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Good morning, guys from another video here in Lebanon, specifically in Beirut.
And in today's video I’m super excited to share with you guys. I’m back. Yeah
baby, welcome back. What’s the Lebanese hello? Sabaho (Good Morning in Lebanese)
Good morning, guys. Yeah, yeah so Luke beat me to the punch. He is back. He couldn't stay away. After
one month, finally he came back to explore more of Lebanon for one, two,
three, four weeks; maybe the rest of the year. Who knows how long he'll be staying.
Yeah, maybe forever. Yeah So, we've got the squad. You guys know
Fuad quite well at this point in probably like 19 out of the 23 vlogs. In
today's video, guys we're heading up to Rabbit Island but first we gotta make a
stop in Tripoli because we're going to be picking up a boat for the day. We’re
going with about eight of our friends total, and we'll be taking like a boat
from 10:30 a.m. to actually- no, we're already late. We'll probably get there
around like 11:30. and then- and then, we get back at six so we'll tour
around Rabbit Island, do some snorkeling swim in the ocean, eat some food, have
some drinks, and it's gonna be beautiful. I think, it's like what the
only island in Lebanon. I think so maybe, it's like a unique island in Lebanon
like Rabbit Island; where like turtles migrate. Yeah, I think during winter; I
don't know the details but that's what I heard, like some locals were saying about
the Rabbit Island. It goes on winter for like the immigration of the turtles,
and like stuff so it's beautiful over there. You'll love it. Yeah, yeah. So, we're
super excited to show you guys. We've got about a one hour, and thirty minute drive
if there's not traffic from here in Beirut up to Tripoli. So, we'll see you
once we get up there. You're gonna love it guys.
Let’s do this. Alright, we have to make a quick pit stop here; get some proper
essentials for the boat since we're gonna be out there for about eight hours.
We gotta get some booze, some water, something to keep us
alive while we're checking out the place. So,
(Speaking in foreign language) I don't wanna leave this with
anyone. It's too valuable. Don’t worry, I won't steal anything.
Alright, let's see we need some essentials over here; definitely a couple
liters of Av (Water) is gonna be necessary for the boat, gotta stay hydrated, gotta
stay alive.
Alright, here we go. We’ll definitely need a
a couple items from this section I’m thinking.
Something that's gonna, you know take off the edge a bit; get us ready for the day.
Alright, let's get the- the specialty Gordon’s right here.
Oh yeah, for 199? So that's- that's gonna be about 10 US.
We gettin three liters vodka. What? Three liters. Bring back the grapes
Oh yeah. There's no way that has real vodka in it.
Oh, you're crazy bro. I think he like--
It's hefty. That's almost like Prada- Pravda.
It’s got a nice jewel on it too. Yeah Maybe, like Luke will sell his liver for it.
Yeah, exactly.
Alright, some red bull there we go; that’ll-- that'll do the trick.
25000 for red bull. So, we're talking about a dollar and
30 cents with the 18 000 conversion rate. Yep, we got some chips. Alright we
got-- We got a couple options enough to chow down. Yeah, yeah. Sweet,
sweet. Let's go rolling. What are your guesses on what's the
total gonna be? 400,000. Yeah, around 400 to 300k.
Get them loaded up here.
Five, six, nine. You said, “five, six, nine”. I said, “550’. Oh, it's four thirty five.
435- 435. So, the total came out to just over 400,000 which was about like 22 US
dollars for us to get all of that. So, I mean quite inexpensive given that
includes that many red bulls, and gin, and all that. So, we're ready to go. Let’s do
this. Time to continue the next one hour, and we will be up in Tripoli.
So, we're just arriving into Tripoli now after probably an hour and 30, 45 minutes
with a couple stops probably took a total of two hours. And it's 11:36, we
were supposed to be there around 10:00, 10:30ish. So yeah, we're-- we're quite a bit
late but one time. Exactly yeah. Yeah, this is Lebanese time.
Yeah yeah exactly. This is called Tripoli El Mina And, it's your first time here,
Fuad? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So oh yeah, he's even using Google Maps to find his way;
that's not very Lebanese of him. Yeah, it looks amazing but yeah, it's beautiful. If
you guys take a look; we have palm trees here, quite a few boats out here in
the marina. And, it stretches quite a bit of ways we came from all the way back
there, and I think we're gonna be pulling up
to one of these spots right up here right? Alright, after a little confusion
we have made our way to the harbor, and found our boat; it's right back here. We
got our captain who's one been waiting a solid two hours for us.
Sabaho (Lebanese Good Morning)
My name is Mac.
Mac Alvar- Alvar, nice to meet you. Nice to
meet you. Sweet. So, this is the boat yeah, yeah.
Awesome, do a little-- Do a little tour here.
We’ve got the-- the captain's seat right over here. This is where the magic
happens. There we go. Yeah, nice views right here.
Got a little downstairs area too. We got a watering closet down this way too.
Let’s check it out. Alright, and oh yeah place to do the
business. That’s good, that's good; always necessary.
Let’s see what we got up front, cruise on up to the deck,
and this is where we can chill. This will be where we’ll be hanging out on the way to
Rabbit Island; a little spot to jump off as well.
Alright, excited for the day. So, how far is the cruise over to Rabbit Island?
How many hours?
45 minutes. 45 minutes? about four-- Okay 45 minutes to get to
Rabbit island. Oh perfect, guys I missed one part of the boat tour; probably the best
part. We can climb right up here to chilling
spot, and then
Mr. Damant is up here; showing off the top, the Sun deck where we're gonna get
absolutely fried today. If I didn't already have skin cancer from the Australian
heat; I’m gonna get it today. Yeah, today is definitely the day.
Alright, so we've got El Capitan. We are finally in route better late than never
bro. Yeah oh yeah, let's do it. Let’s do it. Yep, yep.
Alright, so we-- We've got the squad here. We’ve got Teresa we've got Leo- Leah.
Leah, I got the accent right yeah. Pamela. We got Fuad.
Hey, what's up? You're doing quite well at this point,
and look who we got up here.
and we have Celine right here, and you already met Luke. Let’s get it. So, we got
the squad that's who's gonna be coming out with us to Rabbit Island. Fuad
just told me that on Rabbit Island, there actually are rabbits. That's true. Yeah,
are they like big rabbits or what? I ¬¬¬¬ probably¬¬-- I’ve never been there. Yeah oh,
So, it's your first time? Yeah. Nice, nice. So, has anyone else been here? Have been
to Rabbit Island? Oh perfect, so it's everyone's first time. Yeah. Alright,
let's do it. It's gonna be amazing. Alright, this took us probably 30 minutes
to get our drinks going. Oh, I should have been filming you the whole time. Oh yeah,
that would have been great. Yeah, it's hysterical: I was watching it.
Luke was literally just having a blast watching us. There was four of us trying
to pour drinks. I wish I had it on camera because the boat like it's not as bad
now but it was like rocking back and forth with some big waves, as we were
leaving the-- the harbor here, and
of course, we like had some of our drinks pre-mixed but like not fully. So,
we were trying to make some drinks mix, some ice, and falling over but we have
some good drinks here. We've got gin basil, we've got like a strawberry drink
right here going. And the amount of time it took us to get these drinks ready,
literally once we finally got the drinks poured, we're already arriving here to
Rabbit Island. Doesn't seem like there's too many people here. We got one boat
over here, we've got like one, two, three, four in the distance. So, it seems like
we're gonna have this place all to ourselves. And, as you can see the water
is getting way more clear not as brown as like when we were first leaving the
port. Our captain has already given up. We’ve got it. We’ve got a new
captain in place here. First time ever.
Oh yeah, it's my first time. Alright, well you seem like a natural
getting us a little closer then we’re gonna have to swim a solid 100 meters.
Go!
How did you go up guys? Did you film that? Yeah.
Alright, you guys got to see a quick glimpse of what it looks like from up in
the air. Now we're gonna swim just a quick.
Probably, I would say 100 meters to get there.
The nice part is the water is so warm that it makes it super, super enjoyable.
So, here we go. Let's get back in the water, and start the swim. We're
gonna do a back float most of the way to get there.
Save the energy.
We hardly make around our breath. Luckily, once you get a little closer to
shore; you can stand and walk in. So,
we're about to arrive to Rabbit Island.
(Speaking in foreign language)
Oh yeah, it's super slippery when you're walking in on these rocks, like they're
like slimy. You’re like I gotta run back to the sand.
How is it up there bro? Anything good. No, it's absolutely nothing. Nothing. Oh
that's hot, that's exciting.
Alright, well we got a little sign here. We can see what Rabbit Island looks like
If we take a look up at this sign. Alright,
Palm Island Nature Reserve here. They’ve got an Instagram page, it looks
like. You check it out right there. So, they got
a watchtower floating wharf that sounds pretty cool.
(Speaking in foreign language) That probably means umbrella direction
sign board wood fence. A little bit
Seems like this place was maybe hit with like a hurricane;
all the walls are torn down. Alright, so I think we're coming to the--
More like populated area. If you remember the sign I was showing you where like
the dock leads way out there. I think that's where maybe it used to be kind of
popping off but now it's still pretty quiet. You got maybe four or five boats
in the distance over here. When I flew the drone over, I saw there
were a bunch of people up here but it's super beautiful. The water is so
clear; it's really, really warm. Honestly, I was hoping it was going to actually be a
little colder, so we could cool off a bit. Yeah, yeah it's too hot, and when you're
walking on the sand it's literally like what were you saying; like Aussie sand. It
feels like Australian beaches is fun. Yeah, seriously.
Have you-- Have you guys ever been to Rabbit Island? Oh, first time. Alright, so
everyone's a first-time explorer here. Now, what are your first like thoughts of it?
It’s very pretty. Very pretty
Yeah, and yours?
Interesting. Yeah, I’m trying to find the rabbits though. I don't know where they are.
There’s probably no way they're
surviving. Definitely.
So, here is the most populated part. We got the beaches.
Is that a little restaurant up there? Or more like a picnic spot it might be.
Yeah, everyone's got coolers. What’s the Aussie way to call them? Eskies.
Eskies. Yeah. It's the only way they're called not the Aussie way. Yeah.
Now when you come to the US bro you'd say like you got a cooler?
Yeah. That's just wrong if you say whatever term you just said, they're
gonna be like, oh what? Well, when I was saying it before I had
to think of like, all I know is Esky. I was like [ __ ] They're not gonna
understand what is actually the word. Yeah, what is it?
Yeah, cooler. So, that's a classic Aussie slang.
So, yeah the official name for this place is: Welcome to the Palm Island Nature
Reserve.
Got some options to chill here. You know, it's pretty relaxing; it's like-- Honestly, it's a complete- It feels like a
completely different country than normal Lebanon. They're just like Greece. Yeah,
it does kind of feel like Greece. Although, the sand is a little bit more
fine here because like in Greece; it was like, it was kind of rocky almost.
Whoa. Every few minutes you take a step; you
gotta go back in the water because it's so hot here
but you know you can- you can get that Tropical feel here in Lebanon so it's
amazing.
Oh, we found the craziest side. We’re talking half a meter jump.
And it's probably like a quarter meter deep.
Seems like there's a bit of a current over here. Oh, and he's off.
How is it over there? A bit of a--
A bit of a- A bit of a cliff jump. -here or should I go around?
I don't know, I don't know. I don't know, if he's gonna make it. Let’s see what's
going on over here.
Oh wow.
It goes-- It's gonna be a triple backflip.
Oh,
After we got some swimming in; we're-- We're swimming all the way back
here to the boat. Fuad’s literally been swimming from there.
Literally, all the way from where we were at in the rocks from there and
Luke’s gonna beat him back just to kind of show him that he's a better swimmer.
So, that's a typical Luke move. Guys, we're making progress.
I can see the boat. Looks like Fuad made it. (Speaking in foreign language)
Cool. We’re almost there
I must say filming while swimming is a little harder
than just swimming but I wanted to show you guys the full
Rabbit Island. Alright, guys we made it back up
finally. A little out of breath.
Seems like the girls needed some saving, though.
Fuad. Are you doing a jump bro?
Disclaimer! Disclaimer, I’m telling Fuad.
Luke and I are both telling Fuad; don't do it. This is on camera.
Yeah, yeah. We’re yeah-- Fuad really wants to do it.
This is just--
There we go. That Fuad’s backflip. Yeah,
that was a nice shot on the jump, though, bro. He's getting ready for it.
We got another Fabio up here. Everyone’s Fabio today.
We’ve got El Capitan out there. He’s telling us that it's, it's worth a
dive down in there. It's about four feet or roughly 1.3 meters deep; So, not
much of a dive spot here but let's-- let's go, and see how it is.
(Speaking in foreign language). Here we go;
Three, two, one.
Oh,
I’d say that's a 10 out of 10, bro. Easy, 10 out of 10. Easy with that. Yo,
Bro! you look good. Guess, what the ratings were? Guess, what the ratings were?
10 out of 10. Guess, what she said? No, she said 11 out of 10.
Finishing off the day. I got-- I got a small battle scar, though.
We’re bleeding. I-- I slipped a little bit
but we're back in business. We’re back. We’re good to go.
That’s a proper battle scar for the day on the boat, you know.
No stitch is needed but you know we've got proof of the boat, how about that? I’m
the one bleeding for once. Yeah exactly, usually, it's this guy always bleeding
but you know you need proof sometimes for these
vacations because out here on the coastline of Tripoli
you need to see that you need- you need to slip, and fall to fully experience it a bit right.
El Capitan’s finishing us up for the day.
Habibi. Merci. Yeah, it was, it was an amazing day; we got
to finish off with this sunset out here. It’s definitely a vibe out here, you know.
We’re pulling into Tripoli now. They wanted us to get our shirts on. So
male or female. So, I guess it's a little stricter around here than other places
but we're having a good time.
We’re coming up under the bridge. Merhaba!
As always though, good days must come to an end which sucks because
today's day is coming to an end. And we had an amazing
time checking out Rabbit Island. Fuad, how'd you like it, bro? Bro, it was awesome.
That was awesome. First time on a boat, and to Rabbit Island? Yeah, that's true.
Would you come back? Yeah, with Mac, of course. In a hearbeat.
For sure, for sure. It’s beautiful. We'll have to do it again.
So, I hope you guys enjoyed that. Obviously, it wasn't a super detailed
vlog today but like you know we checked out Rabbit Island, we
cruised up the Tripoli, and we had an amazing time on this boat. You can rent
it for about 2.5 million Lebanese lira for one day
which you can seat up to 12 people. So, 2.5 million is roughly with today's exchange
rate, roughly like 130, 140 US dollars. So, for like 12 people it's a-- It's a very
nice deal, and it's beautiful. So,
if you guys wanna check it out I’ll put a link in the description below. And
yeah, thank you so much for watching guys. If you enjoyed it, it'd be amazing if you
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