Ethiopia Broke ALL Of My Expectations! (#171)

Salam we just landed at Li Bella in the amhara region which is supposed to be a war zone apparently we're about to find out are you ready Josie yes I'm righty let's do it l Bella in Ethiopia home to the world famous rock churches a world heritage site unfortunately it's now also home to a conflict between the local amhara final militia and the Ethiopian government and it's now a bit risky to go but me being me I decided to go check it out see how things really work on the [Music] ground okay here we are on the war zone doesn't seem too bad actually it looks nice yeah I like it wow magnificent this is beautiful one of the most beautiful places I've seen not only in Africa but probably the entire world having a great time just one problem Ethiopian Airlines lost my luggage so got nothing on me but this shirt some pants and this camera so there's actually no one else in this hotel except for us Wild got the whole place to ourselves it's like we rented the whole place out it's like I'm balling without having enough money to actually be balling J what did you find B it this is interesting actually so I was trying to ask him like where were they when the War was happening like cuz he was trying to me like even the hotel doors are Beach cracks yeah because of the war where were you during the war the battle you stayed here yeah how did this bullet get here they shot here I don't know we just find it we just finded now the joys of traveling in a conflict Zone okay people are lining up at the roadblock here D everyone has a gun everyone has a gun exactly the thing you want to hear this place really is beautiful so we're here with the only other tourist in L Bella besides us Cloe hi we're just going to go explore seriously we're the only three tourist in L Bell at the moment supporting the entire economy representing our country we got Cameroon here and Friends them no no no no no Amarin only only only only yeah we go I don't know we go there wow Salam Salam n okay yes very beautiful wonderful yeah yeah okay go huh I'm blessed okay one you bless him okay uh that you have to put the hand pull it sa okay I just kissed Jesus like if someone has something we all have it right now I think we kissed the entire Village right we did Salam what is this is military what what is this building Hotel yes it's Hotel yes okay well can I see can I see can I go okay I go all right I was a little bit concerned about the military walking around at first but see are pretty chill okay I can go in okay can you speaking English language I'm no yeah yeah yeah I'm learning eia this language isia language yeah the language of Ethiopia hello so this is where you live off okay this is your hotel yes oh I see it's nice place did you come from Adis Ababa yes libala so you you all you come from Adis Ababa to libala oh okay okay for the the problem Oh yes the the war we saw this hotel from our room we didn't know if there's people this is your open room yeah offro bathroom no okay it is not open it's not open yeah yeah so beautiful you're very very I'm another bye is this new friend the the dad was like take my child go to the hotel wait what the dad say go to the this is one of their Childs so there was a a guy came with him so that's his dad his father and he said he let he let us with the child was like go to hotel with him is he asking you to adopt him I don't know why he what he want from me you going to the hotel with us yeah like what is going on is he selling his job don't ask me he want to just go to the like I'm like is that I think we should walk from the other side Ethiopia is the most culture shock I've had in a while I yeah for me same you work here you're working here you're guarding here okay uhar yeah yeah yeah yeah oh you too ten amarino yeah no you're a lot of amarino okay where's your father it's your now you're the fight now I I'm not ready for that just say papa papa uhhuh this is how it starts papa papa this is this is Mom Mom my God he knows he knows what to do what do you what are you showing what what's there yeah oh it's a church oh it's a church yeah oh okay oh you mean that building right there yeah oh really is it Ethiopia flight Ethiopia flight yeah you mean airport yeah oh okayy yeah is your brother is wasn't you country oh Countryside yes why you yell so loud when I wasn't posing actually the uh Tommy my name is oh F oh love nice to meet you nice to meet you too when you going to start to go to country where the dance with the ass I think you're going to see what Isa is Muka Ando okay they're they're going to think you're going to see what they're talking about K we wondering we're having a conversation about who has the biggest bondas in Africa yeah so he say is Africa I'm like he need to go to Central Africa cuz I justly I mean just come to Central Africa that's where West Africans how do you feel about this oh I mean West but just come Central because those all the ensor of twerk like Muka dumo strong claims right here roll the strong claims right here the origin of twerking it is true though they're going to twerk for you you're going to be like you're going when the Des don't below you're going to be overwhelmed jie I already just got a child all right you're trying to make me create more like what's what about I give you 200 okay he's saying 400 is not enough but this is Papa yeah hell we we too poor no money no [Music] yellow sheep yellow okay I think we don't have enough money to buy a sheep why do you want to put the Sheep anyway my God look at this Ethiopia what a country you have why do you keep fighting come on stop admire the beauty that you have here let the tourist come oh they were fighting from here here fight fight this area fight fight no no is oh shooting yeah oh they were shooting yeah yeah oh here yeah you here and uh my D and some remnants of the war it's barely a month old you and they shoot they shoot yeah they've been shooting yeah you play you and the makaka makalaka and ohoo and military military and okay isra no no no they gone okay okay yet no uh gandor yeah okay okay okay F oh yeah the brothers very sad yeah that's uh yeah Theo they sleep here no oh M at the military so like they used to sleep like this oh then they so they look for fun oh oh my God you shoot ah they sh w wow godam sa sa uh can yeah okay sa can so they fought for three days oh and you okay oh isra yeah okay oh thanks you you you okay this is a bit Yeah you house okay bit of who who's here meak yeah you oh M was here yeah so not too long ago the Ethiopian military was camped out in here and was firing just over that Ridge over there and you and this was their Mig yeah the general yeah wow so we just waved at the general right there places I got to say the Ethiopian military is a little more chill than I was expecting it was like in Uganda yeah you're filming with the camera the military sees you You' been deep here I'm shocked huh it's going to rain yeah you good oh okay wait zenab Zab zenab okay yeah rain rain is coming so they're like we sto from here I thought I was worried was saying like snipers or something taxi taxi okay taxi there can you imagine riding that for 10 hours Africa is next level I think that's going to be us in the next 5 minutes yeah I'm ready for that that might to be fair that might be our right back there's no here we're all going to go with the Army go I remember I say shopping all right I mean to start it don't make me jump don't make me jump all right don't he's got he's got you okay you have a very good sheep voice Josie that you know what that means what does that mean doesn't mean anything in English but hello Salam Budd okay long time no sleep oh my God how you found your goats be careful okay okay no problem those kids know how to scale them out ah you must go back he in enough B according to our young friends over there the is coming we need to go back I didn't actually have an exact goal in mind but we started this walk but I'm glad we took it oh we found the shepherd yeah these are your sheep who are who are your sheep are you the Sheep yeah sheep no no no no no we figured it out the shepher he's the Sheep okay okay everybody's running from the rain let's go oh your can [Music] youza you sound just like him okay okay go you go okay 3 two one yay ethopia America good morning from the next day here in the war zone L Bella and as you can see I'm now a little more sunburnt and I possibly have a cold but this place is still beautiful okay picture time over what do you got for the graska then okay there we go you're going to work you're going to work now you're going to work okay cool see you later that was our friend from yesterday but no time today we're going to church there's a huge group of people here gathered in white I think this is a funeral h Hello to wear job I need to buy how much is it wow two countries on my whole body who died it seems like many someone is died and then people came who died it seems like many people yeah was it important person no not important but you born here and then you grw up here okay then he very special okay so I was trying to find out if it was like a local celebrity a local ruler that died the guy back there said no just an ordinary guy everybody in the town shows up for his funeral yes hi hi yes hi welcome thank you what name you want money yes money for what you're still young kid okay no [Music] money I like Ethiopia old man just shows up with a stick and tells everyone to stop begging why [Music] coffee [Music] coffee [Music] kind of a surreal scene out here just one giant Ethiopian family doing a circle doing a funeral procession hello and the street kids right here hello yes and and okay D all of these people are one family no I think two two two people stayed today are there two different people that died yes okay and do they all walk in the same Circle yes I see it's a lot of people have hi [Music] okay I know yes yes kids here definitely do not think I'm a ghost hello Mr you have a ticket uh no no ticket okay you going to buy I need ticket to see Church yeah you must ticket how much is ticket $100 $100 yeah 100 to see this church yeah why so expensive expensive for 11 churches but if I'm Christian can I go see Church no I must pay money yeah would Jesus do that no is it because I am fangji no no okay me Jesus Christ literally Jesus Christ $100 to see a church kind of sounds like extortion to me$ what I mean I understand I guess there's no tourist here because of the war but come on I've already supported from there she has supported the Ethiopian economy that's my brother it's over there Hi how are you I'm good I I watch I feel sick him him I I can watch yeah you speak H tennish you be well no no no with me if you live with me teach you okay okay thank you what your name uh Tommy Tommy Thomas my name is like the same adessa adessa yeah okay you want you want to play like China like China yeah China very good at ping pong ethopia yeah Ethiopia number two or number one number one China number two ten table short game all short game yeah yeah oh that's a point where you from America America versus Ethiopia I lived in China China yeah I was in China but not good at he speak you I'm staying in Adis oh for how many years you live in 2 weeks oh just this taian you speak very good am oh very good you play good you're good you're better than me pepper spicy no spicy yeah I think it's chili It's chil spicier you want to bite it h you want to bite it no can I eat can I eat no food food food ah okay okay for food it's it's strong yeah bringing back memories of Nigeria in Israel this Village is the way people dress it's like if you ever seen um the movie for Jesus it's like how in beim actually like they covering with all these sticks like this it's really interesting so according to Josie we're in Israel uh just minus the Jews because they all immigrated to Israel but it's kind of true L Bella really does sound it really does feel like you've just been transported back in time like a Middle Ages or something okay this is your sister yeah you okay sister this is your sister yeah okay wow very small she's so cute hi hi hi you want to go take us your home yeah okay let's go come we found our friend again here on the street the boy who according to Josie is my son papaa okay he's learn friend yeah there we go okay not father hello hello where you come from America he's very busy he has guests he's uh he's an active one yeah look at this Ethiopian Hospitality right here didn't ask for anything she's she's preparing coffee for us was tell to here is like people here are so wow that's good I think it's like the best that I've had inopia oh man you could come to Ethiopia just to have the coffee which is greatly hated because really lacking energy today bu bu mama no okay how do they s nice nice um I think you say conjo conjo conjo yeah conjo kjjj [Music] coffee yeah this is the most the most Amharic I've heard you speak this entire time conjo nice thank you yeah yeah Tom seems like a very good kid yeah thank you very much I think you'll have a good future yeah you good thank you very much no war what so no no war no shooting shooting let me pull out my dictionary I Lear the word for [Music] this okay uh yeah yeah yeah she's beautiful yeah beautiful yeah just don't don't say her about your sister in America continue being good boy okay be good boy okay yeah study hard yes yes go to school and uh after after yeah good job yeah you good girl yes be a a powerful man what powerful man powerful man yeahhuh when grow up big big yeah yes he good yeah yeah you want to be what doctor and mechanical engineer and mechanical engineer yeah oh that's good yeah yeah you'll be a good mechanical engineer you're so bright you're so smart okay you good luck other Tom yeah you got [Music] this for me yeah oh thank you wow good you good yeah thank you no problem no problem WAOW to the church okay how the chech I'm really uh being a good Christian today if for once yeah wow that's so cute I think he was even waiting for us to give us those yeah wow thank you no problem thank you yeah thank you so I finally dropped the money for the extortion fee to get into this church I mean hey supposed to be pretty amazing there's a big ceremony today apparently it's called the celebration of St rapael Rafael yeah okay and I met my new friend here what's your name ARA my name is ar oh yes ARA yeah arot arot is a nice Deacon who works here it's wild there's a lot of people here in lella come here at 6:00 a.m. every morning go one of the 11 churches C into the Rocks here they baptized here this is a baptism pool yeah of Mary people get baptized here yeah the woman only the wom are going to baptize it if they canot be they canot canive a baby they can't become pregnant they will come to baptize here then as soon as they will become pregnant and have a baby so this is the holy water of St Mary is that [Music] easy [Music] an [Music] you know I haven't been to mass in a very long time remember being like that they were just singing for like two hours straight I think they're just now getting to the Ser from here so this is all part of the church yeah the first group we have the so there's not just one Church there's a group of church churches and then there's more than one group it's pretty cool to be honest but $100 is still extortion come on is this is that get this language is Hebrew oh Hebrew okay Wow have you been language spoken in Israel have you been to Israel no okay but you know Hebrew that's very interesting in Ethiopia there's a lot of reverence for Israel ancient Israel King Solomon stuff like that there's even as you may have heard an Ethiopian Jewish community Community but almost all of them have left to both Israel [Music] [Music] beautiful [Music] [Music] well this is easily the most epic to a charge ever some of these STS to walk around here like Mossy they're wet they're [Music] slippery you got 90-year-old Ethiopians coming up here every day so we are about to enter a representation of hell yeah this is the symbols of Hell the and it's not allowed to have a torch we go without a torch because you know as we know in the history hell is very dark fiery and really dangerous so King want to announce us before we die that we are going to uh prepare oursel to join to to join to Paradise or Heaven you know so this is a symbol ofair we take the right direction and we are going to see okay you [Music] okay [Music] okay we just walked through a pitch black tunnel like 10 20 [Music] minutes there were like twists and turn Ledges and man that kind of was hell and those guys just tried to create YouTuber hell cuz they wanted to take my camera and my memory card not knowing that we have permission to [Music] film Africa always trying to than my camera where I put [Music] this church called is uel which is which means uel Miss be with us when Virgin Mary born Jesus she call Emmanuel yes my friend araga here has been doing a very good job explaining everything but I got to be honest um kind of zoning out at this point this is almost like uh like a Christian version of Petra where the Indiana Jones movies were you know it's amazing and I'm the only tourist here the only Foreigner here cuz Josie wasn't down to pay $100 to come in here I only I have this okay yeah so this is the way to the main entrance yes so I live down here uh last year or year before the tig people yeah they here they captured ribella yeah 100% what did they do they didn't do nothing they are so really kind and helpful people they're nice okay nice because they know they never kill anyone you know they just fight fight is f so Amara TIG Brothers Brothers yes well everyone everyone everyone brother okay okay thank you very much you're welcome no problem thank you very much thank you thank you very much I'm yeah I'm okay yes yeah yeah hope that will help I don't have a lot but at least yes okay okay okay good good see you see you see you all right there we go bye bye hey give me a hug give me a hug [Music] and so we've reached the end of our trip here in Lolli bill just noticed the bullet holes in the airport I think that's from a battle from two weeks ago you enjoy lella Josie I in big time there you go see you in some other part of e where the Ethiopian say ciao

Channel: Sabbatical

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Keywords: sabbatical, polyglot, ethiopia, amhara, ethiopia vlog, lalibela, is ethiopia safe, visiting ethiopia, adventure, speaking amharic, amharic

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Length: 41min 42sec (2502 seconds)

Published: Fri Dec 22 2023