BEIRUT LEBANON IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK: I mean; if you knew would you really go there with kids?!
What have you heard about Beirut and travel in Lebanon these days? I am betting its not the image you had imagined - for better or worse...
There's delicious Lebanses food (obvs) but there are empty and desolate streets that are quite seriously completely void of life...
What has happened to Beirut and Lebanon that we hear of and have heard of in the past?!
Thanks for watching! :)
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Its sad to see such a nice country ruined. All those signs speak volumes of how geeed for power can send an entire country down on its knees. Of course despite all that its awesome to see some places and people moving on. Thank you for sharing Steiners. ❤️
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Thanks again Janice 😊
I have visited 82 countries and Lebanon is definitely in my TOP 3 !!! Amazing nature, very rich culture and history, very welcoming and friendly people, crazy nightlife and very yummy food (I mean really really yummy) ! Beirut has it all ❤ ❤
@hammoudi447
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You might consider it one of your favorites but I consider it home
@ravivmadar2422
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@@hammoudi447 ❤ ❤
@isamcheik1610
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Hé reale loves it
@ravivmadar2422
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@@isamcheik1610
@toassistindo
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@raviv madar do you literally copy paste this message on every KZread video about Beirut? So weird
Beirut is one of the most underrated Street Art cities in the world. Talent, pain, passion
What your doing with family is outstanding and getting away from the shocking media who lie and destroy countires . I salute you to show your children the real truth and they will learn so much . Thankyou
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much. That is really what we hope to do and to stay away from the bad news that is shared on the media. We had a great time in Lebanon 😊
My son and I were just in Lebanon 2 weeks ago and we had the best time , it was a short trip but we saw some majestic mountains and the most beautiful historical caves and churches , and food was healthy and safe to eat , I will for sure have to come back and plan a longer trip to Lebanon 🇱🇧 and see more places, safe travels to you and your beautiful family brother , God Bless .❤
I love the video keep up the great work ❤
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Thanks very much 🙂
May you rise strong again, Lebanese people.. love from 🇱🇰
It's so sad, the downturn area used to be so lively and upbeat with shops cafes restaurants and life.
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Very sad.
Thank you guys for visiting this humble country
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Thanks @Toufic 😊
Hellow guys, Just a thought. Why not Harry and Oscar start writing their adventures in every country they visits and then publish once back home. “Around The World With The Steiner Kids.” Trust me it may become a best seller in the Europe and NZ and Australia. They can also watch the videos if they want to write abt the past visited countries. Love your videos. ❤️🇧🇩🇺🇸
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Cool idea! 😍
Lebanon is beautiful country and their people are kind their food is amazing too hope u visit it one day ❤
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Thanks 😊
I just came across this video and I have to say that it was amazing seeing you all in Lebanon. I am originally Lebanese but have been living away for most of my life. It really is sad and depressing to see what has happened to the Downtown area, it is indeed a ghost town. Up until 3 years ago, it used to be a very popular place, full of life and hope, with restaurants, shops and bars but then everything took a turn for the worst. The reason there are guards all around that area is because the Lebanese Parliament is located inside the Place de L'Etoile and so security is quite strict. Thank you sharing these great experiences and trying to show as best as possible the good things about Lebanon.
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Thank you very much. And that makes sense about Place de L’Etoile 🙂
@BasbasAfandeh
Жыл бұрын
im lebanese 2 and yes i agree ( but isnt it haram, bars, we are muslim)
@josephdahdouh2725
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@@BasbasAfandeh Ik more Lebanese Muslim drinkers than Christian ones. Tbh, I am Christian and generally find it sad that people drink their life away.
I hope you enjoy your time in lebanon . You have a beautiful family god bless you from Australia 🇦🇺
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Thanks very much @Sam 😎
Love from Bangladesh 🇧🇩❤️.
Lebanon is such a beautiful country, rich in culture, many civilizations built, deconstructed and rebuilt the country. The resilience of the Lebanese is incredible, they have survived many things. It is not sad as you said, it is extraordinary
Wow Sara, you can still remember Star kabab in Bangladesh!! I am from Bangladesh by the way. Probably will go to your continent for higher study soon, in Australia actually.
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Oh exciting! All the best for that 😊 (and haha yes we loved Star Kabab!).
@kazifarhanshadik9701
Жыл бұрын
@@AwaywiththeSteiners Thanks...
Hello, welcome to Beirut❤ Your daughters are so bright!! The damaged building at @9:20 caught fire back in April 2021, and the exact spot of the explosion is the white bunch of adjacent cylinders that are exactly above Oscar's head in the distance at the very last frame before the mosque at @9:47 By the way, at @16:15, you were just one street away from another very upbeat area!
Lovely video. Interesting how you picked up on the “creepy” vibe (one of the kids said that) around the parliament area. The street art carried messages of protests against corrupt politicians and a dysfunctional government. It’s admirable that you take the kids on such adventures.
I want to go here in Lebanon someday.
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
I hope you do.
Show us the foods nice video
Welcome to my hometown Ouedzem, 120 kilometers away from Casablanca heading east towards Atlas Mountains. It’s small town laidback and famous for fossils. Here you find some rare fossils
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Wow that sounds like a very interesting place!
I hate how people think Lebanon is a horrible place. It’s just the government, but the people are so welcoming and friendly and full with hospitality it’s almost like their your relatives. The shops there are so good as well.
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
We had an amazing time in Lebanon and have visited twice! 😊
@ystar21k
Жыл бұрын
@@AwaywiththeSteiners glad you did! there are amazing hiking places there, did you visit them?
great video, I was wondering what you do for your children school? home schooling? thanks
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Hi @TM yes we have been worldschooling and homeschooling for several years now 😊
@TM-vg4mx
Жыл бұрын
@@AwaywiththeSteiners thanks, hope they are enjoying this real life school experience. J bet learn more from life than any school. Stay well and safe.
Guys u should venture also outside Beirut... A trip to the mountains or some beach towns... //jounieh /jbeil /batroun etc
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
We definitely will! We had amazing trip to Byblos, Tripoli, Baalbek and more! 😍
@carvingtheway
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@@AwaywiththeSteiners 🎯🎯🎯❤️❤️❤️🎄🥳👌🏻.
So good to see my fellow kiwis over there. Cant wait to go.😊
In Lebanon can exchange Australian dollars in black market? Im plan go travel to Lebanon first time…thank you
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
I am pretty sure just USD and maybe EURO.
Nice..
As a Lebanese local, Lebanon is a really beautiful country in fact it’s the only Arab country without a desert and temperatures are neutral and nature is amazing but Lebanon has 1 big flaw, the political corruption, about 5 years ago 1 dollar in Lebanese’s currency is 1,500 L.L. It was considered average but due to politics now 1 dollar is 50,000 L.L. Like that’s insane so hopefully god sends us a miracle to save Lebanon ❤
@MK-gy1ug
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It’s so sad. I have so much family their and they’re struggling.. God help them all. Corruption.
Y’all are a beautiful family… enjoy Beirut
Very beautiful❤😍
Great video, Does Western union work? Can you use credit cards? Cheers
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Not sure about Western Union but did you see our video about the exchange rate? You can use your card but for example a coffee will cost $70 USD! You need to bring cash and exchange that.
As a Lebanese I can confirm Lebanon is beautiful.
It’s heartbreaking for me as a Lebanese to watch people get overwhelmed and feel low-spirited when visiting beirut 💔 esp when kids as young as urs feel this way …. things were never like this up until the last 3-4 years , Beirut was easily one of the most beautiful cities on earth . I hope you come back when things get better one day , you won’t regret it
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Thanks @John. We had a great time and ended up visiting Lebanon and Beirut twice! We hope to be back again 😊
Your lady is very clever and intelligent came out from money exchange shop she check her pockets and check here and their out side cleverly good
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
😁
so sweet, excellent father and daughter trip. Thumbs up to you that she’s not doing a stereotype, but actually visiting places and seeing for yourself.
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Thank you. They are boys 😎
Nice love from Pakistan
nice
I have noticed most Kiwis are easy on the eyes, and that cute accent haha 😍😍
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Haha thanks @Zed! 😅☺️
Lebanon is AMAZINGGGGG, thanks for stopping by mateee, next time be sure to check out the mountain areas too! they're realllyyyy cool, totally different than Beirut
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Next time!
wow nice lovely
Not my idea of a vacation but someday when it's better.
The baseball world cup is in march
Now I’m hungry too!
@AwaywiththeSteiners
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Wars and religious conflicts destroyed our beautiful countries, Lebanon, Iraq, Syria
your daughters enjoyed the city, didn't they?
You should seen Beirut between 2000 and 2018, you'll be amazed. Was a Not Sleeping City 24/24 😢😢
Lebanon the beautiful country beautiful people
Was in Lebanon in the hills in 1980 and 1990 - in on the Israelis border . A complete war zone murder on a daily basis and we were blamed for everything even though it was all the others who were trying to kill each other . I still feel so so sad for the ordiany folks who had nothing , caught up in the middle of world politics whose country was being used as a boxing ring- got to know many people and became friends and I still think of them and cry for them. I’m Irish and we know all about wars thT go on for hundreds of years and there is still one going on here cos since 1160 and the last chapter started in 1690 and has another 400 years to go - and all the innocent folks just want to live in peace . If the main aggressor no not Britain ( Scotland and wales did nothing to us) but England who run down everyone around them would just go home to England then it would all end in 10 minutes ( they have done the same thing in wales and Scotland but they are rising up now but you see the Irish never lay down to the tyrant and that is what the English toffs can’t get around their heads/ Ireland north and south belongs to the Irish and not England .
Would you please fix the location tag from Syria to Lebanon Beirut please. This is not Syria
@AwaywiththeSteiners
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Sure.
I am in Lebanon 😮😮😮
Firinch?
Lebanon. when you hear it your like"what is lebanon" this country was the best it started off with beautiful nature then art all over walls and malls then tall building to pools to zoos to children activities. but later after a while it started to fade with rebilous and then covid and then the crazy explotion, money the money like you said 100 thousand (lebanese money) is 2$ lifes hard there these days, but we make it work people are really nice but becarefull not all love❤ from lebanon click here if your lebanese 👇
It's the same all over the world you can't change anything about that
My good friend s you went to the wrong places in Lebanon even wrong restaurants Lebanon can compete with any notion with food is definitely in the top three ,8000 years of history heart of world civilisation 4 cities in top 12 oldest in the world, mountain of Lebanon second to none and the most important the generosity and kindness of the people of Lebanon.
@AwaywiththeSteiners
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The history is amazing!
Steiners come to Sri Lanka 💙
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
We really enjoyed Sri Lanka 😊
Once an oasis, now a dying hulk... thank you Abdallah and the rest of the Faithful.
The pearl of the Arab world has been destroyed. Much love from Morocco
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
It is sad. We enjoyed Lebanon and Beirut though!
You must have visited batroun man
Guys you must try Lebanese Shawarma!
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
We definitely will!
How is Lebanon these days? I saw videos of demonstration around the streets of Lebanon 2 years ago because of economic collapse? Saying one month of salary is just equal to two breads. It's kinda sad that diversity has been ruined by political instability.
Those kebabs... 😋
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Sooo good!
Have you seen Homeland security series season 2? If not just take a look on how they showed Beirut in the series in particular Hamra street, they wrote Beirut Hamra street in the episode,, it's worse than Fallujah streets or some kind of a desert with Sandy houses with guerilla fighters..... Nasty
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@AwaywiththeSteiners
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Thanks!
@carvingtheway
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@@AwaywiththeSteiners ❤️😇🥳 shout out to D fun squad 🥂
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Lebanon 🇱🇧🫶🏼🇱🇧
Stop calling Beirut the Paris of the Middle East. I know what it’s supposed to mean, but Parisians are very rude and the Lebanese are friendly and hospitable.
you said 10,000 LBP for the tiniest cup of coffee on earth? that's almost US$8!
@AwaywiththeSteiners
Жыл бұрын
Is that the current black market rate or official cash rate?
@jaredgalvin
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@@AwaywiththeSteiners It is the current official rate.. it has been atleast in the last 2 years
@AwaywiththeSteiners
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Ok I can’t remember exactly what the black market rate when we were there but it is much lower than the official rate.
@paulj2948
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It's 49,100 now. So like 20 cents for coffee.
@AwaywiththeSteiners
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@@paulj2948 That sounds about right :) It was very reasonable for a small coffee when paying in LBP.
BIg love from IRAN
@AwaywiththeSteiners
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Thank you 😊