MALTA | Exploring an Adventure Lover's Paradise

This is Part 1 in a series of videos about an amazing day of exploring on the fascinating island of Malta, a tiny country in the Mediterranean Sea between Italy and Africa. Things get more interesting in the coming videos as I explore old ruins from various timeframes, some of them many thousands of years old. You can watch the next video here: • My Crazy Quest For Anc...
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Thanks a lot for watching and safe journeys!

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

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[@robertwalker7924]

I visited Malta for 10 days in 1980 and stayed in Birzebbuga. I will never forget it and have always wanted to return. I was loaned a small motorbike and roamed all over the Island. I will never forget it.

[@andreww3621]

you rented not loaned🙃

[@robertwalker7924]

@@andreww3621 I borrowed a small motor scooter from a family member

[@wokenup5273]

Used to visit birzebbuga every summer from 1977 to 1987 as a child visiting family for the summer. Our paths probably crossed.

[@bryanwhat2268]

That is cool to see Popeye Village all fixed up last, I've heard it was all run down and falling apart. Loving all the old ruins.

[@effie-montreal]

What an amazing video Beautiful scenery

[@stevecook706]

I used to stay at the Sea Bank Hotel not far from the Popeye Village. Comino used to be lovely when it wasn't so busy, but these days it's bonkers busy that it spoils the whole experience. We went 6 times after we had our honeymoon there 9 years ago, but haven't been since before the pandemic.

[@fromthethrone]

Amazing, great! 👍

[@Scottishflwr]

Standby flyer here. Thinking about going to Malta next week. Thank you for your informative videos! I just discovered your channel a few weeks ago. After this video, I’m certain I won’t be driving in Malta! 😂 I hope you didn’t have to back down that road! 🙀

[@sherryulaszonek550]

I did go to the Hypogeum, and while it was incredibly well preserved and fascinating ( somewhat pricy), you can only go in on a tour which was great because it give a lot of information. But I discovered while staying in Rabat more tombs, costing only a few euro and they are extensive, and they let you explore on your own and your shoes would not be an issue. Rabat is a must see anyhow.

[@marvinsalamero9111]

A blessed good day sir Gabe Wowww So nice Video On Popeyes Village Amazing Unique Place, to Visit with family and friends, and beautiful 😍 stone Historical buildings and beautiful landscapes, thank u so much for your wonderful walk around tour video in Malta Stay safe and Godbless from the Philippines 🇵🇭 sir Marvin 🙂👏👏👏♥️❤️🙏👏👏👏👍

[@SteveKleinheider]

Great video Gabriel!

[@SwiftyTravels]

Surprising to see that old Popeye movie set there! That water sure is beautiful!

[@miguelmelchior986]

Gabriel: I want to explore it there..going in. Malta: You can try.. 😄

[@thortessem271]

Great movie history

[@jksezhey1]

Hard to say if those railings were seasoned over time or intentionally given that vibe.

[@jalalal-haddad7414]

Living Musium 🍻

[@Wing_It_Wildflower]

🤣🤣Thought I was watching one of my videos at the beginning! That looked like a walking path! 😆🤭👌 Beautiful storybook like place!

[@subburajmari5323]

🎉🎉🎉hi malta jobs

[@apostolia2124]

Malta is a stunning, natural scenery for movies and i've seen them all, the ones you mentioned... Robin Williams as Popeye, iconic... 🙏✨✌

[@fernandoscrenci4874]

Outstanding Video !!!!🙌🏻

[@dee74raz]

Gosh it’s only June and it looks cold 🥶 especially when Gabriel is wearing a jacket 🧥

[@ludfx4yyc403]

💡👍Brilliant !!

[@kcl2862]

The water scenes for the movie were shot at the largest European infinity pool. Very unique place

[@christommo4402]

I went to Malta a couple of years ago. Popeye Village is good fun and you can take a dip in the sea from there.

[@no_soy_rubio]

One thing I loved about Malta and Gozo was the urban exploration opportunities...there were tons of abandoned hotels and such. Had a scary moment there once when I moved a rock and an Algerian Whipsnake crawled from under it 😬

[@apostolia2124]

😅you'll know better next time, happy travels ! ✌

[@JBwhattodo]

Safer than seeing a banana plantation 🍄

[@no_soy_rubio]

@@JBwhattodo true 🥲😂

[@donstravelsandrants.]

Super cool.👍😊🤣🇲🇹

[@ladymiriamful]

You must visit the Hypogeum. Be a good reason to go back 😊

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Great to see this area of Malta again, shame you didn't get a nice blue sky day! There is a huge abandoned military base beyond that World War II bunker you saw called Fort Campbell, when I was there it was unprotected and you could just stroll around it (being careful of the glass and damaged roofs of course). The picture that you saw of Popeye Village that you thought was a village there before it became the film set was actually the original Popeye Village film set - I visited it with my family when I was a kid in the 1980's. Most of the original set didn't actually have an inside, it was just a front that they used for the outside scenes in the movie. What's there now has been built since as a theme park. Cool place though. Just watched the end and am wondering if you'll find them in the next episode, as you can tell I'm a little behind with your videos but catching up. 😃

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

I see, didn't realize the whole set had been rebuilt.

[@lindapayne1595]

Did you know Malta was awarded the George cross for bravery during the Seige of Malta.

[@uditfonseka]

they mention that the Game of Thrones first series was filmed there.

[@sunnybeachwalks4k2022]

Another excellent video

[@JackTaudi]

The 2nd session of going up bad roads is the same as the 1st 🤷‍♂️🤷‍♂️😩😩

[@ChrisJohnsonChannel]

Popeye village is a cool looking sea port village reminds me of Seaport Village in San Diego, California

[@jillytravels9317]

In Malta in February, when it was battered by storms, visited the popeye village before storm, returned later in week to see a massive boulder had slid down rockface and landed on building, shame Popeye hadn't had his spinach that day...sure he would have hurled it out to sea....

[@shadowkeeper0]

Hahaha, Hypogeum, literally means underground in Greek. Hypo - as in under andι geum from the greek γη or gaia, meaning earth. We use it all the time in modern greek, meaning basement of a building most of the time.

[@Ojstra]

Popeye Village seems like even more beautiful in reality than it is on pictures. ;)

[@matthewspiteri9817]

For your info, Xemxija is spelt as "Shem-shee-ah". Our language can be a little complicated for non-native speakers, but if you ask us we'll happily tell you how our towns are spelt :D

[@georgebronte840]

@6:26. Xemxija is pronounced shem-shi-ya. In Maltese X =sh, j=y. Easy peasy!

[@elizabethcraig5825]

“What the heck am I doing”? Lol, oh no.. We never know where you will end up. I liked the Popeyes village. You should have bought a Popeyes cap and pipe, it would surely suit you.😊❤

[@dee74raz]

Don’t forget the spinach 😊

[@Seanney25582]

Wow those roads look really narrow

[@jampuppy]

Maltese is a fascinating language. I was reading up on the alphabet. Since there are so many Arabic sounds that can’t accurately be represented by the Roman alphabet, they had to get creative. It has changed a lot over the years. It is considered a Semitic language - The only Arabic language written in Roman script. Hypogeum sounds amazing! And what fun you could have buying shoes for one-time wear! Pink wingtips, perhaps? 😂 You could donate them afterwards. OMG That Popeye ear worm! Noo! 🙉 😂 I love your Malta content. Might even rewatch the 2019 vids.

[@wilfredotorres6628]

Hi Gabriel, I find it interesting that there is still interest in the Popeye movie set after so many years. The cartoon is no longer in syndication so children can't even identify with the characters. Adults would be the only ones that could have a real interest because they were raised around this cartoon for around 50 years.

[@SJain-gj8xk]

Waiting for next video ❤

[@CelticMickWalks]

Never thought about going to Malta, might put on my list, but around 20 as I have so much on it already

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Super interesting country, so much more than just beaches, well worth a visit.

[@soumyadeeplovestoexplore6631]

I haven't watched the Popeye movie, but it used to be my favourite animation show during my childhood days, those were the time which I used to watch 10 pm show everyday with having a dinner.😅

[@jksezhey1]

See some green houses at 20:55…wonder if they’re growing some of that landrace goodness.

[@jksezhey1]

Rally car territory DAMN

[@davedeal9152]

Next video starts with: "...a few momentz ley'tairrrrrrre...'

[@gerrem001]

Gabriel you can vist bingemma caves i think you will like them

[@gerrem001]

Thay are free and not allot of people know about them

[@tombuddy100]

04:40 Incredible that no one lives there.

[@EnglishmaninMalta]

Great adventure gabriel in rural Malta 😂😂 The ww2 pillbox you were very close to a hidden cove and the massive campell fort, well done with the Maltese words 😂😂

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Ha, thanks. I'm sure I will be butchering the language in all my videos.

[@EnglishmaninMalta]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos Nothing new I do it in all my videos also the Arabic pronunciation is the worse

[@jksezhey1]

Damn dude that bunker was everything. Seems like lots of wooks have camped in it over time…

[@jksezhey1]

Was there a logging industry there at one time? Can’t tell from the video

[@turtletalk4905]

You should dive into the history of the giants on malta. Very epic and interesting. Great to see more of malta

[@TheSwede70]

Wow, I didnt visit the Popeye Village. Next time. :-)

[@n.m.3393]

GABRIEL, Where do you store your winter stuff while traveling to warm countries???

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

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[@Grovel007]

Hey Gabe

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Yo.

[@leebryantravels]

St pauls catacombs. Mdina. Victoria and the air raid shelter. Wied il - ghasri .

[@radgybenno]

I was in valetta a few years ago when I came across some people wearing arab costumes , it turned out they were all extras from a film which was being shot there ,the film was world war z starring brad pitt .

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Wow, cool.

[@dee74raz]

I would feel like home when driving in Malta 🇲🇹 because they drive on the same side of the U.K. 🇬🇧 where I’m from 😊

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Exactly. But it's pretty tricky for me with the stick shift on the other side. Getting used to it though.

[@dee74raz]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos Yes in America, cars 🚙 are mostly automatic rather than gears. I’ll love to one day drive a Tesla car even for a day because they’re totally different than normal cars. In a Tesla you start the car with a card rather than a key and also you can self drive it and interestingly there are no engines in them. Instead it’s all electrical charging. In reality you can put your shopping 🛍 in the front and back bonnet of the car because there are no engines.

[@pasqualeabarno]

👍👍👍

[@roygoad2870]

When you get to Greece are you going to Rhodes? Yes it’s touristy, but it has a very historical heritage and beauty that is unique to Greece?

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

I've been there before, no plans to go back on this trip. Planning to explore smaller islands.

[@MARC-FENIX]

Nice. Can you show us something of the Sovereign Order of Malta?

[@dee74raz]

That’s weird that they require shoes 👞 to go in a cave. It doesn’t make sense. It’s not like sandals have football ⚽️ trainers with studs below them.

[@isamaaltaein8672]

Hi Gabe, great adventure, thank you for sharing, we are waiting next video and see what happened. Chaos

[@andybaker2456]

I have to say, Gabriel, you're making me happy that I chose Istanbul over Malta this week! The weather's been beautiful here so far. 🌞🌞🌞

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

The sun came back today fortunately and it was brilliant. Hopefully the sun is here to stay for the rest of the summer around the Mediterranean.

[@antoinegriscti7885]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos enjoying your malta videos once again.....hope you manage to make it to the 3 cities this time around, senglea, birgu an bormla...in birgu there is the epic fort st. angelo...

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

@@antoinegriscti7885 I planned to go there today but ran out of time before my flight. Next time.

[@antoinegriscti7885]

@@GabrielTravelerVideos love it when you say next time...I have the impression that you got the Malta bug...which happens to some people...have friends from the united states and canada which come over to Malta once a year sometimes even twice when possible for the last 12 years or so.

[@rumik-stahnke6512]

😁👍

[@parulsinha3092]

So who did the British kill to occupy Malta?

[@littlewanderlust176]

It's more like 700 k people in Malta at the moment with the foreign workers and illegal un registered people. We are stuffed well 😅

[@kcl2862]

Language is scilio arabic

[@clusterstudios]

are you using AI to generate those thumbnails now? lol

[@PaulaBean]

43 years later and they're still milking that silly movie...

[@dee74raz]

I prefer the cartoon version 😊

[@nicksmom1998]

First

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Boom, got it.

[@GabrielTravelerVideos]

Howdy.

[@vickru2133]

I am still waiting for Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Vatican, Monaco, Andorra, San Marino and Sovereign Order of Malta.

[@dee74raz]

He’s been there except Liechtenstein 🇱🇮 and San Marino 🇸🇲

[@vaultkeeper2]

You can not visit the Sovereign Order of Malta, it does not have territory!

[@vickru2133]

@@vaultkeeper2 it has a palace or two inside Rome 🤔

[@vaultkeeper2]

@@vickru2133 Those palaces are not legally territory of the Order, but a part of Italy. Its comparable to embassies.

[@anniecassar8883]

You should try to see the Agatha castle- it’s red!!