we're in one of the countries, 10 national parks that lie on the border with india. maybe captain c 2 is a ranger at the royal manners national park. he and his subordinate shakuma are the only men in uniform we meet during our stay. baton has few soldiers and relies on neighboring india for its defense. the ranges role is to protect the local flora and fauna. it's a crucial mission as be tons constitution states that at least 60 percent of its territory must be covered with forest. and baton has exceeded that target for several years now. as a result, it's the only country that produces more oxygen than carbon dioxide. in other words, it's the greenest country on the planet.

the nature preserve posts, an incredible diversity of foreigner. hundreds of species of butterflies, water buffalo, an antelope even endangered species like lizards and elephants. now the country is developing high end tourist packages in the hills of tim, who a luxury hotel has just opened with rooms starting at $1200.00 euros per night. that's a small fortune in a country where the average wage is less than 7 euros a day. panoramic terraces, exhausted would decor and furniture sweets, all villas from 70 to 300 square meters and heated indoor pools. this is a far cry from mass tourism. the hotels numerous employees a busy all day long, yet there are few guests the on this day,

only one wealthy russian couple is vacationing in this spectacular place. and we've been expressly asked not to disturb them. some entrepreneurs have discovered how to profit from this tourist heaven hunger ever been to them until the moving over to grace. he's just 26 years old, but she's already a successful business woman. she's also a pioneer in this very conservative society, despite encountering obstacles as a woman, she managed to open her own restaurant 2 years ago. she serves up exclusively organic food to meet the demands of both the locals and foreign tourists are actually nowadays people really care about their health. so it's more important if you have a return, then you can have a happy life. grace's life hasn't always been happy or easy. now a single mother of 2, she was married to a violent man for years. grace had the courage to divorce him despite the fact that

this is heavily found upon in baton. now she presents her story on the walls of her restaurant 3 years ago while working as a tour guide, she met her rich couple from singapore who took her under their wing. they paid for her training in singapore and helped her fulfill her dream. after returning home, she opened her own restaurant under let's get to meet this guy. as i like watching my life like that today, she supports her entire family. the to waitresses in her restaurant, her sister's home in a couple wonderful. and isn't us, and it's a success story, she's proud to tell to run a business to handle a case to be a head on the family example for someone else for young entropy, especially for young generation where we can show them like you can do anything

being a young and being a single mom. so i think i can to show an example for everyone else. an inspiring story, but still a rare one here. okay, this system right. when it comes to soul thing, fresh produce grace, mainly relying on her mother. she leaves a few kilometers away from the capital in the mountains. the 60 year old cheering plants, rice, fruit, and vegetables and leaves in the small traditional house on the hillside. here time seems to it stood still. all the work is done by hand or with the help of animals. for almost 20 minutes.

grace regularly come see it's a supplies for her. the lack of machinery isn't a problem. quite the contrary. we prefer animals because you the missions you know, like it makes people more lazy or well yeah, that's cool. i think like the end of the didn't to me it takes a lot of energy and the good dose of patients. unlike machines, oxen, sometimes moody, especially on camera. so i'm going to do that. we're going to be it's very difficult because you have to know how to go. they have to listen to you

. so you have some techniques, how to the cows and all. so it's better if you don't know, then it's very dangerous because how can kill you? once plowed, the land is cultivated on terraces, the work is demanding and the yield is small. grace and her mother weed. these rice fields by hand for grace. it's a small price to pay for quality it's all organic because we don't use the chemical fertilizers like that. but since we use only a co, don't know that we have like lots of how over here 20 years ago baton was still like streamline, isolated people had neither tv, no telephone's back then, grace's way of life would have been unthinkable. much covered in my day. we received no education and had to do manual labor. there are more opportunities for your generation, thanks to education and languages. you can do whatever you want to live today.

thanks to the kings, generosity, everyone civilized and developed, which i'm proud of you. grace says she's happy happiness, she attributes partly to the king. so i think looking like the counts with the happiness, what not with the products. so i think this is also the happiness that we what we get from that is in the boot. a nice way of life is far removed from that of western style. consumerism. it's a system without fierce competition. ideally, both buyers and sellers always get a good deal when it comes to like mcdonald gave see, i think like it's not like it's not that hi, jeanette. because i heard something about like if see like the chicken, you know, to make it a bigger size. so this is more effective in our health. so i think that thing is not good for health in bu tone. 80 percent of farmers have never used pesticides.

their crops are organic and they produce enough fruit and vegetables that the country is now almost self sufficient. however, the famine standard of living remains quite low and the cheering doesn't receive a pension, and most of her crops are for her own personal consumption. so the money she gets from her daughter supplements her income as you don't know if i buy in a city, then it's more than that. it will be a more expensive. but since she's using all her energy and it's a love, you know, like that she's giving you a little, you know, the vegetable color basket, and i give her money. this is what i own in the city money. and what this is she own in the village, the vision. so this is a system between one and a doctor. so i think like, i give it like that because i, i have a responsibility, you know, like being a mom. i have to get with her,

and so this is what we do usually if it's what i'm home. thank you. talk with her the place i just wanted to touch on this all my helping one another simplicity connection to nature. it's the very definition of happiness put forward by the authorities in the g n h concept. however, some formulated this theory of happiness long before the boot and these governments namely the monks the perfect happiness or nirvana is what the country is. roughly 100000 monks seek to achieve in baton one out of every 7 residence retreats to a monastery, at least once in their life. for a few months or even years. many monasteries also serve as detox or rehab centers,

the delinquents. it's 4 30 in the morning and the days already beginning at the low dreck cartoon monastery and central baton. 3 3 3 3 each morning, one of the monks is responsible for making sure that no one is sleeping in the media. it's a rigid approach that some have trouble adjusting to at 1st the new jersey to do that with a new to me. some of us who joined us a former drug addicts to alcohol in troubled songs. and they have changed a lot down so that apparently they suffer a lot in the 1st few moments because of their addictions and bad habit. sharing your muscle, but then they change and become ordinary monks. the only digital tools,

if you just some even have cats used on their bodies as they used to be gang members and others we got to do. but also this was the case for 28 year old senior. he arrived here a little over a year ago and had to quickly get accustomed to the rhythm that the monastery monday to sunday, for city 4 to 5. we had such a system that to say also before he began studying theology, cynthia was inter girls, alcohol, drugs, and st fights. my family. this me just throws even with family members. this one is margot mark on the percentage of done my ha, carla, to protect a day as he is supposed to ward off. bad luck senior isn't the only month with

a check had passed. he and no vin rocca guide have a shared history here. no visit cynthia to talk about it was an argument with this is really the 2 young men have only kept a few photos of their former lives back then senior and nerve in spent their days hanging out in the streets of the capital with their friends to those and put in peace, let him only used to smoke regional means to buy drugs and go binge drinking. singing would often rob people in his neighbourhood fighting the street or something. sometime it happens, isn't the collision is to have collision question thoughts enough to become a monk is totally like a new life?

no. i wrong nation. i do. when the bad things. so no, because the moon is kind of abuse, it is now because they're all sins the wrong but i took and one of you just a good thing because i did and i was you. good. so i want to change. so because of didn't, i'm a change, you know, nothing could have taken the wrong path to. yeah. if we go to the extent of that, it could be prison. maybe a death also, or want to st. or manase to become a mom if someone ran this. but this is a very, very rare case that someone realizes and really gets committed to become a monk. i just tells you to put a bus to do possibly gotta get as you want and your life goes under someone and let him and forces me in baton. monasteries offer an alternative to prison but one that requires sacrifice. cynthia is starting

his 2nd year here in his cell, he spends most of his time reading sacred texts up to 10 hours a day. when this life of self discipline is far removed from his old wild ways. still he seems fulfilled. happiness means the peace of mind. you can have nothing and you can still be happy because everything depends here. happy in italy. happy whether you praise blessings, but also in a contemplation filled the days in the monastery. sometimes in quite surprising ways, every week, cynthia and the others compete in a unique form of debating the misery. yes. you know, it's nature miss, you know, i know the minds nature, but it's meant the physical needle. how about streaming? it will be the more experienced monks begin the debates,

the objective to win over the others with convincing arguments. when a monk thinks he's found an irrefutable argument, he slaps his hands together. the subject doesn't really matter. the most important thing is the discussion itself and having some fun, whitehorse really white because you know, a white isn't white and it's a living being no more just white horse. or what do you want to prove that the horse is the light? why? why do another of the monks recreational activities in the weekly outing? every sunday, the monasteries residence go into town,

though there is no question as senior and his friends are coming to the temptations of the streets with the money they collected the previous day. the monks control themselves to a meal. a strictly vegetarian one are almost new nissans regular. that's what comes in the country. you know, we don't know each and every, all the parents haven't been even single being who haven't been no better. so in a really getting all parents made, so it is a big scene actually. and then the problem is that at the prison, if you could remember being of being parents and you really believe in doing the nation. of course, everybody is going to you what you would be, my father, mother. what for you, the best interviewing community for the next life?

again, as a monk, it's possible to turn in a country doesn't matter what we've done is so the monitor is not a j. no, it, it actually is a paradise is a very we say the result very just because we are slow since we are looking. are you seeing this? this is normal. this but actually some today no vin. i'll guide company cynthia, on his way back to the monastery. the reunion of the 2 former troublemakers, he's over and they'll return to their everyday lives. with me today, cynthia seems to have found the pathway to happiness. but he will need to train for 9 more years to become an ordained monk. back in to improve,

we visit grace the entrepreneur. she lives in a small 3 room apartment with her 2 children and 2 sisters. i need the most when to really tired. so in a month we used to go out with the friends and the siblings that we can enjoy a moment. so you know, like not exactly party, but it's a place where we can relax and enjoy some music date. yes. okay. this evening grace takes her 2 sisters with her as the head of a company and head of the family. grace is one of the few car owners in baton. it's a privilege here. let's have fun tonight. yeah.

so a little box on here. futon has just a handful of bars where young people can meet. grace's favorite is the tim pool club party bought for the capitals, affluent youth. the here they let loose to pope and run the a far cry from traditional cultural offering. ah, michael. right now, visit him and enjoy it, but it's nothing like that. we have to go back to the normal like the good thing, what we have here,

men and especially women, a free to enjoy themselves without fearing the center of a society that still quite conservative. oh we got an agency and wendy and nothing. there was nothing. and from do, i can find people are looking for me and i want to have them in david and they want to know what one of the when you come in and enjoy a woman get through town society and laws are changing in december 2020 parliament the criminalized homosexuality and these club young people smoke entering count the whole oh in public spaces, it's another story. to combat the high level of alcoholism in the country, the government banned the sale of alcohol one day

a week. now every tuesday is known as dry day. hello? was it was a big movie. you know, the lor is strictly and he had to put it into town tuesdays alcohol free day, where i can buy a single day, which is, you know, and i know in the country. yeah. i way it's like ah, another ban smoking in public places in 2004 baton was ahead of its time legislative on the issue during our visit there and no smokers on the streets.

however, even though the government also ban cigarette sales, many small shopkeepers, still risk selling them under the counter by police will scan that. we have to pay the bill to make sure the position is dangerous. maybe we can far reaching legislation has been passed regarding food as well. though it may not always be followed to the letter as we see visiting the large markets in 2 to 3 times a week. small farmers from the surrounding area come here to silver spices, fruit and vegetables, hold organic of course. there's also plenty of meat for sale,

even though officially it's strictly forbidden to kill animals into town. competing in numerous amount of phone and i didn't me along with meat who turns neighbor to the south supplies the country with fuel and cheap labor in the rapidly expanding capital to improve most of the new construction is carried out by indian workers. almost everything is done by hand and safety standards are often legs. but the most dangerous construction sites are located outside the city. at an altitude of almost 3000 meters, a colossal building project is changing the face of the mountain. since 961,

thousands of indian workers have been coming every year to work on this road that's destined to cross the country from east to west. despite the magnitude of the task and its dangers, the men when know protected clothing, let alone helmets. they work with what little the company provides arjun is 18 years old, and this is his 1st time on the site up to don't you have other shoes? me know. no other work. the company provides us with some, but mine and rec, in this job they don't most toxic ta fumes, mountain sickness, know protective gear and no accident insurance. this work poses many dangers yet there's no shortage of applicants on the phone with poor because we don't work. we don't, that's why we come in to work and earn money. otherwise,

how else would we be able to figure that out? but i know that they work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, often for 2 months at a time. we are able to film a typical day on the site there makes you camp the workers get up at 7 each morning and go wake up. you need to wake up. ok time to get up. and william, this is our home 25 people. i believe that we don't have problems sleeping here like this. now we need to go and wash and get ready. we have to go to work that this is the work is sleep fully dressed, high in the mountains without heating the temperature in the camp regularly drops below freezing,

like the others and leaves on the plains during the rest of the year. so this terrain is also foreign to him. but the journey that we've never seen a place like this before. the mountains everywhere. gorgeous in cliffs, very dangerous working environment. if it's cold here, it's no. even the rain is free. we've been working for 2 months. we have 10 days left and we return to our village in some work as accounting the days more than others. simba is 28 years old. this is the 3rd year he's been on the site. he's in charge of the barrels of tom. mean is this part of my job is very dangerous, that we have to milk the tar and for that we have to heat it away. when you're near

the back, you must be vigilant at all. fine. get out of all that you fall in. you'll die. love that guy the despite the sindbad cannot quit this work allows him to support his wife and 2 children for 6 months of the year. but as long as i have legs to walk, i'll keep working to your national happiness, built with the blood, sweat, and t is of foreign workers, happiness that has an ecological cost, but not the baton you have it in india, these barrels go back to india. now very bad for the environment. so we have to count them, pick them up and send them back to india back if we've got a lot of gross national happiness, he's no curial, but it has produced some tangible results and is something the state continues to promote to the world as seen with the construction of the conference center

dedicated to happiness at a time when the country is opening up to the world. baton is trying to find a way to pursue economic and social progress without sacrificing its cultural and environmental achievement. or the happiness of its people. ah, i mean, we build critique and can i think there was no tomorrow at some point supplies were worn out. grounded with the old leave we say resources now. we'll all have more of them

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