Mogadishu: What They Don’t Show You

Added: 2026-05-12

[00:00:00]If anyone comes, I'm ready.

[00:00:03]>> [music] >> There's a lot of people getting shot here all the time. It's a very very dangerous area. In the traffic jam, my driver took out his gun and threatened the other passengers to pass by. My driver is getting mad now.

[00:00:14]>> So much story about this place. You can see the ruins. What do they do if a Somali guy gets a tattoo? They might remove it as well. Who would have known that Somalia has these beaches? And we're going on a boat. Just don't hope THERE'S ANY PIRATES.

[00:00:29]THIS IS GOING TO BE KIND OF AN ILLEGAL TRIP.

[00:00:31]>> Somalia is a very very Muslim country.

[00:00:33]To do this, this is not good. Now we're going to shoot. [music and singing] So, cheers.

[00:00:37]That's right now?

[00:00:39]Maybe I can try to hit the pirates over here, al-Shabaab.

[00:00:46]Somalia.

[00:00:48]Somalia.

[00:00:50]Habibi, come to Mogadishu.

[00:00:55]In Istanbul, ready to go for Mogadishu.

[00:00:59]And I choose this local clothes. This is from Afghanistan though, so it's not totally local, but it's kind of Muslim clothes. And I really like to to to walk in it, not just because I want to fit in and make people happy because of that.

[00:01:12]No, it's also because I actually like to to wear it. It's very comfortable. So, but yeah, I will buy some some local local like real local clothes in Somalia too to support the locals. And then yeah, also to get the the right clothes because it's it's it's different everywhere in the in Muslim countries the clothes. So, yeah, I'm really excited. And if people ask is I'm afraid to to go there? No, I'm not. I'm just curious, curious to see [music] how Somalia is and meet the people there.

[00:01:39]Where I'm going now is to Mogadishu, Somalia. So, I'm so excited. I'm so excited. And there's apparently only Somalis here going same place as me. You and helicopters and flights everywhere.

[00:01:55]This airport.

[00:01:56]Mogadishu. Waiting here in Mogadishu Airport and they say my invitation letter is expired, so it's it's kind of [ __ ] and they're not very helpful and they're not very friendly. So, it's not what I heard so far. I hope the people in the city are more friendly. Um yeah, but my driver and the guide and the security security guards and stuff, they're waiting outside, so hopefully they can help me.

[00:02:22]But the the internet the the Wi-Fi here in the airport is very bad. So, basically I'm just waiting here in the corner.

[00:02:29]Uh and nothing seems to really happen. I got picked up by this very friendly guy, Somali guy here.

[00:02:36]Yeah.

[00:02:38]Yeah, and I'm finally in Somalia. A little problems in the immigration, but you know, it's not the first time I experience that, so everything's fine and finally in Somalia.

[00:02:50]So happy. Thank you very much, brother.

[00:02:57]Now me and my friends, my guides here, we're going to have some local food and I will have some local lemon. What is this?

[00:03:05]Nut shake. Okay. And it's like you get a banana with every meal here.

[00:03:11]Ah, why is that?

[00:03:13]It's kind of culture. Culture, yeah, yeah. Okay. I think it's cool. I like banana.

[00:03:19]They have been dealing with a lot of rain here in Somalia the last couple of months actually, I think. And uh there's a lot of people who also need to leave their homes and even a lot of people also died and it seems like the rain is just going on here in Somalia. What time is this? So much water on the roads here.

[00:03:40]>> [music] >> Is it?

[00:03:42]No, I'm just asking if it has has been worse than this.

[00:03:46]I mean, the weather water situation.

[00:03:50]Around here in Somalia, just bought this cap to hide some of my tattoos. Now I need to go for a scarf and to respect the people and their religion here. Walking around here in the second largest market in Mogadishu.

[00:04:04]Not exactly the local markets I'm used to, but this is definitely more interesting.

[00:04:10]>> [music] >> Oh, I bought a scarf in here and yeah, we took some time because we needed to to pay with mobile money and I needed to connect my phone with a mobile money here. So we need to go to the bank and stuff.

[00:04:28]Because funny enough Somalia is way ahead of yeah, a lot of countries. They only use mobile money here.

[00:04:35]Maybe you can guess why some of the reason is of course robbery and stuff, but yeah, maybe also some other stuff, but I don't know.

[00:04:43]Still walking around here in the market and the back here there was also a big market, but now everything is burnt down.

[00:04:51]They say there was some kind of a electricity mistake and everything burnt down.

[00:05:00]Finally I found my new shirt, the Somali jersey here.

[00:05:04]Look how beautiful it is. I really love the color. So cool. Yeah, ocean style.

[00:05:08]Yeah. Yeah, ocean style. Yeah. Yeah, and we looked a lot of different places to get the right size for me.

[00:05:15]So I'm still big. I'm glad for that. Oh, now I'm going to try to mobile pay on all of my own here in Mogadishu and Somalia because yeah, I never tried that all by myself.

[00:05:26]So let's try now. Somali tuk-tuk.

[00:05:30]Hello brothers. What's up? What's up?

[00:05:32]Are we good? Good. Good. Yeah, yeah.

[00:05:35]It's a rainy day. Yeah, it's a rainy day again, right? Yeah, yeah.

[00:05:38]It's horrible for the ones who lost their homes. And hundreds of lives. Welcome to my crib here in Mogadishu.

[00:05:48]It is what it is. 25 bucks, so it's okay.

[00:05:51]And there yeah, a bed.

[00:05:53]It's all I need.

[00:05:55]Place to sleep and then I'm actually right in the middle downtown in the center of the hustle and bustle in Mogadishu, which is quite cool. And within an hour they're going to pick me up and then I'm going for gym hopping.

[00:06:09]Now I'm ready for gym hopping here in Mogadishu, Somalia. Can't wait to see how they train here. And I'm going to train with this this guy. He's a friend here and we're going to train triceps and biceps.

[00:06:30]Yes.

[00:06:32]Come on, it's easy.

[00:06:33]Come on, three more. Come on.

[00:06:35]two three easy Then it's always funnier.

[00:06:48]Focus on your biceps.

[00:06:52]Yeah, it's a lot more fun now. You can see it work, right?

[00:06:58]Thanks.

[00:07:02]So we've been here for a checkpoint in like 20 minutes or something and uh yeah, it seems they don't want to let us pass their checkpoint because this area [music] which we're going into now is a little more dangerous and they don't want people from outside come and film.

[00:07:17]Um so yeah, uh our guides and our guide and um yeah, the police they are kind of discussing right now what to do. So let's hope we can move forward.

[00:07:27]We are driving by the parliament of Somalia here.

[00:07:32]It's inside here.

[00:07:34]the white buildings This is a very famous monument here in Mogadishu. You can't see it now because so dark, but this man he's throwing stones because when they were in war with the British when the British army they left, they were in war. They only used stones and they actually won in the end. So, this is a monument of a guy going to throw a stone.

[00:08:04]Pretty awesome.

[00:08:06]So, I'm sitting here having dinner and I was like I don't have any protection or anything.

[00:08:11]I couldn't understand because I was told that you need to have protection and I saw like people going here have big machine guns guys with them and stuff and now we're sitting here and it seems like this guy here he has a gun. [music] Can you show the gun?

[00:08:29]I got You have the gun, right?

[00:08:32]Can you show it?

[00:08:34]Where's the gun?

[00:08:37]Yeah.

[00:08:38]So, he has a gun here and also this guy.

[00:08:42]Yeah.

[00:08:45]Yeah, and I didn't know. So, all the time I just thought they were like friends of my guy just wanted to join.

[00:08:50]So, apparently I have some security.

[00:08:54]Now we're here this place where they're socializing a lot with each other and also football game going on here.

[00:09:04]And people are playing some different the games as you see here.

[00:09:11]Very cool, brothers.

[00:09:16]A lot of different games they play.

[00:09:18]Reminds me of something called Ludo.

[00:09:21]I don't know if it's the same name in English, but yeah.

[00:09:26]And a football game going on here.

[00:09:30]But it's a place here in the middle of Mogadishu where they come to socialize and play and they're having fun.

[00:09:37]As you see, of course, it's only men.

[00:09:41]So, the women they are they are at home or socializing together with other women. And they can even pray here.

[00:09:48]A very cool place, actually.

[00:09:51]A very cool place. You can sit and you can play and you can play football.

[00:09:55]A very good way to interact and socialize together.

[00:09:59]Even inside here, they meet for playing FIFA and watching football and mostly mostly FIFA.

[00:10:09]My view here from the hotel.

[00:10:14]Middle of Mogadishu.

[00:10:18]Now I got my new clothes on here, ready to go. Another place in Mogadishu which is a little more dangerous.

[00:10:24]Which we couldn't go last night because it was too dangerous to go at night. But now we got permission to go here in in daylight. So, yeah, I kind of changed a little bit closer to [music] the more local.

[00:10:38]Anyway, so if you people have seen Black Hawk Down, then you probably know what what this is about.

[00:10:53]So, we're going to the place where the two helicopters and two American helicopters were shot down.

[00:10:59]When they when the Americans they tried to like kidnap a person from the Somalia military the officer.

[00:11:08]So, everything went quite wrong and they got shot down these two helicopters at that place where we [music] are going.

[00:11:15]Yeah, and then afterwards they were trying to to rescue [music] people there and there was a like a big fight there.

[00:11:22]So, now I got my own protection.

[00:11:26]If anyone comes, I'm ready.

[00:11:29]>> [music] >> So, here is where Black Hawk Down helicopters was shot down. Actually just here when the yellow where the yellow building is. Uh in '93 the helicopters was shot down exactly here the American helicopters when they tried to the American tried [music] to kidnap an officer from Somalia and it went wrong and they shot the two helicopters down.

[00:11:57]The Americans tried to rescue the some of the the people who didn't get killed [music] in the the crash down and they there was a big fight here. And still in this area it's not it has nothing to do with the Americans anymore it's a big it's a big complicated area full of Shabab Al-Shabab and normal people security and undercovers to to find Al-Shabab and so there is a lot of people getting shot here all the time so it's it's a very very dangerous area and I'm not allowed to go out at all so that's how it is. Sometimes I take my precautions.

[00:12:34]Um or you can say I'm not allowed to go out so they won't let me so so sometimes you also need to listen and that's what I'm doing today.

[00:12:45]>> [music] >> This is an old base from the military in Somalia.

[00:12:50]There's still people there but as you can see it has been [music] a yeah it has been a lot of fighting there so it's totally destroyed. Local camel market here.

[00:13:02]>> [music] >> Outside Mogadishu we drove outside the city.

[00:13:05]So normally there is a camel market here.

[00:13:08]All the camels here they take to the market and they also taking the milk from them here.

[00:13:16]They are walking freely here. Yeah it's of course there are inside some kind of fence. Let's see if you want to be my friend or not.

[00:13:26]Not not.

[00:13:27]It's going away now.

[00:13:29]>> [music] >> A lot of them. I don't want to walk behind it. It just kick me like a mule or horse or something.

[00:13:40]Many camels here.

[00:13:47]Yeah, it's something they they use a lot. I've seen a lot of camels dragging a lot of different stuff here.

[00:13:58]In Somalia.

[00:14:00]>> [crying] >> So, it's something that's very important for the locals.

[00:14:04]With the with the camels.

[00:14:08]Well, I was wondering.

[00:14:10]Should I try sit?

[00:14:13]Let's see what happens.

[00:14:25]Okay, nothing happens.

[00:14:27]I'm sitting on it.

[00:14:31]Let's see if it want to stand up. Maybe [music] I can I'm a little careful. [music] Not so much. I will try to see if it it want to stand up.

[00:14:47]You want to join me?

[00:14:52]You want to join me?

[00:14:54]Okay, do that.

[00:14:56]Okay, so I just I just tried to Yeah, I just tried to just jump jump up on on this random camel. I don't know if it's even used to be right or anything. I just know that they are used they're using the milk of the camel. So, I don't think it's even used to be to be right on, but let's see. Maybe I will kick it on the side.

[00:15:17]You want to join? No. You [laughter] scared? Yeah, of course. Okay, I'm not.

[00:15:22]I try. Yeah, no, no, no, you can't.

[00:15:24]Don't do this.

[00:15:26]Come up your lazy.

[00:15:28]>> [laughter] >> Oh, little kiss.

[00:15:44]So, I was joking earlier.

[00:15:47]Uh because I I ate a monkey once and they wanted to see on my phone yesterday. So, yeah. I showed them and then he told me, "I have some rats at home in under my under my building. I will kill one and then I'll bring it to you. Then you can eat that, too."

[00:16:03]Now he jokes about it that he has the rat with him. Uh but we're going to have camel meat now.

[00:16:10]I think that's better.

[00:16:12]But before [music] the camel meat, I wanted to check out some other meat in Somalia. So, I tried to check out Tinder if there [music] could be any fresh chicks in the area in Mogadishu.

[00:16:21]Unfortunately, but not to my biggest surprise, it was not something the girls here were so much into. Not sure if [music] these girls could even get punished to be here in this extreme Islamist country. [music] But what do you think? Please let me know in comments below.

[00:16:38]We were just at the camel market and now we're going to eat camel.

[00:16:42]So, this is my first time eating camel.

[00:16:45]So, I'm very curious how it tastes.

[00:16:50]What is this?

[00:16:51]This is uh I think it's goat.

[00:16:54]Goat.

[00:16:55]And this is camel, right?

[00:16:57]>> Yeah. Yeah.

[00:16:59]And this?

[00:17:01]It's also camel?

[00:17:02]Okay, so different part of the camel.

[00:17:05]Do you know which part this is of the camel? Yeah. The balls?

[00:17:12]Eyes?

[00:17:14]The neck?

[00:17:14]Huh?

[00:17:16]Where do you sit?

[00:17:17]The one is look like here. Yeah. Ah, okay. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[00:17:23]Twish.

[00:17:24]Ah, okay. But it's on the back.

[00:17:27]Ah, okay.

[00:17:28]Let's enjoy.

[00:17:30]Hopefully.

[00:17:38]Going to have camel here.

[00:17:41]So, I'm very interested in how it tastes.

[00:17:44]So, we just went to a camel market just like 10 minutes ago.

[00:17:49]And we were like petting a camel and now we're going to eat it.

[00:17:52]It's a little bit bizarre, right? But that's how it is. This is yours.

[00:17:57]This is yours.

[00:17:59]Okay.

[00:18:00]Yeah, but we can share. I don't care.

[00:18:02]So, we are enjoying our food here.

[00:18:05]Camel with the some spaghetti. And what they do, they take the spaghetti and they mix it with a banana. It's a kind of a funny combination, but it actually tastes [music] quite good.

[00:18:17]Go. Yeah.

[00:18:20]Now we have some more here.

[00:18:22]I ordered the a lemon again. It was a very good choice yesterday, so >> [music] >> I don't think I will go wrong with that choice.

[00:18:32]Oh, yeah.

[00:18:34]So, it's funny how It's funny how they eat here.

[00:18:38]Look how they do with the spaghetti.

[00:18:45]And they are also a little bit messy about it, but you know, that's how it is here.

[00:18:50]They just mix everything together and then they take with their hands, do like this, especially with the spaghetti, a lot of time like this, and then they >> [music] >> mix it with some uh carrots or some bananas or something and then they just do like me.

[00:19:04]I hope so.

[00:19:09]>> [music] >> Enjoy. Wait to the national stadium here in Somalia. We're going to see a second league game, but it's actually played on the national stadium here in Somalia in Mogadishu.

[00:19:29]We're taking a shortcut, so this is not the official official here road to to the national stadium, but it looks like this. But anyway, woo!

[00:19:42]Soon [ __ ] grass, though.

[00:19:46]So, yeah.

[00:19:47]We're a little late, so maybe we only going to see like second half or something.

[00:19:51]But at least soon it will be ground hopping Somalia.

[00:19:59]In the traffic jam, my driver took out his gun and threatened the other passengers to pass by. My driver is getting mad now.

[00:20:07]He took the gun out.

[00:20:12]We had some traffic problems and the driver pulled his gun a gun out.

[00:20:18]A lot of traffic jam here. A very crazy thing was that few months later I was told that this man was arrested now for murder. We're just outside the national stadium, so this is actually the entrance to the national stadium.

[00:20:34]No camera here?

[00:20:37]Uh because checkpoint.

[00:20:39]That's a checkpoint inside. Okay.

[00:20:41]Somalian national stadium here.

[00:20:44]Going inside to see this second league game for ground hopping.

[00:20:51]And uh the Somalian national team don't even play here. They play their home games in Djibouti. I just take a quick look here.

[00:21:00]You see?

[00:21:02]Maybe not the best facilities.

[00:21:06]>> [laughter] >> Um so, yeah, they can't play at home because of security reasons in Somalia.

[00:21:14]Let's see if I can fit in here.

[00:21:18]No problem. No ticket, no problem.

[00:21:24]Have to be careful here.

[00:21:26]There's barbed wire everywhere.

[00:21:30]As you can see, they trying to >> No, there are a lot of crowd here. There are some crowd here.

[00:21:40]Yeah.

[00:21:41]Yeah, so look at this national stadium.

[00:21:43]A lot of barbed wire everywhere, even here on the ground and everywhere.

[00:21:50]So, yeah, I don't know if I mentioned it, but even the Somalia national team, they can't even play at home because of security reasons. They played in Djibouti.

[00:21:59]And they're yeah.

[00:22:02]Here's the crowd for this second league game.

[00:22:14]So, this is the national stadium of Somalia.

[00:22:18]So, now the home team, they just scored.

[00:22:21]And the purple jersey is here.

[00:22:25]Okay. The the blue team, they have four minutes.

[00:22:30]Four four two.

[00:22:32]For the blue team.

[00:22:34]That's why the crowd didn't didn't cheer so much.

[00:22:37]>> [laughter] >> Because I think they're going to lose anyway.

[00:22:46]So, no one is cheering because it was the away team who scored. So, not good.

[00:23:00]>> [music] >> Oh, people living in the stadium here?

[00:23:07]National Stadium in Somalia, just outside Mogadishu.

[00:23:12]Hello. Salaam alaikum.

[00:23:20]Welcome to Somalia. Thank you very much.

[00:23:22]Let's take a round here so everybody can see how it looks like.

[00:23:26]>> [laughter] >> So cool. The players here.

[00:23:33]Even allowed to enter the field, I think.

[00:23:44]Yeah, just see.

[00:23:45]So this is underneath the stadium.

[00:23:49]The National Stadium here in Somalia.

[00:23:56]I think it had better days, but they are trying to rebuild.

[00:24:02]At least they say.

[00:24:03]Um, I saw some people working though, uh, but yeah.

[00:24:10]As you can see, they're not coming so far with that work yet.

[00:24:18]Yeah, I'm coming now. Sorry.

[00:24:23]Ah, okay, the security don't allow it.

[00:24:26]Ah, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. No problem.

[00:24:29]I'm coming.

[00:24:31]Here at the harbor in Mogadishu, where they bring all the big fishes.

[00:24:36]Wow.

[00:24:41]This is [ __ ] cool.

[00:24:44]Wow.

[00:24:45]Salaam alaikum.

[00:24:48]Looking good. Looking good. Good fish.

[00:24:50]Good fish.

[00:24:51]Wow.

[00:24:53]Look at this guy.

[00:24:56]Whoop.

[00:24:58]Really good fish.

[00:25:03]Okay, okay.

[00:25:12]Are we going down?

[00:25:14]So many curious faces here to see what the white man is doing.

[00:25:22]Very cool harbor here. Very cool.

[00:25:26]I've never seen so so big tuna in my life before. I ate them a lot.

[00:25:32]Uh So, they are very very popular. Yeah, I speak English. How are you? I'm good. Can I film you?

[00:25:39]What's your name? I'm Jonas. Your name?

[00:25:41]Uh my feet is a little bit wet now, but [ __ ] that.

[00:25:47]It seems they come with a big fish.

[00:25:50]Look at this guy.

[00:25:51]Look at this big fish.

[00:25:56]What is this guy here with this big big big tuna?

[00:26:00]The biggest tuna I've ever seen. Okay, okay. Uh very good sushi.

[00:26:05]Thank you.

[00:26:07]Here you can see how water on this country still is.

[00:26:12]>> [music] >> This harbor is really amazing. So much story about this place. You can see the ruins behind me also.

[00:26:27]And the big tuna is coming in directly from the sea here.

[00:26:32]Okay, need to stop filming now. Uh let us do a little more filming. Just a little bit.

[00:26:46]Salam alaikum.

[00:26:48]Nice to meet you.

[00:26:50]Hello.

[00:26:52]Okay. Uh Give me okay. Yeah. Yeah.

[00:26:55]Yeah, thank you. Very good pictures of you. Thank you very much.

[00:27:01]The ruins we see here is from the Civil War. Uh that's a lot of the of ruins Mogadishu all around from the Civil War.

[00:27:08]I'm here and asking these nice guys about tattoos laws and stuff in in Somalia and I ask if what do they do if like a Somali guy gets a tattoo because they say it's illegal. So, they will actually put you in jail and then you will get a yeah sentence for a for having a tattoo and they might remove it as well.

[00:27:29]So, that's how the tattoo situation is here because of the religion. Look at this very beautiful beach. It's called Lido Beach and this is Somalia. This is Somalia. Look at these beaches. Who would have known that Somalia has these beaches? It's crazy.

[00:27:49]Okay, I'm good.

[00:27:51]Maybe let's play some football.

[00:27:53]I can play with you?

[00:27:55]Yeah, yeah.

[00:27:58]Yeah, go.

[00:28:04]Mualim, Mualim, Mualim.

[00:28:10]One of the things I enjoy the most when traveling [music] is to interact with locals and with these kids was just amazing.

[00:28:31]That's Christian Eriksen.

[00:28:33]Don't know Christian Eriksen.

[00:28:35]I can't believe it. No, no, no. Not Ronaldo.

[00:28:43]>> [laughter] >> Sometimes we just all one. No matter color, no matter everything.

[00:28:57]>> [music] >> Now we're going on a boat. On the on the sea here in Somalia.

[00:29:04]I just I just don't hope there's any pirates.

[00:29:07]>> [music] >> Preparing myself for going to a going on a swim HERE IN THE SOMALIA WATER. Almost ready.

[00:29:19]Now I'm ready to jump in this beautiful water, this blue clean water here in Somalia.

[00:29:24]Who would have thought it would [music] be so clean and so Yeah, so pretty here on the beaches of Somalia. So, now I'm going to jump in. I just don't hope there are any pirates anymore, right?

[00:29:35]>> [laughter] >> Of course. ONLY YOU GUYS.

[00:29:39]ANYWAY, I'LL take the chance and I will jump in here.

[00:29:42]I can't wait. Just look at this water.

[00:29:46]So clean, so clean.

[00:29:47]So, ciao.

[00:29:54]I'm the king of Somalia.

[00:30:05]You put in your hand, right?

[00:30:11]That's right. That's the So, I'm not the king of Somalia.

[00:30:15]>> [laughter] [music] >> Yeah. I got a big tuna, right?

[00:30:31]>> [laughter] >> This guy Now you're back, man.

[00:30:39]And you can send me on the market.

[00:30:40]>> [laughter] >> How are you feel it?

[00:30:45]I know I'm feeling good.

[00:30:46]Ah, you hear it.

[00:30:48]Yeah.

[00:30:51]Then I was just staying in the water.

[00:30:55]I've got lucky. I've But I really like I really like the water. Uh-huh. So clean and fresh. Yeah.

[00:31:04]>> [music] >> Wow.

[00:31:10]Great brother.

[00:31:12]>> [music] >> This beach is so nice.

[00:31:18]Beautiful beach. I can't believe it's in uh Somalia still.

[00:31:25]And [music] the children are playing everywhere having fun.

[00:31:28]Yeah, I was just on a boat out there and uh I invited the kids as well. But uh Yeah, the people in charge of the boat, they couldn't they couldn't [music] uh take responsibilities for them. So, yeah, unfortunately, they couldn't come.

[00:31:42]But, quite cool to have been out on the uh on the ocean here where the pirates also has their daily their daily routine.

[00:31:55]Probably the child of a pirate, maybe.

[00:31:59]And we are buying bullets for the guns.

[00:32:01]>> [music] >> Now we are ready for shooting. So, it's actually illegal here, but my friends, they know people, so now we're going outside the city and shoot.

[00:32:18]This is going to be now and kind of illegal trip here to Somalia. Um now we drove into the airport area and we can actually get some beers here from uh yeah, my friends from Uganda. It's not my friends, but you know, everybody from Uganda is my friends, so yeah. So, now we are getting some [music] beers [singing] and uh we'll have some fun.

[00:32:37]So, what we did here, we drove to the airport in Somalia and there we met some [music] UN guys, military guys from Uganda, and they sold us illegal beers.

[00:32:45]Because, you know, Somalia is a very, very Muslim country, [music] so it's very illegal to drink beers outside the international hotels, and maybe there's only like three, [music] four international hotels where you can even do that. You're only allowed to drink inside the hotels. So, to do this This is not good in Somalia. It's very, very haram.

[00:33:06]So, these guys here, they're totally amazing. They let anything happen here in Somalia, so they're very good hosts.

[00:33:12]Now, they even brought me beer, which is illegal here in in in Somalia. So, we went to the airport and knew some guys and they were from Uganda, and I love Uganda, so everything was good. And yeah, now we're going to shoot. So, cheers.

[00:33:27]This is Africa.

[00:33:28]>> [singing] >> Cheers, mate.

[00:33:34]>> [music] [singing] [music] >> This is Africa.

[00:33:43]You know who I am, sorry.

[00:33:45]>> [music and singing] [music] [singing] [music] >> On our way out in the desert [singing] outside Mogadishu.

[00:34:01]So, now we're going to shoot out here with some Turkish [singing] guns, [music] some handguns. We just bought some bullets inside the town illegal, and now we're going [singing and music] to shoot them out here. So, nobody knows.

[00:34:15]So, now we're going to drink and shoot, right?

[00:34:19]Drink and shoot. No, it's probably not the best idea. So, we [clears throat] are at this beautiful area here, this nice beach. Actually, Somalia has the longest coast in whole Africa. Yeah, we're going some kind of far away from from the people. So, yeah, we can shoot in silence.

[00:34:38]Just drove here from the desert to the ocean here.

[00:34:43]And we're going to shoot back here at these old Italian buildings.

[00:34:48]So, the Italians used to live here when Yeah, they were colonists here. So, it was their houses actually. Really, really abandoned place here.

[00:34:59]Italian old Italian houses.

[00:35:03]Just abandoned when they left the country here in Somalia.

[00:35:07]Many years ago after Second World War, I think.

[00:35:16]The kitchen here.

[00:35:18]You want to make me some dinner?

[00:35:20]>> [laughter] >> Good luck with that.

[00:35:24]They had a nice view, though.

[00:35:29]So, we put this can and a bottle of water and we try to aim for it.

[00:35:34]Yeah.

[00:35:38]Ah, close. That's a professional try.

[00:35:42]Which is not me.

[00:35:44]But, anyway.

[00:35:46]Let's try now.

[00:35:48]Maybe I can try to hit the pirates over here.

[00:35:52]Al-Shabaab?

[00:35:55]Just pirates.

[00:35:59]I haven't seen us back in town.

[00:36:07]Again, again, again.

[00:36:12]The reason why I didn't hit the can was because I wanted to drink my beer.

[00:36:19]Luckily, no one hit it.

[00:36:25]Habibi, come Mogadishu.

[00:36:35]Driving around in Somalia is just so different from anywhere else in the world, and I really enjoyed it.

[00:36:46]Now, we finally bought some khat here.

[00:36:49]Or khat, if you want.

[00:36:52]And Danish.

[00:36:55]Good leaves.

[00:36:56]>> [laughter] >> So, finally I tried again. Last time was in Ethiopia and Harar at the biggest market in Harar, but also in Somalia they love it a lot, so let's do the like the locals do. I'm not totally sure that the locals do like this though. So, these cows on the streets are actually like cats because they they they think they own the streets and everything, and they also uh it's not like in India because they're not holy, but they are they're going freely on the roads anyway, but they still come home to their to their owner. So, it's it's pretty funny that they know where their home is even though they're just walking freely around around on the roads. I'm walking around here in the in the most famous place in the night time where where people are coming, socializing, having fun, eating good dinner, and yeah, just basically having a good time.

[00:37:50]There's also some really nice shops here.

[00:37:53]So, yeah, many people they think that Somalia is just like uh desert or and stuff like that, but you know, you see, they have many nice shops and uh Yeah, look here this lady. She's beautiful, right? Very nice clothes and so, Somalia is so surprising, so surprising nice. We're going to hear the national anthem of Somalia now. And Bilal, he's a great singer, [singing] but Amira, I heard her sing She can sing, too.

[00:38:24]And me, I can't sing, but I can film.

[00:38:31]>> [singing] [music] [singing] [music] [singing] >> Somalia.

[00:39:08]>> [singing] >> SOMALIA.

[00:39:34]>> YES, SOMALIA.

[00:39:37]SOMALIA.

[00:39:38]THIS WAS THE NATIONAL SONG.

[00:39:41]HANALATO.

[00:39:43]HANALATO, SOMALIA. WELCOME, my brother.

[00:39:46]>> Thank you very much. Hanalato, Somalia.

[00:39:50]Imagine putting honey on beans and and meat.

[00:39:56]But I can tell you, it tastes so good.

[00:39:59]And masaro. It's oil. What kind of oil is it? Oil, masaro.

[00:40:06]I don't know. I'll try it. I trust you.

[00:40:08]Okay. And if I die, I die.

[00:40:10]>> [laughter] >> Chapati or whatever you call it.

[00:40:14]It's like having pancakes with meat, and it's actually not so bad.

[00:40:20]It's really good.

[00:40:22]But in in our country it would be like a a strange combination, right?

[00:40:26]But for a Yeah, to be honest it tastes really good.

[00:40:32]This is an old base from the military in Somalia.

[00:40:37]There's still people there, but as you can see it has been a Yeah, it has been a lot of fighting there, so it's a totally destroyed.

[00:40:47]I have to leave today unfortunately, but I will not say goodbye Somalia. I will say see you again Somalia because I will definitely come again. It has been one of my best vacations ever. So I think next year maybe 1st July I will come again and then I will celebrate with you your national day and see you again Somalia.

[00:41:10]The airport on my way back to Istanbul.

[00:41:11][music] I'm going to arrive now. Yeah, so a lot of check uh checks in the yeah, with the bags and the Yeah, a lot of stuff stuff a lot of people being searched and there are the dog and everything, so security quite good here as it should be, so all cool.

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