Hitchhiking IRAQ - IRAN BORDER 🇮🇶(Driver tried to kiss me)

fourteen and a half million reals [Music] white suit red sky reach out new eyes be quiet [Music] we're on the Fox News [Music] cold feet the dark my buddy new frozen just through that fence as Iraq good morning guys so we've come down this morning to the border of Iran where I am and Iraq across here have a look so across that river of Shatt al-arab is the name of the river that's a rock there but i just stopping very briefly ask my taxi driver to pull over he very kindly stopped so he could check it out here so gonna head into the city center now I see I've actually come to the city center in the last video I said I wasn't sure if I was going to come and explore more but I felt it would have been unfair of me to have that kind of sketchy experience that I had last night and not try and go and see what the city has to offer at least I've just come down to an even better area I wish I'd known about this area last night I could have come down here there's no barbed wire fence between here and the river so you see all these boats here on the other side of that it's the river I'll try and go for a walk later and show you there's a little boardwalk along here and just behind there is a rock and I can hit see people on the other side of the river it's really quite interesting anyways guys today after I explore around here I'm gonna go hitchhiking I'm gonna hitchhike from here North to another city so come up to this boardwalk area as close as you can get to Iraq without getting your feet wet sitting pretty much right next to the border and have a look at the scene there's all these old boats some guys are fixing them up and then I can see like buildings and the distance of Iraq and then that's Iraq there [Music] so just come across the road from the border there and found us into the market we're going to walk here and then say making my way to the direction of the main road start hitchhiking Salaam [Music] Nick nice to meet you and yes Majid nice to meet you guys nice shot for this Oh Nick it is New Zealand thank you New Zealand New Zealand they're very good country news and I like New Zealand I let people have news really yes what do you do here just tourism Therese yes very good I come to see the border yes to the Iraq border you know yes yes I know yeah interesting walking around and I go to office today first you come here order order no other city other cities Tehran's spend our Abbas Bengal opposite and then up the coast yeah you like Bandar Abbas yes okay I like a homeless yes nice yes venerable city is capital capital city Hormuz right right yes yes warmest Island yes yeah it's beautiful and Christian catch em catch fish fish yeah the second one yeah yeah yes and hormones are Islan is very near yeah yeah it's very from Bandar Abbas or band Erlanger uh-huh do you know about that linger yeah I drove through for what you go there for fun yeah is there very hot no yeah it's okay maybe 25 yes but two months other two month yeah it's very very hard 5050 Santa God yeah 50 degrees that's why I went and now because colder higher just you just say yeah yeah yeah yeah anyway nice to me Mohammed yes I'm Nick Nick yeah nice to meet ya have a good day bye thanks guys hey all right guys as you can see that guy Mohammed was a legend and his buddies there in the shop he showed me where a bathroom was and he said you know if there's anything I can do for you just come here and I'll help you anyway so now I'm gonna start walking towards the edge of town and try and hitchhike not sure if I'll need to get a taxi I'm not 100% sure but I'll check and trash that hitchhiking up the road but I've done I've completely changed my perspective about you I'm sorry what I said last night it's in the city center here it's a bit more warm a bit more happening on the outskirts where the chemical factory in the story the oil factory and the gas Factory it's not really a nice vibe out there but obviously that's a serious border with an extreme history with the war being from 1980 and finishing in 1988 like I mentioned in yesterday's video part of the city was actually seized by the Iraqis during that war so obviously they want to protect the border and I understand that but come in to our burden if you want to check it out and meet the locals because they're super cool I just been detected driving is quite far where I'm going but they're trying to figure out where I want to go on the back it's just a random roundabout on the house gets of town I want to show you something while they try and figure out where I'm going so if you don't know this city loves Brazil and loves Brazilian football they also love Ray Ban sunglasses many people have a pair of Raven sunglasses and they have the Brazilian flag and its really interesting fusion there's things planted green and yellow for the colors of Brazil fascinating anyway hello Salaam love that's me Salam alikoum New Zealand New Zealand yeah okay nice to meet you bye-bye it's good okay [Music] surf and a taxi obviously check it out I think she's seen better days but uh my driving just told me to hope in and he'll take me [Music] mercy made it to the outskirts of town luckily I didn't try and walk there was like ten kilometres maybe there's a bunch of it's a bunch of shared taxis there but I think I'm going to try and hitchhike and then if it doesn't work which I'm assuming it well I hope so then I can get a taxi a shared taxi no like yet but you can see I'm waving my hand like that and that's because if you put your thumb up it's considered a very rude and obscene gesture in Iran so that's why you gotta wave your hand like that and not do the thumbs up like you typically do when you're hitchhiking see here we go a few moments later [Applause] merci Gujarati New Zealand Museum alright guys got myself a hitchhike really nice man yeah it was super easy I wasn't even hitchhiking at the time I was actually looking down at my camera to review a clip that I felt and he just pulls up next to me and offered me rides people here a bit [Music] guys hedgehogs going well so if we just drove past and tank this day I can hear my camera to focus quickly enough it's a really symbolic kind of memory of this area here so there was an old tank ammo like a kind of pedestal to remember the war said that'd get the collector we just drove past there through a really strict checkpoint before actually military checkpoint and the information in detail because we just drove it to a different state and so I think they wanted to people maybe a little bit about that did look into they didn't seem to mind me and although interesting anyway when we go [Music] thank you sorry mama hey Percy I don't wanna be a penis minute huh and I'm gonna be better at it hey merci merci back so I've arrived in a fuzz that driver was a serious crack-up basically the whole time he was telling me the same thing on repeat it was a mixture of that he was hot Iran is not and I'm beautiful so it was really nice of him and then at the end I'm pretty sure he tried to kiss me he gave me a kiss on each cheek and then maybe wait for something else but nothing happens anyway you're like a 1 kilometer walk to maybe the city center area I'm gonna try find a hotel and then go explore some more of the city which we like good experience one ride all the way to that one guy brought me the whole way so epic even if it did almost cost me a kiss I avoided that and now we are in the center of the city is like 1.1 million people it's huge look traffic the days across this road [Music] two thousand years later mercy alright guys I found this hotel on the Internet and I just tried to go in chicken they were looking for my visa stamp in my passport and I was like no no Iran don't stamp passport anymore they stopped it he's like you don't have a visa I was like no I have a visa but it's not in the passport they don't stamp the passports anymore and he's just like freaking out he looked like he's better start crying I was like no no please don't worry like they just don't stamp it I think he was thought I was telling him that I don't have it a visa and I was here illegally there was a huge confusion so I call my friend Hamid and Hamid talks to I'm felt like I don't know this goes on for like 10 minutes or so and then they said no sorry we cannot accept you here because you have no evidence that you know you have no evidence that you're actually allowed to be here so that was like a pretty reasonable hotel I think it was like 15 dollars a night but I can't stay in any other hotel in the city only at 5-star Hotel so I'm leaving that cheaper hotel now and I have to stay at a five-star hotel is the only for me in the city because of they like never get tourists here apparently and so if a tourist does come here and they will stay at their face our hotel so they know the system so yeah it's just so off the beaten path and before when I was walking down the street I was getting so many looks like everybody was turning the head and holding the camera up and things trying to just filming like a few buildings and stuff like that people got a bit weird about it I could see that they were not really liking me holding the camera even if I wasn't even aiming it at them specifically we're gonna have to feel this place out of it see what this hotels like five-star hotel maybe it'll be interesting to see what it's like but yeah well there was a trend Lindfield like the guy looked like he was about to break down and tears and he was gonna have to like call the police to take me away I don't know anyway continue you know you think that you've arrived at a hotel and you're like there we go made it it's not over until you're inside their room I tell you Oh see [Applause] the brooms yeah do you have any vacancy what's the price and can you do discount okay that's okay okay is it possible to get a room on top floor very high thank you eventually I don't know how much of that conversation you caught there but I arrived and you know asked for the price and they were like 5.8 million okay any chance of the discount and she was like yes she was about to work something out and then her supervisor comes over and she's like no no discount so guys that's five-star hotel and I'll show you what the room looks like what a first start Iranian hotel looks like in a second but that's about 38 euros the other room that I just went and had look at which I you know kind of got kicked out of that was I think 14 euros and I did get to have a look at the other room because it's a good thing to do is to ask to have a look at the room before you you know pay for it so I had to look at the other room before I got denied and it's not that much worse than this one to be honest at least I got a place to say and I'm not in some random prison for not having a visa even though I actually have one what this place does have is an epic view so here is the view so do you think that's worth almost double here is the room lovely double bed here desk there is a minibar no alcohol of course cuz that's illegal here definitely one of the nicest hotel rooms I've stayed in so far in Iran [Music] [Music] currently on the hunt for an exchange office now I'm gonna change roughly 100 euros and hope they can get 15 million for that sir please see [Music] [Music] so as you can see that exchange office is closed they've got really strange times I think that open maybe in the morning and then they closed during the afternoon that opens at 6:00 p.m. got a little while to wait but just come down to the river pretty relaxing here to be honest it's quite nice so yeah this is the eighth biggest city in Iraq I will check back in with you when I go and get their money and see if we get a good deal [Music] fourteen and a half million reals so you can see I've got my money there the actual exchange rate should be one hundred and fifty thousand but they went for a hundred and forty five thousand I tried to barter a bit but it's the loss of about four dollars over a hundred euros I'm hoping that's gonna last for the rest of my trip I know that sounds very enthusiastic but it is extremely affordable in this country as long as I don't have to say any any more 5-star hotels I have to start making my way back to Tehran because I'm leaving in like a week so I need to get up to Tehran and I have a last day plan in Iran that's something really special but I'll say that if the surprise for you guys so tomorrow we have to go even further north because like I say I've got to get to Tehran so that'll be the next video guys but I don't even know how I'm getting there if I'm going train getting a bus taxi or if I'm hitchhiking I've got no idea that's all to be decided the next video guys so I will see you then thank you so much for watching please let me know what you thought in the comments section I would love to hear from you and in case I don't see you good afternoon good evening and good night [Music]

Channel: Indigo Traveller

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Length: 19min 52sec (1192 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 17 2019