The Surprising Story Behind Free Food in Iraqi Kurdistan
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- čas přidán 29. 08. 2024
- Why do so many people in Iraqi Kurdistan offer us free food?
This time we go on a food tour in Iraq and try to figure out where local hospitality and kindness comes from and why is food free in this country.
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We are Joe and Liisu, relatively new to CZcams but really excited to be a part of this community. We live small and sustainably in my home on wheels (a lovely van called Freyja) and from time to time out of our backpacks (we have not named the backpacks yet). On this channel, we ask you to join us on our travel adventures off the beaten track where we show you the beauty of untouched nature and wander into places most tourists don't dare to go.
Iraqi Kurdistan is holy place, really! God blesses it and all Kurdish people! Serchawa by big love from Ukraine
❤️
Thank you for your kind words, Slava Ukraini!
Spasiba
Beautiful! I wish the entire world was like this. I have know Kurdish people and they were so kind and loving. Thank you for your videos.
شكرا شعبنا الكردي شكرا كردستان انتم ترفعون الرس دائما بعيدا عن العنصرية انتم مثل للمواطن العراقي الكريم الذي في اصعب الظروف يرحب بضيوف
شکرا اخی لهیج کلام حلو و کریم کردستان دائما یرحب بیکم و انشاءاللە نبقی اخوان مع العراقیین بکل قومیاتهم
@@4y0byempire ھەر خەرچی وەچی توونە لێیانگەرایە کوردوستان داجیرکەن، بەخوای جوێیان لێنێە چەند لەگەریان باش بی.
پشتتلێیان کرد ئەگەداری چەقویبە لۆخۆت.
Thank you so much for sharing this! I am crying for such beauty and love💕🌷
This was for the link to the European tourists traveling in Kurdish Iraq...
Hi.many people from nepal Bangladesh india china and other non European countries live here and kurdish people are very nice to them.ì mean they are nice to every one here.i am from iran and thanks kurdistany people for their kindness
Simply you deserve love bro. We love every single person in this world ❤️
Absolutely amazing. This is the type of thing that just warms the heart. People are so much more than the political situation. Love this vlog guys.
Wow! What an incredible demonstration of hospitality and generosity. Thank you for sharing this lesser known side of Iraq
Kurdistan. This is Kurdistan, very deferent.
this is kurdistan , if you come to kurdistan yo need diffrent viza ...
@@thegratepotato1281 you mean IRAQI kurdistan, and there is no difference when to comes to kindness at least from what I've seen.
I'm glad you guys enjoyed my home country, best of luck on the rest of your journey
شكرا شعبنا الكردي شكرا كردستان انت ترفعون الرس دائما بعيدا عن العنصرية انتم مثل للمواطن العراقي الكريم الذي في اصعب الظروف يرحب بضيوف
Thank you so much for the kind words!
@@user-kz8pc6oy4r Kurdistan is Kurdistan. Guests are welcome anyone that doesn’t treat it like Kurdistan isn’t so much.
kür*istan diye bi yer yok aq cocukları sizi
I Am also a Kurd from Arbil! You're welcome to Kurdistan, We Hope you come back a second time!
kurdistan😂🤣🤣🤣
@@yokyok2108 Your mom
Uydur götünden ülkeistan 😃😃😃
@@yokyok2108 do you have a problem? If yes then start.
@@yokyok2108 are you apart of artogrul or victim under turkification process ?
welcome to kurdistan we love you guys and yes we love giving stuff
This video warmed my heart!
Heyhey.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
It was truly wonderful feeling so welcome in country that we thought was "rough and dangerous"
Best wishes from Pakistan!
Thank you for sharing this side of the Kurdish culture. Hope you enjoyed the cuisine! 😊
Incredible place !! Nice people !!👍
Iraq? Correction: This is 🇹🇯🇹🇯🇹🇯 Kurdistan 🇹🇯🇹🇯🇹🇯
With Peace & Love
This was beautiful guys 👍❤️
Welcome brother to Kurdistan 🤩 If you want to see more beautiful places visit Korak mountain ☺️
Hiiii! :) Beautiful story! greetings from poland! :) (we met together near malaga in january this year / played guitar and cajon by the fire) wish You good journey and i'm with You! :)
Hello!
Of course we remember you 😁👋.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
And hope you are doing well!
@@WildVikingTravels Yeah, thanx, i have totaly great time 😀 hope, 2023 i start full time vanlife in VW T4, so see You on the road :)
Hey Joe and Liisu! Welcome to Kurdistan! I hope you enjoyed your time here. When it comes to paying it's almost compulsory not to accept money immediately out of courtesy and that applies to locals as well as tourists, but at the end you're expected to pay almost all of the time, often with a bit of insistence! Hope you visit again soon!
Another beautiful video..
I am from Austria and altough we are living in a wealthy country we are always complaining a lot, especially about politics and corruption. Watching your videos touches me deeply. I understand that it's the people who are defining a country, not the politicians. Thank you so much for sharing your experiences! And I've already learned - especially from the last few years - that we cannot trust what media are telling us. God bless you! 💖
Great vlog, very uplifting and positive, showing us the true essence of this part of the World 🌎
This is the 4th or 5th video i've seen about people going to to Kurdistan and the local not letting them pay, very kind people.
I’m begging to have faith in Iraq people that lovely of them to welcome you both thank you for sharing your videos
Wish you really enjoying your time in kurdstan I hope you guys staying more here .... Also they're Saw two of kindness and sweet guests how can they accepts your money
Damn They have been tortured for death and they are still kind and loving to everyone, even if you are an American, he will open a house for you to sleep in. Good people
Walking wallet - great way to say it - being in Turkey I get lots of free food and taste and tea, but in other places there are some - the lesser people - who will try and charge you more and pocket part of it. But for the most part the hospitality amazed me! Still does! This is my third trip here this last 12 months. I want to live here and learn more of these people! 😊 I feel as a newer Muslim that perhaps the faith and seeing hospitality as a vital part of reaching out and helping people - the basis of this. I wish more people in the world and in the US where I live - would teach these values and true expressions of giving! Mashallah!
Thank you for sharing your story. Yeah, there is kind people and then there are opportunists... hope you find a good home there!
Omg he visit my cousin kebab restaurant in Erbil/Hawler Kurdistan 🇹🇯❤️
Thank you for sharing this, im glad two of you had a wounderful holiday :)
Hey Joe and Liisu another good one. 👍 The Kindness a beauty of these people's Shows Us how it Should Be ( But Was onetime) everywhere. CARING AND SHARING.. Imagine. (John Lennon)
Thank you for Sharing the Love ❤ with our friends in Iraq 🇮🇶 Peace and happiness to you All .
Stay Free and Safe Travels
Wonderful clips
Thank you 😊🙏
May God give his blessings to each and everyone who are kind and generous to strangers without seeking any rewards or recognition in return. These types of big hearted people are definitely driven by their faith in God and His message to humankind. Stay blessed and safe journey onwards. xx
Nice video , I was glad , Most welcome 😍
Fabulous dancing from these ladies! Thank you for sharing.
Our pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it!
Hi Joe and Liisu, hope you's are both safe and well. Concerned as you haven't uploaded in a while, miss watching your great travel vlogs.
They have a post in community section 12 days ago. They are in iran and cant post as no internet. So they say nothing will be uploaded for the next month but they are fine.
Thanks for being here in Kurdistan
Such wonderful people.
Man I love your style of traveling the world. I think Im a big sap and wear my heart on my sleeve, this video made me teary. Thank you Joe and Liso
9:20 the guy said ( it’s your place ) means you don’t have to pay
I hope you correct title . Because you are in Kurdistan not in Iraq. . You should have respect to Kurdish people they do best hospitality for you .
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@@WildVikingTravelsI am Kurdish, and I apologize for the lack of taste on the part of this racist person who is still backward
Spas ji bo ku hûn li Kurdistana Iraqê bûn, ez ji Kurdistana Sûriyê me
Fantastisk kultur, mat av alla slag ser utsökt ut. Lycka till. 🙏🌹❤️👍
kurdish people are the best
Thank you for visiting my beautiful region , I hope you both enjoyed your trip. I’m our culture we never ever let guest/tourists pay for anything especially ladies 🥰
I'm from Ohio USA but have lived in Saudi Arabia and Serbia for the last 5 years.
I find friends everywhere hospitality abounds.
In Saudi Arabia I was welcomed into a world I'd never known .
Friendliness
In Serbia I discovered a level of honesty never known in the West
Glad to hear that you had such a good experience!
I think the same that the world is full of good people!
Hi Joe and Liisu,it is Akif and Mina, we are together for new year in Çankırı. Hope to see you🤗
The guy who took your money was Arab, The kindness come’s from zoroastrian culture of Kurds, religion is Islam but the culture is zoroastrian, less that 800 years ago kurds were still zoroastrian, so thats zorostrain culture of the kindness and sense of responsibility, this is just like carl Jungs theory when he talks about general unconsciousness of a nation.
We welcome you to our beautiful country
9:20 his man said my store is your store is mean for respect haha
Viva Kurdistan
Just incredible, i didnt know about this :D
Bütün Müslüman ülkeleri böyle cömerttir misafirperverdir
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exactly 💯 I love All Muslim countries alhamdu lilla we are all Brothers ♥️🇹🇯🇮🇶🇹🇷🇸🇦🌍
@@4y0byempire کەسیان برات نینە، کو بەناوی ئیسلامەتی ھەریان خەرەتاندی.
مادەم کوردی، حیسابت جیاوازە.
@@thegratepotato1281 برای بەڕێز ڕق بە ڕق چارەسەر ناکرێ منیش ماوەیەک وەک تۆم لێهاتبوو ڕقێکی زۆرم لەدڵ دابوو بەرامبەر ئەوانەی کە کوردستانیان داگیرکردووە و نەیانهێشتووە ببێت بە دەوڵەت لەوانیە بەشێک دەستیان لەمەیا هەبووبێ بەڵام بەدەرجەیەک خەتای کورد خۆی بووە خۆی لەناوخۆیدا ڕێک نەکەوتووە و بێگانەی هێناوە بۆی حوکمی بکات جا نموونەمان زۆرە مێژوو دوبارە بۆتەوە لەناو کورد چەندین جار بەڵام دەرسمان لێوەرنەگرتووە ئێستاش پارتی لەگەڵ تورکیا ڕێک دەکەوێ لەدژی پەکەکە و یەکێتی و یەکێتی لەگەڵ ئێران و شیعە مقتدا هەر وەک چۆن پێشتر میرنشینێک بۆ پاڵپشتی خۆی دەوڵەتی عوسمانی هێناوەتە کوردستان و میرنشینێکی تر دەوڵەتی سەفەوی .... ئیسلام کەسی هەڵنەخەڵتاندووە ئیسلام حەقی من دەسێنێ و حەقە دوور لە نەتەوەپەرستی و ڕەگەزپەرستیە ... وە من شەخصی خۆم پێش ئەوەی کوردبم مسوڵمانم و ئیسلام دینمە و قەومیەتم کوردە واتا ئیسلامم زۆر زیاتر لەلاوە گرینگترە وەک لە قەومیەت یەک تورکی عەقیدە پاک و مسوڵمانێکی مولتەزیم بەدینی ئیسلام ناگۆڕمەوە بە هەزار کوردی مولحید ... هیوادارم وازلەو ڕەگەزپەرسیە بهێنیت و ئەو ڕەگەز پەرستیە لەبەرژەوەندی کورد و کوردستانیشدا نیە
@@4y0byempire لۆ خۆت ھەر وەبرێ، کەس نەیگت رقت لێیان بێ بەس سیقەیان پێمەکە. کەسیان جوێیان لێنیە مسولمانی یان نا، کوردیو دوژمنی و تەواو. دوایێ مولحدی مەبەستت چیە با رۆژێ بیست نوێژ بکا بەس وەکی بە رەگەز رکی لێتبێتەوە ھەر بە باشتری دائەنێی لە کوردێکی کە خاک و نەتەوەی لەو کەسانە ئەپارێزێ؟! کوردەچی دین جیاواز دەجار باشترە لە دوژمنێکی خۆی مەسولمان دبنێ جیاوازی لە نەتەوی خۆت ئەکەی بەس بەسوودی بۆ دووژمنانت.
خەرکی وەک تۆ ھەیە ئاوا فکرئەکاتەوە وازانێ گەر دل پاک بێ ئەوانش لەگەلی باش ئەبن، دوو قسەی خۆش و ئاگات لە ھیچ نامێنێ. ھھھ لەبەر ھەندێ وا باشین ئێستا. درپاکی بۆ ئەو دوژمنەی کە بەس بە ئیسلامەتی ھەرت ئەخەرەتێنی وە دل پر لەرق لەو کوردانەی بە دین لێت جیاوازن وەلەو خاک و نیشتمقنیان خۆش ئەوێ.
ئەو جۆرە فکرەیەت دیارە بۆ چێندەرمون ئەبا، وە فکرەی کەسی ئاقل نیە.
کورد و کوروستان نەتەوەپەرستی نیە، پارێزگاریە لە نەتەوەو کەلتور و خاک.
Please come to Mosul, its near Kurdistan, you will be my beloved guest.
Much love from
Hope to come next time!
Bonjur to Kurdistan ❤
Son zamanlarda bağımsız gezginlerin gezi yazılarını okuyor vloglarını izliyorum. En çok ilgimi çeken kısımsa, kendi gezi deneyimlerimle de örtüşen bu gezginlerin gittiği bazı yerlerde yediklerinin hesaplarını ödememesiydi. Başı yan tarafa doğru aniden çevirme ve el kaldırıp eli sağa sola sallama hareketi, senin paran burada geçmez işaretiydi gittikleri bu bazı yerlerde. Bu bazı yerler dediğim yerler, bombaların onlarca yıldır susmadığı, annelerin feryatlarınınsa atmosferde çok kısa süreliğine yankılandığı yerlerdi. Kendilerini büyük sanan ve belki de gerçekten büyük olan devletlerin ve şirketlerin bir türlü kan festivaline doyamadığı bu yerler Türkiye’nin güneydoğusundan başlamakta ve Pakistan’ın en doğusuna, Hindistan’ın göbeğine kadar gitmekte. İnsan düşünmeden edemiyor, belki de yeraltı ve yerüstündeki kaynaklarını da paylaşmaya hevesliydi buradaki insanlar. Kendimden örnek vermem gerekirse, otostop ile Türkiye’yi gezerken paramı kabul etmeyen ve hatta cebime harçlık koyan yerler yalnızca güneydoğudaydı. Memleketimin batısı refah ve güven içindeyken bırakın beni doyurmalarını ya da harçlık vermelerini, misafir edip hâl hatırımı sormayı, yolda saatlerce kimse arabasına bile almamıştı. Bu yüzden mi bombalar bu yerlerde susmuyor yoksa bombalar yüzünden mi böyleler? Bilmiyorum ama sadece insanlığa dair geleceğin arkeologları, uygarlığın tek kalan izini umarım orta doğuda bulabilirler.
What an amazing Comment!
Thank you for taking the time.
It seems to me as well that in the poorest and most dangerous parts of the world, people are the most generous.
Southeastern Turkey is inhabited by Kurds, the same people that appear in this video.
@@tolula9927
thats north Kurdîstan bro ❤
@@filozof2779 I know. 👍
Amazing Video Friends 🙏👋
Hey joe and lisu are you guys ok haven’t seen you on film recently to say merry Christmas happy new year hope all is well with you
Yes, we are back now! ❤️
I see your wan in Islamabad Pakistan stopped in rose jasmine garden 🥰
Yes!
We are here and enjoying Pakistan 😁🙏
Welcome to Iraq 🇮🇶
Go back to desert
I'm in Iraq and Kurdistan now. You are supposed to offer at least 3 times to pay. They will say it's free the first two times. You should have paid them really...
Is not iraq it’s kurdistan
🙂
Kurdistan ❤
We are all brothers, if we live as God says, there will be peace and happiness everywhere. We are waiting for you as a guest in my country, Azerbaijan
it is not free it’s a kindness of people to european travellers
Great videos. Kurdish people always welcomed gust . Kidness is Culture of kurdish people. Not because they Muslims.
Fantastic peoples
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Sizi seviyorum. Türkiye Cumhuriyeti den Selamlar saygılar sevgiler sunarım
Are you guys ok? Haven't seen a new video for a while 😕
nobody comes to Kurdistan so yeah 😊
kinda bothers me,using the word iraq for kurdistan,but still youre most welcome here❤
Can you go to zaxo its a very awesome city and its very big
It's been a long time since Y posted a video Is everything alright?
Amazing Kurdistan muslim country ❤️🇹🇯❤️
Not just Muslim remember that we have more then one religion here.
بەس دینی ئیسلاممان نیە، دینی دیش زۆرە لەبیرمەکە.
@@thegratepotato1281 yeah but we are proud muslims
@atatürkjugend okej kurd
@atatürkjugend better then the red WC flag isn’t it
Hi, you must visit to Pakistan, you will enjoy the country and it's culture.
I must say people open heartedly welcome you and specially food is amazing.
Hope to see you soon.
Have made it to Pakistan now :)
❤️
Is this your last one? We haven’t seen a video in a while. Are you guys ok??
Irak ülkesinden sonra iran ve azerbaycan güvenli bir ülkedir gidebilirsiniz aynı türkiye gibidir kültürleri. Fakat afganistan ve pakistan için gezmenizi tavsiye etmem. Oralarda fazla durmayınız. Onlarda müslümanlar fakat islamı katı kurallar çerçevesinde yaşarlar. Avrupadan ırakı gezmeye gelen ilk turistlersiniz. Sizleri cesaretinizden dolayı tebrik ederim.
Kurdistan 🇹🇯❤️
Kurdistan🟥☀️🟩
ahahhh are you crazy
theres lots of Europeans Americans and latins just not visiting kurdistan they living there
Welcome to Iraq Kurdistan
Repit visit to Kurdistan ❤️
It has nothing to do with Islam. Go to other Muslim countries and see if they'll accept your money or not. Non Muslim Kurds will also offer you free food so it has nothing to do with religion. It's part of the Kurdish culture to offer someone something to eat and someplace to stay. The locals who obviously know about their own culture will thankfully decline and still pay what they owe. They might be a bit tougher on foreigners (guests) and if you see he is serious on his body language that he will not accept your money then it's okey, but if he just says it once or twice you should still try to pay.
Hi what’s happened to joe and lisu it’s like they have disappeared
Margaret, hello!
Sorry for not contacting earlier.
We have been in Iran for the last 40 days and all the internet has been blocked 😕.
We just now made it to Pakistan and will hopefully be able to post again in 4 days or so.
It has been such a crazy experience, but we are so glad to be back 😊😜
@@WildVikingTravels thank you for letting me know you are both well looking forward to seeing your next video 🥰
Hello
🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
lovit
🙏😁
Bu yolculuğunuzda ikinizde kendi güvenliğinize dikkat edin. Hırsızlara karşı dikkatli olun. Sizleri seviyoruz. Her zaman türkiyeye gelin misafirimiz olun I love wild wiking travels.
hırsızlık en çok senin ülkende(türkiyede) oluyor. bence kürdistan daha güvenli.bunlar türkiye ye geldiklerinde sağlam çıkar mı ordan emin değilim.
You havent been sending a video for a month? İs everything okay?
If you wanted to put your money in their hands you would have to literally physically fight them, get wrist control, open their hands and try putting in their hands. By the way theres a psychological factor, the entire time you must talk to them, telling them why YOU need THEM to take YOUR money from you. I’ve seen it go down in my own home.
A women (also Kurdish) came as guest into my mothers home and tried leaving with a hug and then a hand shake, in that hand shake she slid a 100$ into my mothers and and forced hand closed and basically tried to wrestle her with wrist control saying. Na- na- na this is for the time you gave me 20$. My dad had to intervene, by ganging up on the other woman.
Kurdistan is the land of Noah’s ark and Kurds are very ancient people in the land they live in very kind and loving people
As i see no video or no news for the last one month, all ok?
Heyhey.
We are all good 😁🙏
Just made it to Pakistan after rough month in Iran and will be posting again in few days😊.
Sorry for not posting earlier, it was near impossible to use social media in Iran
Great to know you are safe and even greater to know you are in Pk. My homeland. You are gona love it like 🇹🇷. One of the best places to spend time. 🇵🇰💐🙏🏼
@@WildVikingTravels I am looking forward to hearing from you, I hope you can post what you experienced in Iran, for me a FANTASTIC country, which I have already had the opportunity to visit. Stay safe !
Wonderful; hopefully the area will not be inundated with mass tourism, it would bankrupt the amazing friendly and generous traders. 😀
العراق كله ابو الكرم
من شماله لجنوبه بنفس الكرم....
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Welcom to kurdistan🟥☀️🟩
Eminim ben gitsem benden para alırlardı 😂😂
Why do you think so?
Iraq 🇮🇶 👍🖤🔥🇮🇶😭
I love Kurdistan
This is getting ridicules. Iraq or Iraqi Kurdistan, for the love of god just pick one and stick with it!
You can’t keep changing the damn titles from video to video all the time it’s like you want people to point it out like this.
😅
@@WildVikingTravels well it’s nice to see you’re safe at least and came back.
But still make up your mind.
No Iraq yes Kurdistan
🙂
This is run in our DNA
hi
😋 ❤ 👍🌞