 Thank you to Brilliant for sponsoring a portion of this video. The first 200 people to click the link in the description will get 20% off the annual premium subscription. What is up guys, Karma Medic here and welcome back to another dose. All of this around me is gonna be pretty unfamiliar background to you guys. I'm actually visiting my family here in Jordan for the Christmas holidays. Got a little bit of a break from the busy and hectic London. On my way here, I posted a short story on my Instagram page that had my Jordanian passport in it and I got a whole bunch of questions and engagement on that story about why it is I'm going to or from Jordan and the reason is that I am Jordanian. I'm Jordanian by ethnicity. I was born in Canada. I grew up in Greece. Then I studied in Canada again and I'm studying in the UK. So while I'm here, I thought it would be really fun to film a week in my life in Jordan. I plan to do quite a lot of fun and interesting activities over the coming week and I wanna take you guys along with me. The first thing that I wanna show you guys is our garden. The garden surrounding our house has pretty much everything you can imagine. Right behind me here, we've got these small oranges. We've got a fig tree here, lemons. Over here, we've even got a pomele tree. That's not good. Definitely did not mean to drop that. Gonna go grab it real quick. Here it is. I mean, it's a bit flat now. Got these baby clementines. Olive trees. This over here is a bay leaf tree. This here is a kaka tree. More grapes growing along the fence. Walnut tree. Almond tree. Ascadinha. It's an actual hummingbird. Oh my God. Pistachio tree. Chimchim. Chimchim. My little kitty. Don't run away from me. Meow, meow, meow, meow. Little kitty. Chimchim, you wanna go on an adventure? Yeah. Do you wanna go on a tour of the house with everybody? Come. I wanna show them. Should we show them the living room, Chimchim? Yeah. Did they see it, Chimchim? Okay. Okay, you've had enough. All right. Off you go. All right, guys. I just came back from a quick trip to the supermarket. It's like I never left. And I'm sitting down editing this Thursday's video, which is a Q&A with Ali Abdaal. Wow, that was definitely a bad time to pause. But I messaged him like a week or two ago, saying, I don't think we ever uploaded that Q&A. It was supposed to go live quite some time ago. So we're gonna sit down, edit it, and bang it out now. And that's what you guys have probably seen a couple of weeks ago. So anyways, I'm just gonna say you guys down over here and get to work doing that, because there's quite a bit to do. Breakfast. That was actually pretty decent. I actually ordered English breakfast. I don't know why. I have that all the time in the UK. Anyways, in a little bit here, I actually have a palliative care and breaking bad news tutorial and workshop that I'm gonna attend via Zoom on my laptop. So I'm actually in the middle of a theme week in between my psychiatry block and my A&E block. Have this theme week where we do lectures and tutorials and things like that. So I do still have to attend, even if I'm in a different country. Since I filmed here yesterday, we have gotten a massive monitor and some speakers here. This was actually a birthday present from my mom. But since I'm in this room while I'm here, I'm making use of it. Also, look at what I found in one of the closets here. Story time. I was looking through a bunch of my old stuff here in Jordan that we brought over from Greece. And I came across this tub of Pokemon cards. And I remember the Tupperware is the holy grail of my cards. So I opened up this Tupperware and I came across these guys. And I don't know too much about Pokemon, but I know that these cards are really cool. They're shiny, they're dark, holographic, but even better than that, I came across these guys, EX cards. And I know for a fact, these things were the coolest. I've come across this and I know that this is a cool card. This is the holy grail of Pokemon cards. If somebody actually knows anything about Pokemon cards, do tell me if this is worth anything. Let me know. All right, now that I've nerded out about Pokemon for a good minute, I'm gonna sit down, sign in and get started with this learning. I'm going to the asha. Mama will make a falafel. I'll show you how I'm going to make them. They're original. And then we'll put the first falafel. This is a bandora. Ta-da. Just let me take a hug. I'll take you to watch it. All right guys, so it's currently the evening and I've come up onto the roof in order to watch the sunset. We're not quite tall enough to see everything that I want, but I can actually climb up over there. Why are these staircase here? So I'm gonna do just that. Looks better from up here. Pretty cloudy day, but I think that looks beautiful. Good morning. Today is a very exciting day. We are going to be going on a three-day adventure, going to the Dead Sea. If you think I'm swimming weirdly, it's because I am. And then Petra, look at all of these homes carved into the side of the mountain. I genuinely, I cannot believe it. The Dead Sea and Petra are both two must-see places if you come here to Jordan, which I highly encourage everyone watching this video to do. I'll be telling you a lot more about them throughout the day, but for now, I need to pack quite quickly because we're gonna head out in just under an hour. Bye, Sim Sim. Don't miss me too much, okay? Let's go. Quick little stop before we get on the highway to grab some coffee. How you doing? Just doing my day. All right, mission accomplished. See, where we're going is the lowest point on Earth. It is 450 meters below sea level. The Dead Sea is actually not a sea at all. It's in fact a closed lake with only one tributary going into it from the Jordan River and no outflow at all. And as a result, the saltwater concentration is 43% 10 times as much as normal seawater. As we approach the Dead Sea, as we approach the River Jordan, all of the land becomes extremely, extremely fertile. And so all around me here are huge, huge farms of banana trees. Look at this. Look at all these bananas here. Bananas, as far as the eye can see. Look how big this leaf is. Unbelievable. Totally on some random person's farm right now. So I hope they don't mind too much. So we've made it to our room. We're just going to put on our swim trunks and then head down to the Dead Sea. But before I go, I want to tell you about my favorite Arabic snack. It's called Umdudin, the literal translation of which is the moon religion or something like that. Basically dried apricot. You can like chew on really, really good. So originally it's made as a drink that you drink during Ramadan. Very true. All right, going to get dressed and go down. The hotel is completely empty. It's like a ghost town here. I need one. I didn't see the money on the flip flop. I just went in for a swim and a little bob up and down in the very buoyant water. I'm going to do something very risky for the bisque. I am going to take the camera into the water. Hope I don't drop it. I'm completely floating without any effort whatsoever. And if I turn on to my, oh God, okay, that was a bad idea. So I get towards deep and I try to go underwater. So it pushes me back up. It's like a spring. If you look at it, you can see the salt. And if I was to let my hands dry here for five minutes, the salt would be precipitated on my hands. I forgot to mention that the mud that you find here in the Dead Sea is extremely, extremely nutrient rich. People travel from all over the world to come get this mud and lather it all over their bodies. It's known to help get rid of people's acne, all kinds of other skin conditions. All right, so I generally find touching like soap or like foam, mud, pottery, things like that. I generally have a big hatred of touching those types of textures, but I'm going to go for it. I'm here. I might as well put all of this mud on me. Wish me luck. So how do you do it? Just everywhere? I'm so hairy though. It's gonna get stuck in the way. All right. Am I sufficiently covered in mud everywhere? I think so. This is as much as I'm gonna put on. Many hours later now, we went to have dinner downstairs. I had the best, best lamb. It's called Mansaf. I'll put a picture of it over here. Amazing, amazing food. And I've been sat down here in front of my laptop for almost four hours now, finishing off the edit for the vlog that you will have seen last week. This is the vlog of me in Dartford. It's an absolutely huge one, but I think you guys are gonna like it. Anyways, I'm exhausted now. I'm gonna put my head on the pillow, go to sleep and catch you guys tomorrow. Peace. Bacteria. And if you go in here, apparently the water is so warm that it's like a sauna. Let's go check it out. Look at how much smoke is in there. Get to visit this place. I'll leave the location somewhere over here. Do you wanna say hi to the vlog? Entranceway that takes us to the main city. So Petra, if you don't know, is an entire city dug into the rock. So all of these little holes that you see here are people's homes. These are people's houses dug inside the actual rock. Thousands and thousands of years ago. How beautiful is this? And they truly dug into the side of the mountain. It's to the city of Petra. I'm surrounded by these huge, very, very tall canyon-like walkways. And this was actually formed by river, by water. It's hard to imagine that the level of the water that used to run through this canyon was up there. And over millions and millions of years, it slowly eroded its way down to the foot level that we're walking at now. Absolutely insane. Come say hi. Looks like a big grouper fish. You see that? From this angle here. And then if you come here, it looks like an elephant. How crazy is that? It's happening. The entrance is right there. I can see it through that little crack. Literally just me and Petra. This is the prize monument of the city of Petra. It stands 40 meters tall and is carved out of a single block of stone. Apparently it was carved from the top down. And these holes that you see on the side are hand and footholds that people would use to climb up and down during the building of this monument. The name of this monument is al-khazne, which means the treasury. And it's believed that there was treasure hidden up here behind this central urn. And if you look closely, and I'll show you, that people have shot at this middle urn there are bullet holes in the monument because people believe that there was treasure hidden behind it. So they wanted to see if it was actually inside. Believe it or not, that's like the first cool thing that Petra has to offer. There's so much further in. Before we move on to other exciting things in the Petra, let me take a minute to tell you about the sponsor of today's video, Brilliant. Brilliant is a problem solving website and app with loads of interactive courses in maths, science and computer science. The key word here is problem solving because Brilliant uses puzzles and challenges in order to make you actually think about the topic that's in front of you. Brilliant helps you achieve your goals and STEM by starting with one small commitment to learning and building up to long-term challenge and growth. 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So this peak all the way here is the tip of the monastery that you take 1,000 steps to reach. And then behind me here, this is the court. So these down here are jails and up here is the courts where they would have proceedings and decide what they would do with people who were breaking the law. Oh. So these around me here are the jail cells where they would hold people. Oh my goodness. So we're climbing the stairs to the courts. Up here on my left. All this space. Look at how straight this wall is. It's perfect, yeah? It's completely flat, perfectly aligned. They start digging from the top and they work their way down. I feel so incredibly privileged to be able to actually enter these buildings, these temples that are thousands of years old. It's amazing to actually be able to go inside one and touch it with your own hands, see it up close. Please, please come to Jordan. If you're watching this, if you ever thought about visiting Jordan, please come visit. It's a beautiful country. There's so much to offer. This mountain range here, it looks like a camel. You've got the head over here and then two humps over here. Isn't that wild? All right, so now we've passed the chasne, the treasury, the main monument that you see when coming to the Petra. We've also gone to the courts that I was just at. And now we're going along the pretty big trek to get to the monastery. So the monastery is about three kilometers into the city and then 1,000 steps up into the mountains. And you arrive at the monastery that's twice as big as the treasury that we saw at the beginning. So very excited to see that. Up to the monastery, very cute little kid. Somehow walk up all these stones and mountains. And there's the same tip of the monastery that we saw earlier. Almost there. I think I'm on step like 700 something. Almost there. And just like that. Scared to approach the edge here. Have a cheeky ride on the donkey. When you go down, lean back. Back, yeah. It's like now I'm with one hand the camera and one hand the donkey. Other coaster ride, I was scared. All right, solo riding another donkey. But this time on flat land. Apparently if I lean left, I lean right. He knows the way. I'm going to get my coffee. That is it for Petra. I'm completely exhausted. I feel like we've walked so much today. I think I'm at 16,000 steps or something like that. So yeah, I'm going to call it here and I'll catch up with you guys once I've had some rest. And I'll catch up with you guys once I've had some rest. I think that's right here. So I'm just currently finishing up the edit for this video. It's honestly felt like more of a documentary than one of my typical videos here on YouTube. It's been absolutely huge, so complicated and just a really difficult edit. Honestly, I had so much fun filming my time here in Jordan and editing that experience into this video and I hope that you enjoyed watching it as well. If you did enjoy watching it, don't forget to leave a like on this video and also subscribe to my channel to more content from me in the future and I'll catch you in the next one. Peace. Boys, I have to come back to the camera. This camel is giving me a very warm welcome. Welcome back to another dog. I'm going to do a new vlogger. Hi. I put my channel down here. Yes. When I'm not on this channel. Wow. But finally I did it. Bravo.