hello guys i am here in cortum sudan
well actually i'm in uman which is
across
the nile river from cartoon but it's
basically the same city
and today i'm going to take you guys on
a walk
through which is
absolutely enormous it's a huge market
here in omdarman
and i just got here it's crazy
absolutely crazy
chaotic busy loud there are so many
people so yeah this video might be a
little
different than my other videos i'm gonna
keep it pretty
informal and just walk and see what i
can find and see what we can
what we can discover and what i can show
you so
check out the scene around me i think
this is only the outskirts of the
of the market it is absolutely enormous
apparently
so i'm gonna head straight through there
and
yeah let's go
this place is absolutely insane
what's up oh my gosh
so i was just reading a little bit
apparently this is one of the largest
markets in all of
africa it is absolutely enormous i'm
going through the clothes section
clearly right now
excuse me and yeah it's overwhelming
i'm definitely the only tourist here
that sound that you're hearing is people
advertising what they're selling in
these really loud
muffled sounding um microphones
or megaphones
i don't know how they all compete
crazy i'm gonna keep walking see if we
can find the different sections
maybe i'll find a souvenir that's worth
buying i'm not sure i try not to buy too
much stuff since i'm
traveling full time now but let's keep
it going
what's up man
that was weird that guy was
so friendly on video then i took my
phone out and tried to take his picture
uh because he kept waving to me and
stuff and the guy next to him absolutely
freaked out and like
made me delete it and stuff so whatever
most people seem pretty friendly here
though
hello what's your name my name is me
douglas
douglas douglas
just walking i'm just exploring
i'm getting uh some coffee here yeah
coffee
it's like coffee with ginger and it kind
of burns your throat but it's really
good
i'm sorry to say to my uh egyptian
followers and
and friends but i like the coffee way
better in sunday
yeah it's very good
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but it's different in america
anyway they put uh you can order your
coffee here with ginger in it and it
like burns your throat but it's that
kind of like
so it's like wakes you up kind of burn
so it's uh it's it's good and um as i
was saying
i like it better than egypt because it's
not turkish coffee
it's ethiopian ethiopia coffee ethiopia
aye yeah
it doesn't have all the coffee grounds
in it so it's not like getting caught in
your throat
very very good i think i'm kind of a
novelty here in the market everyone's
looking at me
uh oh they're fighting over there
fighting there's a big fight happening
i don't think i will film that anymore i
don't want to get in trouble for that
okay let's walk the other way and keep
exploring by the way if some of you
watching from the west
are concerned that this is like sketchy
or dangerous in any way for me to be
walking around here alone as the only
tourist the only white person here i
don't think it is because even if one
person was to get mad at me
or try to start some problem i think
there's enough
good people around and and people that
would would step in and
you know help me out so that's why i
feel comfortable in a place like this
because there's
a lot of friendly people thank you thank
you man
camera say
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jungle shoes everywhere rows and rows
and rows and rows of shoes
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my
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that's right
here we got all the sweets candy
so many rickshaws i think most people in
america and the west associate rickshaws
or tuk-tuks
with india but uh that is far from the
only place
where you can find them they're really
found pretty much all over the
developing world especially
in a lot of africa southeast asia
all over the place cheaper than a taxi
and more fun and sometimes they can weep
through traffic
get you there quicker whoa a lot of
exhaust on this street these uh
tuk-tuks or rickshaws unfortunately make
a ton
of uh exhaust so this whole street is
really polluted you can feel it in your
eyes wow
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oh my gosh so much is happening
oh man there's a thing on google maps
here like as part of the market called
the the bird souk oh my god i'm
so in the middle of so many cars i'm
trying to go find it i think it'll be
cool
let's see this is insane
there's not really sidewalks and if they
do have them they're filled with
stuff that people are selling so you
have to walk through the middle of the
street basically
and there are cars and rickshaws
everywhere it's so chaotic
okay reached a bit a bit of a calmer
area
so it's interesting i just pulled out my
phone to take another picture of the
area behind me
and uh again some shopkeeper was like no
pictures
but he wasn't angry this time he was
just telling me he's like
government like so i guess it's a rule
in the market you're not allowed to take
pictures
for some reason no one's yelled at me
for this camera yet maybe because it's
small and doesn't really look like a
camera but i don't know anyway i found
the street where they sell birds and it
looks like they have some other animals
over there as well so let's go check it
out
here it is
hey guys and look at this guy
we got a monkey hey buddy
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wow yeah
mostly birds it's like a looks like a
huge pigeon
jeez mostly birds and one monkey
why monkey
is he nice to mom he bite you
yeah he's saying he'll bite you if you
put your finger in there
what he's got there a little bit of
orange
hey dude what's up
wow got some
parakeets here look at this
ducklings oh they're so cute
they look like they're excited to see me
they're gonna eat my finger
ow got some bunnies i wonder if they're
for food or not
a rabbit for eating or no
no okay so these rabbits are just for
pets
they're nice nice rabbits
you guys have so many animals here wow
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all right now they're giving me the tour
oh a cat hey kitty
he's a nice cat wow i'm gonna see how
much they would sell me this monkey for
just out of curiosity
how much monkey sudanese pound how much
sudanese balance is going to be
uh
10 million yeah oh wow okay let's see
what that is
ten one two three one two three
like that two years like this no
that's 10 million that's 26 000 it can't
be that much
no no no how much u.s dollar
in a dollar yeah how much the dollar
today good question
sudanese pound you give uh 10 000
million that's impossible
no that's twenty thousand dollars here
we call this
all right sometimes it's a little
confusing to understand prices here
because they call
thousands millions and it's so sometimes
they'll say 10 million and they really
mean 10 000.
so i just got a clear answer they would
sell me this monkey
for 10 000 pounds sudanese which is 25
so this monkey could be mine for 25
bucks
guys it's starting to get dark hopefully
i can brighten this up but look at these
chicks let me see if i can use the light
here
look at them
that's probably bad for them i guess but
it's kind of funny
looking so guys i was talking to the guy
who uh one of the guys who was running a
a pet shop over there one of the bird
stores and i was asking him
do you guys like domesticate these
monkeys like was it was it bread here
and
and sold as a pet regularly and he was
like no i go down to dinder national
park in the south of sudan and catch it
with a net
yeah facing me yeah yeah
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oh
how are you yeah you've been on youtube
these guys are making fun of me i think
i don't know this kid's laughing an
awful lot
i can't understand anything they're
saying but that's okay
what's so funny is laughing so much
okay bye guys
bye-bye
what
huh
well anyway as i was saying about the
monkey the guy was saying he just goes
to the national park
here in uh in sudan like once a month or
once every three weeks and just catches
a monkey or two
brings it back here and sells it to
someone as a pet i didn't want to put it
on video because i assume that's
probably illegal so i didn't want the
guy to get in trouble excuse me
so i didn't want the guy to get in
trouble but uh pretty interesting
that was definitely the most exotic
animal i saw there but they also had
ostriches
he said even sometimes you can find like
lions there and stuff he's like you can
find any animal here if you come at the
right time
who knows if that's true or not but
anyway it's getting dark it's time for
me to
get out of here i think the market seems
to be closing up
so i am going to find a cab back to your
cartoon
all right guys i'm using my iphone
flashlight here to
light myself it is pretty dark here as
you can see
if i don't use the light um street
lights here are not working in omdarman
really i see
one that's like a little bit on over
there but
i guess they're not working so well so
the city does take on a bit of an eerie
vibe after dark
just because it's it's really dark on
the streets anyway
that's gonna basically conclude this
video a little tour of
this market here in omdarman i think
that was probably
the craziest biggest most intense
chaotic market i've ever seen in all my
travels
i'm trying to think and i can't think of
anything that was more hectic or
busier so i hope you guys enjoyed it
that was a lot of fun
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bye