HOW TO TRAVEL AMSTERDAM in 2024

welcome to amsterdam amsterdam is a vibrant city small and quaint with unique architecture the building is like literally tilted towards this side and everybody rides bicycles i'm going to be sharing some of the things that you can do and what you can expect when you're here in amsterdam i have just got off a train here in amsterdam and it's actually very surprising to me how easy it is to get around in europe just using a train i'm so excited to be in amsterdam new city new levels of excitement so i need to go drop these heavy bags check into a hostel and start exploring right now i'm at the pancake bakery and it's like i just jumped straight into this trip so i met tara and elena through a friend of a follower of a follower and they're so kind enough to be showing me around here in amsterdam so right now it's lunchtime and we came to the pancake bakery and i'm like pancakes for lunch so you guys do pancakes for lunch and dinner mostly for for dinner but it's lunch time and i'm hungry so i can eat it so you guys eat sweet stuff for dinner like a sweet bag so i got myself a bacon and cheese pancake so exciting my first netherlands dish how do you say bon appetit in uh dutch eight smackling what eight smackler eight markers that's right [Music] it's actually really good we filled up with pancakes and now it's time to explore the city so in amsterdam everyone including their bosses their mothers and sisters all ride bicycles and so this is going to be my stallion for the next two days and it's interesting so renting a bicycle is actually way cheaper than using public transport so if you want to get a ticket for the bus or the metro anything it costs 3 euros and 80 cents but this getting it from the train station just cost 4 euros for a day also these guys are so awesome you guys came from different cities yes yes like what an hour 30 minutes away from here yes yeah just to show me around thank you thank you so much and off we go to explore amsterdam like a local and this bicycle is actually very interesting so if you want to break on it you need to like reverse pedal which i have never done that before so like when i got onto this bicycle i was like where are the brakes clink clink clink clink clink are you comfortable back there elena [Music] getting on one of these things is probably the most adventurous thing that i've done during my time here in europe that house right there is literally at an angle so amsterdam is a city of canals and narrow streets it kind of reminds me of venice but what's particularly interesting about this city is these buildings right here so amsterdam was basically a port and that's why it has all these canals and stuff and these buildings are basically apartments that were built during the 17th century basically when trade was at its peak and these houses were owned by the wealthiest families in fact even still are owned by some of the richest families here in amsterdam so you can also see some of the buildings are so narrow that's because even a little bit of space to acquire was so expensive oh my god look duckies real quick this video has been sponsored by you know it skillshare and if you don't know what skillshare is yet well it's an online learning community with thousands of classes for anyone who's looking to learn a new skill and explore their creativity you can find classes on almost anything like photography graphic design interior design business management and so much more lately i've been focused on self-love and development and so i've been watching this course by muchella b called designing the life you want that takes you through life reflections and offers different ideas on how you can inspire yourself and how you can vision your life more clearly i've learned that self-love allows one to become more of their authentic self and that's allowing me to become better at being me on my youtube channel which is always a good thing seriously guys skillshare is an awesome place to be and if you want to take advantage of the thousands of classes that are available on it then make sure to follow the link below and you will get a one month free trial so you can start learning today all right let's get back into the video the great thing about amsterdam is that not only is it a cycling city but it's quite small so it's easy to walk around so i've made my way to a place called dam square which is one of the popular sites here in amsterdam it's home to that which is the royal palace there's also a church and a famous wax shop store museum madame tussaud i've been told this is the most touristic thing and the least authentic thing that you can do while you're here in amsterdam but i'm a kenyan and i've never seen a wax museum before so i have to go in hello and welcome to madame tussauds this is awesome what oh my god i almost thought he was real like this is [Music] insane you guys at some point i walk into a room and i don't know who's real and who's not so i'll like end up looking at someone who's actually like real and they're like why the heck you look at me oh hello sir okay that's iron man [Music] [Music] you guys i came in here with like almost zero expectations but i have to be honest i really enjoyed myself so right off the dam square there's a lot of streets where you can find a lot of shopping for me in specific i'm looking for some cheese you walk in here and you can smell all this cheese they have so many different flavors and maturities of cheese and the best part they let you try all of them this one here is a pesto cheese and it is so good got some two-month-old gorda for my family back home for just 12 euros 50 cents [Music] so eating out in amsterdam can get a little bit expensive so for my first night over here i'm trying to keep it on a little bit of a budget and so i was walking down this canal and i saw this really long line of people waiting to get fries apparently this place here called mannequin piss they've been voted to have the best fries in holland so i had to get myself some and the craziest thing i've never seen before at the back in their kitchen they have like heaps and heaps of fries just waiting to be served so i got this for five euros and i asked them to recommend to me the best sauce that they give i don't even know what the name is the fries they're super thick it's really good [Music] the sheer amount of bicycles i've never seen so many bicycles like this in my entire life and the crazy thing i've tried to figure is how would you find your bicycle here if you parked it here like how you've got bicycles with baskets tandem bicycles bicycles with carts and then you've got these tiny little cars that literally look like they've been picked from a cartoon and just dropped here i have just made my way to a place called le petit delhi for breakfast and it's in an area called jordan which while i was cycling through it it's very beautiful it's quaint it's charming there's a lot more flowery and colorful vibes happening in this area i just ordered this goat cheese sandwich here and it has all these different ingredients inside that make no sense to me it's got and i'm actually reading from the menu right now beetroot hummus figs pomegranate eggplant honey roasted pecans blueberries rose harissa mayo and zatar got everything basically so this spot was recommended to me by a local and man that is so good wow i have just made my way to this place here called albert kaipe market which is this open air market and they sell like almost everything from clothes food fruits flowers and these here are my guys that's our zoo and can you pronounce my name it's in florence and we just bumped into each other they needed a picture and we got we got to talking and she told me she's from amsterdam like you have to show me around so they're showing me like the local foods that you can get here at the market so this here is called a stroop waffle and we got it straight and fresh from the cooking place and it's basically like this sort of i said it was a hard pancake and they kind of hated on me for it but it kind of looks like a hard pancake and it's got caramel syrup on the inside nice and sweet delicious there's all these different types of licorices over here you've got some super dark ones and you've got some light ones others with like stuff stuffed inside this is a typical dutch candies actually and these are my favorite the coins and you can just smell that licorice everywhere it smells so good oh wow an amsterdam building and then of course you've got your classic shape of licorice [Music] it's quite hard what did you do like is it supposed to be this hard i don't know if that's good for my braces but the taste so licorice i love licorice so this here is called porpiches and it's basically like mini pancakes they're soft they're fluffy and small and they've been drowned in all this powdered sugar they're actually really really fluffy it's so good [Music] so these shoes they're called klumpen and you'll find them throughout uh amsterdam basically their shoes that are worn by people on the countryside to walk around in like farms and stuff and it's very interesting to me they're wooden shoes i wonder how comfortable they are you own klumpen right i used to i think my mom still has them somewhere but i used to have red ones with this print like i think this size maybe this size um comfortable it's not the word i would use should rather be better off going for the maybe the soft ones the fluffy ones [Music] hello hello nice review with apple pie you guys look at this pie it looks so good so here in amsterdam there's a place called winkle 43 that served like the best apple pie that you can ever imagine and i've never had apple pie in my entire life so starting off my adventures with the best apple pie i don't know how many times i said apple pie in that sentence but i'm super excited to try this out oh that crunch is awesome so the first thoughts that i got when i heard apple pie was like something that would be extremely sweet but it's not that sweet it's actually really balanced so the dough is super soft it's a nice warm pie and it has this whipped cream on the top which is just so good [Music] all aboard so we have just jumped onto a boat and we're going to be doing a little bit of a tour of the city through the canals and apparently in amsterdam city it's kind of like the shape of an onion and it has 167 canals and said okay guys you can stay in a boat so a lot of people start staying in those particular boats given history mixed in cocktails you're really good at multitasking i am i like history right right yesterday yesterday i was driving a boat holding a drink on one hand i was driving with the other and i was telling stories at the same time my friends called me the super driver [Music] so the canals of the city were all actually made by hand and they're literally three meters deep so a funny joke that these guys say is that one meter is dirt the other meter is bicycles because a lot of people tend to just throw their bicycles inside and the third meter is water i feel like that there is literally the reason why bicycle just falls straight in there are multiple reasons why bikes fall in um one is you get drunk and you kind of oops tip it over sometimes yeah bikes get stolen and they want to get rid of it so they're just like okay i don't need this bike anymore that sucks thank you guys see you we did the canal cruise with a company called flagship and i highly recommend them i feel like i should have done it on day one because there was so much insight that they shared with us so 10 out of 10 highly recommend after spending 48 hours in amsterdam i have to say i'm quite impressed amsterdam has so much to offer and honestly i was not expecting to have as much fun as i did in this city it's full of wonderful surprises and you definitely have to experience the city for yourself i hope you enjoyed the video and 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Channel: Adventure Singh

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Length: 15min 20sec (920 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 16 2022