so guys we've just arrived in a town
called chi-fil that our whole group
everyone has got their scarves on trying
to be
i guess well-behaved and conservative in
this area are respectful
uh
salaam
so we're now in this old market this is
my first time here i've never been to
this part of iraq actually in this area
so i'm looking forward to going through
this market and we're actually going to
go shopping and see if we can buy some
avayas because this evening we're going
to be going to karbala and in karbala
it's quite conservative you need to be
covered so if we can find some scarves
or bias that's what we're going to buy
there's a tick tock dress you like tick
tock
tick tock
there's a lot of shops here this is
apparently the old jewish market so once
one time there's a jewish market
beautiful roof you can see that
beautiful
stonework lots of stuff for sale here
seems like a very casual market there's
also clothes as well
so this is the iraqi avaya
it's usually
these two kinds you can wear to cover
yourselves girls when you go to uh holly
shrines so these are good to wear in
kerbala leisure
everywhere
is one lighter than the others
oh the scarf underneath as well
you like pin it down i think
right you pin it like yep pin it
i think it's better because i was
holding it the whole time and it was
tiring for my hand so we need to get
like a pin or something
that's right
and you don't need a pin or anything
because it just you just put it on over
here
there you go show us what
um
okay guys we're all kitted out with our
black iraqi abayas
they say the black ones are iraqi abayas
and then if you wear the white one the
chada it's more like an iranian one
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and this is like the modern time of year
yeah so it's maintained
and in good conditions
okay guys so our guide is just
explaining to us that the bit you can
see behind me just above me up here and
just here to the left is the original
part of this shrine and then the roof
that you can see in the other part is
the newer more modern part of this room
so we're just going to walk inside to
this room now
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so guys this shrine is dedicated to
alcadeer who was a muslim profess and it
is said that everything that al-ghirar
touched or went near went green and that
is why this train has all this beautiful
silk
greenery written on all the walls and
then people write messages as well like
messages of goodwill yeah so that is why
they covered these walls in beautiful
green silk because they said that
everything alkadier touches goes green
like if a garden is dead it will come
alive or if he goes by the river it
turns green or if the land is dead it
becomes fertile so it's just quite
interesting to
hear these stories and people say he's
still alive he never died so people
write messages on the walls here for him
to read um because he never dies so he
can read your message so if you're
looking for a husband or you are wanting
to do well in your exams you can write a
note on the walls asking for his
help uh so this stone
heads uh
uh muslim shah pray when they pray they
use this
uh because it's from the god creator
it's because it's created from the god
directly
and it should be from karbala
that was really beautiful first stop uh
on our journey to karbala i mean this
place is actually just outside of
babylon
and now we are going to be continuing
our journey to karbala check into our
hotel and then obviously check out the
beautiful shrines in karbala tonight so
guys we've just arrived here in kerbala
checked into our hotel
put on our abayas
and now we are walking through walking
to one of the shrines that is right very
close to our hotel
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before we go and visit the other shrine
we're actually going to go and have some
juice this juice is very famous here in
karbala i had it the last time i was
here kind of like a weird vinegar
lemonade so i'm going to bring the girls
there now let's try the juice
time to try some scangeville which is a
typical juice here in karbala
it's kind of like a lemonade but it also
has vinegar inside and soda
i want to see what you
it's actually think yeah i know
surprisingly right
it's so weird
but it's so good
very unusual
yeah
you wouldn't have thought it tastes like
that no it's the sweet but then there's
a cake
got kick i think you need to uh mix it a
bit more
so they have a women's entrance and a
men's entrance this is the women's
entrance and then the men will go here
so we are going to start our night going
to the shrine of iman imam and then
later we will go to the shrine of abbas
both of them were the sons of ali and
then tomorrow morning we are going to go
to najaf and finally we're going to go
to the shrine of ali which i haven't
been to before so i'm pretty excited
about that
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so guys we've just come out of the
shrine of imam hussain
and it was just as beautiful as i
remember the last time when i was here
um much less people this time
and it was really cool to be able to
bring my girls the the eight of us to go
in and to show them how beautiful it was
and to talk to some locals in there that
were super super friendly so now we're
back out on the streets of karbala and
we are going to be walking towards the
other shrine which is the shrine of
abbas
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hello
oh
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this is the view from the rooftop of our
hotel
pretty incredible
so we're finishing our journey in
karbala right here and tomorrow morning
we are going to be traveling to najaf so
stay tuned for the next vlog