FIRST IMPRESSIONS OF COLOMBIA (Medellin City Vlog)

good afternoon or evening i'm not even sure what it's like 6 30 what time is it it's seven so it's evening i'm at miami international airport in line waiting for check-ins a long line and we are headed off to colombia my first time in colombia and my first time in south america so very exciting okay so we're in the air what i didn't tell you guys is that i'm traveling with two other people they are close friends of mine and i'm gonna introduce you to them soon for now i gotta eat dinner i got myself a sandwich from a grocery store in miami with deli sandwich it's a couple of minutes past 11 p.m we just landed in medellin and that was a longer flight than i expected stopped through most of it but it was very turbulent anyway so they're deboarding the plane three rows at a time everyone's sitting here relaxed no one's running anywhere it seems like the fastest and most reasonable system so it's kind of awesome okay that's us we are in what seems to be the longest tunnel in the world and we got in here probably like 10 minutes ago we're still in um i feel very conf like comfortable with this driver but if i didn't i'd probably be worried by now [Music] no there's darkness it's a metaphor for girl i i know it's a matter for hope but well tonight you come out of a tunnel so we've arrived to the outside of our hotel the weather is amazing probably somewhere in the mid 60 degrees fahrenheit place looks pretty nice okay so i'm going to give you a little room tour it's nice and modern uh i'm happy with the size it was hot in here when i came in with ac is on now so that's all good and keep in mind this whole place costs something like 40 bucks a night so i'm impressed bathroom shower oh they got the rain head shower thing big sink area or whatever washing station i don't know what you call it i'm not fancy like that and there's probably some kind of view outside but i can't see much now hopefully in the morning pray the evening prayers david marv and get some rest tomorrow's a big day good morning from a freshly showered hasidic dude on his first trip to colombia i'm in medellin first time in south america and it's morning i just got out of the shower as i mentioned earlier i am rushing downstairs because my oh i just pressed upstairs i'm gonna get my head on straight so i'm rushing downstairs because my travel partners are they say they have a waiting taxi so don't want to miss them hope they did not leave without me so we are in the taxi on the way to the synagogue here in edin and with my travel partners we'll introduce you in a second um just off the bat the city looks way nicer than i thought about it i'm actually very impressed we're in downtown there's a lot of nice trees the streets seem to be very clean and the buildings are beautiful what's not to love say hi liva hey what's up guys you all know him from two previous videos he was in the first afghanistan video and he was in the the miami take an uber driver to dinner video so this is the i guess the second time we're traveling together because he lives in miami now and i am with his father as well mr david levinson say hi hi he is a very successful um estate agent who also happens to be the father of the girl who married my brother so we're sort of like family and it's our first time taking the trip together we recently moved from upstate new york to florida to cooper city florida and he is setting up the real estate business over there and bringing lots of people over from new york so if you're looking for a house in new york or so we got to the synagogue to the khabar house this is the room where we shall pray there is no minion today but we're gonna dive in anyway and this is my tallest bag from prestige embroidery so we got rachel's tomb kevin rocco the castle 770 burj khalifa bason mcdush eiffel tower big ben sydney opera house the pyramids and lady liberty that's my name in hebrew uh this is a verse from the torah some more verses on the inside prayer shawl thomas two bags for my phylacteries one with a canadian flag and one with the u.s flag they symbolize the countries where i hold citizenship anyway now we're going to pray my travel partners mentioned to me that their twilight bags are also from procedure boarding he's kind of like the schweinstein's ripple effect i get something everyone wants to copy me just kidding this is mr levinson's this is live's bag all custom made everyone chooses their own design and they make it from a to z so if you're looking for a tv bag you know what to call prestige embroidery the link will be in the description and those of you who know about khabad know that khabar is always busy putting fill in on people but now there's someone putting tilland on because [Music] he hurt his arm now a little nugget of jewish information so in judaism we have a concept called that means that somebody who's doing a mitzvah a positive commandment that god commanders do will not be harmed so therefore we have a custom amongst jews that if you're traveling i'll give you like a couple pennies or a dollar to take along with you to give to charity the place you go and then you're sort of a somebody who's doing something good so you're not gonna be harmed so the rabbi in miami gave me a buck before we left and now we are going to put it into charity yep doesn't fit we got it in now we're safe so now we're seated at the restaurant house we're starving this is his breakfast chicken and salad of rice for our fries more chicken oh thank you this is a kebab this is chicken it is 11 20 and we're doing meat for breakfast again just the way we like it okay so just go back to the hotel a little bit annoyed because i put my you know the tag on the door so that room service should not come in because i had all sorts of valuables out but they came in anyway thank god i'm pretty sure everything is here but they made my bed so that's kind of nice so we came here to drop off some stuff and now we are going out to explore the city fun so one of the reasons why i love travel so much is because it always surprises me look at this beautiful hotel that i'm leaving right now um really gorgeous was not expecting colombia to look like this at all a lot of nice buildings it's very clean there's a we work right across the street you know we're getting into the taxi now and explore the city oh okay so we just arrived at some some spot not even sure what it's called but there should be a look out of the city and there are some souvenirs and stuff what is this place so the ground is full of these flowers that have fallen from the tree oh another one over here what a nice touch and there's the midday inside you got to take you got to take a picture there it's a thing fresh fruit juices so we are on some kind of rooftop i think it's a museum they have a outlook overlook whatever you call i'm not good with words today on the city of medina it's really beautiful because you got all the mountains and then the little neighborhoods in the mountains and then the tall buildings spread all around beautiful kind of beautiful city really not what i was expecting when you think of colombia you think of murder you think of drugs you think of cocaine you think of crime you think of all sorts of nasty stuff but so far all we've seen is nice people nice scenery and a lot of people are trying to sell us things by the windows so we are at the museo de antioqua which is some kind of museum there's a there's a lot of statues here some of them are a bit inappropriate and the taxi driver who took us here told us that there's a lot of look up here a lot of a lot of craziness and boy was she right a lot of interesting people approaching us trying to sell all sorts of things all sorts of services um busy very busy i already got one we're good on that front [Music] hello [Music] hello it looks like we're about to see some street performers let's see what they have to offer thank i think i'm about to lose my shoes okay i don't speak spanish yet hey thank you thank you i have no idea what's going on but my sneakers just got souped up and now we have these cool button holes or whatever they're called [Applause] now he's going to do [Music] i'm pretty sure i'm gonna break the stool make it exciting yes we certainly got scammed and overpaid for those sneaker buttonhole thingies and now we're being followed everywhere by people are trying to this woman's literally walking behind me with her car and she's trying it no thank you no thank you no thank you it's getting a little bit intense this guy keeps reinventing himself like a second ago he was selling hats now he has he got a box of food everyone's trying to sell something i'm sorry i know i have i have thank you i have hand sanitizer but to be quite honest i think i'm speaking for the group when i say we probably had enough of this place and we can move on to another spot you can maybe find something a little bit less intrusive and evasive no this is interesting but just for like two minutes yeah it's interesting like you want to do it once in your life but then you don't want to do it again been there done that we're about to lose all of our money so yes i mean the ones we have in our pockets at least twenty eight dollars that's how much it cost to get these the halls in the shoes eighty thousand pesos for those that want to calculate the exchange rate yeah so these guys are going to town tonight they're going to take all their friends out to eat probably never got such a big fish in their life i should mention there is quite a heavy police presence here so even though you can smell marijuana all over and i'm sure there's a lot of other illegal activity going on there is a police presence so it does like kind of feel safe meaning it doesn't feel like anyone's going to get violent with you am i right yep okay so just an fyi for those thinking of visiting you