Guinea Bissau is nothing like I expected, My first Time in Bissau as a Nigerian

Added: 2026-05-15

[00:00:00]born there from Guinea Bisau. That is how they say good morning in Portuguese.

[00:00:06]Guys, we made it to Guinea Bisau. And today we'll be stepping out to explore this country. Let's see what it looks like.

[00:00:16]So, basically, we just going to be exploring to see what life looks like around here. The people, the vibe, the neighborhood, the houses.

[00:00:28]Let's see how it feels, how it looks different from every other places that we've been to. What makes it stand out from every other places? So, we are in this neighborhood right here. This place feels like the outskirt of Bisau because we are in Bisau right now.

[00:00:54]We'll be going towards the city center now.

[00:00:59]to see what we can find around. They still have a lot of old houses in this part of this house. This house is really beautiful.

[00:01:10]This is one of the few modern houses I've seen around here.

[00:01:15]When it comes to trees, they've got a lot and more of these around here.

[00:01:21]Like they have so many trees around, >> especially mango trees.

[00:01:26]I think they like mango a lot here in Bisau.

[00:01:32]All the houses will be so so dusty because the roads are not t and this place happens to be the first country that we are visiting that they are speaking completely different language. Yeah, most of the countries that we is either English or French but this is how they speak Portuguese and it's very complicated communicating.

[00:01:52]Even to buy ordinary basic things around here is very very complicated.

[00:01:59]It's a real struggle. It just remind me of when I just got to benet.

[00:02:05]So it's either you use sign language to communicate. Maybe you want to buy something. You just have to point at like this is what I want to get or you use translate though. But even translate system is not that helpful because majority of people staying on this like this part that we are staying I don't think they are really learned like that because they can barely even read. So basically what I've been doing since yesterday is anytime I want to get something I want to talk to someone especially when I want to get something I just go online search for the thing show them the picture that this is what I want to get. If they have it, they will say no. If they don't have, they might point me to another direction, another shop that I can get it from.

[00:02:45]That's a real stress. I cannot imagine me leaving here or planning to relocate to come and live here. So, we at this road now where we'll be taking a car to to the center area.

[00:03:02]I don't know people communicate with car driver. What is it called?

[00:03:09]Clean.

[00:03:22]We already heading towards the roundabout to meet up with the person that will be taking us around that'll be showing us around.

[00:03:38]I just sit on the building.

[00:03:41]>> Oh, this is right.

[00:03:44]>> I think they have a lot of post gallons around here.

[00:03:49]>> Just like Gambia.

[00:03:55]This is like one central area cuz it's very We made it to this roundabout right here where we are waiting for the tricycle.

[00:04:12]And let me show you what it looks like.

[00:04:14]This place looks really busy. And right here we have this joining us today. We have Elvis here.

[00:04:28]He's a genian in Visa and we are at guard during our stay here in Visa.

[00:04:35]Welcome to the channel. Why you want to?

[00:04:39]What do you say?

[00:04:41]>> Yeah, you often say >> yes.

[00:04:44]>> Okay. What about hola?

[00:04:46]>> That's Portuguese. Few people use it.

[00:04:48]>> Okay. for >> your local dialek.

[00:04:53]Yes.

[00:04:54]>> If someone says and then you answer, you say instit.

[00:04:59]>> Yeah.

[00:05:01]>> I sound like Spanish in my ear.

[00:05:06]>> What's your language here? Your local language?

[00:05:11]>> Yeah.

[00:05:11]>> We taking a walk down this road to go get something to you want to say thank you here. Can you give me the sound? You say ob.

[00:05:20]>> Yeah, it's the same in Portuguese and creo. Right now at the restaurant, this is the place I want to eat their number one dish here in Guinea Bisau. He said this restaurant is don't buy Seneagalis.

[00:05:33]Oh yeah, I can see Sig over there.

[00:05:35]That's Siga over there and Guinea Bisau.

[00:05:38]So that means they have Seneagal and Guinea Bisau foods. Okay. Guineis happens to be our country number seven.

[00:05:45]And over here they use West African CRU.

[00:05:50]So it's the same currency that they use in Bin Togo Bina Sineagal Mali. That's the same course that they use here.

[00:06:04]>> What's good afternoon?

[00:06:05]>> Good afternoon.

[00:06:07]>> Bad. Oh, what about good evening?

[00:06:11]>> Bon bon.

[00:06:13]>> That sounds like French. Bunny Bunny over there.

[00:06:21]>> Is this any food?

[00:06:23]>> Oh yeah, that's go and sit down. Yeah, at least this is Frank. The same currency that we use in Ben. But this happens to be fake ones. That's why they put them there.

[00:06:36]How do they know it's fake?

[00:06:37]>> Okay. Only if I touch it. For them, I don't know. But if I touch it, I will know.

[00:06:41]>> Is this calo?

[00:06:42]>> Yeah, this is Calobo.

[00:06:44]>> Oh.

[00:06:46]Okay, let's try call brown taste like rice overall taste like rice and pepper but not taste. It has it own taste that feel like you're eating rice and your house.

[00:07:07]>> See you guys later.

[00:07:08]>> We are leaving the restaurant already.

[00:07:12]My country is beautiful and a little bit warm. It has less population and we have good food here. Many people don't know about good thing about my country.

[00:07:26]>> Hospitality. This is number one here in we love it. You love it. like people from another country if they come here um whenever where they are talking to someone they would say Indian people they are good in >> really so good yeah >> so we are trying to teach Elvis we've been teaching pigeon you must learn you go learn >> of course I'm going to learn it >> say I go learn >> I go Say now we we move with a wa.

[00:08:06]>> Now we move with Why is all your taxes blue colors?

[00:08:15]>> Is blue your national color?

[00:08:17]>> No. This one here you you can paint it any color you want.

[00:08:21]>> Okay.

[00:08:21]>> This one here. But for the ones like this one here, this taxi is only blue. I don't know the reason, but it's only >> blue.

[00:08:28]>> I noticed that the buses to have blue and yellow.

[00:08:31]>> Yellow and blue. Yes, that's the only one color for that guy. We call that tokata.

[00:08:36]>> Toa.

[00:08:37]>> Yes.

[00:08:38]>> Are they expensive?

[00:08:40]>> No, that's you know that's okay.

[00:08:43]>> The most the cheapest, right?

[00:08:45]>> Yeah, that's the cheapest. This one here is the most expensive one.

[00:08:48]>> Oh, the blue parts are the most expensive. They have a lot of them around. Can see it over there.

[00:08:57]Truly they are very expensive. The one that we took daddy was was really expensive.

[00:09:02]Took us 15 1,500 so far for very short distance.

[00:09:23]Yeah.

[00:09:50]I'm moving towards the >> supermarket.

[00:09:54]>> Supermarket. That's That's the name.

[00:09:56]Banding Market. This is the biggest market.

[00:09:59]>> Banding Market.

[00:10:01]>> The biggest market here in Gin.

[00:10:04]>> How do you say sorry in Portuguese?

[00:10:08]>> Skolba.

[00:10:10]>> Which building is this?

[00:10:12]>> Santi commercial. That's the name.

[00:10:15]Super.

[00:10:16]>> Is it a supermarket?

[00:10:17]>> Yeah. Supermarket.

[00:10:19]>> Oh, commercial. Santi.

[00:10:24]What do they sell inside?

[00:10:26]>> So many products.

[00:10:28]>> Really?

[00:10:29]>> I cheese, milk.

[00:10:32]>> Okay. They have a Is it a mall?

[00:10:36]>> But a very big one.

[00:10:37]>> Very big one.

[00:11:15]I think both of spellings.

[00:11:18]>> I find it interesting the way they spell your business enterprise.

[00:11:42]I think we are at the market already.

[00:11:48]Just this part looks really busy market.

[00:12:03]Oh, nice. Can I just hear you say I should take care of my phone? Very well.

[00:12:10]>> Okay, don't worry.

[00:12:13]I'm from a country that whatever it is I have here my country that's the real thing I cover my phone >> okay >> so when you get to this market >> you got to be careful hold your phone very well hold your valuable very well so they don't carry you and carry your valable so here we are welcome to Bandandy market in.

[00:12:45]Is that like guys? This is 12.

[00:13:02]>> Okay, that's fine.

[00:13:07]So, we dropping somewhere here and explore the rest of the market in our leg.

[00:13:21]>> We want to get pineapple.

[00:13:22]>> 2,500 for one pineapple >> for the big one. And the small one that's 2,000 230.

[00:13:30]>> Okay. So, that one that you just caught is like 2,000, right? Make it my own.

[00:13:35]Okay.

[00:13:36]>> But if you want a piece, I can ask for the price.

[00:13:38]>> How much is a piece?

[00:13:40]>> 100.

[00:13:41]>> 100 for one piece.

[00:13:43]>> So So one of that is 100.

[00:13:46]>> And banana. They sell banana for a kilo.

[00:13:49]600 cifa. We got this for this one kilo for 200. All of that is 100.

[00:13:56]They have this yellow pepper here too.

[00:13:58]Similar to that of Mali.

[00:14:01]Let me tell you something. One of those pineapple in beanie is 250 300 >> and here they are saying 2,000. I'm sure that guy was joking. I don't even want to believe that.

[00:14:18]>> This is the cheapest fish.

[00:14:20]>> You call it Jeffra.

[00:14:22]>> Okay.

[00:14:23]>> The cheapest one.

[00:14:25]>> What about this one? What do you call this one?

[00:14:28]>> We're exploring the fish side. Linguist my site too is the cheapest >> I think that's what we call title saddening yeah at my place we call it sadin I think what do now scarf I think it's table cover >> that's not clothes though that's like table cover that look like a clothes >> where will your where will you put your neck The way the person hanging it look like a clothes but if you look closely is a table cover they have a lot of cash here but I'm not seeing cash not I'm still waiting to get to this part of the market that they sell a lot of cashew nuts.

[00:15:38]>> Watermelon here.

[00:15:40]>> Look at crabs. They look purple in color. Still exploring inside the market and we came across this. This is where they sell milk and bread. We'll be trying it out to see what it tastes like. So, this is what the shop looks like. this local restaurant over there where they said I think some local fruit too. They also have some carpentry shop over there. Here waiting for our lady.

[00:16:07]>> There you go.

[00:16:13]>> So you eat the bread.

[00:16:20]>> Wait, another way of calling this is gynos.

[00:16:23]>> Gako. Yeah, it's milk. But when you mix it with bread, it's >> gynak. Okay.

[00:16:29]>> So, you call this meal like this.

[00:16:33]>> It's not real.

[00:16:34]>> It's not real.

[00:16:36]>> I think it's Fuller Mandinga, one of the Yak because we have a lot of group red.

[00:16:50]>> I feel like I know this taste.

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