So I I told you Christine from the netherlands next time I make toast I'm totally going to put on your dutch
Hockey slaw on it. This is history in the making I can't believe you dutch people eat this for breakfast
That makes sense that just makes sense thanks Christine, so this is [jogs] me more
I haven't done this [in] a long time for those you don't know geography [more] is when I talk about some of the extra information
That didn't quite make it in some of the previous episodes and in today's episode. We're going to talk about henning Bhutan and Bolivia
[I'm] pretty excited. So let's just jump in
So one thing about bending that I didn't really talk too much about was the kingdom of Dahomey the homie was a kingdom in Africa
That pretty much encompassed most of the areas that Modern-day bennion live in this kingdom was very rich and it actually
cooperated [very] well with the Europeans in order to sell them African slaves in fact the very last ship that sailed out [of]
Africa bringing slaves left an 1885 from Benin heading out to brazil today
There's even a monument called the door of no return
Which is dedicated to the kidnapped slaves throughout all of the centuries of the atlantic slave trade?
They use this flag of an elephant with a crown and [they] eventually fell to the French empire in
1904 now when you go to bending make sure you ask people if you can take a picture of them or with them the reason
Why is because a lot of the people in the countries still adhere to voodoo?
beliefs in which they believe that if you take a piece of someone's body
Then you can use it to cast spells on them
And they believe that if you take a picture it kind of captures the essence of the person so it kind of counts a lot
Of the [times] [oh], they probably won't mind and especially if it's kids now
Here's the thing in [bending] summers can be crazy hot like over 50 degrees Celsius
[so] it's kind of funny because sometimes when people visit during the Cooler weather seasons
They might find people wearing thick coats, and this is because the people here are adapted to really hot weather
So for them 22 degrees Celsius or like room [temperature] is considered freezing now
I'm bending like some other countries in Africa
They have a custom where you can actually buy gas and petroleum at Little Like Street vendors on the side of the road
It's kind of illegal
But technically kind of everybody does it because selling gas
Legally and bending is actually kind of expensive and a lot of the times they just
Smuggle it from Nigeria and sell it on street stands otherwise some notable places that I didn't mention in the video include is the Gandhi
Lake Village where houses are on stilts sometimes referred to as the venice of
The Royal palaces of a bow mate back when [benin] was under the kingdom of Dahomey the Royal [palace] of porto novo or King Tawas
Palace which is now a museum the fetish voodoo market in [Kota] noon in the Grand March a market in gang Tapa and the [o'odham]
Museum of history which has numerous sculptures and displays devoted to educate the [population] on the slave past see I find benin and togo
like the two weird
Countries of West Africa in a good way because they kind of like really held strong to their indigenous beliefs and that kind of spread
Throughout the Western world, but anyway moving on
Now Bhutan it was a very fun episode to make because many of the viewers
Didn't really hardly know anything about Bhutan now I did mention that
Patil airport is pretty much the [only] airport in the entire country let alone the international airport however there are only nine
selected official people that are allowed to fly airplanes in and out of Bhutan
Including the queen's father this is because flying in and out of the sharp hills and valleys of the himalayas is
Incredibly difficult and it really takes a skilled pilot to do it now. What needs people love archery
It's their national sport, and they're really good at it however
They still
Haven't gotten any medals at the olympics and even though there are very mountainous country they still haven't participated in the winter olympics yet
they also really like to play a dart game except the target is smaller and the darts are like bigger and Lethal go to Bhutan
You might find some
Phallic images painted on people's houses. This is just a tradition that goes down through history, and it's supposed to be for good luck
So yeah, you might see some who has on houses now
But I'm just like Korea every year on New Year's everybody becomes one more year older
If that makes sense it doesn't but it's just the way it is now
It's a tradition in Bhutan that if you are offered food you have to close your mouth and say miss you, miss you
but
after three times you can finally
Accept the food of course the foreigners don't have to do this they don't expect that however if you do it you might make them
Laugh and chuckle a little bit speaking of which the national dish is m adachi a very awesome curry dish with rice and stewed
chilies and vegetables with cheese chunks keep in mind
Bhutanese cheese chunks very different from the cheese we use in the west now [the] funny thing is Bhutan doesn't measure GDP
They measure gross national happiness what they do is
They calculate and factor in social health environmental happiness amongst the population
And that's kind of like what they report to the un. I guess it kind of works
I don't know the national flower is the rare himalayan Blue poppy this flower grows at 3,000 to
5,000 meters and altitude and it blooms only once and then it dies and finally the
Monarchy this is an interesting one for centuries Bhutan was actually under the rule [of] these guys under the title of druk Desi which means?
dragon later it wasn't until 1907 that the current monarchy was actually established under the [wangchuck] family since then there have been five Kings and
2008 marked the centennial anniversary of the monarchy I love the go fascinating country very obscure Great country moving on
Now Bolivia, [I've] actually been to Bolivia
So some of these facts are actually things that I personally
Experienced when I went there and also some stuff that I looked up now in the video I did mention the Llama
Fetuses that were sold at the witches market however
I didn't explain what they were for according to the indigenous aymara people you're supposed to take the llama foetus and bury it in the
Ground and then build your house over it supposedly they say that gives you. Good luck now when I went to Bolivia
I went through the youngest rules as deadliest [row] in the world all the way to the Amazon in a place called
Gruden Ibaka and then we took a boat down the river and I noticed what my guide said was that you can [actually] tell if
There are no piranhas in the water if you see the river dolphins whenever there's a river dolphin
you know that piranhas are all going to be dispersed, and there's not going to be any in the water in Bolivia and
Actually a lot of parts of South America
You actually have to buy your own toilet [paper]
And you have to pay to go to any public
bathroom this fact actually really threw me off guard because I have to go to the bathroom when I was in public everybody does and
It's not that expensive
It's only like I don't know like 20 cents or something like [that] in us currency
But it's just frustrating because you always have to pay to use a bathroom and you have to buy your own toilet paper
They don't have any of [that] stuff another funny thing I notice about Bolivia
Is that you might find people dressed up as zebras on the street these people are actually hired to help children cross the road safely
And Educate Pedestrians and drivers about Road safety
Okay, that's pretty cool. That's pretty cool now the I'm on our people are like they have a lot of
Traditions and customs [one] of the craziest ones I think that I should have put in the video
But I forgot was the festival of Chinku. It's literally just like a festival where people fight each other. It's a fight club
Festival you know they start off dancing
Whatever and the women back up and then circle all of the men and then the men just found each other kind like a festival
To help people vent out all the stress from the previous year
It's just a little extreme april morales was actually the first indigenous president of the country and although yes
There are some controversies behind him nonetheless
Inequality and poverty have actually been reduced since his presidency otherwise some notable sites in Bolivia that I didn't mention include
Nevada [it] [has] [an] [Amaz] with the needle like rock
formations the Salvador Dali
Desert that looks like a dali painting the Palacio they saw or salt palace made up of salt and the dinosaur dance floor in sucre
with the largest site of dinosaur footprints in the world
I mean essentially what it comes down to is Bolivia is the least sparsely populated country in all South America
So you can get a lot of untapped?
Wilderness and you know outskirt regions now
I had a lot of fun making these videos because these are all kind of like smaller
Obscure countries that people don't really pay too much attention to I mean bending is not a travel
Hotspot Bhutan is hard to get into and Bolivia is kind of like jealous of the fact that peru keeps getting all the attention and
I like putting countries like that in a spotlight
You know they deserve a little moment in the in the in the limelight, so that's it for this episode of geography more
Thanks for watching and this Friday will be another fan Friday episode so stay tuned for [that]