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tv   Check-in  Deutsche Welle  May 1, 2021 9:30am-10:01am CEST

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welcome to our new special edition of check him this time we invite you to join us on a trip around the globe from south africa to brazil from the kruger national park to the waterfalls of. attractive destinations that are all
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suffering from the travel restrictions of the coronavirus and demick. places that we hope to be able to visit again soon without restrictions. what could be better than hugging a 1000 year old friend. checked in viewers from around the world present sightseeing highlights in their home country is. our 1st stop is cape town south africa. the name is like my last name and so much this is my neck and neck of the woods in cape town it's known as longer one of the oldest black african townships in the western cape it's a beautiful feat of lyric tory what the gallery $61.00 literate already behind me generally this area would be fulled with guess what people however what the cover of night in situation is currently dry and drab but i'm going to take you to
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a little bit of the city at my favorite spot in the city of cape town and show you my neck of the woods. within the city center long street which is pretty much of vibrant part of cape town central business district but what makes it special is that it's the funky but it's where all the clubs are your 18 to 30 five's come and play and for look here you're urbanites off to work towards generally have grabbed a board here. where . company gardens just on the right hand side where in an average day this would be fulled with tourists and locals alike that take a day break out of the hectic city and buzz in the city and just catch a breath with in this majestic gardens people generally come and feed squirrels in the garden as you can see pigeons egyptian peace in and around here.
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we now are on the gateway to table mountain a real cable way of course that's also been closed even from here it is amazing view of the city it's pretty much a place spot in the city center. the waterfront is it's a mall attract the best the best kept secret about it is it's still the working dockyard it's one of southern africa all this working dockyards. so this is where we catch the ferry to the island robben island used to be a place where political prisoners are late all the states manasseh mandela spent a couple of years there so it was quite a pivotal point for me growing up as a young teenagers of 13 and 14 when mandela was freed to post 994 where we kind of
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caught freedom are i wasn't quite eligible enough to vote i wasn't kind of 18 years old but. the queues of people certainly non whites blacks counted indians and the like for the 1st time having the chance to put an x on the ballot paper so that was quite a that was quite a momentous occasion in the history of south africa. even though a party fell off in 1900 voted post 994 you're not going to take the income inequality off the city's divide away in 25 years and probably take a generation or 2 to undo that. this is where they classified people on whether you're black you're watching a college you indian so this is the non whites only bench. and this is why it's only bench how i can also hear i'm ok folks we've done wrapping up in the city center of cape town c.b.d.
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now with back to my neck of the woods in portland and going through to the restaurant where i normally so people don't as in the evening that. get into to the covert 900 situation displays is a good sport about 99 percent of the patrons that come to this restaurant are international guests hopefully once the school is over we'll have you wining and dining with the restaurant in beautiful cape town and monica the woods and yeah and have fun with us. i'm going to show you out on somebody in the wake of the. santorum is a karmic cross and shape violent in the south and. normally would complain about over tourism but this year because of the fun they have me there it is empty.
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so this is one of the more famous pictures from the sideline to the famous blue dome and feel stuff i mean with a volcano in the background the dome symbolizes the sky basically the vault of the sky and the cases painted blue circle it over and over the number of churches we have this is more than that there. so something has for people that i recommend besides that they feel. the smaller religious approach. to my personal. it's really just sort of make on the whole the beatles and that at the moment a number you know. this is supposed to be a song about the deficit and. something to be just not black but most of the black
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work on the cash others also want more binge but this ranks right the cause a fight on all sides. create a finance capital and the commercial center more money on these places would be open and touching a very very busy but given the circumstances most of them are closed and therefore poem that definitely this. couple could use a song for the forgiveness but also one of the other. sort of this is here one of the more strike on except amounts off the islands with one of the more stuff photographed sunsets and the warped normally behind me over $3000.00 people would gather for watching the sunset this fewer people you give us
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more to feel for the 1980 s. . there are. hardships. thanks for joining me and hopefully to see you sunday. yes. how long hello and welcome to both make my name's dora purchase i'm from dubrovnik but i lived in frankfurt for a few years and returned to my wonderful home country after finishing high school and i'm going to show you how beautiful dubrovnik is and why i love it. not chillis beginnings but will start out here on the city walls and then not only the pride of brother nick but of all croatia. 9 to 1979 in the old city and these wills were added to the list of us go world
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heritage sites. what will assume that even though it was going to ask a world heritage site in 1901 the city was attacked by serbian and montenegrin forces you know but the walls remained standing until today when all. the levels of normally there would be thousands of people up here at this time of year when about because of the corona crisis there are no simply fewer tourists this year than last but we locals don't think it's all that bad so now we have the place all to ourselves. did i bet the best beer to broaden it is from our own manton service up there you can walk up and go you can take the cable car i'd suggest we take the cable car today because it's so hot so bad part of all of their highs.
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but isn't that amazing you can see everything from up here local island village are soft and the airport behind me we can see all of the broad nic it's a magnificent view. so you're going to be done now and back down in the old city behind me is the main entrance to the old town the pillowcase tape come on complement. dog and front and now we're on to brother next main street and its most famous street called struggling. it starts at the big on north korea's fountain with its 16 was his invest our spy out. as with fathomless and says jordan is our main street and very important in our
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lives since we do so many things on the streets i we shop here during coffee and spend time with our friends and families who don't mind we just love the streets not just that you must watch them just imagine last year it was so crowded here you could hardly move you had to push people aside just to get through. and today as you can see it's practically empty net fast complex. but to let stroll through out of iraq nic is going to hear that visiting the beautiful people to my favorite is a saint from here to get the best we have to. tell
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for i hope you enjoyed we look forward to seeing you here and abroad nick with the new tell them i'll be over the most of the little nickel. by one day pier and we're in venice. and i live in venice and right now i'm going to show my face just a little bit but because the regulations i have to keep this back on so will cover up my ugly face right now we are in kind of edgy and i live here in this in this area i'm going to show you a different kind of venice not the tourist venice but my venice the venice that i like to participate in.
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but we're going into the out tonight which is one of my favorite places because we're talking about boats and everybody that works here is in love with boats you can't be in venice without loving boats because part of the history of what we're in right now this at one time this is one of my favorite places to be was the biggest shipyard in the entire world and the 1st kind of factory lines started here in venice. pretty soon. we're on the island of tolls and now where we're based and where a lot of our fun happens it's not just we work here but we also on my off days i like to come here to to hang out because it's just a really beautiful island it's an open area where there's lots of grass and you feel nature here you can this is where the lagoon starts savannah's and where i think the fun happens. for him.
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or if. you are not allowed to skateboard at all in venice so that i work in this beautiful island it's amazing that i have all this space. the idea behind classic boats venice was to create a company that was offering sustainable choices as it pertains to the marine. the marine industry so to speak in venice so we thought to take classical craftsmanship traditional. craftsmanship that was beneath and in particular a boat like this which is some people thought which is a traditional venetian sailing boat and rowing boat and to convert it instead of with an electric engine so that we could rent this without driver and so that gas could come to venice and experience the venetian lagoon in a sustainable way but also in a traditional way. from
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this year from 2020 looking at it venice has suffered a lot in terms of tourism but on the flip of that we had a lot of guests who were looking for sustainable tourism which was incredible which was a big plus for us and the cleanliness of the city definitely improved. hi guys my name is. ranger in the kruger national park i'm rich take you out on the safari come with me. i'm from the eastern cape was born in canton and see which is. put in is
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a bit of contesting the wall ever since i was born. so walden is my myself and the field guide i have already to work in the group of pockets so amazing because it's so big they don't versity. the want like it's so rich. that is a martial. so it's one of the largest in the wrong and those eagles actually when they fully grown they can pick up a baby impala they specializes in morning time visits you can see the 10 footer dangling on the other side of the tree their lives are. every time i drive in these roads it's a new day every day i mean look at this vastness just open.
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just. all the debris not happy. with. him. there's a magic magic number. one come to. train on the bridge this is where we're from of mind. this special it's amazing because they utilizing what's been there as part of the history so to have but actually train with a combination i think to most places where you actually sit and look at the water but not the water flowing and so it's very very unique to have that sound of the heap of. the whole the ecosystems here actually wanting to sometimes you don't need
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to go in the game you can just sit outside and literally the wild will come to you which is fantastic it's a sign of hope because last year was a very tough year for the tourism industry and then most of the leagues they've been laid off and there were. no money in every day you estimate about profit 800 cars driving through the park every day i mean with the long. single drive literally the animals would actually we haven't seen literally big elephant dung the. the road lines leaping everywhere because there's no one really it's like they begging for the tourists to come back. i would suggest people they should come and explore this is the best place.
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like you to go into my cuckoo safari trip we're taking to question falls treated to an invigorating shower at one of the world's 7 natural wonders. let me present a glossy national park. heritage site was also declared one of the 7 new owners of the world on 2011. 195010 protects the remaining foreigner and flora of the atlantic forest in power on a state. some
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$260000.00 residents its economy revolves around tourism is growing visitors to its cultural diversity and natural beauty. 6 must see is the omagh even mosque it was built in the early 1980 s. and is part of the significant arab community that arrived in one. only 957 is the release of the missing when. we think in front of the mosque as an arab pastry shop so good for those who like to enjoy middle eastern treat senator licious coffee also coffee.
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the international friendship bridge was built during the fifty's and sixty's it's the spending that i run a river it connects falls to because who in brazil with see that their last day in paraguay i don't know. from the friendship bridge we come straight ahead to the market just press from. this space is known because of the open list there which marks the junction of brazil paraguayan and argentina it's also where the equals who river converge is with the pub on a river and gives the city its night let's find out more about it one of. the 1st to basel has many surprises in store for tourists especially when it comes to the environment i'm here a park to stop it was the only place in the world focused on preserving atlantic rainforest but let's take a closer look at fish. as
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well as being one of brazil's main tourist destination was to falls this set of 275 waterfalls also marks the brazilian argentine border. and team is just over there i do like falls to cause you. why not come and enjoy it too. you. got some hot tips for your bucket list. corner. for some. and some great cultural memorials to boot.
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w.h.y. . you. well know my name is reuben pyle if i'm an adventure tourism guide and i live in the beautiful city of behind me you can see your famous landmark the view of ok no the most active volcano in my city is considered the capital of adventure tourism in chile come with me i'll show you around. lake and great mountain landscapes. and its surroundings have to offer there are a lot of things to do yeah yeah yeah if you've ever been here you visit and must go to one of the arak area forests we're here on the trail of the hyundai and the goods that see what we can find come on follow me.
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and i wanted to show you something magical this is something really magical funny that we encounter specifically in this region in the sauna the air carriers had a unique to our region or they can be over a 1000 years old lankan arak areas as old as 1400 years have been found where you needed me to look like came across what could be better than hugging a 1000 year old friends. anything during this beautiful hike besides the arak areas in the lakes that you can also admire this beautiful volcano that danielle. it's the biggest folk aino in the south with a height of 3776 meters. we all know the coin coin market and gastronomical market from the dishes something delicious.
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and here is my dish homemade speciality of the region who eat us. we have been hit hard by the current corona situation and i have no had a job in the tourism sector since march last year and we had great hopes that the situation would improve this summer unfortunately has not and we now have to go into complete quarantine for the time being what is it about that. as a native of this region i recommend you climb the fear eco volcano this is because there are a few volcanoes in the wild where you can see a lake a glow of that and climbing view is quite easy so i invite you all to come here and climb the via rico volcano.
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