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all right guys we are off the boat i
have traded
janet's scarf
in for a more manly scarf that i bought
in a market uh in karbala yesterday
let's go into the market
oh
first impressions there is a strong
pungent odor in here
look at this you can see a lot of parts
of the of the cow here you got like the
back
leg i think and uh the tail is still on
there
and uh well i think you can guess what
what that is
uh that's testicle by the way
in case you weren't getting it
wow
wow look at that
gutting the fish
oh
there go the guts
they will eat that part
you can eat it huh
the liver and all that stuff
there's the rest of the fishies
here they have a special kind of fish
called masumota masmuta
they kill it and they let it dry in the
sun for 40 days more vinyl
between 30 and 40 days dried in the sun
yes wow oh my gosh you can't just touch
it of course okay it's rock hard
then how do you eat it if it's so hard
and then they cook it
putting water uh and it'll it rehydrates
exactly exactly it has a special very
special test
and they very much like it here
thank you so much
thank you
the most
closest people of my ears for me is my
mom oh that's nice
here is imam hussain imam hussein yeah
look at all this fresh fruit
smells much better out here
here's all the different pickles guys
wow
how are you slonic
so guys apparently this is a special
kind of iraqi date where it's it's
two different colors i don't know if
that's
yeah the white side feels
harder and this side is more squishy
how do they make them like that with the
half and half ah so they cut it early oh
they take it from the palm tree early
that's why it's really delicious so this
is the full one
and this is the half half iraqis are
famous for the half half can i try one
it's called
all right so here we go we're going to
try
an iraqi style date called
hello
i'm glad i'm not the only one who thinks
it's so hot out here
even the iraqis are saying so
it's really good
it's got like the um
mushy like
jelly-ish
part like the squishy side and then more
like of a fruit texture like a little
crunch to it on the less ripe side
that's good
see you thank you
look at this got the young businessman
here
very good good good
very good
look at these two doing business
wow mashallah
bye-bye
do you want sandwiches yeah sure
oh it's hot i like your style
nice to meet you
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i want an american woman
okay
we got a little crowd
hello hello
oh thank
you oh my god it's hot ow
ow he just handed this to me right out
of the fryer
burning my hand off currently ow
so hot
it's so good
wow
oh thank you
look at this
shoot i just dropped the pickle on my
leg
look at that
it comes in the classic iraqi bread i
love it it's like a little boat
because he's surprised that so good so
fresh
so tasty
and vegetarian and back here guys in the
back room look at this you got a whole
bin full
of chickpeas that are just soaking right
now ready to be turned into falafel and
a whole nother one over here
let's see what's in uh in this meat shop
i think he's gonna try to feed me
something
oh wow
this is the uh
this is a testicle right
yeah okay
uh i will leave it with you but thank
you very much
thank you habibi
here i'll take a picture
we're going to go eat some lunch i
believe in abu haider's house which is
so nice
um
oh my god she's adorable
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so we've got here
fish
mask mask is the type of the grill
of the way of grilling
fish i will never tickle them
this looks incredible we're just seated
here on the floor
around all this food let's take a look
at something
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delicious
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lots of sugar
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oh hi there
thank you so much
i'm very happy i got to swim with you so
much
can you tell him tell his wife and his
family thank you so much
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how are you
i'm coming
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so cute
masala
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oh
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alrighty guys i'm here now just to end
this video at the meeting point between
the tigris river and the euphrates river
so you've got the tigers river coming
right here that originates in turkey and
flows into iraq here and then you've got
the euphrates that also originates in
turkey flows through syria and then
eventually into iraq and they meet here
behind me to form the chateau arab that
literally means the arab river you can
see them combining
got kind of like a bluish green mixing
with a kind of browner color
and uh that is where they meet and flow
onward
that will eventually flow all the way to
the persian gulf or as it's known in the
arab world the arab pool anyway guys
that's gonna be the end of this video
from the marshes in this area of iraq
we're heading further south now to basra
it's going to be incredible i'm so
excited to discover that city really
hope you guys enjoyed this video if you
ever do come to iraq you must not leave
the country without visiting the marshes
that was
seriously one of the most unique
and uh amazing experiences of my life
they're untouched and just so
beautiful and the people there were so
kind
it was
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you