ModernNomad84 – Page 65 – The Hookah Blog

He Stuck His Hookah ,Where?

I have different dance videos here for you to watch and listen to. The music is great in all .

But this is not for the faint of heart.

“He stuck his hookah,WHERE?” (See below)

If you don’t like to SEE “Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves” belly dancing, then, fine, the music is great as it is alone. If you don’t like to watch the Brazilian dance “Lambada”, then¬† move the screen and just listen. AND if you don’t like to see only men dancing with other men, just listen to¬† the music of¬† “Zorba the Greek” .This movie was made when I was around 10 or so quite along time ago and in some cultures men ONLY dance with men, and with women its not allowed.

Last warning : if you feel the urge to get up and dance yourself, please move your hookah to the corner of the room, and don’t try to dance with the hose in your hand!

“Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves”

note: from watching years back¬† too many Arab films, there are love scenes followed by the loving couple arguing a bit and the Ms. gets slapped around, but only with the open palm of the hand, and never any kicking. They are mostly from the late 1950’s.like this one :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ7FPfvNuto

next video is “Lambada” I love the song, but tune out the view

¬†1989 hit still hot !

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5AfTl5Vg73A

Anthony Quinn plays Zorba the Greek.He¬† also played the Pope, various Arabs, Cyprus patriot vs. the¬† N. Germans,¬† and 50 other ethnic roles. He is or was American

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ndPJRh_K2yc

¬†Raks shisha dance. Please try this at home, not in the hookah lounge!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TE5QixIhKM8

¬†Would you believe 25 dancers with hookahs on Their heads? Not here, but this is great” ethnic dancing,” unless you are Irish.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0W2duTA5kJ4

Since I’ve seen before even better Celtic dancing, and I don’t want to sell them short, I’ll add a better one!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJ-oFv2jNkU

This is the best I think, very artistic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JprZGBuPLQo

You can finish your fith pint of Dark Guiness Lager¬† and wach this.

Get the “M.O.A.B.” for your hookah

There is the Moab mountain range which stretches from¬† The Syrian Border down to Jordan and ends at the Gulf of Aquaba a famous site for Israelis on their side and Jordanians and Saudi Arabians right next door to vacation with their hookah in hand. They are NOT Rocky Mountain size by any means, but still nice. I lived right at the Jordanian-Israel border¬† 51 kilometers north of Eilat at the Gulf of Aquaba for 3 and a half years on a communal farm-kibbutz. ¬†These mountains change colour and hue from hour to hour in the pure desert arid air.The evening¬† sunset is the best when they become varies of pink-purple.I never got tired of watching daily.

The Children of Israel crossed into Israel further north at Gilgal near Jerico. I also was at Gilgal the communal farm a few months prior to the other.

here my brother lives, and my other 2 brothers and I 10 kilometers away, 2 kilometers from Bethleham.

This is where I lived for almost 4 years and married my wife. I was part of the group that planted thse date palms in 1976.It extends much further.

Here is the Moab range accross from the Dead Sea (small sea is barely an American lake!)

“Al-Ouns” mixed fruit review

Smoking right now the “Al-Ouns” mixed-fruit flavour. I’ve had all their flavours often except this one.

They come in 200 gram tins like you see above. This, like all of the “Al-Ouns” flavours can only be bought¬† by Smoking-Hookah.com or their sister companies. They buy it in Jordan, bring to Israel and sell from there¬† but most is shipped to Europe and North America for their clientle.

Al-Ouns is strong in nicotine, lots of glycerine, very ssslllooooooowwwww smoking, a little bit goes really far!The taste is heavenly and I’m always happy when I can get some, since as I said almost all of it goes for export to North America and France.

I would call their “Apple’s Flavour” “Double Apple-Anis”, as there¬† is a lot of licorice in it! Below is your link to purchase.

http://www.smoking-hookah.com/Products/Shisha/perimum-tobacco.asp

Minty Mint

Mint shisha. are they all the same? A definate no! And it depends which is your favourite as we all have different tastes. Though “Nakhla” is considered a standard shisha (not the high class premium) it¬† is thought that all of “Nakhla”s flavours are not so-so. I have tasted many brand shishas and have found most “Nakhla” to be strong in nicotine and in taste

While the one problem is a smaller ammount¬† of glycerine that is added to the mix. I think Nakhla is around 22% while most shisha tobacco from the Arab countries have up to 25%. Nakhla is Egyptian.Probably the lower content of glycerine is their way of keeping their price down! I have never found¬† Nakhla to dry out. My second best mint would be Nakhla. First best¬† for me is “Al-Waha” “mint”. Al-Waha has other mint types¬† a mint called “After 9” mint-choco flavour ¬†which I would like to try. If it is anything like Nakhla’s “new” line of flavours which have “Choco-Mint”, I would recommend it as super. You can taste the mint and chocolate taste so well!

(Again), I’m rating mint only here.¬† Al-Waha mint is my favourite mint only, with tons of dripping¬† glycerine and probably food colouring that isn’t necessary. But taste wise its my first pick. Recently I recieved a pack of “Al-Fakher” mint , which I’ve had a few times in the past, and wasn’t satisfied at all, like every time I’ve smoked it.While I’ve bought almost every flavour of Al-Fakher in 250.00 gram¬† packs, and found a lot of them terrific, some flavours of Al-Fakher to me were so general that I experimented with them once and prepared ready-made bowls of like fruit flavours without marking them, put on the aluminum foil, the holes and put in 3 plastic bags. On some flavours I couldn’t tell which was peach, melon ,plum or mango!I loved their¬† cherry, strawberry, banana, grape, and pinapple plus the higher class “Al-Qemach” line was wild!

Again, depends on what you like personally. DON’T LET ANYONE TELL YOU¬† what is good for YOU. I’m stating my preferences and experiences as rule-of-thumb that you may use.

I made an experiment and blended the¬† 3 mints :Al-Fakher,Nakhla, and Al-Waha which I am smoking now.¬† Its only nice. I’d rather¬† have either mint Nakhla or mint Al-Waha right now instead. It is a nice mix of the 3 though.

Don’t forget to try the cho-mint of Nakhla which is great.Or the “After 9” choco-mint by Al-Waha. Mint Afzal is great and super strong nicotine like all the “Afzal” flavours. “Al-Sultan” mint is wonderful like all their flavours .

You may get all these mints at “Smoking-Hookah.com”

Choco-mint “After 9 Al-Waha”

mint al-waha

“Al Fakher “mint¬†

That¬†¬†¬†¬† is¬† a¬† weird¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬†¬† narghilah

“Al-Sultan” shisha : couldn’t find mint photo

“Nakhla” brand shisha mint :Choco-mint “Nakhla” brand is great!

AfzalAll on this site of smoking-hookah.com

In the last¬† post I brought you a few music videos of¬† “The Idan¬† Raichel Project” which is¬† classified as “World-Ethnic Music” , and is made up of Israelis¬† who were born in Israel from¬† Eithiopian Jews, Tunisians, Polish,Yemenite and a terrific Arab Moslem singer. The music has as its target to promote understanding between cultures and in Israel has a gigantic fan following of so many including yours truly, this forum-blog author! I’ll put here some more of their songs which are usually in¬† Amaharic-Eithiopian language, then shifting to Arabic and then Hebrew back and forth. The “Idan Raichel Project”¬† has certainly done a lot to acheive its goals here in Israel where we have a population of people from every country in the world except Saudi-Arabia and the Vatican-City for¬† obvious reasons! Name a country and we have people here born from there.

http://www.idanraichelproject.com/en/index.php

Here’s some of the music :

“Ayal Alaye” its all in Eithiopian Amaharic. With Jews from Yemen, Eithiopia,Tunis, Israel and Arab woman singer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FAJODuLLstY

“Come to me”

It starts in Hebrew and goes into Eithiopian chant and back. The¬† singers are saying ” come to me.Don’t ask about where we will go, give me your hand, don’t ask for riches, they will come like rain when they come, don’t ask for a home, when we have a

home the blessings will come like rain”.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y66Pay8fRz4

“If you go”

Check out the amazing cave drawings that start to move!

Starts in Hebrew and then I think either Ladino (which is Spanish-Arabic-Hebrew) or Tunisian-Moroccan.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0EKUMbTJ30

“Come back to my home”

Starts in Amaharic-Eithiopian, then Hebrew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oOuHcTA4jeQ

“Words more beautiful than these”

starts in an Hindi Indian language and goes to Hebrew

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPlG8MSPE4w