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Everyday As a local guides we help people everywhere make the best decisions about things worth doing, we share our experiences and discoveries with all the world, and we help to make this planet good place to live and we enjoy the road!
What Does The Local Guide Program Mean To Me Beside Helping and sharing my experinces on the Map:
Eat 
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Do you prefer Hamburger or Pizza? do you like spicy Food? what about sweet and sour?what are the traditional Dishes in your country? what are the best restaurants your city? have you ever tried to eat with your fingers? i mean eat dish like Biryani?
I am Osama a local guide from kingdom of Jordan and i am Passionate about many things one of them Is Food! for me food is not just a nutrients to support our body, its more than that its gifted from God, its an enjoyment moments with your family and friends, is kind of art! I love Food
i love hanging out with friends and try new restaurants tasting new dishes and having fun with friends, with Google Maps its much easy to find the best restaurants for you depend on your match its much easy to see the dishes photos and the other local guides reviews on these restaurants, for me i love almost all food with just one constriction just one: to be Halal Food, in middle east and some other countries its easy to find halal food everywhere but when you visit other countries its not that easy, but with google maps its just simple search: “halal restaurants near me” imagine before google maps how it was for me, BTW i am very grateful and thankful for google local guides team for bring halal food for us during the connect live 19 summit.
Pray 
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"Prayer is an invocation or act that seeks to activate a rapport with an object of worship through deliberate communication. In the narrow sense, the term refers to an act of supplication or intercession directed towards a deity (a god), or a deified ancestor. More generally, prayer can also have the purpose of thanksgiving or praise, and in comparative religion is closely associated with more abstract forms of meditation and with charms or spells.[1]"
i love Masjids i love that feeling to forget all life worries and worship to God in place built for that reason, in my country i try to pray the five times daily in Masjid and its easy because masjids everywhere
but when you travel to other countries, as Halal Food, Google save me again with simple search Masjid or Mosques around me, i remember when i search it in kahosan road in Bangkok Thailand and found a masjid near me, or when i disccover a big beautiful Masjid in Phnom Pen the capital of Cambodia
again I
want to Thank Google Local guides Team for prepare a prayer Room for us during the Connect live 19
Love 
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which is means alot to me as a local guide!
Traveling the World is one of my dreams i have big wish list of countries cities and attraction sites around the world to visit, after joining this program i added new line near every country with local guide friend, and yes i started my journey around the world visiting my local guides friend, i cant describe in words that feelings,like having fun with Akmal Syed and Stephen in Malaysia or exploring Cambodia on motorcycle with Chamnan, eating delicious food with Nunu Budiono and all Indonesian local guides and connect live 19 make it one of my gathering ever i am still exciting and feel very happy every time i watch the connect live 19 albums,
imagine i met Mahabub and Stephen in dubai Airport then after the longest flight in my life i met Torben Aljendra Jessi Cecilia Alexandro Luigi Valeria and many friends , picking up Hiro from the airpot and start our local guides exploring of San Jose, the first meetup with other great local guides was the paul photo walk meetup OMG that was awesome meetup, meeting old friends like Sanya Sonia Anuradha Julian Guesepe Ilankovan Steve Isaac Omer David Emeka Manuele Penny Jan van vandana Waweru and all local guides and having fun with them was one of my best moments in my life and means alot to me i remember when Ermest and Karen join us in the Pizza Restaurant in San Jose i jumped and hugged them , i am still have alot of friends who still dream to meet like world wide meetups team Samson Sagir" he sent me a gift with Isaac", Bishow, justine, laxmi, surenda, rubendra,niraj,and old friends like Salman, Shafiul, Natalka, Amiran dr.Aziz,Naresh kashif, farid, great Robert Opiyo, Oleg and many other great local guides who i am dreaming to meet in person.
“Friendship is the hardest thing in the world to explain. It’s not something you learn in school. But if you haven’t learned the meaning of friendship, you really haven’t learned anything.”
– Muhammad Ali
looking forward to meet you in California!
