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time is said to be the place where happiness is at home protected by high mountains in the north and fake jungle in the south the country is the last kingdom in the himalayas the government's top priority is keeping its citizens happy that includes protecting pristine natural environments. the people live according to their traditions. yet at the same time are connected to the outside world online. bhutan is located between 2 giants china and india nevertheless it's managed to chart its own course our journey begins far away from the capital in the remote

eastern part of the country where not much has changed in the last 100 years. that. 6 year old boy is facing the biggest challenge in his life so far today he's going to leave his home and family. yeah that was. you can't do it.

it's the last morning doherty's mother is going to spend with him before he leaves for the monastery. of course i miss my son the but i don't want to be in the way on his path to finding food or. i'll be sad for a few days. jungle then i'll get used to it. at a certain stand and. be a good boy and behave yourself at the monastery and study hard and eat 3 meals a day white our help focus. i don't know what it's like in the monastery there are big buildings in the city.

for the money. it's time to go. george is journey to his new life as a monk begins. his parents and siblings won't see him for more than a year they may not even be able to speak to him before that. our. daughter he has never left his village before he's excited ahead of the 3 day trip and his 1st visit to the capital.

in the northern part of the country it's time to transplants the rice plants by plant the botany staple food is being moved from one paddy to another crown a good job a farmer grows a very special crop of flowers edible petals for salads risotto or salts mixes the business concept came from switzerland. virgin soils and pure air should guarantee top level organic quality. we need the whole village to help us transplant all the seedlings from the greenhouse. my entire family helps to have a car when the corn flowers and marigolds we've planted here start to bloom to me

that they will dry the flowers and send them to switzerland in which i brought this project to our village because it's fun for me to cooperate with young farmers to establish something that i would love not drop him allegedly but it's really hard work we don't know how these flowers will grow here that i'm going to do and there's a lot at stake for me my children should be up to live from this too much of a little bit image looked at is argue with him what in the. villages in the middle of the turns primeval forest bears leopards tigers and wild boar are constant threat to the farmers. just last year 14 cals was killed while grazing what if a tiger by it leaves behind a toxin so the wind doesn't heal for a long time this winter here is more than a year old and in the what we would never kill a wild animal up in because that's a major sin in the gutter you know see we need to live with the wilderness and protect our animals and plants as best we can also who let are ignored as being

with us tonight it's took his father's turn on watch there's a tried and trusted old method that works best to get the wild animals off the rice paddies. the. chokey is expecting an important visitor and is making the national drink butter tea. first the tinny then the butter and last the song was that over the. you should live in the name of your our flour project is 100 percent organic and a big opportunity for all of us in the village that has and if we used chemicals in our fields that might be an advantage in the short term but over

a longer period it will make a still our soils were dry ass and lose the nutrients. and do them no illusion lucian didn't move into organic is certainly good for our health but we're risking crop failure that much and how we will most of my children said to be everything we grow here will be worth more if the village is certified as organic that we can get a better prize for us. human book you we can use natural means to protect our plants but chucky's optimism is put to the task sooner than expected. much with the cuts much in the how to move the plants the dying look this is why lance 18 the roots. which every plant that's out and everything will be infested look. get rid of it.

but it's too late the red ants are already in the field. so he doesn't know what to do but giving up is out of the question. for you to go to talk to the local agricultural consultant in with us maybe he has a solution well. and could you call our partners in switzerland to see if there are natural repellents those insulating the let me talk on the. on the bill you said. just once in the. more than half of all go to nice work the lands like turkey the country's goal is to maximize gross national happiness rather than just boost economic growth the town is prioritizing the

satisfaction of its people maintaining traditional culture and environmental protection every citizen is entitled to free education and medical care 70 percent of good times territory is covered with protected forests it's the only country in the world to find more c o 2 than it releases. the mountains are also sacred to the brittany's they're home to some of the world's tallest unconquered peaks this is the lie apps domain since ancient times these nomads have been herding yaks more than 4500 meters above sea level near the tibetan border.

22 year old say wong is returning from a long trip and he's bringing the essential for the coming weeks. before the parents men's work to provide the firewood and food and the women stay home to care for the yanks because we can't earn any money here we have to go to the bigger villages to work. solar panels are used to generate electricity fires are used for cooking. and i give religion to corpus who go a lot on this and we want our son to get the education that we never had and then

he can get a good job in the city and they're going to if he doesn't do well at school they'll have to stay here and i'm going and work just as hard as we do unless you have an argument or no one. yax living in the wild don't eat enough salt so the herders are provided for them. and it's a no no it's not some go did we give our yeah out salts and to keep them stronger and increase their milk production in the uk there are fewer and fewer yaks because in the warmer climate it is they become ill more quickly you know you may just decide they're not really making us any money human and we earn a living these days mainly by transporting of rain with horses and gathering and selling rare herbal mushrooms that all may grow here in the dorm like you moved up the load or given the.

same wrong loves hollywood music is mobile phone doesn't have reception on the mountainside so before he sets off he always downloads the latest hits entertaining old and young alike. that's enough i need to pack. a good. piece still knows the traditional handicrafts and can weave yak well into fabric to

be sought. after. for money again 200000000 that i grew up with yes and i like living here and my only problem is that i don't see enough of my husband didn't think of it most of the time my mother grandmother and i are on our own in town and my say one is often away for weeks and i can't even call him on the phone and even though he's just come home and is already going back out to search for mushrooms and. i hope he finds a lot at least. 91 earth. no luck that's where i'm going. way up in the mountains. i want to come to. your to be able to come along.

save longs in for a long climb the treasured mushrooms only grow way up in the himalayas it'll take him 2 days just to get there. how was. unlike say wrong many young good knees head for the city around 20 percent of the population now lives in the capital temple in the city is one of the fastest growing in southeast asia the internet and television arrived at pretty much the same time 20 years ago since then the town has been changing fast. however police still direct the flow of traffic there are no traffic lights.

doherty is making a stop in temple to sponsor wants to buy him a warm jacket there for the monastery. this. is really it will be very cold at the monastery there are no smaller sizes. ok we'll take it. in another part of the city doherty's future abbott lama non-gays getting ready for the new start of the money asked ikey here he's on a big shopping expedition and to put that with the rest of. his budget is tight even though the monastery receives public funding lama non-gays striking a hard bargain. how much is the spinach $25.00 for this. when

i was young the monks just stayed in the monasteries the people visited them and brought them food but it hasn't been that way for quite some time we've got to go shopping here every week the new year starts the day after tomorrow at my monastery around 80 monks are coming back from vacation and we're expecting a lot of new children it's the most hectic time of the year for me when he did that in like the knowing how much 60. you've got to eat less now otherwise it's too expensive what about this. number more at least tie that up and we'll meet at the bottom of the pack and you see our monastery up there at the top it may snow soon. set off so the 1st blow can

be put on the horses. and the pickups loaded and the 2nd one is leaving right away. they've almost finished now the purchases just have to survive being carried up the mountain on horses it's a 3 hour climb to the monastery. and the like where the rest of the horses. here i told him and they should start loading the horses but nothing's happened he turned not listening to us so. i think it's time for lama non-gay to take charge. he is something else good.

ok did you tell him without me you to think. you didn't know now what. about the i pod you do now it's snowing hard up on the mountain there are monastery if we go up now with the horses the snow will soften the load these horses can't go up there anymore today and the other half aren't even here yet and i don't know what i should do as i need to get up there today to prepare for the monks arrival. on the road it's giving me the headache. my head well so what do i do now. lemon i'm gay head south without the horses ok we're going see it tomorrow you get the horses are supposed to go up the next day weather permitting they'll arrive just in the nick of time.

again it's time for journey back into the past to the valleys of central time more time seems to have stood still. while mom pay homage of the children of the rock you know yeah when they're up and making breakfast i hope they're making my rice and t. with milk ok about. now i'm 73 years old and still have to do all the work myself. by then i. will be with the wrong i get few times i'll stop complaining but the kids found good

jobs in the city and we're still here to look after the farm the children are happy and we are so you. know we're not. sure don't want to move our villages in such a high spot that our cows don't produce enough milk but still we take care of them every day give them quality feed them we're going to read about much and we live from it but it's hard work. you know what i'm not one no not going to long. was long was where here we'll do it and when we're not around anymore hopefully our children will. i hope so too after all these cows paid for their education. drive the cows over here. i'll take them out to pasture. we would order the young archers from our village challenge me to take part in

a tournament you hear on your festival i think i'll join in again this year you would you agree with love doesn't do feel good and i'm worried at your age when you still compete your eyes a really bad you could shoot someone with the arrows no worries i can still do it legally it is such a brag. some of you know this is a very special favor from a bird in our forest when the young arches see all they going to say wow. we do not. know if i got to use a thread to attach it then i'll put on a metal tear by dipping the point in rub a lack of heart and heating it with i know i know it is not drug. war but it's got to be as straight as can be. otherwise the arrow won't hit the

target. or start going to ruin but everyone will laugh at me what's this old man doing here but i'll show you what. i don't i need to look good for the festival otherwise they'll say i'm too old. then that won't interest anyone that you are. oh. god. it's. up to me to morrow's the big archery tournaments i heard you want to take part all right. yes i do have you keep it around with me long enough on the wrong i was

already knowing on bones when you were still just drinking milk. to knock it down or do nothing. winter is coming it's high time to harvest the rice. choky to is seeing the 1st fruits of her labor the farmers have to scupper that name tree oil is a natural tool for warding off the plague events. they've been spraying their fields with it regularly. so many mobile homes hushes there are no ads here anymore

and over there most of them are going to cut a lot of 1st merry go to starting to bloom. but we're worried because the organic farm inspector is coming from india today to see if we've met all the standards only in a minute the little known least they did they haven't used chemicals well that i don't know the name oil is really ok. this is choking the head of the farmers group. and this is one chalk she's a part of the team. she didn't want to see which seed you use on what you plant you've got growing here and the different substances you treat the plants where those who he wants to see records of your daily work and suppose i was no no no no longer than the old to earth as you did of any risk of contamination from the new neighbors you understand that you took yes.

all the. inverse they take soil samples near the neighbor's property line then if you from the middle of the field. they mix the samples which are sent to india to be tested for pesticide contamination. then the moment of truth what about the nimoy. what you have used. for briefly is acceptable but before using it it is good that there are good is all that. so you do is ok you can do it. but it's a good story to. keep the good news for humanity with it if i'm really very curious

to see the subtle test results that take your book daily if the results are positive chokers farm will be the 1st e.u. certified organic farm in all of bhutan. on the roof of the world at more than 5000 meters above sea level say one is looking for a quarter seps mushrooms which are said to have healing properties. do is deny needed to take out a 3000 year old loan to keep us above water for the next half year. in that money's got to come back and now. i hope i find enough to do it with money so you 2.

who want goes on for you could find the fungus everywhere because a few people know of their healing properties now you've got to go up higher to find them everyone here knows how much money you can get for them even people who have long since moved to the city are coming back now because only people who live in the highlands are allowed to gather the mushrooms and one time it changes also contributing to them becoming more scarce. even. though it's a day i'm not going to find anything like it isn't on my sides. great time the harvest is small the 3 caterpillar mushrooms are worth about 15 euros.

i found one of. if they're going with them and this is the legendary quarter subs medicinal mushroom the soil the parasitic fungo infests a caterpillar caterpillar dies and the mushroom grows through on to the surface we harvest this strange mix of caterpillar and fungus some. time with openings in the length of a thing which i don't know and then david does that mean with me outside of

butan people use them as medicine. especially to make men strong. well the new it gives us a really good income. and it's a very that's why there are still young people here near the game would have been that snowballed in the order of the there that's enough and there was some highlanders can now even afford to take a helicopter taxi to go shopping in the capital for them for the local good it was a while for the golden ring and then from there you. say wang will need to spend many more weeks searching in order to pay back that loan. a little georgie and his father are beginning the last day of their journey they're starting the climb to lima non-gays monastery at an altitude of over 3000 meters. walk a bit more tell me when you get tired. of this. i'm tired

. just a little more than i'll carry here. finally after 4 more hours of hard hiking they've reached the monastery. which is really small. his legs are sore because he's whoops

a notch but it. tom come on and yeah there are friends for you inside. your tree for that reason. to go in there's a star been there. that's better already. so now you're warm again. the. cold because of the snow. melt now he'll sleep. with you he said he had a headache to. me though the there's no movie and i'm trying to tell me he needs really very small for the monastery but it's ok. not once a day and tomorrow will be hard for him to read now but none see him some that you can then he'll slowly get used to it and find friends if you're going to come to

doing. it he used to be the customer that one child from each family became a monk. but in the meantime the remote monasteries are more often a catchment for children from poor families. who never. look. at this year come on let's sleep. if you. really. be a good boy and behave yourself ok to me. why are you crying. i don't really want. you just you know one turn cry you shouldn't cry wipe your tears. you.

sleep now. profound faith accompanies and guides every act either giving up a love a child to a monastery or even taking part in an archery tournaments. people go for. a. long look at what. the right job was but. a lot can happen during an archery tournament or know one an arrow could easily hit someone that's why we're praying today and giving gifts to the local spirits and gods so that they protect us in your own

government not. that the robot talked to you today the youngsters really don't know how difficult it was back then they've all gone soft and i'll show you i'm only on the run. ah. the target is 145 meters away every archer has 2 arrows. up to me has taken on a big challenge but it nearly all goes wrong at the start when he has trouble stringing his bow. the knot needs to be smaller. for.

the 1st attempt. with. this too bad. this one will be a bonus i. know .

there are. rules i was one of the arches. but now i'm 73 and it's high time the youngsters stepped into the spotlight. now i think i'll have to leave the stage to them. though. doherty's big day is here. the consecration of the monks. it symbolizes the day that buddha left his palace in search of the meaning of life in truth. the change in appearance demonstrates the renunciation of all worldly goods and the beginning of a lifelong inner journey towards enlightenment. which. now

your heads look like watermelons. them up it hit a little bit ago that it was. good it was it is it it all over the years. that it was it is

it the of it avoided it. if it were. a lot of it. if it. did it was thought it. detours you. know i have a shit load it on. you know i feel different when i see my son is a monk now he's following buddha's pas and that makes me happy feeling you lose it is something to. hate you still sad. and mad. and then there's going to be i think i'm human given that when i came to the monastery at the age of 7 along i was sad for a long time but the human errants couldn't take care of me as you know they had

money problems so they sent me away and i do again like going on if you don't look into telling the muslims in the stomach in you about today i thank them for their decisions his muslim in laos i could follow buddhism have to go do some and have found enter peace in life and death you need to get. quinn you look at the boys certainly hope you won't see little children and leave him alone but they're not small anymore because their task is not a small one it has to go slowly they will learn through buddhist teachings to subordinate their needs to the well being of all living things this is even some p.c. starting now dorothy's journey is part of our journey you know doodle. it's

finally spring. blossoming jacaranda trees decorate. the most famous monastery in the country. nature is recovering from the long drive season a period of waiting is coming to an end for choking to the organic farming inspectors have given her the go ahead her way to certification is clear they can start harvesting the flowers today. much easier love not only don't slash doing. i've learned without lots of germs on our hands that we can't see with the naked eye it's only hard as we have to wash our hands very well to other children then we are models of ritual with the.

door everyone is excited because we've never done this work before it's the 1st time poster you are telling me. it's all blooming yes all flowering. just look i see. that one fellow the other day because of the ad is because transplant the cornflowers until tonight they still haven't blossomed. i mean you i really hope that you know this in a way i just as i learned you don't. the limone one that much if this project brings the success we hope for our grandchildren will still be with you and living from my junior took you to be huge in the name of politicization. 2 months later the cornflowers are there and chucky's project has come to full fruition. what

choky has established is promise for the future during times of change it's worth working hard to make your fortune even in the place where happiness is a town. full. of good. and i'm. proud of. what's going on here oh no house of your very own from a printer a. computer games that are healing. my dog needs electricity. shift explains delivers facts and shows what the future holds oh yeah living in the digital world shift. in 15 minutes on d w. i use the work on your brain each shilling.

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