will be the journey of his life ah, far from home ali to finally become the person he's always wanted to be in the spare medley elementary credit. and we'll go through with it. i was born in starts march 30th on d. w. ah ah ah ah, ah hello and welcome to a new special edition of jack in. today we're joining d, w. travel report and youtube are able to back on her adventures.

eva takes us to the top stone caves and katha doesher taki. we visit eva's home town of warsaw, poland but fast. we enter conflict torn iraq in april 2021. the entry regulations for tourists were eased. so ava set off a bank. dat ah, today we're starting our tour of baghdad with this place. morton, nearby street, which is the book bizarre, the book market of baghdad, one of the longest running book bazaars, in the entire world. and probably also one of the most iconic places in the city, alma to not be street is not just the market. there's a lot more to it than just the business of buying and selling books, artists, writers and journalists flock here every friday to meet discuss,

and of course read. this place has been a hub for baghdad. intellectuals to the abas lead times, almost in the lenny mego and its literary fame extends beyond the borders of iraq. according to a local saying, kyra writes, bay root prince baghdad, reads from books about women travelling and living alone, 2 marks of socio ology and hungary to novels and poetry. i picked out alice's adventures in wonderland on the thirties and a book of english. $3.00 for both novel alma to not be st. isn't doing all too well today. people still remember the bombs that went off here in 2007, killing many people. and decades of conflict have lowered the demand for books, but a spirit in jews. a select few still come here to meet their friends and read books in cafes. ah, meat ali, my guide and fix a here in iraq. he's the owner of

a promising travel start up cold bill weekend. one of the very 1st of its kind in iraq. tell me like he's on arrival now, like most nationally, we can just get it at the airport. right. so why did that? 2 main reasons. i believe the 1st one is economy. iraq is a market voted with some people, lexus with all of this is the government's own both in the lot. it's open for the silly both the. he called them the legs and it was like, pull from the talk to them, i think a little food and leave a visit the the holly mom. imagine you're back in your school days and in history class, you're learning about the cradle of civilization in ancient mesopotamia. there's a teacher talking about the great, legendary city of babylon. well,

no more textbooks, no more theory. given that it's only 100 kilometers away from baghdad, it's time to visit babylon for real. we're about to me, dr. ahmed, as he saw man, the director of the museum of babylon. for a quick introduction to the site. why didn't you tell us about babylon you have worked here for 29 years? is that right? the sites so bothered on top, the small of them went to somebody in town called in somebody and language cutting of law, which means get all got then your ship to be cover. so for begin via the excavations of babylon. it's only 10 person, 90 per cent and so we have the plan future plan to complete excavation on same time to put a new plan for the construction. because no excavation without any such

babylon was the capital of the babylonian empire. one of the most influential civilisations, we've known, the city was the biggest in the world at the time. home to a staggering 200000 people. it's right here on these land that writing was 1st invented. and it's right here that king how robbie noted down the famous code of hamil robbie. one of the very 1st sets of law is ever recorded. what remains of babylon today is a scattering of ruins, more a memory of greatness than anything else? many of the artifacts that were excavated here in the 19th and 20th centuries, were shipped off to european museums, and not always, legally. there's a lot of discussion in the museum world around whether these artifacts should be repatriated back to iraq. for example, one of the most important parts of babylon's architecture, the ishtar gate is currently housed in the peg m, on museum in berlin. germany,

not everyone agrees that that's where it should be. or many times sir, we asked her lows with these countries to kimberly, oh, we're asked to throw out some of those. but you know, you knew there are me to political negotiation on the most of our, our folks which are and so i bet him resumes belong to. or if you think about it, there's not many places like this left in the world. sure. there's the parents and a few other sites, but babylon is truly one of the most ancient reminders of our history as mankind. and it's special because it's on these lines right here and modern day iraq, where writing and reading were invented. and that's quite special because those were the beginnings of our recorded history. ah,

the nice already getting a live call here in baghdad. but i got us, this is not only our dinner, but also an active. while you see here is a spectacle lunches with mexico and it consists of the national dis, muscle. don't only fish, but i don't think i can resist glaze than seasoned carp grill. the real good fire looks good, doesn't it? and for dessert, he can hop on that to one of back dad's many speech shops. i have a feeling that iraqis have a very sweet tooth because i've never seen a store with this much but clever sugary stuff. chocolate cakes, biscuits name it, they've got it because of ice cream. and so carfax all the pistachio all the knots with so creamy.

all right. i know he's been travelling deep in the history and culture of both of them today. but there's a very modern sight to the city as well. shopping malls like this one, have sprung up all across back that recently, catering to the land cruiser driving, wealthy citizens of the city. honesty. once you're inside a mall like this one, you feel like you could just as well be an abu dhabi or but since we are in iraq lens dame backing to local culture, enjoining musical night to top of that. oh, i know. ah guys, this has been an absolutely awesome trip. i mean, the culture, the foods, the history and the hospitality. of course, here in iraq on believable i guess you in iraq.

ah, next we visit caputo champ, a region in the heart of turkey, with many traditions. excellent cuisine and ancient cliff dwellings. ah, this may seem hard to believe, but up until very recently, people live in these capes for centuries. and now this will become one of the most instagram, a bowl and popular destinations in all of turkey. this is capital copper . dokey is a tiny region tucked right into the heart of central turkey. it gained global fame thanks to its network of fairy chimneys. so real looking rock formations and genuine cave home people have been carving. it's soft and undulating rocks into houses, shelters, and defense distance since 1000

b. c. close. if you already started talking about the cave house with a dog check this out. this is one of those rooms carved in bed roll rock. people would have copies with their hands, centuries ago, they would have eaten here, hung out here, slept here, prayed here. can you imagine all the things that would have happened here over the centuries? ah, there's countless cave homes and ferry chimneys all around a dog. c but the end of the day, not that many people live in these anymore, and after all, this is just dead wrong. but i've got something to show you where the rock comes. i live in a different town right here. and the dog is going to get out. ah,

watery is a huge thing here and get with me everywhere. ah, a oh hello. hello. hello, how are you? i'm good. wow. are you making i'm making which doesn't even look or feel like stone clay. it's more like a metal or wood say, what's the name of your workshop? co bronze is the sound of the earth is father's workshop specializes in making musical instruments out of clay and always invited me to an impromptu private

concert with 3 different clay instruments. starting with the podium next up did get paid and last but not least there with raising a back up a dog. yeah. because it's such a popular spot. you're never going to go hungry here. there's so many restaurants and take issue of course is delicious. but there is one spot that really stands out from the rest. and so it got

a sense of the kitchen is basically inside the restaurants, like a home where you've got the kitchen and the dining room kind of together. and the lady here are super busy at lunch time. me home, me village style. the kitchen is crazy, busy. it's lunchtime. no wonder there is apparently one secret spot in this restaurant. the terrace. this is true. local, authentic blue. you can see it from right here. the lady in here are busy making non traditional tech. and honestly i've audit up with right here we got started mom which i stuffed. grapevine, leaves veggie, covered with sour cream and sauce on top. you see this kind of dish everywhere in the military. just so our matic really feels the lead has just been picked

from a field not so long ago. we've got a beautiful plate, nancy, which is a kind of turkish pastor, and again is just motherly, beautiful, fresh sauce. this is a very good, very the mom, the ultimate field. good dish with garlic, super fresh pastor. and here i played of pedal, which the girls tell me is basically kind of like italian style ravioli with cheese and pads and tomatoes. the food here is awesome, but this sport is a lot more than just a restaurant run by local women as a cooperative business. it creates a sustainable income for all the ladies who work here, bringing 100 percent of the profits back into the community. ah,

i'm switching to my action cam for a little while because in the action coming up, ah, i've come out here to the account. take a horse writing center to do a bit, of course writing that dreamy dream, your horse riding here and got a dog here. this is something i've been wanting to do for such a long time. so just one pro traveled it for you. if you want to come was reading here and capital can make sure that you go to a reputable trustworthy writing center. just pick up a common rewards by the side of the road. want to make sure that the animals are treated with one last catch yourself. ready to go in persian the word cup a dokie actually means the land of the beautiful horses. and unsurprisingly,

horses have been a significant part of the local history. for centuries. legend has it like a paddock it was as given, appeared on battlefields alongside alexander the great ah . all right. out of that boost of adrenalin, it's time to head back to gora, may and unwind for the evening to check out his views. so you can see all of gore in there from this viewpoint, with his twinkling light and all of its cave houses just dining. i think i'm going to sit down and have a glass of candidate. ah . our 3rd and final stop is to the polish capital warsaw eva to back was born here . she knows her way around and has lots of insider tips.

ah, welcome to the medieval, looking old town of warsaw ah, here in the 2nd. well, the entire city was pretty much raised to the ground, it was bombed into oblivion. it basically ceased to exist. none of these buildings actually survived the war. so none of these buildings are the original, beautiful 19th century townhouses that imagine them to be. all of was or had to be rebuilt from scratch. brick by brick. it's the story of the city that kind of like a phoenix that rose from the ashes. now i'm about to show you a sight of poland that many of you might know about. but i'd bet that the realities of living in the communist era will shock and surprise you all that was under

communism. take a shift after the 2nd wall and until 1989. now i was born after the fall of communism, but the irony is not lost on me that the museum polish communism is located right above an american fast food joint. right with ah, in it's actually quite amazing just how real this feels, i mean to a polish person. this is an actual apartment. my grandma had an apartment just like this one. starting with the fur coats in the hallway, just like the hallmark of the polish grandma to the picture of john paul, the 2nd, the polish poke on the wall. my grandma had one as well. 7 you know,

all this furniture, the phone, the land, i mean, all these elements are very real. none of this is fake. in fact, communism may have fallen 30 years ago more than 30 years ago now. but a lot of apartments might still look like this all around poland. and here's one thing i want to show you, which is the classic of polish communist decoration, the glass fish, every single grandmother in poland. how one of these i can guarantee you to go in this year. i want to go out to dinner. you do have that much of a choice. you. 2 to place like this, a traditional mil to bob. now this museum actually has a room that arranged just like a milk bob. but i've got something better for you. milk vase still exists in poland, and that's where you'd go to find cheap, traditional polish food. and the classic

a polish museum, if you've never had, you know, you're not polish with my tank full again, i'm ready to take on a fascinating part of warsaw that few travellers ever visit here in the grungy neighbourhood of braga, residential courtyards hide a fascinating secret. many of them are home to these tiny chapels, old shrines. check out the shuffle right behind me. it's so beautiful. it just stand so majestic in the middle of this con grandy dilapidated neighborhood during the 2nd world war, when going to church was just too dangerous. some morsels religious residents decided to build neighborhood chapels like these so that people would have a place to pray in without strain too far from home. over 100 of these chapels survive to this day. one thing that i find truly amazing about each and everything while these chapels is that they're all completely different than done a different creative and artistic style. no tune i like before, for example,

is just so beautiful and pristine, and perfect and compact compared some of the others which are a bit more grungy and perhaps less well taken care of. each of them seems to have a soul of its own. in today's poland, religion can be a huge point of contention and a divisive subject among polish people. the current government has close ties to the catholic church, which has led to various protests sweeping across the streets of poland. in reaction to increasingly restrictive church is by laws around issues such as abortion. but these kinds of classes don't end with politics. even on these very streets, the traditional shrines and chapels are neighbors with a much more contemporary phenomenon. here in the neighborhood of braga, you can find some incredible examples of world class murals created by artists from

poland and beyond. i joined shamrock, who leads a local street out foundation on a quick tour of some of the neighborhoods top nero's color huntington corner harrington is an artist from island for cheryl. they came here to warsaw in 2014 vigour his canvass. paintings. confed shopped at tens of thousands, even hundreds of thousands of british pounds, all the shows, the phone calls for to this really shows his peters on the market as a painted and hostile key. in my view, this is one of the most interesting murals and also the, essentially in terms of the technique, the details about me and keep in mind that this mural was painted by hand using very delicate and small brushes that you got. so all of them last, the huge sign that the work i mean is very impressed with go and put them up. i'm going to be today, mom is perhaps in my interest mural by mario savannah's, known as m city, one of the most famous polish mural artists. and certainly one of the 2 most

thought after polish mural is in the world alongside at time cream, you know, say set of us monies didn't get lucky with war. so since a lot of his works have disappeared off the city walls to his works that we produced were destroyed when the buildings they had been created on were renovated with something we take into account her how to that such as the character of street art. these art pieces are given to everyone. everyone can admire them, that they are not given forever because they disappear as the city develops when buildings get renovated and so on. as you can probably see by now also has been busy reinventing itself again and again over the last century. throughout all the change, a few businesses survived to tell the tale of changing poland. but i found one that did so he can see is a modern city. so there's not many traditional crafts people left here. but there is one shop that i've been frequency for

a couple of years now. and i really want to share with you mister battling. he has a shop where she specializes in making turn to me brush. there's all kinds of brushes here in the shop and they said, oh, kinds of different functions before coming here for the 1st time. i had no idea that there were so many brushes, many uses. for example, this is a brush for you'll have this here is a brush for a horse. this brush is for cleaning and polishing your shoes. this brush hair is for scrubbing your body in your skin, and this brush is for brushing vegetables such as beatrice, potatoes, or carrots. mister berlin's keys. brush workshop is one of the last traditional businesses in warsaw. and i always swing by here when i'm in town. and there's one more spot i always visit here. this one shouldn't come as

a surprise. it is one of the most popular iconic spots in war. so to get don't, is always a line. there's a line today, but i assure you it's worth the way ah, the spot is so popular. that is basically no donuts. let those 2 ladies in front of us who are getting some donuts right now. so there's going to be enough for us. i yeah. this is like the treasure you guys. so let me show you a traditional polish. don't that wall and fluffy and soft stick without. so what we've got here is it's just a beautiful piece of bakery icing sugar on top. but inside that sweet, fide there, real gen, the traditional polish donuts are made with rose jam. not raspberry jam,

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