My First Day in Tunisia and I Love it Here! (Tunis)
what's up bro what are you selling sure how much thank you thank you you're how much is this one the juice 9 N oh wow you put a lot of pomegranates inside there wow that is beautiful how much One Piece One D One Piece One Dam are they different color different taste yes which one's the best one Tunisian people love these yeah okay let me try two what's up everybody welcome back to another brand new video here on the channel channel in a brand new country today I'm talking to you guys from Tunisia I'm in the capital of Tunis and I must say this city has really impressed me so far I've only been here a few hours but I decided why not let's tune on in and let's start filming my first impressions video because man the energy out here is quite unreal now we're actually in the city center so that gate that you see there the gates here in uh North Africa same as in Morocco here in Tunisia as well they're called Bobs I'm not sure exactly which one that is but I'll do some research and I'll let you guys know that information once we actually head on into the Medina to start exploring but for now what's up bro what are you selling how much thank you thank you you're there you go thanks bro are you from Tunis yeah we we okay Med thanks medu yeah a lot of people sell tissues here around the city that that seems to be a common Trend not only here in Tunis but also in in Morocco that was very popular and also in Asia there's a lot of people selling um yeah tissues everywhere it's a way of making a living but yeah today I'm going to walk around I'm going to show you guys my first impressions of this beautiful city and of course talk to you guys about some just some real basic information that I've learned since my arrival last night now um the whole journey from the airport to the city center literally took a whole I want to say 10 minutes it was super fast and I actually got char charge 60 dehm I didn't get charge the meter price but I was told by many people that it actually only cost 20 Dirham to get from the airport to the city center at maximum I'm okay thank you see another lady just hit me with the with the tissues it's very popular but if you walk around buying tissues from everybody you won't have no more money for anything else but yeah guys this here is Tunis it's actually a well Tunisia is actually one of the smaller countries in uh North Africa but it is also one of those countries that you know it might not be the biggest but it packs a punch there's a lot to see here a lot to do the people are amazing so in this series that's what I'm going to be showing you now I'm noticing there's pomegranate strawberries absolutely everywhere hello is this for juice how much how much is this one the juice n n okay's let's can I just get one to go yeah relax one moment just oh okay with ice or no ice no ice please no ice thank you here for you is Pomo Granite very popular in tunia yes from the desert yeah yeah okay wow I like the machine here let me just pay you it's cuz I'm walking I'm doing fast there you go bro thank you you thank you bro Med see oh wow you put a lot of pomegranates inside there how many per cup three oh strong men yeah if you guys have never had a Pomo Granite juice you have no idea what you're missing out on thank you medicine medicine all right my first pomeg juice I also want to buy one of these flags too but I think I'll save that for my um my Medina video I want to purchase one of those but I also am running very low in cash because I just got here I only had like $40 yesterday and that's what I changed uh into din but yeah I'll actually show you guys one of those bills here in a minute as well so this was $3 let me know if that is a a normal price it sounds good to me I mean he literally put three or four whole pomegranates inside of this cup which I don't know about where you guys come from but where I live pomegranates are ridiculously expensive now I've been noticing that along the streets there's also all kinds of cafes restaurants where people just lounge around drink teas coffees I'm noticing that um a lot of people smoke cigarettes here in Tunisia but you know what we just came from Paris and there everybody smokes as well so um that's not a huge shocker to me but but um yeah just be aware of that there's cigarette smoke absolutely everywhere and taxis absolutely everywhere now I'm not sure if there's any ride apps I'm not too sure about that but one thing I do know based off of talking to the locals is that if you are booking a taxi make sure that when you jump on in you tell them to turn on the meter all right well this is actually where I'm staying I'm staying right on this main strip here I'm not sure exactly what this strip is called or this prominade but it is super beautiful it actually reminds me well it has a very huge like European influence obviously because of the history of this country and you'll find a lot of big beautiful churches just like this one the real like I don't know Spanish Colonial French Colonial architecture literally everywhere and to my surprise guys it's actually a um quite affordable city as well I mean accommodation when I was looking it up was around $40 to $60 a night for a pretty uh nice hotel so just some little prices to keep in mind now I can imagine you can find even cheaper accommodation as well look how beautiful this is guys and there's a big sign here that says I love Tunis every city should have a um yeah like a city sign where you can go and take pictures I think it makes for great memories and they are beautiful so yeah I love Tunis and yeah look at the bank I mean how beautiful was the bank that building must have been built in like the yeah I don't know 1600s 1700s probably 17s 1800s yeah my history is pretty messed up but it is beautiful and yeah this beautiful church as well it says right there that this is the place the independence oh so this might be like the Independence Square wow that is beautiful I wish I could describe what I'm seeing but I don't really know too much about um any religious figures all I know is I can admire some true beauty and that is that is beautiful wow now I also did purchase a SIM card you actually get a free SIM card at the airports uh by this company called orange as soon as you arrive you make it through security and once you make or immigration and once you make it by the baggage claim they actually have um a little stand that's called orange and there you can find sim cards for literally 30 or 30 oh no they're free but to load them up for 10 GB it's 10 Dr for 20 20 and so on so I of course got myself a big Hefty SIM card for 30 deham but yeah last night we arrived and the city was completely different I mean there was a lot of movement out on the streets but it was definitely a lot slower right now you see these big tour groups walking around they're all doing tours of the Medina and all the um old city of Tunis but this here is is the main Boardwalk where I'm staying and honestly it's quite entertaining there's a lot to do um a lot of little places to grab some food things to uh things to drink it's nice so yeah this is what the prominade looks like but I'm not sure I really want to walk the prominade cuz it's a bit yeah it's a bit boring there's not a whole lot going on on the prominade itself at night I noticed that there was a lot of people like sitting down on the benches along the sides but right now during the day yeah there's not a whole lot going on so you know what let's take one of the side streets and you know what I think I'm going to take the side street behind me because I'm actually staying on this street and I don't really want anybody to see me with the camera right away because then um people start knowing who you are and then interactions change and I'm going to be here for a few days so I don't want anything to change anybody to act different towards me I want to be treated exactly the same you know um nowadays since the Channel's been growing um when people ask you oh what are you filming for what's your channel what's your YouTube and then you show them all of a sudden um all the interactions seem to change and people start acting a little bit different cuz they think you know you're a famous YouTuber and whatnot which you guys know me that is not the case I just want to be treated fairly just like I treat everybody else so um that's why I don't want to walk on that street and anybody that creates content will tell you the same thing now look at these beautiful trees that line literally the whole boardwalk and there is tour buses as well so so I'm guessing you can do day trips from other cities to Tunis if you don't end up staying here however I always like to tell people that when you're flying into a brand new country the best way to get to know a place is to obviously spend time in the capital city because the capital city is where you're going to see how uh people are really living every single day um what the energy of the country is really like and it's a nice way to ease your way on um into things and it feels very safe here as well there's a very strong police presence and you can see they're shaking the gentleman's hand they're all super friendly it's a great place and honestly I wasn't expecting to see too many tourists I thought I was heading to a place that uh wasn't too touristic but that turned out to be completely false turns out that Europeans especially love Tunis because it's incredibly close we literally flew here in like an hour hour and a half from Paris and yeah you'll see so many Europeans oh I'm losing track of my um my grip you'll see a lot of Europeans walking the streets wow this is beautiful that is impressive huh wonder what's uh the name of this thing is I like it though oh man I hope the wind isn't bothering you guys too much I wasn't expecting it to be this windy or else I would have put on my wind protector but hopefully uh my big head in front of the camera is protecting that wind from from hitting all of you guys that way you guys can hear me um pretty well but yeah I have some big plans for this country I want to film so much I want to go on some crazy street food um challenges for you guys some crazy shopping spree there's so much of of all of that here especially in the Medina now I'm actually posting these videos in real time so right now you're watching this video I'm in Tunis please drop all your recommendations down below of places that I need to visit sites that I need to see because I definitely want to make my way out to all of those areas oh wow look they got a nail Academy nice nice appreciate you bro and yeah this is actually my hotel up here the hotel Carlton the hotel Carlton um turns out is one of the most iconic hotels here in the city it's been around for uh many years and they have so many different room options available I'm actually staying in one of their rooms with several Beds which I'll actually show you here in this video and man they got some incredible uh rooms now I'm staying in one that's not the most beautiful because I was actually planning on coming out here with um originally um Andrew and another friend so we had three beds but the other friend canceled so now it's just Andrew and I in a room with three beds however um the breakfast was amazing fully stock breakfast bar it was a great option great choice especially if you're here in Tunis I definitely recommend checking out the hotel Carlton actually you know what I think yeah by the time I edited this video you probably would have seen the hotel uh laid out over the clip that you just heard me talking on but yeah there's hotels that line up literally the entire streets I saw one yesterday that looks super impressive as well it was called Hotel Africa which is over on this side so keep that in mind guys there's a lot of options for accommodation I also noticed that the streets are very clean there there's people cleaning and sweeping um even last night there was people out there doing that so yeah Tunis I have a feeling I'm going to love this city and I have a feeling that I'm going to love Tunisia man everybody I've met here so far in the country has been incredibly friendly so the two languages that are primarily Spoken Here in Tunisia are actually French believe it or not and actually that's the same for most North Africa if you got to Morocco they speak French as well and they also speak Arabic but don't let that throw you off if you don't speak any of those two most people here speak English as well and yeah they got a strat of Varys right next to my hotel underneath there's a berska so many different restaurants and yeah all of these little Alleyways and side streets hold like so much so many small little stores and places where you can just pop your head into you know all right let's try and let's let's try and make it alive uh to the end of this video without getting hit by a car but I did exactly what I said I wasn't going to do now I crossed over onto my street so yeah the hotel Carlton where is the hotel Carlton right there directly in front of us so we'll actually walk that way now but you know what you know what I think I'm actually going to take the side streak because I don't want um all the little shop I got some videos in mind that I really want to make so you know what let's just hit these little side streets and I'll show you guys a little bit more but like look how beautiful all of these um lamp posts are I love how they've maintained them over the years instead of just knocking them down and putting like some you know some cement ugly light pole like we do in the US you might also notice the floors as well you can tell that they're all laid out Brick by Brick these are things that I really appreciate when I come to European countries or um countries with strong European influence as you guys know in the US I mean we just just pour concrete over everything we're not going to pay somebody to go lay bricks brick per brick on or Co or uh how do you say it not repave but you get what I'm saying Rec Cobblestone a road no way we're going to bring up a truck get that concrete mixer uh spinning and then pour that concrete all over the all over the boulevard you know what I mean and just get it done quick but yeah I'm impressed so far I don't know what I was expecting out of Tunisia or out of Tunis but I don't think I was expecting um this I don't think I was expecting it to be so so European like so just some little insight for you guys but yeah this pomegranate juice I probably should have as for ice all right looks like we got some people selling some some things hello what are these theuts deuts oh deuts I think we call them Tunas in our country how much One Piece One Dam One Piece One Dam are they different color different taste yes which one's the best one Tunisian people love these okay let me try two yeah two different which one's the best one can I I just grab yes okay I think I'm going to go with red oh yellow okay I Tred this one first so this is Tika name NS NSS catss cats cats okay cats we call them Tunas tun tunia thank you people are nice in Tunisia wow it's very good is this from Desert Sahara yes oh okay so this comes from the Sahara desert region I'm not sure if you eat the seeds or not you eat seed everything okay they're hard all right this one good yes let's go yellow now so three to give you guys a um an idea dude I can't those last two seeds were very hard for me so forgive me but um three deer is $1 roughly red is nice I mean yellow's nice but the red one's better I wonder how many of these you're supposed to eat I think these get you constipated if I'm not mistaken all right you know what I'm put the other half right there I can't eat the whole thing Med SE thank you because to be honest with you the seeds hurt those are hard but very nice and refreshing as well just had to spit out two more seeds another one but yeah let me know if you guys are from t yeah and you guys eat those fruits how many of those would you typically eat in a city I remember I was in Morocco and I think they were very similar to those a little bit smaller and more like purplish but everybody told me Chris what are you doing I ate like two or three in that video I'm not sure um people are like dude what are you doing you're going to get constipated you won't be able to use the bathroom and I was like oh that explains why that is exactly what happened when I finish eating them all right I don't know where we're veering off to from now looks like there's a department store here this might be like a shopping center oh yeah this was definitely a great decision yeah this is definitely like a like a shopping center of some sort I see all kinds of advertisements on the sides okay this side of the street is not the cleanest but it's all right I think I'm definitely veering off into like the wrong direction though so you know what on the next street we'll Veer off to the right again let me know what are your first impressions of uh Tunis so far and have you guys ever heard of Tunisia before I know there's a lot of you guys who you know don't know your geography all too well so there's always you know a handful of people that tell me in every video I had never heard of that place before so um yeah let me know what are your guys' first impressions so far all right well this is actually uh the hotel Carlton right in front of us where I'm staying it's been around since 1926 and it's only a three star now I'm not sure why it's only a three star though because it is beautiful you know obviously I wouldn't give it a five I'd probably give it one more though I'd give it a four a five obviously that's you know five stars you're talking like Ritz Carlton um Four Seasons places like that now there's also cats everywhere as well here too hello are you from Tunis are you from Tunis yeah that's a Tunisian cat he's on the hunt right now he don't want he don't want to be on video right now but yeah guys this is Tunisia now I actually want to walk all the way down to this fountain at the end of the road and I think that's where we'll bring this video to an end there's a um fountain that looks extremely beautiful I drove bu it yesterday but it's literally just a few feet from where I'm staying so or a few more like 50 50 ft or 100t from where I'm staying but still very close now here in here in Tunisia the steering wheel I just feel like when first impressions video man I analyze everything cuz I travel so much but um still had one of them seeds in my mouth but here in Tunisia the steering wheel is actually on the same side as it is in America which is really nice to see because I might be running a car this week to be honest with you guys all right so this here is like the street where we ate dinner last night my hotel is this beautiful white building not the first one you see the second one in and we ate dinner around here last night right by this fountain that I want to show you guys now the ATMs I must I must um admit they're absolutely everywhere but I'm not sure exactly how much the fees are to use them so for some of you guys that are coming on a short trip it might just be a little bit more convenient to um yeah pull out or change money but if you're coming out here for a longer stay obviously it's not ideal uh traveling around with hundreds of dollars in your in your bank to make sure to last the entire trip all right we're approaching the fountain now it's that clock tower that you can see right behind the umbrellas and there's actually a lot of people standing around there right now taking pictures it makes for a really great place for a photo and um one thing I've been realizing too as well hold on I'll tell you right now as we make it onto the streets one thing that I've also been noticing as well here about uh Tunisia is that well as you can see it's a primarily um well Muslim dominant country however in compared to other Arab and Muslim nations Tunisia um Tunisia standards here it's very relaxed um I actually don't see a lot of people walking around or a lot of women walking around in hijabs or burkas you do see them um but not to the same extent as like you know when I was in a Jordan or when I was in Qatar nowhere near that level now I'm not sure who who this is here that's the only thing I must say that I I I've noticed on my first um hours walking around is that a lot of The Monuments and statues actually don't have English translations they only have Arabic and French which is fine because it's not English isn't an official language but it would help as a tourist wow this is beautiful so yeah this here is the big fountain that I was looking at I wonder if the clock is right as well yeah it is it's actually like 3 minutes slow but it's beautiful wow that building also looks pretty impressive as well Tunisian Flags everywhere man this is awesome all right let's cross on over and I think that's where we're going to be finishing up today's video not sure if this how you cross I just see a bunch of people crossing all right so yeah this here is the fountain now you know what let me actually search Google Maps real quick let make sure that this isn't something like very very important and I'm missing that out missing information out but yeah look at this um Tower okay it says it's Avenue Habib borika Clock Tower doesn't say anything else though on the map but if this signifies anything else please let let us know down in the comments that would we all know what this why this beautiful Fountain is here well you know what guys I think with this view of of Tunis I'm going to be leaving you guys for now I'll see you guys again soon in a few days for another adventure I'm going to be filming so much more here in this beautiful country look at all the flags people are very patriotic and I can't wait to start interacting with a whole lot more locals thank you guys so much for watching and if you're from Tunisia you better subscribe and leave a comment and if you're not and you still made it to this point do the same later guys you always smarted I was the one to take a love
2023-10-03 21:55
