Today I'm in Kiev Ukraine had a layover here last night
But I'm just about to grab an uber head to the airport and fly to Iran guys
So super excited go to Iran and watch to go to around for the longest amount of time
And today I finally get to realize that dream
That's what I'm talking about so let's get out of snowy cave and head it to the Middle East
Made it through
Security now. I've got a like a five hour wait because there was horizontal snow in Kiev
It's the perfect texture for running very low impact on it's dry snows your if you don't get wet appreciate you guys talking with us
Warm. All right. Thanks. We've seen a lot of people out here
Like you said running letting just enjoying it my flights leaving at 8:00 p.m. Tonight, and it gets to Iran at
1:00 or 5:00 in the morning, and then I think the visa process is pretty difficult once you get there
So I'm not sure what to expect. It might be a very long night. It's gonna be an interesting travel day
Plane was delayed 45 minutes
One Iranian eternity later, I just arrived and say around here and got a taxi driver
It's like I don't know 2:30 or 3:00 right now. I'm not sure finally made it through the visa process and
Got my lovely taxi driver images here
And we're gonna head to my hotel and I'm absolutely exhausted. So let's do this
What time did you start work today at one time to exceed
24 24 hours 24 hours today here at sleep sleeping
Okay, guys we have made it to Iran so far people are absolutely lovely 4:00 in the morning right now
I'm completely insane because I've just been out for way too long and used way too many modes of transport and when that happens
Your mind just perfect Friday try keep the short and then we'll get up. I have a nap
Well firstly I'll sleep and then I'll get up and then we'll go explore in this video and I will see you in about
Three two. Good morning a run
All right guys, it's the following morning I am currently on the streets just feeling it out
I'm gonna go for a huge walk today. I've got my pedometer on at the end of the day
We'll see how far we walked gonna get a feel for it to see what it's like filming in public. I'm not too sure yet
But I'm heading to this big tower that has
Incredible views around the whole city, but as always arriving in a new country
Just got to feel it out this way to do that. Let's go for a walk
All right guys already I've realized that the traffic is pretty hectic
I kind of let you through but some kind of aim for you
So let's cross the road now and I'll show you what I'm talking about
So I just followed the locals there sir always the best way it's kind of like Egypt in a way pretty similar traffic I guess
Hectic
Alright guys
So so far really good impressions people are really friendly here
Like people saying hello and things Iranian people don't consider themselves
Arabs they consider themselves Persians. So that's an important distinction to make and they don't speak Arabic here. They speak Persian so different language altogether
Interesting, so we're going to carry on walking see what else we can come across people don't seem to mind the camera so far pretty
Good keep on developing these first impressions
After filming that last clip I bumped into a young man called a man who was offering to teach people English
We had a conversation which I filmed that sadly part of the audio file was corrupted
However, I did manage to catch the end of the interactions audio. So here it is
Lovely. Alright nice to meet you, and that should meet you all I see you around. Have a good day
Would you like to come to Iran again? Yeah, yeah. Definitely. I just got here, but I'll be back already
I'm just going to the the tower
the LED power
In our tower. Yeah. Yeah, you can go to a minute our from
Taxing I want to research I'm walking I'm walking. Yeah, and then I meet people you know, yeah, I
Say obviously you can see such nice people. It's incredible
So yeah, I'm gonna keep walking he said that I should get a taxi
so I guess that means it's pretty far, but we'll see how we go to the tower and
Yeah, if you're interesting about money
Accommodation prices exchange rates. I'll share that at the end of the video when I'm back at the hotel, but for now we'll explore
All right guys, I'm pretty hungry
so I decided I'm gonna find a restaurant and
See what we can eat not quite sure what I've got here, but I got a huge pile of rice
there's no way I'm finishing this and
These kind of deep fried vegetables. There's like broccoli and aubergine and
Onions with french fries. Yeah, there's no way I'll finish all of this looks delicious though
So it was an extremely filling lunch anyway change of plans not walking to the tower now not sure if the audio is working
Right now, but I'm having serious order audio problems
I think he might have heard it on that interview with that super nice guy that I met before who was going to teach me
English
So I've ordered
basically the
Iranian version of uber because they don't have over here a guy's gonna come pick me up and I found a shop that sells
microphones for my camera so I'm gonna head out that way and
See if I can get this replaced cuz I do not want it cutting out especially talking to locals
Because you never really get those moments again. So I'm gonna go and get my microphone sorted out and see how time goes after that
Hello
One Iranian eternity later. Thank you
Thank you, all right guys
so I just jumped in a taxi and I just spent like two hours and that
Microphone shop met the coolest people what I had to do to get to this with this microphone was pretty extreme though
So because of the sanctions that have happened because the US sanctions have been put on to Iran the prices
That are linked to the US dollar. So especially things like electronics like this
Fluctuate so much
So sometimes they just have to stop selling them because they're not sure
How much to sell them for how much they're worth in their own currency?
and sadly today was one of those days so I hung around with this super cool young guy like he was just so
over-the-top nice in a good way
and I was like
Is there any way that we can work out a way like I'm happy to pay a bit more to get the microphone
you know cuz I really need it and
He's like one second. He goes and back and talk to the guy and we we come to a price nine million
Which is local currency, the exchange rate that is on Google and on the Internet is not the same as the exchange rate
That's used here
So this just creates the most confusing situation for a traveler?
if you de convert the price on Google it comes out to
188 euros for this microphone in your at least cost 44 euros his friend comes over. He's like no
No, the Google price isn't right and he told me it's about 60 euros and it was correct because irenan changed
60 euros and it had enough money to pay for at 9 million. That's the most I've ever paid for a microphone
It's a lot of money
All jokes aside guys the service that I got from them was unreal
I've connected with a couple of them to have some contacts here in Iran
I've got like an hour left of sunset now because of this escapade
So we are heading to the Malad tower, which is like one of the biggest
Freestanding buildings in this area at least. Anyway, I'll tell you more details when we get there interesting though, you know us sanctions
Obviously a very negative thing they were telling me that the prices and the inflation is terrible because they're getting paid the same amount
But all the prices of everything is going up like things like food and cars and everything are going up
But their salary is staying the same. So life's getting much much harder for everybody at the same time if that hadn't happened
I wouldn't have had that interaction
so
you know these negative things they breed these positive moments and you know one little conversation for me with some locals is nothing but
It was really lovely. Anyway enough rambling
I'll exchange more about the exchange rate later if I can even understand that because it's the most confusing
Currency I've ever come across in my travels. Even those guys are like, yeah, it's ridiculous. It makes absolutely no sense
Anyway, we'll carry on and go to this tower and hopefully get there before sunset and get some
Smelly cat smelly cat what are they feeding you?
Alright guys, so you can see that's the tower up ahead. I think I'm not gonna be allowed to
Take my tripod and either my microphone which is quite ironic after what I've just been through
So I'm gonna put that in my bag and probably just carry the camera up there and if I can't talk to the camera
Up there if they're tied on security. I have no idea
But if they're then I will try and get some cool shots
Because it's going to be a hell of a view and hopefully I get up
Just before sunrise so we can watch the Sun rises. The Sun is almost in England
this could work out to be the worst timing or the best timing so
Let's see what happens
Made it to the top and
The Sun it's about to sit in the distance. I'll show you some shots from up here
Looking down incredible this mountains over here like Oh capped mountains. Ok, Branson's huge city
Aaron day one in Iran. Let's bring it on especially getting here at like what time to sleep?
Let's have a look at
Salaam hello, Salaam, Salaam aleykum cheese. Hello? Hello? Yeah, sure. Okay, okay
We are back at the hotel
I'll explain the day in all the details and just a second
But I thought I'd give you a quick tour of this hotel room and I'll tell you how much it costs
It's a pretty good deal. So I'll show it to you and then I'll explain the strangeness
Related to accommodation in Iran. So check this out
come and I've got this little kind of living area and
come through here and
Nice little bathroom here
disinfected toilet that's what I like to see and
shout out
nice fresh towels and everything and then come through to where the magic doesn't happen in here and
That's rather my makeup in the morning
Just kidding. This is where I sleep. And that's the view you saw this morning. So a B&B isn't a thing here
I think it's band along with booking.com is not allowed here
and then, you know you go into the social media websites that are banned like
Facebook's banned
YouTube
Alright guys, this hotel room cost 33 US dollars a night and if you ask me
that's a pretty good deal including breakfast this nice room here on the top floor like pretty central to the
Main area of Tehran here soon as I can't use Airbnb and booking.com. I went into trivago not sponsored
It's just the only way that I can find
This is also like a spire or something. But this is one of the best deals I found in the whole city
So you got like sauna and some thermal pools or something?
That's included in the room price and breakfast
Like I was saying private room like a little living area and a bathroom 33 USD can't complain
There's also shops nearby and everything that you need and the staff
Super kind the hotel does take your passport and hold on to
Hold on to it when you chicken, which I mean, I don't really like but I guess that's the way it is
The exchange rate is the most confusing thing ever. I'm not gonna explain it today
I'm gonna explain it tomorrow because I'm meeting a local tomorrow a local girl actually
Well, aren't you special we're gonna meet up in the morning and talk meet at a cafe. And then we're gonna go explore
She's gonna show me some cool places
I kind of starting to get a rough idea of the exchange rate and like what all these zeros mean because wait one second let
Me let me show you something. So I'm not sure if this is the biggest note
I hope that's focusing, but this is five hundred thousand
But they have other names
All you guys that have traveled here or local Iranian Czar yelling it at the screen, but it's my first day
Give me a break. I'll explain it tomorrow. It's five hundred
thousand reals this note, but they say it in like
50 it's so confusing. I seriously I'm just gonna perfect Friday explain it tomorrow. Like I said, I talk to locals
They're like, yeah, it's weird. They drop the last air or something. I told you my microphone cost nine million
The inflation is going up every day. They were explaining. He's like, yeah nine million reals come back in a year
That should buy you a coke
And they said that that microphone would have cost half the price one year ago since the the sanctions were put on him the political
Games and stuff, but let's not get into that topic
I've got these notes here and I've gotten really I'm really ignorant about this at the moment and I
Pretty sure I got scammed by a taxi driver before I've been using the app snap which is like the local uber I was talking
about I'm gonna stick to that for now until I
You know feel the the system and the money because they're not really sketchy
Because they can be traced and not like this other guy who I'm pretty sure like a lot of money from me not heaps
But like I say the exchange rate on Google is different to the real exchange rate. And so
It's really computer. Yeah, you get the point tomorrow
like I said
I'm meeting a local gonna explore the city. And then the day after that guys I have this epic adventure planned twenty two hour
Train ride from Tehran here to the very south of the country
keeping in mind that Iran is twice the size of France is huge country almost a fifteen hundred kilometer train ride when to our
Sleeping a cabin with four other random strangers all the way down to a city called Bandar Abbas
Which is on the south coast and then I'm gonna try and go to some Iranian islands Yeah, right around his islands
How cool is that?
and then I'm gonna maybe try some other random stuff like
hitchhiking up the coast really excited to be here and throwing myself into this country because
Being here for a day. It's already receiving me so well, and I'm receiving it
Well as well anything that I've forgotten I will talk to you about it tomorrow
Plenty more days here in Iran and then off to another country very close to around after that in case I don't see
Good afternoon, good evening, and good night. Thank you so much for watching. Let me know what you thought in the comments section
Alright guys. Peace out. What time did you start work today?
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