SHOCKING First IMPRESSIONS! 🇸🇦ترجمة عربية INSIDE SAUDI ARABIA #1

[Music] in public i work with my girlfriend this is a story about saudi people not saudi politics these are my first steps out of the hotel gotta say feel a little out of place it's hot it's a different world and i'm super pumped it don't necessarily fit in but it wouldn't be the first time it's a car city i'm gathering first impressions taxi guys are honking there's no way to cross this street i'm trying to get over this thing to the shady side uh and that's how you cross the street in riyadh i was just walking by one of these shops and i asked these guys to use the bathroom and they brought me and i used the bathroom and then they sat me down for tea and dates super nice guys very hospitable but i'm not at the point yet to just run the camera on that stuff and so what i'm feeling so far and it's just a feeling that putting the camera on things is a little more difficult than say some other places i've been the first 24 hours in a radically different culture are interesting because your mind is your mind is just processing all this new information things are laid out different they look different they taste different and so i love that that little window that first 24 hours because after that things start to normalize and you know you're somewhat used to it but right now i'm in that mode of yeah i don't know what the hell is going on and it's pretty cool it's the unknown for sure i i will say the rv i take the salary money there we go good money i have good um something good and not bad no better than dubai better than dubai okay better money here okay sir can you open the door first a lot right yes okay five times a day cool thanks ben i'll return super interesting starbucks experience so he locked the door they did that five times a day for salat which is the prayer time okay behind me uh to the to the on the other side was the woman's side starbucks and they're completely uh separated i don't know who this guy is but he's fired up woeful usa oh i show riyadh yeah this is first time first time man first day this day yes oh when you come do it do i want to ride with you yeah yeah bro let's do it very very interesting so far what's your name robin muhammad peter oh can i put this here yes okay nice car nice car muhammad thank you man i'm on a different planet right now but i like it what's your plan here no planet it's only 100 degrees so what's that 48 what is it 40 celsius the degree yeah no no it's 39. dude your country is uh really growing yeah it feels like it's beautiful oh that's kingdom tower yeah do you think it's a dangerous city at all no not at all no no no no it's like very little crime no yes the safety is you will see now the police car everywhere right women are driving that started a year ago right before two years maybe one year okay how do people feel about that depend too obviously all the people like it sure really they want so it's exciting time to be excited yes young sadie it's an exciting time that's cool you guys are all about starbucks man because we like this thomas jesus you have another saudi couple all the starbucks i feel like it's um southern california meets the islamic world yeah something like that and you will see now the children and this is so what i'm seeing in my evolve i'm now at two hours of being out in the streets what i'm seeing here in this country is a ton of development right a lot of new development yeah a lot of new businesses and so here's a crazy stat i think i'm right on this one but it's um 50 of the saudi population is under the age is 25 and younger yeah where are we going okay it's a surprise cool muhammad's a true class guy he's got a lot of class he won't he won't let himself go first ever wow so tell me about this though muhammad what's the what's the story with cinemas that's the cheapest one but how long ago were cinemas allowed here before maybe one year or two so in the last two years this is something new people can go to the movie theaters we have no one there we have maybe five or four it's men and women that can go or just men men and women you know do you sit in separate sites though right no so this is the completed version right and what is this what is this neighborhood called king abdullah what business center yeah you guys love your malls huh yeah taking video like this is okay right it's okay yeah yeah it's not like that yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah got you no head scarf the woman has no no when did when did that four for start years two years not all the women's but some women it's it's it's legal for them to walk around without what muhammad was telling me is it's all about the malls here when saudis have time off and want to hang out a lot of them hang out in malls and i'm not a mall guy but i gotta say this one's pretty nice i was given strict instructions from muhammad not to video any of the woman so that's why we don't have any close-ups let's say usually that's always a touchy thing anyways putting a camera on someone's face i don't enjoy it but when there's a moment and there you sort of get that non-verbal go ahead well that's what makes the videos interesting so it's touch and go every culture is different so in saudi right now i'm a little bit like feeling my feeling my ground let's say hey shalom hello hello are you good brother i'm fine i don't know anything been here limited time but from my first impressions it's one of these places that's definitely rising at least in riyadh at least in the capital city muhammad you just moved back from the uk yeah like a month ago not two weeks ago two weeks ago and you're saying you have like a bunch of tats on your arms and two years ago you would have been in prison for that yes and now now i'm okay i can't do whatever i want and i like this exchanges here in saudi arabia and this is this is your wife my girlfriend your girlfriend how loud one mom okay two years ago could you do this i can't i can't chill out with my girl so but now we can do whatever we want that's why i'm here if they still seem i would be in the uk i wouldn't come back but now you you like it much better now yeah now i like my country i i feel like i'm i'm free i do whatever i want we are staying in a hotel we are my girlfriend you guys stay in a hotel and no problem with the hotel owner okay this is just in riyadh though right like in the countryside is different yeah that's me in freedom in arabic freedom yes and this is peace flag as well peace peace that's it that's what they want in my life love and peace yeah and popeyes two two three years ago my they force you to go to the mosque if you don't they take you to the police department and they they cut your hair right really yeah i feel like i was living with isis here isis rules but now now as you like if you really if you be christian if you want to be christian they don't care but how does that change in two years two years it changed that quickly because of the power mohammed bin salman really it is really boring and most people are cool with this these changes yeah the majority of them they are accepted but religious people never gonna change so five times a day the shocks yeah five times a day they close for how long 20 minutes 15 minutes okay even most of the victoria's secret plate is and most of them they don't break i don't know why they close my head is spinning i think there's so much information yeah you're gonna surprise me i'm going to i i have been i've been here for four hours no we can't do this now like two years ago we can't hold yeah in public i walk with my girlfriend very classy though you're a gentleman true gentleman and you're styling in a nice car just in the mail so in the mall and i met moe and princess back here and uh i was like yeah let me take you downtown so here i am again welcome my new friend sitwell please i met a muhammad this morning who also picked me up in a very nice car seems to be the theme here mo you were saying you have six of these cars yes and you have drivers out there like doing uber other people they pay taxes yeah if you have a shop yeah just five percent nothing five percent yeah that's it yeah jeez man that's amazing [Music] thank you good times god bless you take care bro and that that's that two locals both named muhammad both drove me around for the day show me the city fight spectacular first day and now i'm at i don't even know what this is this is a center square of sorts and let's check it out friendly security [Music] getting the feel that everything sort of happens here at night like saw three pedestrians today on the streets i mean it was like nobody walking so i think it's a nighttime [Music] environment thank you welcome parameters this behind me is mass mock fort and it was a huge battle i believe in 1902 and it was the start of the unification of the kingdom this part of the city is sort of dead i'm gonna say so we're gonna go across the street to what muhammad said was the place where there are no saudis we're in old riyadh and this is the first time i think i've seen anyone on the sidewalk today so we're coming into a more of a densely populated zone as mo was saying a lot of foreigners living here pakistanis bengalis indians it seems to be the working class here maybe i'm sure i'm missing some nationalities but people from asia other parts of asia are coming over and really building this place out that's how hot it is today it's the prayer five times a day sort of an industrial zone interesting door [Music] first guy on a bike [Music] and we got some street life [Music] on the quest for some food here just canvas through some old side streets and looking for a restaurant god [Music] [Music] it's an egyptian place everyone's egyptian here fish found a very delicious looking meal but this place is egyptian it's not saudi but look at this prawn dish five monster prawns hot red egyptian style and yeah this seems to be a very popular local favorite so this city is 740 square miles that's about 1900 square kilometers it's just one massive sprawled out grid and i'm walking as you can see and just you know that's a guy you see someone like every 10 minutes or so the whole city's in their cars for the most part except for that old section i just ate well guys that is the end of my first day here in saudi arabia it's just like information overload after a day like today you're just taking in all these new stimuli and it's going to be a very interesting journey in this country for two weeks so many more videos to come okay good night [Music] peace [Music]

Channel: Peter Santenello

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Id: 1k0SvAEvM-I

Length: 20min 32sec (1232 seconds)

Published: Thu Nov 14 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/creep911]

The guy with the girlfriend is a fraud lol

[u/IamArabAndIKnowIt]

Love this guy's perspective! Watched the whole video! If there are more videos, please share =)

[u/Abd-Al]

لاحظتو انه لقط لوحة ابو وشوم ولا كأن شي صاير 😂

[u/RococoChintz]

I lived in Riyadh and I loved to show what it’s like as a foreign (western) woman on my IG and Snapchat. The most surprising thing for me when I arrived was all the cats.