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start aug 7th on d w. they call me al tangere uk. where my ancestors were nomads who are even more 20 years i have lived with my own family and the staff herding our cattle. appear to be specially our music is about mongolian history and our customs these are our never ending sources in the family but just a whole school and along comes the.

fact that my shama name is. that ever since i was a child i had visionary abilities and could sense the spirits of nature and. journey through mongolia and its capital. will stars in the mountainous north of the country will follow the tracks of the trans mongolian railway self cross the vastness of the step and after about 800 kilometers reach the gobi desert and the buddhist time our money straight.

i tell you one station our 1st stop art from a communist past merges with contemporary advertisement. planned economy once held sway here today it's the free market. dark one is the 3rd largest city in mongolia it was built in 1961 with massive support from the former soviet union and its name is no coincidence darkened means blacksmith and reflects the importance of the city for metal and heavy industry. when he was in the tourists are rarely seen in this big cities train station. the no frills building was designed for commuters and travelling merchants in the metropolis with its hundreds of thousands of inhabitants. darshan is

a transport hub that connects regional routes with the trance mongolian railway towards iran barter and further on to the chinese border. anyone taking this train to the capital however should allow plenty of time. the train takes over 7 hours to cover the almost 250 kilometers because of the many stops along the way. moreover the railway infrastructure is not up to european standards. the train attendants where kristi uniforms they are responsible for checking the tickets directly at the carriage door and they take their jobs extremely seriously . in mongolia respect and all thorazine are important principles that must be observed. meanwhile it's announced over a loudspeaker that it is strictly forbidden to take any moments including dead ones on the journey because the fear of the mongolian delicacy usually harbors flies

which are regarded as carriers of the play. was only about 3000000 people live in mongolia a country more than 4 times the size of germany. it's huge distances and vastness can be sensed through the train when there. is. little you also physically notice mongolia's altitude a quarter of the country is between 2003000 meters above sea level. travelers should therefore allow themselves a little time for climate has ation. halfway between the han and learn by heart the 1st hills of the 20. mountains begin. to mountain ranges considered the birthplace of the greatest mongolian of all times.

abroad the name genghis khan is mostly associated with conquests brutality and virility but here in mongolia it mainly stands for political savvy. the founder of the mongolian empire is considered to have been a patron of trade education art and culture. freedom of religion as one of his most important legacies even today christians buddhists muslims and adherents to mongolian shamanism practice their religions peacefully side by side. sharman islam is the oldest religion in mongolia. ancient symbols such as the swastika or sun we ornaments all supposed to pave the

way for the shaman to reach the spirits. this religious decoration which was hijacked by germany as a symbol of the nazis can be found in its original sense as a spiritual symbol of luck everywhere mongolia. that are ringing through my trance and so i made contact with the spirits of the mountains and the water. good that they have found my ways to be good i'm just. that they're hard but that therefore they do me the honor of showing me the right path they've used to go get your dicks about. mongolian shamanism combines medicine and the worship of nature and ancestors as shaman is responsible for the welfare of their tribe. through contacting the

spirits and speaking with the voice of the deceased while in trance they try to show their community the right path for the future. love. her with ancestors really speak through the shelmon remains a question of faith it was like with every religion. you got the bus home but on a bus full well not everyone can be a sham on the bench if you if you do not appoint yourself as a sham and just do something this would send people on a wrong path and detach the soul from the body all false romanism is therefore even harmful. for all but unfortunately it happens quite often what they will be seen as those are to me when that doesn't exist when. sacrificial rituals such as the milk sacrifice on men to appease the gods. for

sherman is a balance between man and nature must be preserved and the growing economic interests in mongolia are a dangerous aberration. or higher. up than at present people are digging in the air of all over they don't even care about sacrificial mounds they're not respected and they're not even being rebuilt warranting this maple are drilling digging and destroying thanks it's very difficult everywhere. i want to go i travel through western mongolia and saw that many creeks and rivers there have disappeared that dried up. this is because people do not respect the earth which is probably why we shamans are also there to save nature and at least that's my belief that our let's just assume both on the hook and.

we followed the line further towards. the train is usually the faster and more comfortable choice in mongolia. roads here are not comparable with asphalt streets in europe vast areas of the country have not yet been developed at all. on the other hand there is a very good chance of missing herds of free range cattle. over distances of several kilometers the animals often alone without their nomadic owners search for the best grazing grounds in the barren landscape. they have to build up their body weight as much as possible during the few summer months the hard mongolian winter often

begins in august already when the 1st. snow frequently falls. in. the so. travel times among early are very long even on the train the railway infrastructure and many of the vehicles are decades old. despite the beautiful landscape after a good 7 hours ride from dar han to the capital and bus our passengers tend to be pleased to finally arrive. at. the big city lackluster concrete buildings welcome the guests even though cool say you can't help but love mongolia but he can only endure us are. we learn but our central station is the largest railway station in the country and

was opened in 1988. to this day it remains an important hub for national and international traffic in the heart of mongolia. the train is the most important means of transport in the country not only for tourists and commuters local retailers also use the affordable rail connections to neighboring countries such as russia and china. that has to be brought to god it. was. after a very long shopping trips hundreds of them are rife with new goods in every day. from here they transport their purchases to the shop simply asks in the capital where they will sell them. almost half of mongolia's population about 1500000 people lives in

a land. the economic center of this land rich in natural resources is currently experiencing an enormous boom. the metropolis is considered a symbol of the wealthy growth oriented mongolia. in recent years hundreds of thousands of people have come here to try their luck. few have become successful. and yes he is experiencing the greatest rule exodus has ever seen. young people in particular don't want to be inferior to the west but they also don't want to be inferior to their asian named this week. if you consider

traditional nomadic life as a viable future. if you just. talked about that in their new john good we have a song that deals with rapid technological progress and in particular reflects the moment when too much technological optimization has occurred to you to get back to you good at this point what humans look for a place to slow down and return to nature and the origins of life. this is an important message that we want to give to the people he said especially to the mongolian youth so. it took. a look most of symmetry in the middle of. the band john and it's a backdrop that symbolizes an entire generation speirs for the future. this deal with environmental protection unemployment and also the danger. yes of

runaway technology is ation. however they find their musical news in the old legends traditions and characteristic sounds of a mongolian culture. junkie to give a little for the name john not as closely connected with the history of the horsehead for it'll. be a national instrument called with me for the. mongolians have always said but there was a very kind hearted man who owned a black horse named john not that you would say to it since it might mean that when it died one day he wanted to honor it and built the 1st horse head fiddle and its

image would sing yes. used its bones at the tail and mane and he's made it the way to. whenever the longing seized him the ball that he played on it and he remembered his black horse john on hard money to send him on the way to. the musicians were present a young and confident mongolia internationally as well as members of a young generation who went in search of their own cultural identity and found their place in the world. her. mom would get all woman to read the. home to was a. ball of mom the. day of judgment we hope that in the future people will remember

our band of joan for successfully having passed through. additional mongolian music onto younger generations in a profound way for us it was just this a bad negative. in so much of a clue that is our wish to remind you that is what we hope our musical achievement will be. defeated went with this to get to. the 2nd leg of our journey takes us from the capital on bastar along the trans mongolian railway to the city of chere 250 kilometers away in the heart of the mongolian step.

one bottle or central station 7 am. a real hero is waiting for the train to chair. good as dead is the only mongol so far who has travelled into space. since his spaceflight in 1981 he has been treated like a superstar in his country. the retired air force major general was also the country's minister of defense until 2004. however most mongols see him 1st and foremost as a heroic cosmonaut. a. liberal and something for the 1st place for a fire mongolian was a significant moment for our people and will stay a part of mongolian history as an important event all these days young people learn about it from newspapers and magazines from radio and television from their parents and relatives and siblings. as

a result mongolians are etched it firmly into their memories. on the. even in retirement the major general still has very little free time. he regularly speaks at events on military history about his experiences as a research cosmonaut on the soviet so use 39 space mission and about his 8 day stay on the sa youth sixpenny station good actor just dead to me dean was awarded the title cosmic hero of mongolia to honor his career he's the only living mongolian to hold it. but i hope you. don't want to go he did rather 3 more well i try not to give myself so much importance. what have i done so far what are my achievements many about the joy of the game but i don't really think about myself that way or ask those types

of question i think it's about the think it's not the sex that matters to me is that i want to remain the same person i was before i went to space of this it did back then my spaceship commander and friend buddy me out xander bridge trying to back off said to me after space travel you'll have many new friends but you please don't forget your old once they get i still think about his words to this day but it's not on which is why i want the public to see me as i really now that we had a good thing with sally if you want to check. the cosmonaut is a role model for his fellow countryman someone they respect even though they recognize that his feats were idealized in soviet propaganda. his ride on the train has been announced the entire train crew and even the cook know the famous space traveler will be on board.

the cook is actually a star chef who was assigned just for this journey. it will be up to him to make a top quality meal in the few square metre kitchen on the wobbling train. police will be serving delicious dumplings and potato salad to the cosmic hero. dumplings are filled with beef and tasty modern town who should make fantastic dumplings. the chef does not pass up the opportunity to serve his hero the food in the dining car personally. the potato salad served is actually made according to a german recipe. it's a calendar leftover from the times of international friendship between mongolia and

east germany. the trans mongered in express takes a good 3 hours to get a chair in the province of god he's a member deep in the mongolian step. is no stranger to the city until the early 1990 s. both soviet and mongolian air force bases were located in the region around so the station was strategically important. to the retired cosmonaut knows it well. this is why the station starvin by. at their celebrity guest to join them they proudly recall that this is story moment. true you know. nowadays the

72 year old increasingly looks back not only on his achievements but also on his roots as a simple known that. he had not the most of those of us on the mongols have actually been watching the skies in space from the very early our souls are at the 52 hour long history shows that we've used celestial bodies to navigate by for thousands of years. moreover to survive as a pastoral nomadic people. we have to be able to foresee the vagaries of the weather that's why the mongolians always directed their gaze and thoughts toward the celestial bodies. so. howard long. while the trance mongolian railway continues on its meandering course towards the

chinese border. we stay a little longer in the wild blooming step around chair. i. i. i for centuries nomadic castle breeding has been the mainstay of the entire region. camel herds roam the natural environment freely us 2 horses sheep or goats. the step landscape around mount simba about 50 kilometers from church is known for its fertile ground. this is where all tangere oil has settled for most of the year the nomads horses live while. they have to withstand winters with temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees celsius as well as wolves which the horses can severely injured or even kill with one kick. the cattle herders family

lives with their horses following the rhythm of nature wearing a watch would be a superb for this luxury. we get up early and we're out all day until dark. we had the cattle and move them from here to there. since we're album all day long we don't need to ask what time it is for us there is morning. afternoon and the movement of the sun. you always keep an eye on the song after all it's the only thing you can keep in view here because it's the sun that is always determined whether it is day or night. 6 where. the ancient songs of the nomads tell of their longing for their beloved homeland

the endless expanses of the step and the deep blue mongolian sky. that. while her husband takes care of the horse's head in his suit turns the rich milk from their goats and sheep into quark yogas and cheese. these are staple food stealing the summer months. the youngest daughter has still lives with her father and mother her older siblings are already attending school and live with their grandparents in the city. a daily walk to school through the step would be much too arduous and too far. i looked at them differently it's not that it is just that we have never really thought about living in the city if we have work to do in the city we take the

train as it usually runs at night. that way we are there early in the morning before work starts and then you can get a lot done in a day yes. i do and herders aren't interested in material wealth they see possessions as additional ballast but the number and conditions of their animals on the other hand are extremely important to them because they show their diligence and skill. in one another well we get over 200 kilograms of kashmir walls sometimes even 300 kilograms from 700. and the money we earn from the wool trade is enough to cover all the expenses that come up over the year. with hootie and the other school fees in order to pay for the $2.00 or 3 workers who help us take pays for anything important that crops up in the year and we also prepare the meat from our condo to feed ourselves in winter

. but we also sell some of it so we live from the immense productivity of animals. of the. south who are all for mining has dramatically increased and. all sorts of things are being done to the soil which is having a negative effect on the bodies of water and pasture land. we know very little water from our wells. he lived in this woods and it hardly rains anymore although someone is it something when i look back on my childhood it often rained continuously for 3 or 4 days and i was. in.

mongolia sits on huge deposits of natural resources. and around one of the country's largest and most important centers of mining iron ore and lignite is growing. however mongolian mining companies on profiting from the country's wealth of raw materials nearly as much as big international investors and energy giants. still the development is good for mongolia as railways the next work is growing and jobs are being created. oh goodness so we should. all think the

economy has a major influence on the expansion and development of the real race and vice versa . the mongolian railway is currently expanding out of the locomotives and real cars are becoming more advanced just sits at. the rail network and the entire real logistics are currently being revamped. traffic in particular is increasing. so the future of our railways looks really promising so it's. not for the. most traumatic. aerials are exposed to neighboring countries china however uses a different gauge of track to mongolia where the network is based on the russian broad gauge that means all the wagons must be reloaded on the chinese border which is a huge additional cost factor. a lot of the looking motives are also of russian origin . one of the or even. almost over so there are

currently $31.00 of these russian locomotives among. also the. chickens so we've been using this one since 2010. m. which. you can call up to $5000.00 times and it's 2 engines have a total of $7212.00 horsepower engine. to move the course she went through a long trial period and it's proven she can survive the long distances and the hard mongolian winters very well stay with us. in the heavy diesel engines and seemingly endless lines of wagons move effortlessly through the lonely step landscape day and night.

even as darkness falls the station inches stays very busy. as a vital transpose hub it is growing in parallel with the economy. mongolia's history and therefore the last of its railway is closely into words and with that of its russian neighbor. with the founding of the social. peoples republic of mongolia 921 the soviet union sided with its economically weaker. engineers in moscow designed the lines and forced laborers were sent from russian prison camps to reinforce the mongolian trackwork has to drive this gigantic project through. the 1111 kilometers of track through the most

difficult terrain gave mongolia a big boost. it was a great success for the soviets to who would do it by the wealth of mineral resources. as military considerations also played a major role in the fraternal relief action. the chance mongolian rail link from the russian border in the north to china in the south is still the backbone of all the rail traffic in mongolia today. because of the enormous distances many passenger trains run overnight sleeping cars are the best way to weather the long journey times. is also on the roofs of the so-called dealer trains most of the passengers on board are mongolian merchants on their way to their chinese neighbors. there they buy

goods that are lace is sold at a profit in their shops back home. in a large part of the mongolian population now lives from this trade including some women from gun a city in northern central mongolia. about us of. yeah we're on a train for 4 days. but if you include all the shopping in beijing or even further away then you get to a total of at least 10 days on the road. thing if. everyone both retailers. and wholesalers takes the train to travel between the 2 countries all the pigeons why. because the train is safe for people and also for the transport of goods. and you can almost live your life in a tray that passengers can sleep and eat and drink and relax on board on the 12th and. many of the mongolian commercial travellers have come

from other professions. but then got up studied mongolian literature and the 1970 s. and her husband is an artist. among the child thing he just said just not in 1902 there was a political inversion and we moved to a market economy society. and suddenly it was all if you drink from their cup you also have to follow their customs. a lot was privatized 1st and state owned enterprises were broken up into small businesses many people including academics became unemployed and wages were very low. since then we've become so-called saddlebag of similar. saddlebag is an old mongolian term referring to nomadic merchants who used to tie

they could steal the saddles of their horses and ride off to sell them. it seems the historical reference makes it a bit easier for present commercial travellers to accept their life circumstances which are frequently difficult. even if it's hardly had dream job 60 year old boddam got out does not complain. his order was still i have no other option. and even if we are only small businesses we're still important for society for our families our children and our grandchildren. we pay for college rent and food advice and more than half of all mongolians finance their lives through small businesses $1.00 of them is me just in atlanta.

from the same shunned rail station it takes another 5 hours to reach the chinese border. was. just how much the nance cake has changed only becomes apparent in daylight. to new. the rich green step landscape has given way to the ok colored infinity of the gobi desert. covering some 1000000 300000 square kilometers it is the largest desert in asia. the desert city of st sound is about 250 kilometers southeast of chair and long the trans mongolian railway almost 40 kilometer his further on in the eastern gobi

desert as we come to from our ministry which the mongolians also call how marine heat. the 19th century complex is an important center for mongolian but as i'm. going to marry is a buddhist monk who travels on the night train from milan bought are several times a month. he says it's an escape from the confines of the. and that it was only here in this barren and empty expensed that he became aware of the connection between freedom and mongolian identity it's true that the word freedom for me means responsibility and still if we have freedom we must deal with the responsibility in the extra time free from a chink. but instead of pumping my chest i'm trying to remember that the world is

more. that sure i consider myself a mongol but i don't consider others as foreigners. and i'm a buddhist monk so i have responsibilities to get with. every awesome hundreds of pilgrims and believers from all over mongolia meets in home our monastery. a ritual book through the stony desert around the monastery grounds is said to drive away bad omens and renew the life energy of each individual. mongolian buddhists believe the whole energy pools in this atmospheric place.

the colorful troop makes its way about 2 kilometers into the desert to a shambhala center. some but as a holy places that refer to the mythical city of the same name where legend says the accumulated knowledge of buddhism will outlast time itself. if i am danson radtke i was a buddhist lama as important in mongolia as the current done i love my into bess. he personally chose this place to build a monastery in 1820 for over 100 years to come our ministry was one of the most important buddhist sent his a faith in mongolia. and it gave me

a better in the make 930 s. mongolia's communist government turned against but as i'm monks were condemned as anti stalinist elements thousands were imprisoned all killed and monasteries were destroyed. as of the 1st arrests and executions of buddhists took place on september the 10th $937.00 of them 6 future generations must learn about it would be that is why on this day we call on the whole world to prevent such evil deeds from happening again he departed but no person should be excluded persecuted or murdered because of his or her beliefs or opinions. when he says he's a good and we are gathered here today so that these atrocities will never be repeated with its. people most. of.

the missing has become part of mongolia's intangible cultural heritage and buddhists from all over the world celebrate the resurrection of the monastery and their faith in the boundless expenses of the gobi desert the was it hit in the head calm arm on history symbolizes a commitment to freedom and independence for all mongolians. the hope is that its story can teach future generations to look at head with hope self confidence and self determination. was. made them believe in light of the world my whole life's journey is dedicated to a happy and bright future it is the last one of them so might. the life that i was traveling towards optimism for everyone everywhere on the train. alledge any through mongolia is joined to a close. there is much more that could be told by us as an old mongolian proverb

knows seen once is better than head a 1000 times. carians had enough. for new year's day of course their government sinking into this one corruption. darks command themselves privileges while law enforcement officers oppressed the citizens. now the very daily demonstrations and the demand for new

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