yallah? All right, sweet.
(If we arrive with this, it means we're very lucky)
Oh, perfect, perfect.
All right.
I'll hop up up front, then.
What's your name?
(My name is Rajah.)
Yeah, Rajah the man.
You've been a pilot for two days?
Yeah, for two days, I was the driver, but they lost all their pilots.
Salaam. Oh, this is your spot.
(No, no, stay, stay. He's a tourist.)
I think I took his spot.
(Yeah it's fine)) What's your name?
(Tony.) Tony.
Tony. What's going on, Mac.
Nice to meet you. (Mac?)
Yeah, Mac.
(Nice to meet you Mac) Is it your second day as a pilot, too?
(No it's my 1st flight.) Perfect.
I'm going with you. I'm going with you then.
Yeah, exactly.
Yallah bina. Yallah bina.
Yeah so we're cruising on up here.
How long is the drive up?
(20 minutes) 20 minutes, 1 hour.
Let's say we average it sometime in between.
But the way Rajah drives
he's probably going to get us there in ten minutes.
There we go. Yallah.
So you've probably jumped, like, 30,000 times by now, right?
(More than 10,000)
More than 10,000. (Because I counted 10,000)
Wow, you count at 10,000 and then
eventually you just lose track? (I stopped counting but we do 800 flights per year.
800 flights per year? (Average) Wow.
So do you jump, like, three times a day then?
You jump three times a day?
(No, sometimes we do 10) 10?
We're getting close, that's the sign right there,
paragliding.
Paragliding, baby. Let's do it.
Let's do it. This is a nice liltte house there. (This is Osman,)
(he's the owner of the takeoff.)
How are we doing? (I'm fine thank you.)
(He's the most important man in the village.) Salaam Alaikum
(Salaam Alaikum)
All right, nice to meet you.
Shukran.
Yeah, what are you guys, brothers?
(Yes we are twins) Yeah twins,
(Singing happy birthday)
Is it your birthday?
Happy birthday.
Can we bring these backpacks? No?
(Maybe we can keep them off.)
Yeah, true.
All right, we got a nice little hike going up here.
We ran into some fellow Americans.
Aussie and Americans here. Texans, Texans.
Shout out to Texas for sure.
What part of Texas anyways? (Dallas.)
Dallas. Nice.
Nice.
I think I told you, my cousins are in San Antonio.
Yeah.
Looks like we have a nice little viewpoint up here too.
Oh, this is gonna be a nice little jump.
(Apparently, you run.) Are you guys,
are you guys scared?
(Kind of.) (I'm excited)
Yeah excited, there we go.
Let's go.
It's funny because it's actually so much smoother than you think.
Only the scary part is like when you kind of run and jump off at first.
But I had my huge camera that's this big and I was holding it the whole time when I
did it in Colombia, and it was so smooth, you could hear the audio and everything.
That's how smooth of a ride it is down.
There they go.
They're off.
And here we go.
(You'll fly with Rajah)
Oh, yeah, yeah.
First, it's your first flight, right? (Yes.)
Perfect. It's my second.
I'll train you, bro.
You ready for this bro? (I'm ready) You nervous at all?
Yeah, you shouldn't be. It's super smooth.
Super chill.
As you can see, this is the platform we're going to be running off of.
It's a pretty chill run.
You just kind of go right off the side
and all of a sudden, you have these amazing views of the city.
I am absolutely pumped for this. All right,
here we go
so we are getting all strapped up right now
and with Tony my man
and by the way, it's not his actual first flight.
You might have believed that, he's probably done
what, 10,000?
(What?) 10,000 flights?
(Yes) Yeah 10,000 flights already so at least.
Oh, here we go. Here we go.
Look at these views.
I've never been more ready, bro.
Never been more ready. Alright,
so we're getting strapped up right now.
The boys are getting us all locked in.
Here we go. Here we go.
We made it.
Oh, yeah, baby.
Here we go.
This is amazing. Wow.
Wow. These views,
these views. Oh, yeah.
It's pretty smooth, takeoff
yeah? So that's Beirut all the way out there
right? Beirut
Right, down there, the monastery area yeah?
Can people not hike down to the monastery?
(There is a very nice hike to go from Jounieh to the monastery.)
(From the monastery to Harissa)
And Harissa they say, is the best for sunsets, right?
(Yeah it's very good.)
Yeah. This is cool.
The best time in Lebanon is in spring and in autumn.
In the spring yeah? October, November.
So I don't know if you guys can hear that,
but October and November are some of the best times to visit Lebanon.
Pretty cool that it's so smooth while you're up here, paragliding,
you can have conversations and just glide across the city landscape here.
The old city right down here, oh the main road.
Yeah, that's where we were walking.
Here we go.
We're getting some serious speed now.
Guys, you'll definitely want to come
paragliding, because, I mean, just look at this.
You can really get a feel for how large Jounieh is.
You can really figure out what you want to do for the rest of the day.
I'm like, geez, I want to go to the beach.
There's a pool, there's a pool, maybe get a boat.
I mean, there's so many options to do in this city, and when you're up here
paragliding, it actually shows you all of the different things from a perspective.
It's like I'm feeling like I'm the drone.
Usually I'm flying the drone
so to actually be the drone right now is a pretty amazing experience here.
As you can see guys, we're coming in for a landing.
That's where we're gonna be landing right now.
Nice little close-up of the buildings
here, as you can see, cruising right on over.
What is going on, Jounieh, hello, Jounieh.
How we doing?
All right, so we're gonna do a little light run to land here yeah?
And we got the squad right in here for us
so we got a smooth little landing coming in and, there we go and we landed it,
very smooth and chill ride.
Yeah, thank you very much.
We've got Luke coming in here hot, coming down right over the city skyline.
I love the views we get on our way down.
Oh, there he is.
How was it, bro?
(Make sure you'll filming)
What do we got going on? (When we took off)
(we went of the cliff.)
Oh,
(we went flying and it just didn't catch and that's so thick.)
(That's like, deep.)
(I think that needs stitches,)
(but I don't know if we can get that in Lebanon)
So is there just not wind?
(I don't know. I have it on video, so it's fine.)
(There we go.) Oh, my goodness.
I did not know he was going.
(Okay, now it's our turn.)
He almost hit us, Mac went off flying into the, into the distance.
All right.
Yeah, I'm ready.
Three.
Yep. (We have to walk)
All right. (Ready? Yallah)
(Walk.) Walk?
All right,
we go easy. Run, run, run?
(Stop, stop, stop)
So that's an interesting first time.
Because my guy was like, why didn't they go when I went?
You know exactly what you said happened.
It's only the takeoff.
He's got his Lebanon scars now.
Make a tattoo, you can make a tattoo.
If you don't get it stitched up then he will. (It is deep, man.)
Yeah, that is super deep. (I'm more worried about, it's like infection.)
Yeah. Yeah, exactly.
It's such a smooth ride
and then Luke gets to the bottom, and he's all banged up here.
He's got some pretty deep wounds
(The adrenaline starting to wear off so it's starting to hurt.)
All right, guys, this is where
we're gonna go ahead and wrap up this video
so a fun day today
exploring, checking out a little bit more of Jounieh and getting those amazing views
while we were paragliding down the mountain.
Definitely a really cool experience to check out
and, yeah, it sucks that Luke got the,
he got a little injury there, but it sounds like it's rare that that happens.
But, yeah, got to be careful when you're doing those
types of things, because once in a blue moon, they do happen.
In the next couple of videos, we're going to be heading up further north
in Lebanon and exploring so much more of this beautiful country side and showing
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