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0:00what's up guys trubinsky here i've just
0:02completed my mission to visit every
0:03country in the world and in this video
0:05i'm going to share with you an updated
0:07list of my top 10 favorite countries
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0:14we're going to kick it off in reverse
0:15order with my 10th favorite country of
0:18turkey
0:20i've visited turkey many many times
0:22probably 10 times it is such a wonderful
0:24place because it's right where east
0:26meets west you have like europe european
0:28vibe european culture but also asia and
0:31asian life istanbul is literally the
0:33only city in the world that is split
0:35between two continents which is really
0:36cool you can take a little ferry across
0:38the bus for a sea and visit both sides
0:41of the city now what i love about turkey
0:43is you have incredible food so turkish
0:46food is
0:47internationally known for its kebabs
0:50there's a debate where the original
0:51kebab comes from but i like to say it's
0:53turkey because my favorite one is in
0:54turkey and they claim to it to be theirs
0:56and so you'll see the guys cooking it on
0:58a huge um little oven and they you know
1:01chop it off with a stick with the knife
1:03and it's just so delicious so food
1:05number one you have turkish delights you
1:07have turkish tea turkish coffee all
1:09kinds of delicious sweets all exist in
1:12turkey the country is a lot more than
1:14istanbul my favorite places are
1:16gaziantep which is a culinary capital
1:18antakia which is all the way down south
1:20by the turkish border there's a city
1:22called mardin which has this really cool
1:24fortress like an old ancient fortress in
1:26mesopotamia there's another city called
1:28diarbacco in the east it's where the
1:30kurdish people live it is known to have
1:32the biggest city walls in the world
1:34behind
1:35the great wall of china so it is really
1:36fascinating i love the vibe walking
1:38around the street everybody's so
1:40friendly saying hi it's just
1:42a really fascinating place you have
1:43beaches everywhere you have mountains
1:46you have snow um all kinds of different
1:48fascinating villages i visited a village
1:51in the north which speaks with whistles
1:53so they only have a whistle that they
1:55communicate with it's fascinating i met
1:57the world's tallest man who lives in
1:58turkey and there's a whole lot happening
2:00in that country and i hope you get the
2:02chance to visit we're gonna head into my
2:03ninth favorite country which is japan
2:06now japan is one of those countries
2:07that's high on everyone's list if
2:09they've never visited it's a fascinating
2:11place you have literally a culture that
2:14is 10 years ahead of the world in terms
2:16of technology innovation just think
2:18about it all the main electronics
2:20companies sony mitsubishi panasonic all
2:23of the car company toyota honda there's
2:26literally like the list goes on and
2:28they're all invented in japan so it's
2:30just really cool to see how innovative
2:31they are and when you go there you can
2:33really soak it in and feel the culture
2:35of japan and what makes it so unique
2:37from what i know is that japan has never
2:40been colonized and they're an island so
2:42they've been living this isolated world
2:44for so long and that's why they just did
2:46everything themselves so when you go
2:47there it's not like any of its neighbors
2:49it's not like anywhere else in the world
2:51you really enter a separate universe it
2:53sounds weird to explain but japan is
2:56just so freaking cool obviously the food
2:59you have sushi you have ramen you have
3:00delicious beer sapporo and when you walk
3:02into a restaurant you literally order on
3:05a screen and you sit down and it comes
3:07to you and yes a lot of the restaurants
3:09do have robots that serve you you have
3:11capsule hotels in japan you have
3:13roppongi which is a district of tokyo
3:15there's another area called shibuya
3:16crossing which is the most populated
3:18intersection in the world in tokyo and
3:20then if you get outside tokyo you have a
3:22beautiful city called kyoto which is zen
3:25temples buddhist it's really beautiful
3:27and osaka it's like a little tokyo and
3:30then i've yet to visit other parts of
3:31the country but i really want to go down
3:33uh to some of the islands okinawa and go
3:36up north so japan is a really
3:37fascinating place and i hope you get the
3:39chance to visit we're gonna move into
3:40number eight the czech republic i might
3:43be slightly biased because i lived and
3:44studied abroad there in 2012 it's where
3:46i got hooked on the travel bug and it's
3:48where this whole world started for me
3:50it's when i got introduced to new
3:51peoples cultures lifestyles cuisines and
3:53i traveled to 20 countries during that
3:55semester in europe so prague always has
3:58a special place in my heart but honestly
4:00i've been back to prague so many times
4:02since i left most recently a couple
4:04weeks ago where i got this tattoo it
4:06says 197. can you guys see that for all
4:08the countries in the world my final
4:10passport stamp you guys are actually the
4:11first ones to see that
4:13prague is a really beautiful city you
4:14have medieval churches old town square
4:17you have charles bridge one of the
4:18oldest bridges in the world you have
4:20this really fascinating culture where
4:21it's like eastern european vibes you
4:24know the culture the way the people act
4:26and i don't know it feels very different
4:27than western europe but they're
4:28open-minded and the economics of czech
4:31republic is very westernized so it's
4:33also right in the middle right in the
4:35crossroads and prague is awesome you can
4:37within a five-hour train ride you can
4:38get to budapest you can get to munich
4:40you can get to krakow dresden germany
4:42and or you can just fly around i i
4:44really love prague walking around the
4:46charming streets it's a small city so
4:48you can really get anywhere you need in
4:5030 minutes by foot or you can take the
4:51metro or the tram and there's so many
4:53cool underground bars like old ruined
4:55pubs from world war ii just a
4:57fascinating place beautiful castles
4:59everywhere beer gardens the czechs drink
5:01more beer per capita than anyone in the
5:03world so when you go there you can go
5:04hang out there's a place called regrow
5:06visay which is a very old beer garden
5:08with beautiful views of prague that i
5:10love and you have the voltava river that
5:12goes through i can go on and on and on
5:14but prague is just my happy place and
5:17and actually if you guys can see up here
5:20i have a picture of prague in my room in
5:22my office because that is where it all
5:24started for me and i always want to
5:26remember prague
5:28we're gonna move into my seventh
5:30favorite country which is mexico so it's
5:32funny as an american and there's this
5:35general feeling in this country that
5:37mexico is not nice maybe has dirty water
5:40maybe it's unsafe we've heard stories of
5:42americans going there on vacation and
5:44they never come home and so
5:46for one reason or another mexico has a
5:48bad reputation
5:49but i'm here to tell you that mexico is
5:51freaking amazing
5:52as soon as you get away from the beach
5:54town resorts cancun cabo tulum acapulco
5:59puerto vallarta those are all beach
6:00towns resort towns once you get inland
6:03you go to mexico city you go to oaxaca
6:05you go to chiapas which is a state in
6:07the south it is fascinating mexico is
6:10super diverse you have fantastic food
6:13very hospitable people i think some of
6:15the most in all of the world and mexico
6:17is cheap it's got just amazing
6:20culture architecture
6:22world wonders there's a place called
6:24teotihuacan which is these old mayan
6:27temples that's just north of mexico city
6:30and you can drive there you have
6:31obviously chichen itza in the yucatan
6:33province
6:34one of my favorite experiences in mexico
6:36was going into the the la condon jungle
6:38or the rain forest
6:40all the way down south by the guatemalan
6:42border and you i was literally hanging
6:44out with dudes that was like using a
6:45machete to cut branches off a tree and
6:48drinking water from it and they just
6:49live in the nature and and i don't know
6:51i i did a whole story on mexico's most
6:53remote tribe and they wear these white
6:55shirts and they're so peaceful and
6:57mexico is so huge it's one of the
6:59biggest countries in the world both in
7:00terms of size and population and there's
7:03a lot happening there also the beaches
7:04are nice i don't not saying to ignore
7:06them but if you get a chance go to
7:08mexico city go into some of these other
7:10places and and you will not regret it
7:12that takes us into my sixth favorite
7:13country which is namibia it's my
7:16favorite country on the entire african
7:18continent it's in the southwestern part
7:20bordering angola bordering south africa
7:23botswana it is a beautiful country it's
7:26one of the least populated countries in
7:28the entire world second only to mongolia
7:31there's only two million people living
7:32in a huge country most of it is desert
7:35and namibia is all about the beauty the
7:37natural beauty so i took a road trip for
7:39a few weeks went all around it's the
7:41only place in the world that i've seen
7:42beautiful sand dunes
7:44intersecting with ocean
7:46literally you're driving for miles and
7:48miles hours and hours and you're just
7:50seeing ocean waves crash on these
7:52beautiful sand dunes and i have a drone
7:54shot of that it's really beautiful you
7:55can go to a german town called swakapoom
7:58so namibia was colonized by germany for
8:00a while and they left over the beer and
8:02a lot of the pretzels and the cuisine
8:04and swakapoon is really interesting that
8:05people actually speak german i met a
8:07little girl there who speaks fluent
8:08german out of school cut to that clip
8:15the capital city of windhoek is just
8:17beautiful and peaceful they have this
8:18food called biltong which is like beef
8:20jerky but their own style everybody
8:22speaks english it's kind of like south
8:24africa it's really similar to south
8:25africa and at one point they were a
8:27country living together you have
8:29beautiful beautiful wildlife in the
8:32north there's a national park called
8:33etosha national park where you can see
8:35all the big five animals lions elephants
8:38zebras and it's just such a wonderful
8:41place and there's a another place inside
8:43of the desert called susley um they
8:45speak kind of like a a dutch language
8:48there and you have these like old
8:51trees that have somehow stayed in the
8:53middle of the desert and they have these
8:55really spooky looking um
8:57vines coming out of the ground that was
8:59a pretty cool place met some wonderful
9:01people there and and um i feel like
9:03maybe as a place i'll be back very soon
9:05my fifth favorite country is venezuela
9:08oh my god i
9:10didn't really know what to expect before
9:11i went there um about a year ago and i
9:14went during the pandemic and during the
9:16worst political and economical times of
9:18the country but it was awesome the
9:20people were so welcoming it's not even
9:22that dangerous i mean parts of caracas
9:24can be a little sketchy you know in
9:25pattade which is the one of the biggest
9:27slums in the world i went there you know
9:28you got to be careful where you go who
9:30you meet but once you get out of caracas
9:32it's totally normal
9:33yeah the money's really inflated like
9:36one dollar was two million bolivares
9:37when i was there now one dollar is like
9:39five million believe this and you can
9:41get like one bread for like five million
9:43believe this but forgetting about that
9:46they've adopted the dollar so it's not
9:47that big of a deal anymore you'll you'll
9:49have nothing but warm hospitality big
9:51smiles people inviting you into their
9:53house giving you a drink going on the
9:55beautiful caribbean coast nobody knows
9:57that venezuela actually has the longest
9:59coast in all the caribbean so you have
10:01so many beautiful little islands and
10:03crystal clear water coconuts there's a
10:06beautiful vibe down there and i
10:08absolutely loved it oh and i can't
10:10forget the cuisine they have arepas
10:12which is i don't know how to explain it
10:14it's like a corn
10:16meal corn flake crunchy outside and
10:19inside you have all these beautiful
10:20ingredients that just delicious pork
10:22cheese vegetables um empanadas are
10:25delicious and um
10:27i don't know venezuela really has this
10:29charm this vibe and i that is a country
10:32i will absolutely be back and i want you
10:34to know not to be scared to go there
10:36it's really a nice place and i can't say
10:38enough about venezuela number four we
10:41have lebanon located right in the middle
10:44east and i don't know beirut is like the
10:46most happening city
10:48best nightlife amazing vibes boardwalks
10:51on the mediterranean sea you have
10:53beautiful ancient roman ruins that
10:55aren't too far away it's called baalbek
10:57that place you can go up in the
10:59mountains people think that lebanon is a
11:01desert it's not a desert it's very green
11:03you have mountains it snows literally in
11:06the same day you can go snowboarding and
11:07go hang out on the beach and in
11:09beautiful weather in the same day
11:11going down south in lebanon there's all
11:13these beautiful little villages going
11:14east towards the border of syria more
11:16beautiful villages
11:18incredible food i like to
11:20group uh lebanese and syrian food
11:23together hummus falafel
11:26all the different kind of flavors and
11:28it's so fresh and of course lebanese
11:30people they're trilingual they speak
11:32french they speak arabic and english
11:34they're so outgoing and friendly and
11:36want to hang out go to the shisha bar go
11:39have fun a lot of people think it's a
11:41strict islamic country no it's islamic
11:43and christian
11:44about half and half and it's not a very
11:46religious or strict country and well
11:48depending on which areas you go to but
11:50uh if you go to beirut you will have an
11:52amazing time and i hope you get the
11:54chance to do it number three we have
11:56afghanistan i think if you've seen any
11:58of my content you know how much i love
12:00that country it has a special place in
12:02my heart and i'm devastated uh by the
12:04taliban takeover several months ago i
12:06went to afghanistan first three years
12:08ago spent a couple weeks there that trip
12:10and then i went back uh during kobe
12:12before taliban take over i went back for
12:14three weeks and so i've spent a little
12:15over a month in the country all together
12:17been to seven different provinces all
12:19over the place and i can talk on and on
12:21and on about afghanistan but the first
12:23thing i want to say is the people are
12:25the most absolute genuine hospitable
12:28people on this planet they will invite
12:30you into their house insist that you
12:32sleep on their bed and they will sleep
12:33on the floor i love that when you go
12:35there it feels like you've entered a
12:37time machine back hundreds of years the
12:38way they dress the way they hang out not
12:40many people are on their phone on their
12:42smartphones they just
12:44relax they hang out they drink tea when
12:46you walk through the market it's so
12:47traditional and the way they make ice
12:49cream they have these like buckets and
12:51they push with their hands these ice
12:52buckets to make ice cream alexander the
12:54great's former home is in headache in
12:56the west i went there with my friend
12:58thomas from yes theory and we had a
13:00wonderful time it's on the ancient silk
13:02road so you have all these ideas that
13:04have come by hundreds and hundreds of
13:05years ago and they still reflect in the
13:07culture today and i am just beyond
13:09obsessed with afghanistan kabul
13:12mazar shadif panshir mountains all these
13:15different places in the country kandahar
13:17in the south and
13:19amazing pomegranates oh my god the fruit
13:21how did i forget the best oranges
13:23pomegranates apples i've had in my
13:24entire life afghanistan is and will
13:27always be one of my favorite countries
13:29in this world i'm not going to recommend
13:30you to go there now because it's not
13:32safe but hopefully inshallah someday in
13:34the future it will be safe for everybody
13:36to visit that leads me into number two
13:38iran not surprisingly iran is located in
13:40the same region eurasia it's where
13:43europe meets asia same places where
13:45turkey is lebanon and afghanistan and
13:48iran is right in there my favorite
13:50region in the world um iran there's this
13:52misconception that iran is dangerous
13:54it's a terrorist country blah blah blah
13:56all this stuff is happening it's
13:57honestly one of the safest countries in
13:58the world there's
14:00nothing bad happy you walk around the
14:01streets in two in the morning and people
14:03are nice to you maybe it's because like
14:05america has a conflict politically with
14:07iran i don't know but all i want to say
14:09is that persian people are incredible
14:11just like afghans it's kind of like
14:13afghanistan but it's a little more
14:15modernized for lack of a better word
14:17walking around tehran you'll see more
14:19tall buildings more fancy coffee shops
14:22it's it's a little bit less traditional
14:24than afghanistan but um all the values
14:26the core values and the cuisine is
14:29similar and it's just fantastic going to
14:32persepolis which is this beautiful
14:34ancient two three thousand year old city
14:36it's the unesco world heritage site it's
14:38just outside of a city called shiraz you
14:40have a city called yazd which is a very
14:42religious city it's the birthplace of
14:43the zoroastrian religion
14:45terran obviously is beautiful lots of
14:47really cool buildings there ancient
14:49libraries and mosques my favorite place
14:51in iran is esfahan it's one of the
14:53biggest city squares in the world i
14:55think the second biggest behind only
14:56beijing yeah i don't know walking around
14:58iran meeting the people they're so
15:00friendly and they don't even hate
15:01america government is one thing people
15:03is another thing
15:04when you tell them about the u.s they're
15:06like oh my uncle lives there i want to
15:07visit and and i always have dreams to go
15:09there and
15:10persian people are so down to earth so
15:12friendly i've never had one bad
15:14experience in iran and i'm actually
15:15planning to go back in just a few months
15:17so stay tuned for that content and last
15:19but not least my favorite country in the
15:22world is the philippines now a lot of
15:25you guys know that i've been with deanna
15:27for six years but i want to let you know
15:29that i fell in love with her country
15:31years before i fell in love with her
15:33back to 2013 when i was teaching english
15:35in korea i went to the philippines
15:36several times i think i'd been four
15:38times before i met diana so i already
15:40loved the country i've spent two years
15:41of my life there still have a place in a
15:44condo in manila with the philippines i
15:46mean we're going to start off with over
15:477 100 islands
15:50a lot of them are untouched beauty
15:52private islands so there's never a place
15:54to run out there's always untouched
15:56beauty beaches everywhere filipinos
15:59always have this like
16:00happy face it doesn't matter if
16:02something bad happened if they had a
16:03family death or if they're having a
16:04really bad day or something they always
16:06will greet you with a smile and be
16:08respectful to you and that's what i
16:10really love about the philippines
16:11they've also adapted to so many
16:13different cultures around the world and
16:15that's why they can just fit anywhere
16:16it's like for example in korea they're
16:18very homogenous and they have one kind
16:19of mindset and one way of life i know
16:21that because i lived there for two years
16:22but the philippines is not like that
16:24they've adapted they've lived all over
16:26the world they've been around they have
16:27a lot of american influence from pop
16:29culture but they also can do things
16:31themselves and they have a cuisine that
16:34is not really internationally known like
16:35filipino restaurants are not commonly
16:37found but there's delicious food called
16:39sinigang and bulalo those are two
16:41soups like sour stews and then you have
16:44sisig which is like chopped up pork you
16:46have halo halo which is a delicious
16:47dessert there's all kinds of delicious
16:49filipino foods that i can go on and on
16:50so my favorite islands are shiregao
16:52bahal
16:53sikihor which is really beautiful and
16:55then going down south you can find
16:57ramblan you can find zamboanga which is
16:59actually a really cool city and then of
17:01course in manila you have beautiful
17:02places just down south of there called
17:04batangas in the north you have a place
17:06called batanes which is like new zealand
17:08philippines is very affordable it's
17:10something for everyone people speak
17:12english so you never have a language
17:13barrier and just everywhere you go in
17:15the philippines you will have a huge
17:16smile on your face because you'll know
17:18that you're welcome you'll know that
17:19it's safe it's beautiful amazing culture
17:23and you're just surrounded by love and
17:24happiness and that is the philippines in
17:26a nutshell with that all being said guys
17:29that wraps up my 10
17:31most favorite countries in the world
17:32it's actually hard to choose 10 because
17:34it's like choosing a favorite movie it's
17:36like well there's a lot of movies they
17:37like um but you know
17:39if i really had to recommend 10
17:40countries to visit or 10 countries to
17:42look into it would be these 10 countries
17:44who knows this list may evolve over time
17:46i think i did a top 10 country list like
17:49three years ago and some of these were a
17:51little bit different but um yeah thank
17:53you guys for tuning in really appreciate
17:54it uh comment below what are your
17:56favorite countries and if you have any
17:57to add to my list i would love to hear
17:59from you and um yeah guys stay tuned for
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