Female Riding Motorcycle in BAGHDAD | Iraq | [E42]

We're gonna go and explore Baghdad a little bit. So we've been at Ali's house, met his sister, mother, father, the whole family. And we had a really delicious dinner over there basically. Oh my god, it's so much food. I'm here with Ali. Welcome, Christina. Thank you. And this is amazing. Thank you so much. Thank you. Ah, it's so good. Yummy, yummy, yo. So you see Ali's in front of me. He's from the Hawks Motorcycle Club as well. Here in Baghdad. Yeah, gotta be cocky here. And the crew in Baghdad. They're so kind these people, my god. I wish you all got to experience this. Police is everywhere. With the militaries. It makes me feel pretty safe, I must say. You go there with women and women and women. What was the place called? Mutanabbi Street. Yes, it's Mutanabbi. So cool. Okay, see you on the other side. We're gonna go and do a little checking here for the women. If I have something on me. Picture time. Queen picture time. Okay, so we'll have a little photo shoot here as well. Over there we're gonna take the shots. With the guys back here. All right, we're trying some sweets from Iraq. What's it called? It's like some vanilla cream inside. It's super delicious. So I find this hotel but the parking looks a little bit funny. I'm in Baghdad. I'm sleeping in Baghdad tonight again. It was a really nice day. Driving, the road was great. There was no problem at all on the road. It's just when you came to Baghdad basically it was a little bit tricky there. You know, a lot of traffic felt a little bit like, I don't know, Asia? India, sort of. It's all right. So I hanged with the guys from the Hawks Motorcycle Club as well. Thank you so much. It's great, so great to hang out with them. And they showed me and took me to town. And a really, really good day. And tomorrow I stay here one more night. I will go to the residence office tomorrow and ask a little bit about my visa. I'll see what's going on there with my 10 days and stuff. So I better go to sleep now. This is my little room, simple little room. And yeah, I'll see you tomorrow. Good morning here in Baghdad. I just got up and I'm directly going to the residence office. It's very crowded. And I think they must love birds here because he's going with a whistle that sounds exactly like a bird. And I'm sleeping just probably like five minutes if you're going back a little bit. And on the street, it's very busy with markets. So I have to go and have a look later on. This is so cool. Try some street food. Yeah, do some stuff. But first of all, residence office and check my visa. I'll see what's going on if it's 10 days or two months. We know how many lives in Baghdad. It's six million who lives here in this city. And it was filled with poets and really creative city in the past until the war broke out. So that's sad to see this city could have. It has a lot of potential. You see there are militaries on the street, police on the street everywhere. Makes me feel pretty safe. Anyway, I got really good news from the minister of interior here for the Iraq. They told me you don't have only 10 days, you have two months. You don't know how big relief it was in my heart. You know that because now I've been rushing down basically. And I don't like that. Two months I have. I don't know why they said 10 days for me. I'm a special case. This has been a mess. I'm talking a lot about my visa, but that's what's going on in the reality of my life right now. So I want to share it as well. But everything is good. All good. Good to go. I have, yeah, two months to go. I'm so happy. Iraq, Iraq. Ah, such a cool country. Look at this talent on the head. Yeah, you know, we find our own ways in everything in life. You can see here, it's so beautiful, every building here. And this one. Yes, it's been through a rough time. Following this police truck. One of the police over there told me to follow him. Because I need to get to my hotel now. I'm so exhausted in my left hand. I'm holding a clutch all the time. And I haven't had any breakfast yet. So I'm gonna go to the hotel and I will leave my bike there. In the parking, I hope. That's it. I'm not driving here anymore today. Hello. These guys are working so hard, eh? They're impressive, carrying all that stuff. Oi, oi, oi. And I thought Istanbul was bad. That's just a dream compared to this. I mean, this is an adventure. Okay. I made it back from the residence office finally. So I just ride into the shower and washed me. Now I'm ready for exploring a little bit more of Baghdad. But at the residence office, they told me you have two months, not 10 days. So I don't know what happened up there in Kurdistan, Iraq. They told me 10 days. But in the passport, it says actually two months in Arabic. So I told them, is it true? Because I don't want to be in trouble in Iraq and always stay here. I was like, no, no, no, no, no. Two months it is. And he double-checked. And he double-checked two times. I was like, no, it's two months. So I've been rushing a lot. So I have to decide a little bit what to do next after Baghdad. Option one could be to actually go back up to the north and explore more. Or I just slow down a little bit down here and explore this area. I'm not sure yet. I have to figure that out first. Yeah, that's good anyway. Two months, then I don't have to rush through because that was awful. I just wanted to stay and enjoy and explore, you know. So that's good news. Perfect. And my plan now is to explore more of Baghdad. I'm gonna go out from this hotel room because it's a massive market here, apparently. I don't know if you can hear. It's a lot of sound. People talking and selling stuff and honking and the police are here. This is madness. So I thought, why not go out in that madness and have a look and film a little bit and explore that area. I'm very excited. So I thought, let's do that. Cheese as well, if you want. I'm not sure what cheese it is. Looks delicious though. Brilliant. So yeah, it's a lot of things right here. All the animals and all the stuff here in Baghdad. So a lot of things happening. But it's super interesting. Super interesting to see. People are very kind on the streets. Very cool. It's so cool up here. You can buy so many strawberries as well. It's so delicious. Really good. But I got myself some bread, cookies. If you want some cookies. It's so cool up here. It's so wild. Very wild. I'm gonna go and pack up for everything. Ali's place. I'm gonna stay there for one night. Okay, we're gonna get out of this place. All good. Yep. You see, it's a massive market here right now. It's Friday and people are off. So that's why. This was the hotel I stayed in. This one. So intense here. You know, for me it's exhausting. But it's so interesting to see and experience. I love this kind of chaos. I think it's very interesting. You can see they have these repeated speakers. Telling them to come to buy, I guess, these things. Tuk-tuks everywhere. On the other side they had peacocks. A lot of birds and other animals. Yeah, it's just packed. But yeah, I'm pretty ready to get out of this place now. And over here you have the holy shrine. I don't remember the name of it. But it's so beautiful. I will go in Najaf. I will go to a really big one and visit that one. But for Baghdad, just walk on the street and visit the monument as well. That's the plan. And just feel the city. That's what I like the most. Just feel the atmosphere and the people. And see their cultures and all that interests me a lot. And in this corner you have the bike streets. Mostly Vespas. Because you can't really find any motorcycles in Iraq. Well, now you can find a few ones, a few stores. But mostly you have to import them or buy second hand. And I guess importing them is very expensive. So mostly second hand. And here you have some gold wings. Yeah, they love the gold wings here. I've seen many of them. See, I'm gonna pass. See, Ali here has a really good honk horn. It's like for a truck. It's great. And he has a lot of lights in the bike. Which I guess you need when you're basically in Baghdad. Sarek is getting a full spa treatment here on the chain. Fantastic. And maybe a little bit of cleaning on her again. Because it's getting dirty pretty fast. Yes, you gotta take care of your loved ones, okay? So Ali's gonna adjust the chain for me as well. But this is good stuff, you see. Abbas. Thank you so much. I got these incredible glasses here from this person. Oh my god, people are so kind. Up north again. I decided to go north towards Iraqi Kurdistan again. Because I just rushed through everything. So I want to wrap it up up there. And I will tell you more about that later. But plan is to go north again. Not the same route, another route. Route number one towards Tikrit and Mosul. And I will do some short stops on the way there as well. So let the adventure continue.