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All right, good morning everybody right now I'm heading to the airport because I'm finally flying to Mashhad one of the holiest cities here in Iran
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So let's head to the airport and finally fly to this beautiful city
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Alfred, yes Thank you
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All right everybody one and a half hours later I've just landed here in Mashhad
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Let's head into the city. okay good morning everybody from mashad this is iran's second largest city up in the northeast
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of iran only a few hours drive from the afghanistan border today i'm heading to the shrine of imam
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reza who was the eighth imam in shia islam so i'm heading around now we've got some special access
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to film which is very exciting for me and I hope I get to show you the shrine in the best way possible
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Okay everybody I've just made it here inside the beautiful shrine. Inside this gateway can fit
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100,000 people and as you can see there are eight Avon's which are the gateways inside. I can't use
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I not going to use my camera so I just going to use my cell phone and hopefully give you a raw insight to what it like to actually be here it currently part time so i going to switch off the phone and show you guys the rest
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so i've just made it inside the qud's courtyard as you can see behind me a huge golden dome
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represents jerusalem in palestine so incredible to see this right here i haven't had the chance to
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see jerusalem just yet in palestine but one day inshallah i'll be able to go this is beautiful
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As you can see it's currently prayer time and right now it's so cold here in Mashhad
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and I not sure how they praying outside comfortably It really biting cold But as you can see there are hundreds of people different i think maybe one thousand people just outside here praying i also never seen a child
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do this first time this is the middle in this the middle of the circle is holy shrine they are so yes and then
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Only the internal flights. Domestic flights, right? Yeah, domestic flights. So Mashhad Airport is very close by and I was just told as a plane was circling around me
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that the planes actually say salaam as they fly around in one circle before they land or head towards Tehran
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How incredible is that? I've never heard anything like that before and I love it
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Okay, so I've kindly just been invited for lunch inside the Holy Shrine
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As you can see here, dear pilgrim, you are hereby invited for lunch at the dining hall located inside the courtyard inside the holy shrine of Imam Reza
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Let's head inside. There's so, so many people inside. I've just arrived here where they're eating all of the food
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You can see hundreds of people inside of here. I can't wait to try it
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It looks incredible. It smells so good. Wow, what hospitality. Okay so I've just received the food. This is a lamb soup with loads of herbs, with some
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rice and berries on top. They serve here between 3 to 8,000 meals every single day. You can
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see how busy it is. Here is not so busy, but over here so many. Between 11 and 2 is lunch
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Yeah so 3 to 8,000 meals every single day. You can just imagine how many that is per
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oh my gosh this is beautiful you can see all around me
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wow what an atmosphere I think your time isn really good The first thing in this video Utah memory so just heading towards the shrine now this is this quicker and more simpler way
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so as you can see the majority of shrines here have the beautiful marble
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mirror reflections wow look at this oh my gosh so inside of this room the mirroring is phenomenal just like every other shrine i've seen
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but the mirroring just in this room just in this room as you can see took six years to build
