MOST UNDERRATED COUNTRY WE HAVE VISITED! LEBANON BATROUN
this video is brought to you by squarespace good morning everyone so today is going to be our last day here in lebanon right now we're here in biblus where we've been staying the last few days and it's also where we made our last video here in bible and today we're going to be exploring some other regions kind of around here so we're going to be heading to a waterfall that i think is called balubala kind of a weird name and then we're going to be heading to another little city up the coast called bathroom so there is no uber here so we had to negotiate with a taxi driver the first one that we spoke with yesterday charged a hundred dollars and that was to the two locations but we thought that was a bit high and then we found another one that's gonna charge uh eighty dollars but he's also gonna take us back to the beirut airport for 80. so yeah that's way more stuff included and a lot cheaper too so yeah we're going to be doing the trip for 80 and we're gonna head out right now so the driver stopped quickly on the way for us to take some pictures and film and look at this it's crazy like some huge mountainous area loads of valleys so the ocean is that way didn't really realize we were coming so high yeah really cool up here yeah it's a very cold wind and it just keeps getting higher and higher yeah constantly going up yeah there are a lot of mountains around here yeah this is what surprised us about uh lebanon really we didn't realize it was so green so we've stopped yet again this time for a waterfall down here so this water is coming from the same waterfall that we're about to visit pretty big waterfall as well isn't it yeah and it's crazy because there's snow yeah the snow back there it is cold here we didn't come prepared for this we thought it was gonna be warm that's a pretty nice waterfall though right on the side of the highway and around here it's like more rocky so it's kind of like rocks and trees already changed quite a bit the landscape so we've arrived now probably took about an hour maybe overall yeah a little bit less so i think yeah maybe and uh yeah it's still cold at this part we started we started going down the mountain a bit so i thought it'd warm up but it kind of feels the same so it's actually good that we gotta do a bit of walking maybe we'll warm up yeah because we read the reviews and nobody mentioned anything about the temperature right i was even checking the like the pictures of other people that were here and they were wearing like shorts and t-shirts i i don't know maybe it's just today that it's it's cold like this but we saw so many places with uh snow and ice spots like not big places but but i don't know it just it just seems to be a very cold place but not sure yeah so that was super quick that's another thing as well in the reviews people were completely over exaggerating they were saying it was like a tough hike and stuff like absolutely nothing just this part here this is where the zipline is see the wires here and yeah you go down here and there's the waterfall are we in iceland it looks like a place in iceland doesn't it where we went recently this could easily be like iceland in the summer wow look at that and that is one of the coolest waterfalls we've ever seen it's like this bridge here i think you can cross it water going through the middle whoa look at that ah so there's actually no water down here it doesn't seem i wonder where that water goes then maybe it goes that way i thought it was gonna come out here it doesn't seem to be though oh that's beautiful though completely different kind of waterfall alright so here is the close-up view of waterfall here so i guess you can't pass there's the probably in the past people would walk all the way behind there can't really tell how deep it goes can't see from here i wonder where the water goes though cause we thought it came out here didn't yeah it doesn't at all no it goes to underground or something yeah i mean i can kind of see like a little cave there maybe it goes that way that's crazy pretty cool though like within an hour you can go from sunny warm beaches to cold mountains with beautiful waterfalls here in lebanon so this is the best viewpoint of the mall right at the back so here you can see the whole thing it's actually a hole at the bottom as well so there's like almost like two bridges one here and one there there's actually a path with a rope down there you can see it but i have no idea how you get down there i'm not gonna try going down there i don't know if uh people used to go down here but yeah it seems super dangerous i'll just enjoy it from here instead yeah we've seen a lot of waterfalls well that's definitely one of the best yeah it's crazy i think i've never seen anything like that and yeah i just love all the different players it's beautiful but way better than what i was expecting yeah ah rain time to leave yeah it seems like it's gonna rain pretty hard soon the forecast does show a thunderstorm so time to get out here man that is some ice cold rain carol yeah i don't want to get wet so i don't know if there's some kind of shelter this is this is carol shelter here this is the the spot right here i convinced chris to stay it's really cold rain though yeah it's like ice drops and i think the the clouds are passing by very quick so i really hope this rain won't last too long yeah i hope so check this guys it's now hailstone up here and that is some heavy hailstone yeah i guess that can hurt yeah that will hurt a quick intermission to talk about the sponsor of this video squarespace so squarespace is an all-in-one platform that you can use to create your own website and two years ago we used squarespace to create our current website jumpingplaces.com the main thing that made us choose squarespace to build our website is because they have preview layouts and customizable templates and with them we were able to quickly create our web pages i didn't need to have any 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trial and when you're ready to launch you can go to squarespace.com jumpingplaces and you'll get 10 off on your purchase of your first website or domain so we've now arrived in bathroom nice and sunny now which we really wanted not a cloud in the sky here i thought it was like a quieter place than biblus but there's way more cars and people around than biblus and the area that we're in right now seems uh pretty modern although that building looks historic and nice but yeah there are supposed to be some historic buildings around here that we're gonna check out as well seems really nice so far though so we're gonna enter the market area the soup check out this statue here statue of sponge sponge diver this is basically like identical to bibles yeah but like i said it's a bit more uh busy and lively yeah it seems like more local people live here yeah but like the buildings are all kind of the same style the same kind of rock identical rock uh so here we have the names of all the different tourist attractions so i don't think we have like roman ruins or anything here but we do have some old church cathedral saint at the end saint stephen cathedral phoenician wall i wanted to check that out phoenician fort okay so there is a fort here well that's a fancy building isn't it yeah maybe it's the hotel but it looks very nice yeah still using kind of like the old style but modern there's a church see the dome wow look at the architecture style of that one that's probably the coolest church we've seen in uh lebanon so far it's really nice so you have the beautiful old church and then it's overlooking the the fishing port here that also looks really nice yeah this one's less of a touristy port isn't it yeah i think but i think i like this this part better yeah you know what these places remind me of so in the previous video i said like greece or um italy but they remind me a lot of malta i went to malta without carol many years ago and it's because malta is all this color this like sandy color and it's a mediterranean place so really does remind me of malta we need to go to malta i absolutely loved it i want to see it yeah let's go definitely malta coming soon maybe not maybe next year so it's pretty much empty on the inside looked really cool on the inside as well though same style as it looked on the outside nice isn't it yeah i love the the ceiling it's just like the other um constructions here like the ceiling with the the square rocks yeah rectangular rectangular square it sounds like there's a school or something outside where is it kicks this place has a nice uh seaside smell yeah i didn't smell that ambient blush really maybe too windy yeah right well that looks very inviting doesn't it i want to jump yeah so do i there's a sign here saying no diving yeah that really is like a nice little restaurant right there and this is the phoenician wall so this is one of the spots to see here you can actually walk on it there's a there's a bridge here so so this wall the phoenician wall it was natural also as you can see from what i read it's like uh petrified sand dunes i think but the phoenicians reinforced it so they reinforced it because this was basically protection for the city back there from storms yeah big waves and now you can see there's just a more uh modern wall behind it here but yeah this is what would have protected them at the time huge wall nice isn't it yeah you can see that the water goes up to that part over there yeah all the way back there i guess when there's some storm or something and i think you can walk all across the wall because there's a beach just there one of the main beaches public beaches here so we might do that so so you almost have like a big swimming pool here in the middle of the rocks natural swimming pool these buildings here have the nicest views especially that one there there's some like chairs there i don't know if that's a hotel i don't know what these are here like this is something definitely man-made you can see here maybe a pool like somebody made a pool i don't know this as well i don't know what that is anyone have any ideas there's loads of them around here this too that's man-made ah carol i just realized i think that's the man-made one i think so okay that makes sense because we're trying to work out what was man-made yeah so that's definitely the phoenician wall that's the man-made one pretty impressive how they made that all right on top of the phoenician wall really it's crazy how they made this so look at that like looks perfect keeping out this right here yeah so these buildings on the front it's hard to tell what they are i mean some of the rocks below look like old rocks then like reconstructed or something i don't know if they're making hotels or something like that so we found out what one of the buildings is it's a church yeah it's called lady of the sea or something this old looking church couldn't see that part on the top to know that it was a church cool spot to have a church like this yeah and it's like a different architecture because you usually the church is just like one big building but this has like a balcony which is really nice yeah these cool arches yeah here's what i said before was made up of petrified sand dunes primarily at the beginning of the fourth geological period around 1 million years ago so the sign on the door says that they don't know their exact date of this little chapel and it was built on top of a pagan church really is tiny in here like a golden chandelier some interesting paintings i wonder if i can go through here campbell stole it it's pretty dark in here some more paintings so many of the houses down this area are more white like the the greek houses this is a bit of a mix actually you have the other kind of rock here and then white blue windows oh this one's a bit colorful too well i don't look like there's much of a beach is there high tide maybe i think it's high tide oh this is the beach i don't know tiny little beach even that looks like an old building doesn't it the arches yeah it's a rocky beach i think there are other better beaches that we can go to outside of town yeah maybe we'll go to that instead this area looks nice though this way maybe we try to find a place to eat here yeah it could be maybe see the prices of these places here uh what a nice place to eat so we couldn't resist after seeing this spot here these restaurants so we decided to eat at this one and i got the fish and chips which is 350 000 that's a different kind of dish there yes mac and cheese mac and cheese macaroni and cheese yeah also western yeah they didn't have i don't think i had any lebanese option just like international food and this was 235 thousand lebanese pounds pounds yeah but what a spot beautiful spot to eat there's actually quite a lot of foreign tourists way more than bibles as well especially this part we're in right now we've seen loads so we've now come to a beach here i think it was probably about five minutes away we got a tuk-tuk i think they call them tuxes here like a tuk-tuk taxi and that was uh forty thousand and this beach is called white beach mainly because of the big white rocks i i don't even think you call these pebbles right they're huge but the entire beach is like that so these big white stones and this cost like 50 per person right 50 000. it's not so hot right now and also towels and they have a bar and shower as well better than the other beach in uh town though way bigger she looked pretty rough though not sure we'll be doing much swimming in there probably just lie down here for the rest of the day so so this is the menu right here probably gonna get some alcoholic drinks glass of wine is like sixty thousand or seventy thousand not bad at all and i think i'm gonna go for um a beer a local beer i'll mazza beer 30 000 yeah because usually these kind of beach places just charge like way way more yeah yeah it's really good here not bad at all so this is a lebanese beer say it's proudly lebanese since 1933. really nice beer i've been drinking this quite a lot here since uh we met up with the other youtuber and his friends life of george we ended up going out with him the other night for the european semi-final lots of people drinking lots of people seem to be into football here so yeah i had a bit too many almazers and what was that other drink that we had the local one yeah i think that that's how it's called it's a very strong drink it has like a licorice taste i didn't like it that much but i think it's just like the brazilian cachaca very strong alcohol and yeah just dip it down so that's another thing that differentiates lebanon from the other middle eastern places that we've been to that you can openly drink alcohol here i think even dubai is way more strict than here and that's supposed to be pretty liberal right so yeah anyway you go here you can get alcohol in the supermarkets and uh be bluffs and bathroom people off where were in the previous video they're very popular for like partying and stuff i think bathrooms even more i think there's lots of like clubs and stuff there so we're back at our apartment now here in biblus we ended up getting a minivan here so there's some minivans that pass on the main highway and that cost 20 000 per person and then we decided to walk around the old historic center of biblus and we got to enjoy a really nice sunset there so really nice way to end our trip and i haven't shown you the place that we're staying yet so i'll give you a quick tour this was around 67 a night so right now i'm in the kitchen area got a really big kitchen here and then through here also a huge living room it's really a big apartment it's like for a family pretty much so huge living room area here and then through here there's a small toilet and then over here is the main bathroom area and it's two bedrooms so this is one bedroom that we haven't used and this is the other one carol's ready to get on the flight right now i'm ready to sleep yeah so i didn't mention but we have a four a.m flight and it's around what 12 right now yeah we need to go to the airport with no sleep and i'm like like a zombie carol is very very ready for the airport yeah so we're heading to athens in greece next and that's where all the next videos will be coming from we don't usually fly this late but it's the only flight time that they have right now so it's going to be crazy because it's a 4am flight we arrive there at 6am and we can only check in at 2pm so we're basically going to not sleep at all during the night then we're going to arrive there and we're not going to be able to sleep which doesn't happen very often so yeah that's not going to be fun at all and that's it for this trip then so we've had a really amazing time it's really surprised us and as i mentioned earlier we just wish we had more time here since we've loved it so much and it's just been interesting because obviously we knew that there was a lot of problems in lebanon but we had met people that spoke well about it even traveling during this big crisis and you honestly don't notice it that much like these days in biblus and bathroom it just seems normal like everywhere is busy there's a lot of lebanese people traveling so some people do still have money it's not like everyone's completely broke because pretty much everyone that we see is lebanese there is the issue with the money that i've mentioned in previous vlogs where the currency exchange is a bit crazy the official one if you use your card so you can't use your card here you only use dollars or euros but that's not really a big issue you just bring the cash into the country and then exchange it and you're fine for example the lunch today if we used our card that would have been like 450 dollars so yeah there's no way you can use your card here i think for us the only thing that affected us was probably the electricity the government's not able to give everyone electricity for the entire day i think it's only a few hours so the majority of people here have to pay some like private companies or something to generate electricity for them but still not the entire day but it's not been a huge deal i think here from around 1 pm until 12 at night we have power the whole way and then it cuts out during the night but it's cool during the night we don't really need it and then in the morning it like comes for an hour and then goes comes and goes so it's a bit like that so that would be the only like major turn off i think for a lot of tourists but besides that it's just like traveling to a normal country i'd say you really don't notice the problems i think only if you lived here you could really understand it and know what's going on as a tourist you won't really see or feel the issues that much so definitely recommend coming here because it's just super underrated from what we've seen and we've already been discussing if we should come back soon and kind of visit the other areas that we didn't get to see so yeah we might do i have to just see so if you like this video and the series from this country just drop a like to support us subscribe like see more videos like this one follow us on instagram and we'll see you
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