hi my name is Anna Markarova welcome back to my channel we are again on the highway our next goal
is to get to dushanbe and the taxi is a hundred Somoni which is like ten dollars to do some but
Half of the price he said, half of the place. Tajik people don't wear seat belts because there are more people in the car than seat belts
these mountains are just amazing we've been drying like this for three hours
and this beauty doesn't stop it's just amazing i can't describe
like i can see eagles flying right here and we're above them this is so high and
they're icy waterfalls rivers it's just such an amazing landscape but also very dangerous road i
can be honest we have seen a few not pleasant moments on the road but this is just amazing
welcome to dushanbe and today i'm gonna show you as much as i can we just arrived in the
central park of the city let's explore this place everything looks very fake not
like like in uzbekistan when you travel you see all historical beautiful places and monuments
and here it all looks like a lego lego place like everything just oh that let me put this monument
here and this monument all random things around and all your tajikistan is the post-soviet union
countries architecture didn't change since then a lot they just recently started building new things
two years ago the borders they were still manually writing down people registering people who
come and leave the country so computer system here is all new you can see a lot of unfinished
buildings but i think this country can become something very beautiful in the next 10 20 years
yeah there is a bright future for tajikistan if you travel to tajikistan yandex map will help you
with navigation it has all the roads of public transport and i find it very useful here if you
come to tajikistan just visit mountains nature lakes that's what all the best that country is
about finally left that abandoned place and came to place at least we can see some people here and
also we met the couchsurfing friend who told us that in tajikistan they found a lot of gold in the
mountains and their plan for the next three years to build this city to rebuild and make it like
dubai in central asia so it's very nice to see this before it all started and yeah
so this is the biggest swimming pool in central asia
there is a gym and there is food and a lot of things and other central asian countries as our
friend and tour guide just said they don't have it only here so this place this building is called
uh no not like this so this building is called we don't know what it's called
oh so this place is called navru center and here is a cinema now we're gonna enter cinema
all the movies in this cinema are dubbed in russian nothing in english restaurant bowling pool
center and it's a very beautiful area it's fountains it's located right next to the lake
and right behind me you can see the view to the mall just in one kilometer from here the mosque
that the president of qatar built spent 33 billion dollars to build that mosque and everything inside
like places where they need to wash their feet and handles it made of pure gold
and gusham bay is also very famous for its parks almost every street has its own park and
some of them are very big and there is there is another park after that one and there is another
from different sizes from small to big you have here buses you have your caps and you
have your cars that say they're bus and i just have a number so now you're in bus number eight
it looks like we're in a taxi but we're we're in a bus we are in a bus
so now we're gonna check if this place has meat-free food or something vegan
they have food let's check the menu so there is something i want to tell you about tajikistan
marriage institution i'm not gonna share my own opinion about that but i'm just gonna tell you the
stories that our count surfing friends told us story number one man told uh that he married
his wife when he was 19 years old and why he married so young because he only had one sister
and they had many many guests coming and there was a lot of work to do to cook to clean to bake bread
and to do a lot of housework so his mother and he decided that he needs to get married so his sister
gets more help and they found a woman for him so they basically needed a housewife so that's why
he got married so early that's pretty normal here there are no feelings involved doesn't matter how
good the person is as long as she can cook and and clean and the next story was another couchsurfing
frame they both are touching people his mother found a wife for him he got married and when i
asked him if he loves his wife he said yes i love her but i will have four more wives and
then he said no one more important for him than his mom because he can get a wife from anywhere
any woman is basically a wife she doesn't have that much value as the mother does because the
hot very polluted and cars are using here methanol propane gas and because of that reason it's very
hard to breathe outside you constantly inhaling propane or methane gases and it's very not healthy
very bad for health to inhale those gases so my granddad told me how to choose the best watermelon
so you do this and then if the sound is very like loud and if you hear like the
sound jumps out of the watermelon then it's ripe and ready and that's how we and that's
thank you and that's how you know if it's ready so i checked one and then he cut it and it was
so red and so good and we are bringing it to our couchsurfing friend and we also bought some fruits
and local bread and for everything we paid for the groceries how much i have no idea
we have no idea but not much the food here is pretty cheap it's one of the fewest things
that are cheap here because internet is expensive transportation is expensive everything that's made
here gas is expensive because most of the things are imported but things that grow here made here
like for example figs are very cheap for one kg we paid less than a dollar which normally is
one of the most expensive fruits yes you need watermelon it's one dollar yes this big watermelon
is one dollar and we should show you our lovely room where we are where we staying right now
yeah we will show you so we found this hostel on car surfing and now we're gonna explore it
definitely for the first time come let's take a look inside say to the camera that we haven't been
in the room before i haven't been in a room before ever not forced at all yes welcome okay welcome
oh what what are these backpacks doing here oh oh what it's from the previous
and what do you think about gotcha from home um it's nice there is one on one fly so here is our
that
and here is a working space here is where jesse is gonna work and edit our radius
tomorrow we are ready for hiking today we're going hiking to the mountains of tajikistan
and we're going to visit a great lake which has an amazing history that is connected to
alexander's degrade which i'm going to tell you later let's start don't forget to subscribe to
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