Anton: No, this how you do it. Give it back.
Anton: I told you I should get the real toys!
Nastya: Why are you always nagging?
Anton: OK, these will do.
Anton: Happy Holidays!
Nastya: This is Heads and Tails Reloaded.
Anton: This is our final episode of 2017.
Anton: The New Year is coming!
Anton: So we decided to bring a Christmas tree to Zanzibar, Africa!
Anton: Heads.
Nastya: Tails!
Nastya: Well, Anton. Tell me I got a Gold Card as my Holiday gift!
Anton: No!
Anton: But here's your gift. Keep the tree too.
Nastya: Stop!
Nastya: Take your fake tree and go away!
Nastya: It's like when you want a Barbie doll, but get the wooden horse!
Nastya: You're a terrible Santa!
Anton: Never for a second we doubted the destination for our season finale.
Anton: Sunny Zanzibar island of course!
Nastya: Where else can you get such relaxing atmosphere...
Nastya: ...fit for a scene from an ad...
Nastya: ...and receive heavenly pleasure in very sense of the word? Mmm!
Nastya: This won't be a regular episode.
Nastya: Let's find some trouble to get into!
Nastya: Zanzibar is known as an emerging sex tourism destination for women.
Nastya: Young and not so much.
Nastya: European women flock here to not only to get the bronze tan.
Nastya: The meeting takes place at the beach.
Nastya: Zanzibar's mass transportation that takes you Massai has a cool name – dala dala.
Nastya: Not sure I said it right.
Anton: Our friend Kolya's hair almost crashed during his last flight with a local airline.
Kolya: I had a tough start to my journey. My airplane just lost two of its chassis!
Anton: Want to see things beyond island's Capital city?
Anton: You have no choice, but to fly suspect local airlines.
Anton: You can minimize you risks by getting on the largest aircraft.
Anton: The bigger the better rule definitely applies everywhere on Zanzibar.
Anton: We should have been in the air 10 minutes ago.
Anton: The guy with a Gold Card is here, we can take off.
Anton: Zanzibar is a giant heavenly island.
Anton: I'm trying to reach best kept secrets with white sandy beaches and crystal clear ocean water.
Anton: Where sun always shines down through the coconut palm trees.
Nastya: Dala dala is basically a larger wooden dog house.
Nastya: Number of passengers is unlimited and they sit on wooden benches.
Nastya: It's trashy, but the fare is less than a dollar, that's 50 times lower than a taxi.
Nastya: Pretty cozy!
Nastya: I can really smell someone's armpits right now.
Nastya: Dala dala is wonder! Every time it seems like there's no more room, more people keep packing in.
Nastya: And look at this conductors!
Nastya: They spend the whole trip hanging on the outside step, seemingly holding onto the air.
Hakuna Matata!
Nastya: I felt people's hands all over me right now!
Nastya: Someone's even slapped my buttocks. Their way of wishing me luck perhaps.
Nastya: Ladies, I suggest, from airport you go directly to the Nungwi beach.
Nastya: Here for 20-40 Euros you can hire a dark skinned friend for a day.
He will carry your bag for you, open the doors and basically do whatever your heart desires.
It is up to you whether he spends a night with you or outside.
Nastya: The beach is the spot where European ladies come to hire Massai.
Nastya: Tall, dark skinned men from that tribe are the most popular.
Massai man: We are the best lovers, the gods.
Massai man: We can please a woman non-stop, so they leave their men and come to us.
Nastya: For $200-$300 per week Massai will be your personal guide,
Nastya: masseuse, bag handler and bar tender.
Nastya: Some ladies decided to remain here and have little Massai.
Nastya: Here's how you do it.
Nastya: You simply lay down on the beach and Massai will approach you within five minutes.
Nastya: Hakuna Matata! Exactly!
Nastya: Massai right away knows which country you came from.
Nastya: If you don't feel like continuing on, simply send a man off.
Nastya: Another one will approach you. No worries!
Nastya: Let me break down the rules.
Nastya: You never haggle right away on the beach or name price. A small monetary reward is customary.
Nastya: One more rule is that a woman always pays in restaurants and hotels.
Massai man: A Polish 40-year old woman once asked me to her room.
Massai man: We started doing it rough.
Massai man: After 3 straight days in bed she left.
Massai man: I got a new smartphone as a parting gift.
Anton: I took a flight to the nearby Pemba Island.
Anton: Too bad even heavenly places in Africa still have broken down and dirty roads.
Anton: Why, God? Rain? Are you kidding me?
Anton: Dude, this is a fiasco.
Anton: The view would be much better. I never get to win a toss for the Gold Card.
Anton: But wait!
Anton: I still have my snorting hotel room!
Anton: It will blow your mind for sure!
Nastya: I must note Massai men look unusual.
Nastya: They knock out one of their front teeth and also wear ritual scars on their cheeks.
Nastya: Long dreadlocks mean that Massai man is looking for a partner.
Nastya: I think I'll take him.
Nastya: Please, help me zip my dress.
Anton: I have rented an astonishing floating underwater villa.
Anton: I could care less about the weather.
Anton: Not many hotels like this exist in the world...
Anton: So it comes with a hefty price tag - $1.500 per night.
Anton: For the next two days I'll be the captain of this vessel!
Anton: I've paid actual money for this vacation,
Anton: so I'll get every penny's worth.
Anton: Are we sure we are filming the Reloaded season?
Anton: Not the Heaven and Hell episodes?
Anton: This is the Hell part!
Anton: Who can say they had a New Year like this?
Anton: What an adventure!
Anton: OMG!
Anton: Fellas it's like I'm in space!
Anton: Way beyond my imagination!
Anton: My bedroom is floating 4 meters deep in the ocean.
Anton: A whistle fish glides by my window. Here's a Platax.
Anton: I'm the ruler of the fish!
Anton: How can chain luxury hotels charge tens of thousands for their sweets,
Anton: when here you get the ocean itself as your cradle?
Nastya: Felipe invited me to see Stone Town.
Nastya: It's Zanzibar's Capital and the only city.
Felipe: I grew up in Stone Town.
Felipe: It's the best city on Earth.
Felipe: Massai always built their houses with palm leaves and manure.
Felipe: Stone Town is the first place on Zanzibar where the houses were built from stone,
Felipe: that's why we call it Stone Town.
Nastya: Houses made of stone were built without a city plan.
Nastya: These streets are narrow, but feel very cozy.
Nastya: I had no idea this city will leave such an impression.
Nastya: It's special, I think you're lucky to have been born here.
Felipe: I'm also lucky to meet a girl like you.
Felipe: This we call The House of Miracles.
Felipe: This is the first building in Zanzibar to have plumbing, electricity and an elevator.
Felipe: That is why we call it House of Miracles.
Felipe: Can you imagine, an elevator?
Anton: So now I am headed to a village that can't start their New Year's celebration without me.
Anton: Greetings everyone! Happy New Year!
Anton: Our Holidays include family meals and exchanging gifts.
Anton: But not on Zanzibar!
Anton: Locals built a VIP stand for me from palms.
Anton: So I can fully enjoy the show!
Anton: Well! Let's see!
Anton: The celebration features a bull!
Anton: It reminds me of corrida, only here a bull stays alive.
Anton: He is skinny, but it still weights around 300 kilos and you don't want to feel his horns.
Anton: That's why I'm up here.
Anton: There are no barriers here whatsoever.
Anton: People of Zanzibar believe that running from a bull cleanses you of all the sin from the passing year
Anton: and the more times you get hit the cleaner you will become.
Anton: Not seeing any action for my money.
Anton: They must have a kind bull.
Anton: Maybe it's because he's never seen a white man before?
Anton: I'm getting on the field. Bring on the bull!
Anton: No use from this thing. I have to do it like locals.
Anton: I almost soiled my shorts.
Anton: When he goes after you, that's damn scary.
Nastya: Zanzibar used to be slave trade capital.
Nastya: In just 40 years 600,000 people were moved from the island and sold.
Felipe: My every third ancestor was sold as a slave to the Middle East.
Nastya: There's a slavery museum in Stone Town.
Nastya: The entrance fee is $5, but I'm paying double.
Nastya: Those look like movie tickets, but they are to a place where the slaves were sold, right?
Nastya: Let's go take a look.
Nastya: The museum features several underground chambers, where the slaves were kept before they were sold.
Felipe: My great grandfather was chained by the neck in this chamber.
Felipe: They had no lights, no food or water.
Nastya: 40 men were kept in the room of this size.
Nastya: The hole on the floor was used as a toilet.
Nastya: People were kept in such conditions for months before being sold to their owners.
Nastya: This is horrific!
Nastya: If we were to count in modern money, a cost of one slave would be around $50,000.
Nastya: Me personally, I'd never purchase a slave. Let's go.
Anton: There's no decorating a tree or gifts in Zanzibar.
Anton: Here they run from a bull and also engage in stick fighting.
Anton: A Holiday Greeting here is letting each other really have it with sticks.
Anton: Locals believe that this fight completely cleanses them from sins and grudges of the year.
Anton: This lady must have had practiced fencing. She moves so fast!
Anton: Just a minute.
Anton: This isn't easy to do.
Anton: Only a minute and I can't feel my shoulder.
Nastya: After sightseeing, Felipe asked me out to dinner.
Nastya: On my purse of course.
Nastya: And all of this for $1.35 per person.
Nastya: So, Let's eat?
Nastya: Jeepers creepers!
Nastya: Spicy sauce! Really spicy!
Anton: Meanwhile, I was taken to lunch by my Gold Card.
Anton: This is the biggest shrimp I have ever seen.
Nastya: Your own Massai can give great advice about a hotel.
Nastya: I asked about a cheap option.
Nastya: It's far on the outskirts, so it would be hard to find it by myself.
Nastya: Felipe's advise about hotel was great.
Nastya: The air here is filled with an aroma of the exotic flowers.
Nastya: You are literally two steps away from the ocean.
Nastya: It turns out that I can rent my own spacious bungalow for $35 per night.
Nastya: I think it looks perfect, do you like it?
Nastya: We have a bed, a table, a window, lights.
Nastya: Great thing that we have a mosquito net too, there's a lot of them.
Nastya: Make yourself at home.
Nastya: Felipe asked if I wanted a massage by the pool right away.
Nastya: My friends' hands are very strong indeed.
Nastya: I never would have thought a heaven could be so cheap.
Nastya: He's touching my butt!
Nastya: Ouch! It hurts! Be gentler. A little bit.
Nastya: That felt rather unusual. What are you doing?
Nastya: I hope that's how they show sympathy.
Nastya: Later Felipe invited me to a party that features erotic baikoko dance performances.
Nastya: Baikoko dance is one of the sexiest in the world.
Nastya: It is forbidden in this Muslim country,
Nastya: so to see it we have to walk through dark village alleys.
Nastya: About a dozen men gather at a small area with a few women dancing.
Nastya: Baikoko dance is an invitation to sex.
Nastya: It is a powerful feminine exhibition. Men observe.
Nastya: It is not uncommon to dance while standing on all fours.
Nastya: Such rhythm, so smooth it's unbelievable.
Nastya: When a man accepts an invitation, he joins in the dancing and is hoping for some time in private.
Nastya: I really like it! These dances don't look one bit dirty. Very cool.
Felipe: Massai men are very unique. We are like horses. We can go for ten hours. Do you know what I mean?
Nastya: This dancing gets so heated that the party goes out of control!
Anton: Time to hide our New Year bottle under a New Year tree of course!
Anton: Don't ask how we found a pine tree.
Anton: A note from us and here's a Holiday $100!
Anton: Head to Stone Town, find Calunda road and head to the beach towards Zanzibar's Ministry of Finance.
Anton: Once there, look for an abandoned building with a fence and a tall pine tree.
Nastya: Well, I wish you good night.
Nastya: Sasha I said good night, that includes you too.
Nastya: Goood niiight!
Anton: The sun! Everything looks better in the sunshine.
Nastya: You should really come here. Go to your bank, your sock drawer and come visit, right?
Nastya: In the morning Felipe took me an aquarium with live sea turtles in it.
Nastya: Once again I need to pay for both of us.
Nastya: What about the tickets?
Nastya: Okay, they didn't give us the tickets, but we are allowed to go in.
Nastya: That's the aquarium?
Nastya: Am I the first tourist who ever came here. Typical African dump.
Nastya: Swim? With the turtles? Here?
Nastya: Looks more like a puddle than an aquarium.
Nastya: About two dozen of these cute turtles live in this lagoon.
Nastya: I should jump in the water with them and splash around.
Nastya: When you get in the water the turtles start circling you.
Nastya: You feel them touching your body.
Nastya: There's nowhere to run.
Nastya: Turtles can also bite.
Nastya: No more, please.
Nastya: Why are you laughing?
Nastya: This is really disgusting.
Nastya: I've never liked turtles in the first place!
Nastya: Imagine a large crowd and you can't get through, it's the same feeling only much scarier and grosser.
Nastya: Thanks for taking me.
Anton: Zanzibar's main tourist attraction for the rich is, of course, safari.
Anton: But how many times have we showed you that already?
Anton: Something new this time.
Anton: New Cheetah's Rock petting zoo was opened.
Anton: A ticket costs $140.
Anton: The best part is that here you can get close to predators and even pet some of them.
Anton: It purrs guys. Like a house cat.
Anton: Where else could you feed a hyena that can eat a small gazelle?
Anton: She could have eaten my whole hand like Pac-man, but didn't do it.
Anton: Do you want a snack? I have plenty. Let's do it together?
Anton: I am 2 meters away from a large white lion, let me feed him.
Anton: It's a unique place this zoo.
Anton: Petting zoos are gaining worldwide popularity in part because they shelter special animals.
Anton: This six months old puma was once sold on Facebook.
Anton: These are very rare Madagascar tortoises.
Anton: This is largest population of them in the World.
Anton: They were literally snatched from poachers.
Anton: One such tortoise can cost up to $100.000 on the black market, these would sell for $1.5 million.
Anton: Bon appetite!
Nastya: Sometimes Africans can be born albinos.
Nastya: Life is extremely rough for albinos on Zanzibar.
Nastya: Local shamans are after their body parts and organs.
Nastya: An albino's ears according to them can cure deafness,
Nastya: skin cures cancer, an arm is a strong amulet against evil spirits.
Nastya: There are many albino body hunters in Tanzania.
Nastya: Their job is to cut albino to pieces.
Nastya: There's a shelter for albinos in Stone Town
Nastya: Was your life ever in jeopardy?
Albino man: Yes. I was out at a club, when the headhunters came in
Albino man: and I had to jump from a second floor window.
Albino man: The chased me and would have killed me, but I was saved by police.
Nastya: Albino's life is limited to hiding.
Nastya: It's a strenuous life that is full of fear.
Albino woman: I fear leaving my home even in the daytime.
Nastya: I don't know why these people deserve this.
Nastya: Because of insane men that decided it is fine to cut people open?
Nastya: Because some idiot thinks a cut off finger will help him in life?
Nastya: My Zanzibar week-end is almost over.
Nastya: It is now time to say good-bye to Felipe.
Nastya: Thank you. Take care of yourself.
Nastya: Sometimes we do things in life that are out of our character.
Nastya: Whether we want it or not, but travels change people.
Nastya: Travels make you more brave,
Nastya: kinder, and sometimes more cynical.
Nastya: . I personally would never get a slave... Let's go.
Anton: Traveling inspires people.
Anton: Allows you to see more wonders than you've ever dreamed of.
Anton: Remember to always return to your favorite cities.
Anton: What about us? As one famous Zanzibar's man once said - the show must go on!
BOTTOM GRAPHICS: Total amount spent: $98.47 vs. $5.231
BOTTOM GRAPHICS: 17:41 Somewhere in an Indian ocean.
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