background music playing.so today we're visiting the dead sea here in israel. this is a place where you can justfloat in the water and it's impossible to sink and before i go in there, i'm going toget all muddy. because it is good for you. so the dead sea is four hundred meters belowsea level and it has such a high concentration of salt. i believe it's three of four timesas much as normal. it allows you to float. this feels so gross. this is going to getunder my nails. time to get your mud on! you feeling the mud? mmmm.background music playing. i think i did an okay job. i wasn't able toget my back but i think i'm ready to go in. the mud is almost dry.background music playing.
what are you all doing out there? we're floatingsamuel! yes, it's the dead sea! and we're alive!so after my little spa session of putting mud all over my face and then washing it offin the sea my skin feels super soft. like a babies bottom. i still feel like wolverine. so today is our first morning in israel. itis our first time in the middle east and we're super excited. and to start things off we'regoing to be doing a food tour around jaffa. where we're just going to try lots of traditionalisraeli dishes. now sam and i aren't very familiar with israeli food. like we know hummusand shakshouka. and baklava. so we're excited to try some new dishes and see what we likeand see what we don't like. so enjoy!
jews and muslims argue over the best hummus.he's muslim. i think he's making a great hummus. but don't quote me. don't quote me. how tobuy hummus. so i'm going to do. i'm going to be lucky. i'm going to do the first one.okay. so there is a few methods. we can argue on that. but basically that's what i do. don'tkill me in here. i do this. you basically do this. you just. sorry, i'm not going tobe very methodical. mmmmm, that's good. that's how i eat it as well. it's so tasty. happydance at the end. so hummus taste test. i love hummus. i'm knowi'm going to like this. do you like spicy food?big massive amounts of it. how is that? hummus in israel?we believe in double dipping in israel, okay?
so much flavor. wow! wonderful :)and you're allowed to double dip i just heard. even better!i'm going to grab a big chunk. some chickpeas in there. no holding back.mmmm, yeah. isn't that good? isn't that amazing? it's really creamy and smooth. i'm going todouble dip. breaking bread. so what are you going to betrying? we're trying shakshouka next. it's a mixture of tomatoes, peppers and some egg.so let's have a taste. i'm not entirely sure how to do this.just dip it! grab some. there you go. this is hot.i'm going to burn myself. mmmmm, how is it? that's some tomatoe-ey goodness!that's really nice.
okay, say couscous taste test. lots of vegetables.it's really good and light. also very flavorful as well.background music playing. looks like a pastry stuffed with cheese andsome sesame seeds on top. it's super hot. owe! you can kind of see the cheese there.mmmmm. oh yeah, you can. i really like the cheese. is it salty? itis salty. i don't know if it is feta or what. cottage cheese? either way it's really good.alright, so i am trying something called malabi. it's a dessert.it's sweet like a pudding but it's consistency is a bit like jello. really delicious. reallyreally sweet. it has a syrup and sugar on top. yeah, it's really really sweet.with shredded coconut.
really? more dessert? this is so good. soyou are having? kanafeh. it's warm. like a pudding. with sugary hairs on the outside.i don't even know how to describe it. it's just really nice.so the food tour was amazing. we got to try so many different kinds of foods. we wereactually full early on but the food was just so good that we kept eating, eating and eating.and i got introduced to some new kinds of desserts that i had never tried before theywere really sweet and really delicious. today we're going on a tour of west bank orpalestine. we have a very diverse tour. we're going to be seeing historical attractions,political attractions and tourist attractions. music playing in the background.
our first stop today is sheppard's field andhere in the background we have the church of the sheppard which is where the three sheppard'sare supposed to have seen the start of david in the sky before jesus was born. singing in the choir children cheering and laughing! more music playing. now we're visiting a refugee camp. it looks more like a city becauseit's been around for more than 60 years. sizzling sound of frying oil.
music in the background. i've had falafel many times but this is thefirst time i've seen it prepared. forget starbucks, i'm going to stars and bucks. music playing. so were are back at the jordan river again.a few days ago we visited from the jordanian side in bethany beyond the jordan. it's abit surreal being back so soon. right now we're visiting jericho and to theleft is a new part of jericho. the new city. and to my right is the world's oldest city. background music.
we're visiting the first west bank palestinianbrewery here. ah, that's good. 0:00:00.810,0:00:05.759so we are now at rosh hanikra which is known as the window to the mediterranean and we 0:00:05.759,0:00:10.630have some amazing views of the water below. so the sun is setting and we're going to take 0:00:10.630,0:00:11.960the cable car down. music playing 0:00:11.960,0:00:12.550music playing
0:00:12.550,0:00:13.150music playing 0:00:13.150,0:00:20.150so the rock formation behind me is known as the elephant's leg. and the large rock is 0:00:24.029,0:00:31.029supposed to be the elephant's body and little part you see resting at the end is the elephant's 0:01:18.439,0:01:18.520leg. 0:01:18.520,0:01:18.619music playing 0:01:18.619,0:01:21.950so there are these strange creatures living here between the border of israel and lebanon.
0:01:21.950,0:01:28.950we have no idea what they are. they look like big fat ugly rats. or giant hamsters. 0:01:29.340,0:01:36.340music playing 0:01:37.749,0:01:44.749monsters. it's like rat invasion. rat invasion!!! ooooh 0:01:54.569,0:02:01.569music playing background music playing.today we're going on a tour to jaffa where we're going to be checking out a traditionalflea market. background music playing.i knew we'd find a cat. crazy cat lady. hello!
background music playing.bat sounds. background music playing.man playing music. background music playing.you can find lots of really cool items in this market. they have antiques, souvenirs,paintings, furniture. background music.so we really enjoyed exploring jaffa or yaffo as they like to call it. so my favorite thingabout wandering around jaffa has been that they have these narrow little alleys thatare just kind of like a maze and you come across these friendly little cats that arejust hanging out, so it's been a really fun place to explore. it's also a nice sunny dayand we're right by the sea, so it was a great
morning out and a nice little introductionto israel. background music playing.so today we're visiting masada and we just finished taking the cable car up to the verytop of the fort and now we're going to go check it out.background music playing. it sure is a scorcher outside today.background music playing. so right now we're going to go visit an oldwater cistern. so we're going to take some steps and go underground. it's going to bekind of dark and tight. let's go check it out.background music playing. singing!background music playing.
one, two, three food!!!wow, huh! so it actually answers back, no? background music playing.this is an original byzantine church. oooh! background music playing.so it's kind of symbolic to bring a roman siege weapon to a place that was seized byromans and i don't know if we can see it shoot off. okay, here goes nothing. hahaha!backgrounds music playing. music playing in the background.so today we are in caesarea and what's unique about this city that we're visiting todayis that it was given as a gift from agus caesar to harrod the great. not a bad present! awhole city. apparently it took a whole 12 years to completethis city as a gift. i'm usually not willing
to spend more than 12 minutes to shop forsomeone. here were are at the hippodrome. this is wherechariot racing used to take place. yee-hah! galloping. to infinity and beyond! over here you can see a lot of people enjoyingwatersports, kayaking, boating. there is a whole bunch of activities going on. so this is a city that really flourishes duringthe byzantine period and it even expanded 400 acres just around the center of caesarea.howeever, after the arab conquest the city started going downhill and many of the peoplejust abandoned the place and it became a forgotten
village. and today we just have ruins. so where might you be sitting? ahhhh, romantoilets are great. okay, so back in the day there would have actually been running waterto flush away you know...wayward turds. and that concludes our brief visit to caesarea. for lunch today we're having a druze mealand i'm standing right beside an olive tree. ooh, with little olives. you can see them.background music playing. and she's preparing kebabs. there is cabbage,there is stuffed lime beans. background music playing.we're going to have a feast of a buffet about to take place, so come let me show you allthe good food.
background music playing.so the food is amazing. i think my favorite so far is this chicken. which is stuffed withrice and lots of spices. this is such an amazing feast. everything i've triedso far has been good. background music playing.that was the feast of all feasts. i am super stuffed. i promised myself i was only goingto have one plate but i ended up going back for seconds and then also dessert. today we've got a lot activities planned.we're going to be covering a lot of jerusalem, so this is just a compilation of our day'sadventure. background music playing.more background music playing.
market noises.fluffy! meow. you've got a pretty little friend. music playing in the backgroundwelcome to the fauzi azar inn. so we're now in the old city of nazareth andwe're staying in a really cool place that we want to show you. this right here happensto be a 200 year old arab mansion and it has been turned into a guesthouse. and it's trulyamazing, so we'll give you a tour of the place. music playing in the background.so what makes this place feel even more like home is that you can come into the kitchenany time of day and you can make yourself a cup of tea with plenty of variety to choosefrom or you can enjoy some cake that is home made. that's my favorite part and these arereally good.
music playing in the background.i really like that this place has a indoor and an outdoor setting. both for social areas,for eating, for meeting with people, for doing whatever you want.so earlier today we met maoz who is the man responsible for bringing this vision to life.he was telling us that when he first found this place the courtyard was used as urinalsby people because the place was just completely abandoned. it had fallen into decay but hesaw potential to turn this into a guest-house where travelers could come together and thisis what you get. 0:00:04.339,0:00:05.779rawwwwwr that was pathetic
0:00:05.779,0:00:10.170let me show you how to rawwwwr rawwwwwr 0:00:10.170,0:00:15.400so this lovely dinosaur friend of ours is actually a sculpture made from old military 0:00:15.400,0:00:22.400equipment that was left in the area. these little aliens remind me of the movie 0:00:25.160,0:00:32.160men in black so behind me we have what's left of the temple 0:01:15.149,0:01:19.789of pan. this was a temple built to the god
of the forest and the god of the sheppards. 0:01:19.789,0:01:24.509kind of like peter pan. and yeah the greeks passed through here and this is what they 0:01:24.509,0:01:24.759left. so today we are at dan gourmet here in telaviv. we are going to be taking a cooking class and it is starting.we add some sugar and this is the mixing method. everything goes together.background music playing. i've got my apron on and i'm ready to cook.so what are you doing now? i've been put in charge of flipping eggplants.background music playing.
sizzling sound.background music playing. sizzling noises.background music playing. so we're trying some tahini now. and apparentlywe're going to be using that for the meat. it's really tangy. delicious. what's it madeof? sesame seed paste. background music playing.some nice tahini. this is our version of pizza. background music playing.you're struggling sam. what's happening right now. i'm the worst cook in the kitchen. youneed some flour. background music playing.here i've got lahmacun. hopefully i pronounced it properly. it's got lamb and tahini. oh,it's going to be good. it's like israeli pizza.
hahaha. delicious.lahmacun. this one is a little toasted. we forgot it in the oven. so, extra crispy. mmmmm.that's really good. can you taste the tahini? you can really taste the lamb. that's my favoritepart. the lamb meat. mmmmmm. background music playing.so we have our charred eggplant with tahini ready to be devoured.so it's picnic time. what are you carrying? this is just for me. just kidding. what iseveryone else eating? what is everyone else having?so here is the fruit of our labors. we've got a nice little picnic feast. let's checkthat out. oooh! and a beautiful patio setting.background music playing.
so that concludes our cooking class at dangourmet. we've been here for two and a half hours just cooking and eating and trying everythingwe've made so we are stuffed and hopefully we'll get to try some of these recipes eventuallyonce we have a kitchen of our own. music playingso this morning we are visiting an olive press but before we learn how oil is made we arejust walking around the farm and we've met a nice little horse over here.music playing this is the same olive oil that is settled a year. okay.and it is still very high quality but the taste is good. so which one is better thefresh. ahhhhh. the older one is better. this
is olive oil straight from the press. mmmmmmmmright now we're high atop mount precipice. overlooking the city of nazareth.music playing we have no arrived at haifa and we're visitingthe baha'a gardens and this place is amazing. it's just lined with palm trees, eucalyptustrees, flowers. music playingyou'd think after visiting all of these religious sites i'd actually remember to wear pantsbut no. i actually just love wearing dresses. that's all. looks good on you. it does.music playing