Arriving In Cuenca Ecuador & Continuing My South America Trip - Rooftop Bus Tour / Downtown Markets
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today's adventure begins a really good
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view here of qua Ecuador I left quido
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late last night had a delay on the
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flight but have arrived to another
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section of South
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America of
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Ecuador by the name of
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quink going to do a little
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exploring around this beautiful city
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today a little smaller in size than k
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going to be do a walking and bus tour
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today looking forward to it as the
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recording of this Monday February
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10th
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20125 really strong current here on this
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River so my uncle has lived here in town
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for three plus years a little over 3
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years in this general area he was saying
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every day people are out here washing
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their clothes and then they'll air dry
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them but there are quite a few people
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utilizing the river water to wash their
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clothes pretty normal here to do that
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instead of having a wash machine washing
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machine you just come down to the
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river also talking to a lady that is the
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neighbor to my uncle she was saying she
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saw something on the news someone got
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swept down the river yesterday or the
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day before so you got to be careful
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because sometimes it
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gets really the Rapids are really strong
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wrong welcome everyone out of the woo
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here feeling good weather's
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nice low 60s not a lot of humidity at
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the moment would imagine it probably
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gets pretty humid here in the summertime
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but right now not too bad see what I can
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see here in this section of South
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America Ecuador quink inviting you to
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join me shall you right we got a taxi
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we're going to take a taxi to our first
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stop
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all right another heart right here more
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or
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qua starting off here at this park going
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to get a little walking tour around the
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downtown
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area and then I believe a little later
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we're going to do a bus tour one of
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those hop hop on Hop off bus tours
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little shoe shine stance through here if
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you want to get your shoe shine there
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people lined up
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here I don't think my shoes need shining
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but yeah so evidently we have a guy with
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us today too a localizes guy we had a
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guide in keto we also have a guide here
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as well she was telling us there are 52
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maybe 53 Catholic churches just in the
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town of quink
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alone so quite a bit per capita amount
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of people and size of the place versus
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the
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magnitude of the very impressive and
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magnificent Church
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buildings love the balconies through
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here down this road all
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the exteriors have balconies rod iron
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balconies Little Town
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Square very
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nice says L Ecuador a
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Calderon I got some
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pigeons that is right there in the
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Statue they love their statues here
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yeah so he is um just telling me this
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gentleman so the sculpture there story
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is that he was wounded shot at both arms
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but held onto the
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flag and that's why he's holding the
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flag right there also the Ecuadorian
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independence day is my birthday
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according to her August 10th which is my
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birthday is the same day that they
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celebrate their independence so it's
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like a big holiday here fun fact August
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10th this is interesting so she's
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carrying ice cream cones on her head
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right there so this vendor has ice cream
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cones she's carrying it on her
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head saves uh from carrying in your
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hands gives you more you're able to
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carry more I'd probably drop them two
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because she was in PR of the education
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for women and for the right of woman and
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also she was very important because she
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had a lot of money that's why she was
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able to make a little difference for
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woman here in Ecuador and qu she was
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that important that even
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the how do you say the Govern governor
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governor was asking she uh what do you
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think about this or can we do this cuz
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she had a lot of money does the governor
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still live there governor of the
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province it's defin governor of the
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know but they they work there that's the
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governor's mansion right there so she
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filled this up with alcohol for every
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all the town folk so she was very well
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she everybody loved her after that day
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sure yeah she filled this Fountain up
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with booze for the local Town folk and
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everyone everyone got drunk here in this
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little town Fountain Square there's a
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pigeon right there tuppet a bag a street
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cleaner he's all in green yeah that's
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that's guys I keep them spot here yeah
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they wear the plutonium
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suits also a very interesting building
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right
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there this the judicial building all
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made of Marvel
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marel step there not Marvel Marvel
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something Suri so the old currency they
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used to have they use us money now coins
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they you still use Ecuadorian
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coins they use some us but 50 cent piece
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are us equadorian but their bills
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evidently used to have this guy on the
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on the actual paper bills
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1860 oh the Virgin Mary at top right
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right yeah
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CRA right you see the flette there Adam
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the crack oh the crack right below the
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sculpture
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there because of the weight wow why they
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trying to stop
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building like that so the towers are
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supposed to keep going higher yeah wow
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have the towers
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coming com streets oh the did this yeah
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and this is one of the oldest streets in
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Town yes the Santa
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Ana that's a new name the new name I
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used to live right next to Santa Ana in
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Anaheim Orange County California they
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have the name Santa Ana also Santa Ana
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winds those are the strong winds that
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come through that's the name of this
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road Santa Ana the smallest oldest Road
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here in town do have a Duncan here this
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coffee bar this is the first Dunkin
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Donuts that I've gotten here in Ecuador
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so get myself a pipe caffeinated
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beverage here at the Duncan across from
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This Magnificent church building right
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here as featured there's an iguana right
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there look at and a lot of lot of places
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do not have too cups you can get a Cho
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cup but most of the places will serve
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you in a cup like this and you just sit
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and chill in the in in the place but I'm
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getting mine to go cuz walking
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te oh you get all the different bouquet
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of flowers through
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here too be we got to fly home
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flower
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market you know what these are NOP I do
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not very interesting flowers we don't
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know what they
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are oh these are sunflowers right here I
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know those do you know what those are
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roses right
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here are those patunas
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there's the type of a bus tour we're
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going to be doing there I'm not sure if
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that's the one but there are ones
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similar to that we're going to be going
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on got all the lot of vendors here
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selling all their different wees there's
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a little some sort of a Ecuadorian treat
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over there they're making a little
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street
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food I've had a few things I've been
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here had a couple things yesterday that
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were quintessentially Ecuadorian as far
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as
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street food go and but for their wood
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they sell their products so this is
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where the nuns live the convent mhm
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inside there there's not a lot of nuns
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they have 15 15 NS not a lot they
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already old cuz there's a there's a that
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we are not making anymore these that
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come here younger when they were 12 10
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years old anymore so there's only 15 in
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there and they sell their products
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um some lotions
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wi
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honey honey lotion
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of fas F has no translation but what it
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means is a little bit
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more K is a little bit uh M more so I
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The Mask why because um a lot of the
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people that was working theal or plac
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around us to come here ask water bu
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little water and after that ask for a
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little bit more so can I have a so they
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oh okay can I have a little
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more this is the a little more
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tea T should we get some plants yeah not
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tastes like plants tastes like plants
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tastes like plants I polished the coffee
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off drink some
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plants how is it it's different
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different I took a sip already it
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definitely has a plant taste to
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it it's like when it's like tasting the
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smell of a plant it's good
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though right the back side of
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quink and back side of water quink spell
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backwards looking from the reverse side
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so this is Plaza San Francisco yes just
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like in Kito there's
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aaza so is that just normally where the
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big shopping districts
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are most of the vendors and
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stuff oh yeah that's why they got the
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sign there the name
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there backdrop of the domes there cool
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got back home in celebration with the
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fountain this one uh he misss up a
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little higher up though probably about
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twice high as a celebration Fountain
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however celebration Fountain stretches
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out to about here
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so with more width this one goes
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higher every every place you go always
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has something that kind of reminds you
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of
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home they have a fire
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the very first bike what year you think
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it's it says in the middle of the Bri
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there we can go
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in and this was the first church here
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1500s yeah late 1500s here and it's
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restaurant here the hotel restaurant
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used to be a Convent 1933 I would have
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guessed I would have been a little older
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but then I realized 1933 is still a heck
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of a long time ago we had 1933 cuz Banks
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haven't been around as long as some
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older buildings around here right down
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here is the first level of the original
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Market these stones and then they have
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elevated it over
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time you can see the original rocks down
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there they have the little stairs now
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leading up to the modern
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day floor of the
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square now entering the food market
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through here they have all different
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types of food items we're going to go up
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this elevator to the second floor up
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there this very decorative artwork here
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ohy sorry oh wow second floor there's a
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whole other level of veggie veggie
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overload up
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here this is a pretty awesome
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market look at this this Ural right here
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someone with a sewing
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machine right there got a butterfly a
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bee uh can't tell what that is there's
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another bee and looks like someone
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working on doing some shoe repair right
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there and then
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this some boxes like an a mine some sort
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look at the size of that zucchini right
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there that is a massive
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zucchini I love zucchini that would last
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me a couple days
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something interesting here you don't
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have to refrigerate eggs cuz they have a
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special coating on them so you never
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have to put them in the refrigerator how
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long will the eggs last oh no how long
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would the will they last without a month
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I've done them a month so you just buy
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them by the case and just keep on the
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kitchen counter right if you notice in
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our kitchen we have a little box two
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boxes there one with the
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chicken and how much are the eggs here
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360 for 12 no for 30 30 for 30 30 for 30
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wow that is so
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cheap that is a fullsize pig right there
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and they're giving me a sample mashed
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potatoes you can get a full meal where
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you get meat mashed potatoes what's that
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back there rice for $4 full meal and a
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salad for four bucks how much is just
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one of
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these can I just do like just
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one I'll try one of the mashed potato
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balls
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what
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$2 oh my gosh five of these for a buck
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exactly thought five of these would be a
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little much for a dollar so I said how
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about a quarter for one so I got this
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for one quar right here little salad
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thing on top what would that be equated
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to just like mashed potatoes uh yeah
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yeah almost looks like a pancake kind of
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yeah they Smash and quiet right I'm
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going to give this a little uh nice of's
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fried treat a quarter for this
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good flavoring this is it's like Hing
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corn
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same that's really
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good look at this mural up here here are
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some humans with hummingbird heads every
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one of these bags a dollar just let that
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sink in a dollar if you wanted all these
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peppers a dollar this whole thing of
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tomatoes a dollar these blueberries a
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buck a buck a buck everything here A
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Buck if it's in a bag it's a buck what
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these are they're called Bacco so it's
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only something that grows in or they
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they sell here in
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quink never seen anything quite like
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that and total bag for all of this $5
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all of these items and that
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$4.50 for that big bat of veggies dog on
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the corners being so patient wanting to
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cross the street just been uh C we
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walked this way the dog was just sitting
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sitting here wanting to cross the road
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dog's just waiting for the traffic to
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stop so that the dog can cross across
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the street okay dog it's your time to
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it's your time to shine it's your time
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to shine dog or maybe not maybe just the
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dog just likes watching the world go by
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he's just sitting there watching the
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wheels go round and round John linen
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song maybe he's humming humming that in
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his head his little dog head right there
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here in Ecuador it's an Ecuadorian
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dog hanging out on the street corner
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just having a having a good old time
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there dog right there com some sort of a
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van another small van and the
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dog no worries no worries at all
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dog little gazebo over here r on the
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second level up I go well one of the
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levels upo over here got to have my hat
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on is it is Sun is permeating
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here sun feels twice as hot here as it
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does in Florida
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yeah of water don't drink the tap water
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but you can drink the bottle
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like so we have a crust here that's why
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where the city is for oh okay and the
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city started right here at this
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cross this place was important because
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if you see we have a little a big street
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that goes all the way along it says a
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little way to Lo okay so that's why the
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Avenue is called
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Avenue so people like used to came from
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there used to cross the river and come
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up the city
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so so cross the River they see the cross
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and they knew that they were in quink
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yeah they were
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in so that river that you see there is
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there are pots and pans up top
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there now we have the traditional par
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festivals it's called
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the uh it's a game grasswood grasswood
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grass oh
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woodwood cuz it's like oil right oh so
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they try to climb they try to from the
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big yeah yeah they put it all over the
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the wood and so they put the prices up
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in the top oh it's like a SLI pole yeah
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they have to get toys get the
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prices this is stepping on this guy's
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head yeah right
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there that can't be comfortable all
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right this is the tour bus that we're
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going to be taken and take us to a few
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spots around $8 per person I guess it's
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a I'm not sure if it's a Hop On Hop off
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not a hop
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off oh it is okay Hop On Hop off I've
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never been on a rooftop of
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a tour guide thing before so I've seen
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them I've never been on one so we're
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going to do it
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we got 11 minutes all right it begins
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this is the first time I've ever done a
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rooftop Tour on a bus like
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this we are off taking the rooftop tour
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around one thing is for sure though it
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is hot that I have the
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people have umbrellas I should have
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umbrella up here because that sun is
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scorching I still feel it's better
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experience up top
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theion this is our second stop to visit
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those who wish to visit themm can now
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now big Benin Parliament except this uh
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obviously this isn't in London but
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there's a lot of these in London as well
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and there's a little sculpture of this
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gentleman right here in the middle of
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this round roundabout as well every time
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I see a roundabout I think a European
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Vacation which was cool when I was in
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London I was able to find the actual
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roundabout even though I was under
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construction I was able to find the same
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one that Clark and his family were going
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around
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thee you can see on your right is
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thege the first secular School in the
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city it design was inspired by one of
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the training stations in France
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at some point we're going to go up to
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the top right up there there's like a
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little building we're heading up there I
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think we're going to be stopping up
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there top of that little over way up
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take right for a couple dollars they
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have this attraction not too far from
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where the bus dropped off and it's going
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to pick us back up it is a glass bottom
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Bridge you can walk out
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across protection for the shoe
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shoes which they give you these kind of
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netting things to slip over your shoes
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and you can walk out on the perimeter
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and look
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across of the town of
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quink looking out woo this is kind of
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scary you can see straight
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here what's the population of qua about
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500,000
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so about six the size of Kito third lar
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City
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all right back down at ground level
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pretty good little tour prob an hour and
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a half and then we were up at that
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little Peak for about an hour pretty
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neat perspective up for the second level
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also I see all these little cutouts
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cardboard cutouts of
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guys any clue who these are but these
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are everywhere around town here going to
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grab a taxi does definitely looks like
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there are plenty tax taxis lined up go
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to
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our next
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line all right nice day nice first day
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here in
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quink here for about a week give or take
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a
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day spending some time in South America
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First quido for about a week now quink
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for about a week also going to do stuff
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on the outskirts not necessarily
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everything in town
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but that's going to do it for today
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thanks for
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watching those mountains over
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there nice I'll see you in the next
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video the
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Vlog the
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Vlog is over