Seychelles

Guinea-Bissau is one of 4 countries with the name Guinea in it and this place might be the least known of them all. Not a whole lot of people know or have travelled to Guinea-Bissau but this place is the Kashew Kingdom.

For real. Cashews make up 85% of the jobs and $ for this place so get ready to toss a few back. On this episode, we go at little nutty  and discuss what the top nuts are and are cashews the top nut? Almonds?! Pistachios!?!?!?!

We talk about the ancient art of carrying HUGE amounts of weight on your head. Walking. For possibly miles. Which the women in this country do effortlessly. 

And speaking of women, this place also has a people that are a matriarchal society. One of the few in the world! 

Have you been to #Guinea-Bissau? Tell us what we missed or what we (hopefully) got right!

Malta is a tiny island country in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea. While it is itty-bitty, it has quite the history and has been conquered by just about every nation under the sun.

Despite it's size, there is a WHOLE lot to see and do there. They literally have 365 churches so you have no excuse not to go drop some prayers while you're there. Malta has great weather and some pretty nice scenery too. If you're into that sorta thing. 

We go DEEP into the history of this place, including the legendary "Siege of Malta."
We talk about Popeye Village, a film set turned theme part. 
And we get into the very unique Maltese language that is a combination of several other languages.  

Have you been to #Malta? Tell us what we missed or what we (hopefully) got right!

Q-at-ar or is it Qa-tar? Who knows and apparently they don't care how you say it! I like this place already.

Qatar is a small country, about the size of the US state Connecticut, but this country is BIG in a whole lot of other ways. They have a ton of off shore liquid oil...which means they're got that money. They are developing at one of the fastest rates in the world. And they've hosted a World Cup which most other countries can't claim.

Qatar is a mix of old and new and we get into what makes this place unique. One unique thing, is they are super into falconry. You read that right, they love falcons and even have a market dedicated to this art. This gets us talking; what exotic pet would we have?

We also go over the House of Thani (Qatar royal family), the World Cup, and we get into ROBOT CAMEL RACING!!! Well, not robot camels, but regular camels with robot jockeys. Still cool. 

Have you been to #Qatar? Tell us what we missed or what we (hopefully) got right!

On this episode of CountryBoyz, we take a trip down to South America to #Uruguay. Uruguay is the second smallest country in South America by land, but we feel like it's a pretty well known. As in we've actually all heard of this place! 

Many people say it's kind of like a mini-Argentina right next to Brazil...or is it a mini-Brazil across the river from Argentina!? You figure that one out. 

Uruguay is filled with flat farm land and known for several things that you need flat land to excel at; steak, soccer, and saxophones. Ok maybe they're not known for saxophones but DEFINITELY steak and soccer. 

Also known to have the longest national anthem in the world, we go into our own anthem as well as bite stories inspired by local Uruguayan soccer star, Luis Suarez. Dude likes to chomp. And for the first time in CB history, ONE OF US HAS ACTUALLY BEEN THERE!!! So we get first had knowledge from our Uruguayan professor, Jason. Give 'er a listen!

Have you been to Uruguay? Tell us what we missed or what we (hopefully) got right!

Tuvalu or Tu-VA-lu is the top (or bottom) of a lot of lists.

Smallest country by population
Least visited
Least developed country!!!

You really gotta go out of your way to get to Tuvalu, but seems kinda cool once you're there. If you're into livin' off the grid or not being around too many people. 

This place has a friendship pact where you can become relatives with anyone you want. Choose carefully though cause it's FOR LIFE. They also got pretty lucky and own the rights to the  ".tv" domain extension. If it wasn't for that, they wouldn't have too much. 

They do have a runway though where everyone hangs out and plays games. Does YOUR country have a runway where you can hang out and party? Yah, didn't think so.

Have you been to Tuvalu? If so, and you aren't from there, congrats! You've done something almost no one on Earth has! Tell us what we missed or what we (hopefully) got right!

São Tomé and Príncipe AKA Saint Thomas and Prince is a tiny island off the west coast of Africa. They speak Portuguese & have incredible scenery but for some reason, no one really goes here. 

We can't quite put a finger on it. Sao Tome never really became a tourist spot, though you would never guess by looking at it. Looks pretty dang scenic to me but what do I know?

Maybe its too far away? 
Maybe the never developed it?
Maybe they just  DON'T CARE!?!?

We get into this mysterious country and also discuss how unbalanced the island of Sao Tome is versus the much smaller and more remote island of Principe. Kinda makes you wonder who is really pulling their weight in this relationship.

Also, this place has one of the most perfect climates for cocoa production. So YOU KNOW we go down a chocolate candy wormhole and come up with what our favorite bar is. 

Have you been to São Tomé and Príncipe? Tell us what we missed or what we (hopefully) got right!

#Monaco is the second smallest country but has a pretty big reputation for its wealth. If you wanna live large in the lap of luxury, this is the place for you, fancy pants. 

We're talkin yachts, champagne, lobster stew...the fancy life. There's a reason why James Bond loves this place and you're about to find out! It's also home to the infamous Formula 1 race which you might have heard of. Maybe not if you're a NASCAR or other style race fan. 

Also, if all of the James Bond actors had a fight to the death, who do you think would come out alive? It's hard to bet against Connery but Daniel Craig is kinda jacked. We get into this heavily debated topic as well. 

Have you been to Monaco? Tell us what we missed or what we (hopefully) got right!

Welcome to our very special CountryBoyz award show! 

In this episode, we take a look back at the last 20 episode and talk about the countries. Who's the best?!
Who's the worst?! 
Where da scuba at!?!?!

We give out 10 special awards and also find out who takes the Top Dog award for the NUMBER 1 COUNTRY SO FAR!!! 

Here are the categories: 
1. Wildest Character
2. Craziest Leader(s)
3. Most Interesting Alcoholic Beverage
4. Most Disgusting Food
5. Best Scuba Diving
6. Coolest Landscape
7. Safest Country
8. Most Sketchy
9. Best Song
10. TOP DOG

Find out who wins, who loses, and who we forgot to mention. 


 

The island of #timor is split. The west side of the island is part of Indonesia and the east part of the island is...East Timor AKA Timor-Leste if you're speakin Portuguese. And East Timor is EXACTLY where were going to on our 20th episode!!!

Despite it being a Portuguese colony for over 500 years, they've only been on their own official country for about 20. So it's still a baby when it comes to the official legislative country UN whatever mumbo-jumbo. 

There are many things that make this place different than other Southeast Asian countries. They are Catholic. They eat pork. A percentage of the populations speaks Portuguese. They are kind of a fish out of water which is exactly what we get into! 

You know the feeling, where you feel kind of out of place and don't belong? Yep, that's kind of like Timor-Leste. 

We also get into eating sea mammals. Not that we condone ever eating a whale BUT if it was a life or death situation an you HAD TO eat a whale creature...some surely are more appealing than some others, right?! Maybe not. Who knows. 

Have you been to Timor-Leste? Tell us what we missed or what we (hopefully) got right!

Dominica, or dom-in-EE-ka as it's pronounced, might seem like every other run-of-the-mill Caribbean island. But it's a little different then the rest. 

First off, they are relatively untouched and some say that if Columbus were to go there today, it wouldn't be too much different than when he first arrived. It also has the highest number of volcanoes per capita at a whopping 10! Okay, that's not a lot but it is for this tiny, little island. 

It's also home to the largest population of ethnic Caribe people AND is one of the only countries with purple in it's flag. 

We go deep on this one, getting into what our own coat-of-arms would be, under what circumstances would we try another human, and even what our own country, CountryBoy Island would be like....*spoiler alert: we all concluded that we would probably end up eating Jason and making a raft out of his hair. Yup.

Have you been to Dominica? Tell us what we missed or what we (hopefully) got right!