00:00Hello and welcome to country 134. I am here in Libya in the old city of Tripoli. I've been here
00:08for about 10 days so I want you guys to follow on my journey. I've been traveling independently
00:13which is new. They've recently launched an e-visa system and before this tourists couldn't just hang
00:19around and do whatever they want. I've been here for about 10 days. I've been exploring a lot of
00:23different cities, a lot of different parts of the country. It's been amazing. The people are great.
00:27So yeah, follow along because I've got so much to show you guys. But for now,
00:31welcome to Libya, Tripoli, country 134. Peace. All right guys, welcome to Gadames, Libya. So
00:39I'm in a place that has some interesting history that you've probably never heard of and neither
00:44have I. But this is what they call Tesco. Tesco is a Berber word for market and in this ancient city,
00:53this is where the market was. This is where vendors would come, sell their stuff, buy stuff
00:58and yeah, it was called Tesco in their original language. My local guide was telling me that
01:05the British who were here hundreds of years ago, they heard the word, they took it back with them
01:10and eventually someone started Tesco. Let me know in the comments if you knew the history of that
01:15word but the word Tesco, the supermarket actually comes from Berber and it is a local word for
01:21market. Very cool. Hopefully I taught you something new today. Welcome to Libya. And this
01:27is the old English concert like I told you that was here and from here they found the word Tesco
01:33and took it back to the UK. There's not much here anymore, you can see. But yeah, it's a really cool
01:40place in these old streets of Gadames. In this country, one litre of petrol is 0.15 which is
01:50equivalent to this much. It's very cheap to fill up a whole car. A car of this size costs about
01:57two dollars less. Yeah, less than two dollars. Two dollars. Yeah, less than two dollars. So as you can see,
02:03it's filling up. He's putting almost 50 litres and it's only just a dollar. Very cheap. Now, I'm going
02:11to go to the shop. I'm going to show you how much a bottle of water costs, a litre of water. Here's
02:15the shop. Same petrol station and they should have water inside. As-salamu alaykum. Let's have
02:23a look. Here we go. Here's the big litres of water. This should cost one dinar. So remember, a litre of
02:33petrol is 0.15. This will cost one dinar. One. Amazing. Thank you so much. You can see one dinar.
02:46This bottle of water which is just over a litre is six times more than a litre of petrol. Absolutely
02:51insane. So yeah, welcome to Libya where petrol is cheaper than water. Literally. Welcome to a day in
02:57the life of a full-time traveller who's currently backpacking around Libya. This morning I just got
03:01into Tripoli and I instantly went for a walk to go see what the city has to offer. It's actually
03:05super busy with a lot of life and it's not something you'd expect. Here's the gold market which is also
03:09pretty fascinating. Tripoli has a lot of gold shops. But before I bought anything I had to go
03:13get some cash. So I went to the old souk where there's a lot of money changing guys and I changed
03:1750 bucks. You think Libya would need a lot of security because of its past but in reality it
03:21really doesn't. In these markets you see guys walking around with hundreds of thousands of
03:25dollars like it's nothing. And now off to the clock tower cafe which is right in the centre of
03:28Tripoli to have a sandwich. I thought this is what I was getting but this is what I got in reality
03:33and it had way too much sauce. This slushy dough was fire. Been in Libya for about a week now so
03:38it's time to wash my clothes. You don't really see any laundry mats here so I had to do it myself.
03:42Luckily I always carry my scrubber bag which is essentially a portable washing machine with an
03:46inside washboard. You just fill up the bag with your clothes, fill it up with water to the line
03:49and just roll it along the floor. Leave it in a bag for a few minutes and then it's all pretty
03:53much clean. Just leave it out to dry. For dinner I decided to go to my favourite spot in the whole
03:56of Tripoli, the tuna market. It's tuna season now so you can get a kilo of tuna for about five bucks.
04:01It's probably the best food you can have here, it's unreal. Had a little walk around the old city,
04:05played some football with these kids and went home to rest and that's what a day looks like
04:08for a backpacker in Libya.
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