5 Near Death Experiences (After Visiting Every Country)

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Z_pEvmM_E

概要

TLDRIn this video, the traveler shares five harrowing near-death experiences from their journeys through some of the world's most dangerous countries. Starting in Haiti, they recount encounters with gangs and the threat of kidnapping. In India, a bus crash leads to chaos and injuries. The traveler then describes a police chase in Chad, followed by near misses with terrorist attacks in Syria and Yemen. Finally, they recount a tense situation at the Russia-North Korea border where they were detained for lacking the proper visa. Throughout the video, the traveler emphasizes the importance of being aware of one's surroundings and the risks involved in exploring such perilous locations.

収穫

  • 🌍 Traveling can be risky, especially in dangerous countries.
  • 🚨 Always be aware of your surroundings while exploring.
  • 💰 In Haiti, gangs control areas and can pose serious threats.
  • 🚌 A bus crash in India led to a terrifying experience.
  • 🚓 A police chase in Chad added to the traveler's fears.
  • 💣 Near misses with terrorist attacks in Syria and Yemen.
  • 🇷🇺 Detained at the Russia-North Korea border for visa issues.
  • 📖 Documenting experiences can lead to unexpected situations.
  • 🤔 Curiosity can sometimes lead to dangerous encounters.
  • ✈️ Always plan ahead and know the risks of your destination.

タイムライン

  • 00:00:00 - 00:05:00

    The narrator shares their experiences of traveling to dangerous places, starting with Haiti, where they encountered gang violence and had to pay off gang members to avoid being kidnapped. They describe the dire living conditions in Port-au-Prince and express hope for the country's future despite its current turmoil.

  • 00:05:00 - 00:10:00

    The second near-death experience occurred in India during a bus ride that ended in a horrific crash, resulting in chaos and injuries. The narrator recounts the terrifying moments of escaping the overturned bus and the aftermath, including a subsequent earthquake that struck shortly after their ordeal.

  • 00:10:00 - 00:19:52

    In Chad, the narrator faced a police chase while on a motorbike taxi, leading to a dangerous confrontation after taking a photo of a child without permission. They narrowly escaped a violent situation thanks to a friend who intervened, highlighting the risks of traveling in hostile environments.

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ビデオQ&A

  • What are some dangerous places mentioned in the video?

    Haiti, India, Chad, Syria, and Yemen are highlighted as dangerous places.

  • What happened in Haiti?

    The traveler encountered gangs and had a close call with kidnapping.

  • What was the bus incident in India?

    The bus flipped over during a crash, leading to chaos and injuries.

  • What was the police chase in Chad about?

    The traveler was caught in a police chase while on a motorbike taxi.

  • What happened in Syria?

    The traveler narrowly missed an attack at a checkpoint.

  • What was the experience in Yemen?

    The traveler almost encountered an attack at a checkpoint in Shibam.

  • What happened at the Russia-North Korea border?

    The traveler was detained for not having the proper visa to enter a border town.

  • What is the traveler's advice?

    Be aware of your surroundings and exercise caution when traveling.

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    after visiting every country in the
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    world I can tell you that the chances of
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    running into trouble are quite
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    High put the especially in places like
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    sou Pao Brazil where I am right now
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    getting robbed scammed or kidnapped are
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    serious concerns that every traveler
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    should be aware of holy I've had many
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    Close Encounters in war torn countries
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    and conflict zones and unfortunately
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    I've had my fair share of hospital
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    visits oh man in this video I'm going to
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    share with you five near-death
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    experiences that still traumatize me to
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    this day I don't know if I can we begin
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    in
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    [Music]
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    Haiti so I went to Haiti a few months
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    ago and man it was one of the most
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    intense experiences of my entire life so
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    pora Prince is probably in the top three
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    most dangerous places in the world I
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    mean nowhere there can you just stop and
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    chill and get a shoe shine on the side
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    of the street and I mean it gangs are
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    controlling the whole city so I made a
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    local friend named Sean how are we doing
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    man nice to meet you and he knows the
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    gang members so he took me inside a
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    place called c c which is man I'm just
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    trying to trying to catch my breath here
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    as I think about what I saw truck
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    barricaded trash everywhere the smell of
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    that trash burning is horrific fully big
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    weaponed gangs that are controlling this
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    area so when you when you go down the
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    long road to get to the checkpoint you
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    see all these gangsters and when I say
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    gangsters I mean like guys with grills
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    in their teeth teardrop tattoos neck
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    tattoos and Mass massive automatic
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    weapons they you'd have to see to
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    believe they run and greet you at the
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    car and they're like hey what are you
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    doing what are you doing give me money
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    give me
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    money that moment was the closest I've
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    ever been to getting kidnapped in my
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    life are you sure we're going to be okay
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    man yeah we good we good don't worry I
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    was planning on it happening and
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    figuring out how I was going to get out
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    of the situation sure enough we just end
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    up paying them off paying them off and I
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    trusted Sean and they let us in then I
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    had to go meet the chief of the whole
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    slum and he took me inside and we met in
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    this sketchy room with blasting music
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    and then I had to slap like $1,000 was
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    in his hand and I had to pay him more
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    after that that was just the beginning
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    part and then he appointed his soldiers
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    which are basically thugs with weapons
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    to come join us and escort us around six
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    of them this guy is working with a bag
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    of
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    bullets damn and a bullet proof
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    Fist and then as I walked around I
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    interviewed the guys and they told me
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    that in order to be a soldier and get a
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    weapon you have to do a series of
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    kidnappings and I was like okay
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    cool walking around Cay I saw things
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    that nobody should ever see there were
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    houses that were completely flooded
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    because they didn't have the means to
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    leave and when the rain comes that this
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    lady was walking in like ankle high of
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    water in her house I mean it was super
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    sad she would love to rent another house
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    but she doesn't have the need I've never
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    been to a community where there's
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    literally no place to buy water or food
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    like like they literally have nothing
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    there's no jobs and there's a lot of
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    people there it's really really really
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    intense gunshots are everywhere you hear
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    them when you walk around like the
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    feeling of just being so hesitant and
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    the feeling a presence around you that
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    are just staring at you and at any given
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    moment things can go bad was very much a
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    threat to me and my safety and you might
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    ask why did I do it and it's because I'm
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    really curious about how other people
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    are living around the world and I will
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    go the extra mile to find human stories
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    in these places and try to find
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    positivity but here in C slay I didn't
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    find anything if you're from Haiti and
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    watching this I'm sorry to say this but
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    the country really is going through
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    rough times and I hope it can be better
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    because when I went on the airplane
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    flying in it was beautiful views and it
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    has lot of potential as a beautiful
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    destination in the Caribbean but things
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    got to be fixed I mean the president was
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    assassinated they haven't really
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    replaced him since then I just read in
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    the news recently that like no thank you
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    I'm okay I just read in the news
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    recently that um one of the jails was
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    broken loose and all the criminals are
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    running on the streets anyways hades's a
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    mess I hope to go back somay when it's a
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    little safer and a little better but for
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    now I'm in no hurry real quick guys I
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    just want to let you know that my very
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    first book comes out on May 21st and you
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    scanning this QR code I'm also going on
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    a 10 City book tour this summer and I
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    would love to see you there in person
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    this book has plenty of Untold travel
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    stories from the world's most dangerous
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    countries as well as plenty of practical
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    tips advice and secrets that will
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    inspire you to travel that leads me to
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    my second near-death experience which
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    was in India back in 2015 when I was a
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    young budget Backpacker with a big afro
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    and I was traveling around the world
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    making money as a travel blogger and
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    snapchatter back in the day before
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    YouTube all right this story gives me a
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    lot of PTSD when I when I think back but
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    I was at the tail end of a three-month
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    Journey around India spending $500 a
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    month doing it super budget really
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    enjoyed it loved it but India is really
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    intense my true colors came out in that
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    trip and I learned more about myself
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    than any other trip I've ever taken I
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    was in the Rajan State and I was on a
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    bus from udur to jodpur which is about a
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    10-hour overnight bus I was the only
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    Foreigner on the bus the only English
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    speaker and I was on the top deck it was
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    a double decker so at midnight bus
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    leaves when I got on the bus I
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    remembered feeling that it was kind of
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    creaky it was like a little weird it old
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    bus and I remember feeling a little
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    uncomfortable but anyways I just went
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    with the flow I went to my upper bunk
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    and I walked in and I went up the ladder
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    and I laid down about an hour into the
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    bus ride I was just getting cozy I had
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    my headphones in I was listening to some
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    music and I was kind of dozing off but I
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    was still very much awake out of nowhere
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    the bus driver Slams on the brakes
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    turned the wheel to the left and the bus
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    flew off the freeway over the median we
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    probably dropped about 5 ft we probably
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    going about 50
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    milph the bus completely flipped over on
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    the side that I was laying on so
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    literally my nose was like 3 in from the
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    ground all the windows shattered
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    everybody's screaming and crying there
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    were babies on board I remember there
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    was so much dirt and glass in the air
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    and so much chaos that when I opened my
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    eye to look up I had to look through the
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    little crack on my fingers because I
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    could barely see anything because of all
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    the debris and there was a kid chew
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    right above me because he was hanging he
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    was holding on to the pole about 10
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    minutes later which felt like 10 weeks
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    later I had to to get out of the bus and
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    meanwhile I'm seeing blood everywhere
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    people screaming and crying and and it
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    was it was literally like a horror film
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    it was the scariest moment in my life to
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    this day in order to get out of the bus
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    I had to go through the side which all
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    the windows were shattered so I had to
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    go through and then I was standing on
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    top then I had a jump down which was
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    like a 10ft jump down and I had all my
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    bags with me so there I am going up
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    seeing blood everywhere and seeing uh
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    people that are like stuck in the bus
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    the bus kind of split and people were
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    like stuck in it I don't know how to
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    explain it any better than that but I
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    get out the bus I'm sing standing on the
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    side of the road shaking like this for
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    an hour people are coming out screaming
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    and crying and I'm getting guys that are
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    doing this sign signifying that two
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    people were stuck in the bus and they
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    didn't make it out alive and I know that
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    because they told me and I saw
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    them sorry I feel like someone's going
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    to steal the go out of my hand right now
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    so I'm holding it down people
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    approaching me it's funny that I'm
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    telling this story when I'm in a sketchy
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    Street Corner in
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    Soo anyways um yeah so long story short
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    I get out of the bus I'm waiting on side
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    of the road for like 3 hours and another
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    bus comes and picks me up and takes me
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    to jport which is another like 8 hours
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    and the whole time I'm literally shaking
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    like every time the bus hit the break I
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    was like freaking out I thought we were
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    going to get another crash and I
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    remember calling my mom and she was like
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    you need to get on the next plane home
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    and I had a beard out to here I had just
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    been in India for 3 months and the
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    craziest part to end this story I was
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    going to cman Dew right after to hike
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    the base camp of Mount Everest and when
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    I was on the plane the massive
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    earthquake hit where 10,000 people died
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    and we felt the Earth shaking when I was
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    on the runway in Deli cuz it's not that
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    far from Catman do that was one week
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    after the bus crashed and after that I
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    went back to Chicago I was in total
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    shock and yeah that was a really scary
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    time of my life my next near-death
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    experience happened to me in Chad and
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    I'm keeping my camera low right now
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    because I'm walking in kind of a sketchy
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    area and a lot of people are around me
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    looking at my camera so jna Chad oh what
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    a place 2019 was the year I was
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    traveling around Africa by myself and I
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    find myself in Chad what's up Chad now I
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    don't know if you know much about Chad
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    but let's just say it's not the greatest
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    place in the world it's very hostile
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    people are not welcoming there's really
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    not that much to do it's the hottest
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    place you've ever bank is in the Sahara
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    desert there's a lot of un cars and it's
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    just very very intense so I get to Chad
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    I make a friend of a friend through
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    Instagram first of all the airport when
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    I arrive is covered in cockroaches I
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    remember this guy sweeping a broom with
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    all the Cockroaches
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    clear then meet up with a friend of a
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    friend who picked me up at the airport
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    and actually was a pretty nice guy he
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    was more like a bodyguard he was a huge
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    guy everyone there was tall take me to
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    my hotel sleep next day we're going to
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    go explore the city so I get in a
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    motorbike taxi and he gets in another
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    one my dri kept going really fast and we
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    got we lost touch with my other guy so
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    we're going through the dirt streets of
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    jna I mean fast it's getting really
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    sketchy and I keep uh yelling at my
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    driver I was like hitting his back like
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    stop stop stop and I don't want speak
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    French and they speak French so I
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    couldn't communicate to him and uh it
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    turns out we were stuck in a police
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    chase all these police cars started
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    chasing us oh I get out of this dirt on
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    my addes now
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    oh I got like some serious dirt in my
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    eye it's ironic because I'm telling a
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    story about being on a dirt bike and
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    Chad man I'm struggling telling the
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    story right now Jesus Christ um I'm
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    stuck in this police chase going through
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    the streets of jamaa fast running red
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    lights cars are coming at us and I keep
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    telling the driver to stop stop stop and
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    he's not stopping so finally I like went
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    over his shoulder and pulled the brake
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    and stopped it he gets off the bike and
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    starts running a massive brawl starts in
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    front of me right on the street and I'm
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    just trying to stay safe Meanwhile my
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    phone wasn't working I didn't have a SIM
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    card and I lost my friend and I didn't
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    know what the name of our hotel I just
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    didn't remember write it down so I'm
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    stuck on the side of the street and I
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    don't know what to do with myself so I
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    jump in a random little mini bus okay so
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    there I am middle of Chad on a Mini Bus
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    of course I'm documenting everything
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    because I at this time I was making
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    videos and I share my honest experiences
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    around the world and so I get in this
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    mini bus catch my breath for a second
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    I'm holding my camera in my hand so I
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    started taking a picture of this cute
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    little kid in the bus well a lesson
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    learned I should not have taken a
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    picture of the kid without the parents
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    permission and since that moment I've
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    learned and I've never done it without
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    asking permission if I take a photo of a
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    kid and so I did it and then everyone
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    freaked out on the bus they were like
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    yelling like why you taking this picture
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    you permission blah blah blah so then I
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    get out of I get out of that mini bus
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    and whenever there's kind of commotion
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    people kind of gather around and find
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    figure out that there's something
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    happening so basically some dude pulls
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    out a knife and like what are you doing
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    here and I was like holy thankfully out
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    of nowhere my buddy who I was with
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    before finds me and runs up and just
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    like protects me and kind of puts his
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    arm out like whoa whoa whoa what's going
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    on what's going on I remember some dude
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    grabbed my shirt and twisted it like
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    this and like broke the seam of my shirt
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    here so literally like it looked like I
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    had just gotten beaten up so yeah then
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    my friend comes and breaks up the fight
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    and I think if my friend didn't come I
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    literally would have been slashed or
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    robbed or something even worse I didn't
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    even know where my hotel was can you
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    imagine so we calm down a little bit he
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    takes me to the shisha bar and I go
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    outside to pee and I step in a massive
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    pile of human like massive pile it's
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    like everyone pooped in one spot and so
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    then I got back to my hotel later that
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    night and I booked a flight out the next
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    day I will say though I'm planning to
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    give Chad a second chance I want to go
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    back and visit some tribes in the South
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    it looks really awesome and I'm actually
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    planning to go soon hopefully you guys
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    will be with me on that Journey all
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    right now my fourth near-death
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    experience is going to be a two-part
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    story in Syria and in Yemen and they
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    both have to do with being almost in a
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    terrorist attack let's start off in
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    Syria first off Syria is amazing I had a
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    great time there and I really hope to go
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    back I love the people the culture
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    country's gone through some really rough
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    times in the last 15 years with war and
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    everything but I was scheduled to
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    go man I almost just lost my GoPro
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    literally this dude walked up taking a
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    selfie and he kind of jolted at me and I
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    walked away I'm not joking maybe I
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    should sit down here and have a coffee
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    while I tell the
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    story Coffee
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    Cafe we got
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    them okay so Syria good morning from
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    Damascus my very first day in Syria
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    country number
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    183 I was heading to a place called Poma
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    which is in the desert kind of on the
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    Eastern side of the country and it's an
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    old historic town it's a UNESCO site
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    it's really really cool ruins and I was
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    really excited to go and we were in the
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    car we were heading there it's a long
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    drive it's like 4 hours or something and
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    while we're in the car we get a call
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    that there's been an attack at the
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    checkpoint that we were about to cross I
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    don't know how far we were from the
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    checkpoint maybe a half hour an hour and
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    there was gunfire and people died at
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    that checkpoint there was an attack an
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    explosion we just missed it so we turned
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    back and went to Damascus I can't
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    imagine what would have happened if we
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    were at that checkpoint when that
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    happened the next almost terrorist
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    attack that I just missed was in shibam
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    Yemen so Yemen's also a really crazy
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    cool country I happen to love it
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    beautiful untouched nature unbelievable
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    I think all things considered as a
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    tourist is the most dangerous country in
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    the world Mainland Yemen not sakota and
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    I was on an 8-day road trip by myself
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    with a local friend in Mainland Yemen
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    and we in the southern Parts there's
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    this really cool Old Town in the desert
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    called shibam it's a UNESCO site it's
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    called Manhattan of the desert because
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    there's like 15 Century buildings that
  • 00:12:54
    are made of mud brick and they're like
  • 00:12:56
    10 15 20 floors high and it's super old
  • 00:12:58
    like 5 600 years old and I really want
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    to see it so I'm with my guide Abdul who
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    was pretty sketchy the whole time and
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    similar to the serious story we're about
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    to roll up to the checkpoint my guy gets
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    a call turn around right now there's an
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    attack at the checkpoint literally oh my
  • 00:13:12
    God and my guide was pretty cool he kept
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    a composure the whole time he was pretty
  • 00:13:16
    chill like he didn't really show signs
  • 00:13:17
    of fear or danger and at that moment he
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    was like holy we need to leave right now
  • 00:13:21
    right now so we turn around the problem
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    was we needed to go through shabam to
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    get to the next city and there was only
  • 00:13:26
    two roads to get to the city and then we
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    had to turn and divert the other way so
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    we waited out like an hour and then we
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    ended up taking the other kind of back
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    country road to get back to shabam so
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    not where the explosion was around and
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    we ended up getting to shabam I had 5
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    minutes literally 5 minutes to explore
  • 00:13:40
    the town I remember running around
  • 00:13:42
    taking pictures meeting people it was
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    the coolest place I've been in the
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    Middle East shabam I'm telling you the
  • 00:13:46
    skyscrapers in the desert it's so
  • 00:13:48
    awesome so so so awesome sheam I went to
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    a nearby mountain and I got this cool
  • 00:13:53
    drone shot looking down at sham but I
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    only was able to spend 5 minutes on the
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    street there end up there really was an
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    attack uh we just missed it by literally
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    10 minutes and uh I got in got out I
  • 00:14:02
    have more stories about almost missing
  • 00:14:03
    terrorist attacks it was a place in
  • 00:14:05
    bamyan Afghanistan a week after I left
  • 00:14:07
    it was blown up and 30 people in the
  • 00:14:09
    same Market I was shooting at was killed
  • 00:14:10
    and also in Baghdad the last time I went
  • 00:14:12
    there I was shooting in this big Market
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    the day that I flew out which was a day
  • 00:14:16
    after I was shooting another big attack
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    literally the same street styles that I
  • 00:14:19
    was featuring in my video the same
  • 00:14:20
    street vendors are no longer there so
  • 00:14:22
    why am I telling this stuff because it
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    happened and because I like to be honest
  • 00:14:25
    and transparent um during my travels and
  • 00:14:28
    let you guys know that it's not always
  • 00:14:29
    rainbows and ponies like just hit the
  • 00:14:31
    fan and I'm here for the ride
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    so there's one more story I want to tell
  • 00:14:38
    you guys in this video and that is on
  • 00:14:40
    the border of North Korea and Russia I
  • 00:14:44
    was traveling in Siberia uh in February
  • 00:14:47
    2022 it was cold but I loved it I went
  • 00:14:49
    to yakou the world's coldest inhabited
  • 00:14:51
    City it was like- 40 degrees when I was
  • 00:14:52
    there Frozen and then I went to a place
  • 00:14:55
    called Vlad bolo which I've always want
  • 00:14:57
    to visit cuz a the name is cool and B
  • 00:14:59
    it's a very Asian City near soou in
  • 00:15:01
    Tokyo and the people look Asian but it's
  • 00:15:02
    Russia and I was really interested in
  • 00:15:04
    that so I went to Vlad Volo and I met a
  • 00:15:06
    local girl who's a really really cool
  • 00:15:07
    girl I'm blanking on her name right now
  • 00:15:09
    but she's a YouTuber I'll link her
  • 00:15:10
    Channel down below and I told her I
  • 00:15:12
    wanted to go to the nearby town on the
  • 00:15:14
    border of Russia and North Korea because
  • 00:15:15
    there's an 11 km strip of land that
  • 00:15:17
    borders North Korea and Russia and it's
  • 00:15:19
    super interesting because I have a
  • 00:15:20
    fascination with North Korea I've been
  • 00:15:21
    there I have many North Korean friends
  • 00:15:22
    I've made many stories of North Korean
  • 00:15:23
    refugees I can speak Korean CU I lived
  • 00:15:25
    in South Korea for two years I took a
  • 00:15:26
    class about North Korean College I'm
  • 00:15:28
    like obsessed with so we take the 6-hour
  • 00:15:30
    drive down to the border on the way we
  • 00:15:32
    stopped at these Frozen waterfalls which
  • 00:15:33
    were crazy I've never seen waterfalls
  • 00:15:35
    literally freeze in midair and I'm in a
  • 00:15:37
    car with three other Russians in myself
  • 00:15:38
    one being my camera guy Andre one being
  • 00:15:40
    uh the driver and then one being my
  • 00:15:42
    local friend and the rules are a little
  • 00:15:44
    vague about getting to this town I read
  • 00:15:46
    online that you might need a permit to
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    get to the Russian town on the border of
  • 00:15:49
    North Korea I also read that you can
  • 00:15:50
    just go so knowing me I just went the
  • 00:15:52
    drive down there is fine there's no
  • 00:15:53
    checkpoints and right when we get to the
  • 00:15:54
    actual Border Town the Russian town of
  • 00:15:56
    kasan which is right on the border of
  • 00:15:57
    North Korea there's a police stop and I
  • 00:15:59
    saw it from the back of the car and I
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    was like oh I was sitting in the back
  • 00:16:02
    left seat of the car okay the three
  • 00:16:04
    other people had Russian passports I
  • 00:16:05
    have a US passport so we get to the
  • 00:16:07
    checkpoint we have big like Soviet style
  • 00:16:09
    big furry hats very intimidating big fat
  • 00:16:12
    policemen come up to the car documental
  • 00:16:14
    documental passport check for the driver
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    good passport check for my friend good
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    passport check for my other friend
  • 00:16:19
    passport check for my camera guy good I
  • 00:16:21
    thought he was just going to wave Us in
  • 00:16:22
    and he goes you passport and I was
  • 00:16:25
    like so slowly take out my passport give
  • 00:16:28
    it to him look at us passport goes hm
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    slips through Visa Visa Visa like I
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    needed a special permit in my passport
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    to enter this Russian Town my Russian
  • 00:16:36
    visa wasn't good enough I needed a
  • 00:16:38
    special one didn't have it immediately
  • 00:16:39
    he goes you come here now phone leave in
  • 00:16:41
    the car friends stay here all in Russian
  • 00:16:43
    but I understood what he were saying
  • 00:16:44
    through hand motion so I had to leave my
  • 00:16:45
    phone in the car I was wearing a lav mic
  • 00:16:47
    like this under my shirt so I had to
  • 00:16:49
    like secretly take it off cuz they would
  • 00:16:50
    have thought I was like a CIA like
  • 00:16:52
    spying on them this was right when the
  • 00:16:54
    war with Ukraine was heating up there
  • 00:16:56
    was not an official attack yet but there
  • 00:16:58
    was news that Russia was going to invade
  • 00:16:59
    Ukraine and of course the US is involved
  • 00:17:01
    in everything so my friends have to stay
  • 00:17:03
    behind I get in the police car with
  • 00:17:05
    these free policemen with no phone they
  • 00:17:07
    drive me up this big Steep Hill take me
  • 00:17:08
    to their headquarter office with bar
  • 00:17:11
    wires it was like a old compound slam
  • 00:17:13
    the door strip search me full on strip
  • 00:17:15
    search like nude then they escort me
  • 00:17:17
    into this room upstairs and they lock
  • 00:17:18
    the door and there's a big picture of
  • 00:17:19
    Putin on the wall and it's freezing
  • 00:17:21
    there's no heat in there and there's a
  • 00:17:22
    chalkboard it looked like a classroom at
  • 00:17:24
    the kindergarten and there I am sitting
  • 00:17:25
    there they locked me inside for about 30
  • 00:17:27
    minutes which felt like 3 hours I no
  • 00:17:29
    phone imagine being stuck in a building
  • 00:17:30
    right now without a phone and freezing
  • 00:17:32
    and not knowing what to do and meanwhile
  • 00:17:33
    out the window I could see the border of
  • 00:17:35
    North Korea which is literally like just
  • 00:17:37
    a stone throw away eventually guy comes
  • 00:17:39
    in and said he had a translator with him
  • 00:17:40
    which he spoke maybe 20 words of English
  • 00:17:42
    we were just communicating through
  • 00:17:42
    Google Translate for about 20 minutes
  • 00:17:45
    ask me every question under the book
  • 00:17:46
    what's your name where you from what's
  • 00:17:47
    your business why you here what's the
  • 00:17:49
    name of your wife what's your dog's name
  • 00:17:50
    where'd you go to university why you why
  • 00:17:52
    do you like North Korea why do you like
  • 00:17:54
    Russia why have you been they were
  • 00:17:55
    looking through my passport why have you
  • 00:17:56
    been to turkistan why have you been to
  • 00:17:57
    Iran so all all the questions were
  • 00:17:59
    coming finally I was like crying and
  • 00:18:01
    begging and convincing them to let me
  • 00:18:02
    bring my friends in because I couldn't
  • 00:18:03
    talk to them and I needed someone to
  • 00:18:05
    bail me out so they let my friends in so
  • 00:18:07
    sitting at this table they're still
  • 00:18:09
    asking questions every question under
  • 00:18:11
    the book long story short they
  • 00:18:12
    threatened to put me behind bars and
  • 00:18:13
    then threatened to throw me back to the
  • 00:18:14
    US and never being allowed in Russia and
  • 00:18:16
    I just really apologized I was like very
  • 00:18:18
    very honest like I'm so sorry I didn't
  • 00:18:19
    know I can't be here blah blah blah and
  • 00:18:21
    so long story short I had to sign like
  • 00:18:23
    30 pages they printed all these Pages
  • 00:18:26
    saying that I will not come here if I'm
  • 00:18:28
    ever seen again at any Border Town in
  • 00:18:29
    Russia I'm immediately thrown out of the
  • 00:18:31
    country and have to pay a massive fine
  • 00:18:33
    and all this stuff so I ended up getting
  • 00:18:35
    out after 3 hours being in this freaking
  • 00:18:38
    compound I got out and I went back to BL
  • 00:18:40
    B stock and I was so shaken up I like
  • 00:18:43
    couldn't sleep for that 24 hours and I
  • 00:18:45
    could have been the next Britney grinder
  • 00:18:46
    I mean a week after I left Russia which
  • 00:18:48
    was two weeks after this um detainment
  • 00:18:51
    happened Putin invaded Ukraine in the
  • 00:18:52
    whole War started and then Britney
  • 00:18:53
    grinder that famous women's basketball
  • 00:18:55
    player um playing on the Phoenix Mercury
  • 00:18:57
    was caught in the Russia airport for
  • 00:18:59
    having some weed on her and she was held
  • 00:19:00
    up locked for 9 months I could have been
  • 00:19:02
    the next pry grinder I'm so glad I got
  • 00:19:03
    out and man those are five near-death
  • 00:19:06
    experiences I had around the world and I
  • 00:19:10
    actually just shot some crazy stories
  • 00:19:11
    here in sou Paulo so hopefully um you'll
  • 00:19:14
    be able to watch him I went in this
  • 00:19:15
    place called kandia and this this FAA
  • 00:19:17
    anyways my my brain is racing right now
  • 00:19:19
    thanks for watching this story I hope
  • 00:19:21
    you learn not to be as stupid as me when
  • 00:19:23
    you travel I mean obviously I push the
  • 00:19:25
    boundaries and you don't have to do that
  • 00:19:27
    I'm just always really curious to know
  • 00:19:28
    what's going on and obviously
  • 00:19:29
    documenting and trying to tell stories
  • 00:19:31
    as I go but yeah you living you learn so
  • 00:19:33
    comment down below I'd love to hear your
  • 00:19:35
    scariest story when you travel I want to
  • 00:19:36
    let the Comon thread be an open place
  • 00:19:38
    where everybody can share ideas and
  • 00:19:40
    people can connect and and I'll be
  • 00:19:42
    reading all them and commenting and all
  • 00:19:44
    right thank you I'm Sweating Bullets
  • 00:19:46
    right now I'll see you guys in the next
  • 00:19:48
    video which will probably be a more
  • 00:19:49
    positive one than this love you all
  • 00:19:50
    thank you so much peace
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