- And it was a different kind of hookah, it wasn't like a standard, water pipe, it was like a wooden stick, like a wooden pipe you stick on the-- - Yeah, on the thing. -
On the thing and it was like natural tabac. Not like, apple. - [Man] Shisha, right, shisha. - Shisha, yeah, not like in apple tobacco or orange tobacco it was like a natural tobacco. - Really strong. - It was really, really strong. - [Man] Really strong. - And it was like, yeah, you had to drink some black tea afterwords casino x ireland. Yeah, a lot of sugar to make up for that. But the thing about that was the guy was actually telling us, yeah, everything is for free. For you, no, no problem, I will show you a bit around and stuff when we were sitting at that tea place he told us, he asked us for the tip. And the tip was like one million. One million rial? - Yeah, like when we were smoking the water pipe he was like, out of nowhere, he was like hey guys, um, yeah, can you give me a tip now and we were expecting like, how much, like 200,000 rials, maybe? - Which is five euros. - Five euros, which is already, like a lot for how long did you show us around? Like an hour, half an hour? And he was like, yeah, 500,000 rials for each person. - For each, which means one million, is like 25 euros. Which like would normally be cool when you do a big tour or something like that in Europe, and in Iran maybe like a half day tour. Just to put into perspective, we've just been to Persepolis, which is like a one hour drive from here and we took a cab. We haggled the price with the cab driver, so it's like one hour from here to Persepolis and back and we stayed two hours there so it was like all together four hours and we paid for that cab about that price. Like 900,000 we paid for that cab. So for this half an hour it was quite a lot to ask for so and this is one of those traps you should be aware of, the thing which is called taroof. You should say like no taroof, so they understand that you, that they shouldn't do this kind of thing or that you mean it that you want to really know if it's for free or not, so you should say no taroof. Selfies, so a lot of people actually come up to you because you look European and Iran, they really look up to the Europeans or like people western looking people and it's the same thing I experience in Argentina. They are really looking to Europe and they want to also go to Europe at some point. And they are really looking up to the people in Europe. And so you have a lot of people actually asking you if you want to take selfies with them. I guess until now I took at least 15 or 20 selfies within one week with a lot of people. Which is, which is really nice, I mean that is like the thing about Iran, the people here are just so nice. The food is really good. I mean, if you, you really should really find out what is the special food for each region. For example, we were in Ispahan, there they eat biryani, here we eat what was it called? Gobera sabshi, or something like that? - [Man] Yeah, which you ate yesterday, right? - Ya, and Falloda, which is the-- - Here is the original falloda. - Here's the original falloda, no the best falloda they say is here this is like the spaghetti type stuff. Traveling with someone else, also helps because you can actually share those awkward moments with. - And you have a little back up like when you're like, confused and you don't know where, what to do, where to go. - Thank you David! - It's quite interesting and it's fun country to travel because it still feels like real travel in Iran. It's not like everything's convenient and stuff you need to talk with your hands a lot, and it's not easy to get around with English. But that makes it a lot of fun actually. To round up the video, you should definitely visit Iran for the people and the food. Also for the monuments, and you should do it as fast as possible before this country gets too touristic because you can already see a little of the impact right now. But for now, it's a great country to visit and if you have the chance to get a visa you should definitely do it. - Now is the time. - Now is the time.
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