the captain, c 2, is a ranger at the royal menace 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. ah, the nature preserve those sin, incredible diversity of foreigner. hundreds of species of butterflies, water, buffalo,

and 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 are busy all day long, yet there are a 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. me. some entrepreneurs have

discovered how to profit from this tourist heaven under ever been to me. so the morning 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 served 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 recount, 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 frowned 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 a 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 lips disguised as i like, walking my life like that today, she supports her entire family. the 2 waitresses in her restaurant, her sister's home in the company. 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 ahead of the family is example for someone else for young entropy, especially for young generation where we can show them like you can do anything being a young entropy and being a single mom so i think i came back to show an example for everyone else. an

inspiring story, but still a rare one here. okay, this system right. when it comes to sol, 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 this small traditional house on the hillside. here time seems to have stood still. all the work is done by hand or with the help of animals for much when grace regularly come see if the supplies for her, the lack of machinery isn't

a problem. quite the country any. we prefer animal because you the missions you know, like it makes people more lazy to me. so i think he can move the energy to pay for loss of energy and the good dose of patients. unlike machines, oxen is sometimes moody, especially on camera. so the need to know that you know, you don't want them to be it's really difficult because you have to know how to go. they have to listen to you. so you have some techniques how to blow the cows and all. so it's better if you don't know than it's dangerous because 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, don't know that we have lots of car over here. 20 years ago, futon was still extremely isolated. people had neither tv, no telephone's back then. grace's way of life would have been unthinkable. much recovery in my day, we received no education and had to do manual labor. there are more opportunities for your generation. thanks to education and language as you can do whatever you want to live today. thanks to the kids generosity, everyone civilized and develops which i'm proud of you. grace says she's happy

happiness. she attributes partly to the king. so i think looking like the going to be the happiness, what not with the products. so i think this is also the happiness that we, what we get from the boot. a nice way of life is far removed from that of western style. consumerism. and 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 hiding it because i heard something about like if see like the chicken you know to make it a bigger size. so that it's more effective in our health. so i think that thing is not good for other health. in bruton, 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 farm and standard of living remains quite low and the human sharing doesn't receive a pension and most of her crops. so 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 more expensive. but since she's using all her energy and it's a love, you know, like that she is giving you a little over the vegetable pull of basket. and i give her money. this is what i own in the city money and what she own in the village, the visiting. so the system but the system they didn't want 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 all. so this is what we do. usually this is my home. thank you. been set up with another place that when you go with it. yes.

yeah. and is this all mine 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 the government. namely, the monks. the happiness or nevada 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 for delinquents. it's 4 30 in the morning and the day is already beginning at the low dr. katya monastery and central baton. 3 3 3 3

i . 3 3 teach morning, one of the monks is responsible for making sure that no one is sleeping in the it's a rigid approach that some have trouble adjusting to at 1st and then who drove the 80 to do that? with some of us who joined us, a former drug addicts to alcohol in trouble. so as williams and i have changed a lot upon you, they suffer a lot in the 1st few months because of their addictions and bad habit. sharing your muscle, but then they change and come ordinary monks, only digital goals. some even have used on their bodies as they used to be gang members and others who got to do. and so she was in 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 of the monastery monday to sunday, for city, for 5 years. such as before he began studying theology thing. it was in to girls, alcohol, drugs, and st. fine. my family. this me and just been with family man, was this a good one? this is margot mark on pushing to deal with him. my ha, carla. to protect a day as he is supposed to ward off. bad luck senior isn't the only monk with a check had passed? he and no vin, our rocker guide have a shared history. here. no been visit cynthia to talk about it. well listen,

it was 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 didn't he lent him only used to smoke read to me to buy drugs and go binge drinking. cynthia would often rob people in his neighbourhood, fight in the street or something sometimes happens using the collision. nice to have collision question thoughts enough to become a monk is totally look a new less know i at the wrong nation. i did many bad things. so now because moon is kind of abuse, it is now the goes there,

all scenes the wrong. but i took and one of you just good thing because i did, and i was you. good. so i want to change. so because of didn't, i'm a change mean no. no vin 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 i'm on a street manase to become a monk 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 attempted to plan a bus to do possibly got to get as you want and your life goes under someone and it's min 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 different here. happy in the least. happy whether you have pres 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 with the physical needle. how about the renewal? the same way you might have the more experienced monks begin the debates, the objective to we know over the others with convincing arguments the 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 with the white horse really white because you know, a white horse isn't white and it's a living being white horse or what was the only prove that the horse is the light. why? why do another of the monks recreational activities? is the weekly outing. every sunday, the monasteries residence go into town, though there is no question. it's cynthia 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 almost any sounds regular and that's what they do. you know, we don't, we don't know each and every, all the parents there haven't been even single be who haven't been better. so in a really getting all parents mix, so it's in this in actually and then the problem is that at the prison, remember being of being parents and you really believe in the nation. of course everybody is good. you know, you could be my father mother. what for you, the best thing to be when can i do for the next life? again, as a monkey, if possible, again, in a country doesn't matter what we've done is so the monitor is not the j. know if it

actually is a paradise is doesn't really say don't, don't vary just because we are sort of since we are looking. are you seeing this? this is normal, this, but actually some today i do know 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 into him who we visit grace, the entrepreneur. she lived in a small 3 room apartment with her 2 children and 2 sisters. i

was on the list the most. and then when you 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. why? yes. okay, the seasoning 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 bu town. it's a privilege here. it is. let's have fun tonight. yeah. so i'm going back summer 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 you ah, here they let loose to pope and rent be a far cry from traditional cultural offerings. the one right now and enjoy it, but it's nothing like that. we have to go back to the normal like whatever the, like what we have on here men and especially women, a free to enjoy themselves without fearing the center of a society, but still quite conservative.

when they did, there was from do i can find people are looking for me and you want to have them in the like. you want to what one thing when people can come in and enjoy a woman who turns society and lord are changing in december 2020 parliament, the criminalized homosexuality. and these club young people smoke entering calico so 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. this is, was, it was

a big news in the lore is strictly and he had to dive into town tuesdays alcohol free day by striking grade, which is, you know, and then out in the country way. it's like ah, another ban smoking in public places in 2004 baton with ahead of its time legislative on the issue. during our visit there are no smokers on the streets. however, even though the government also ban cigarette sales, many small shopkeepers still selling them under the counter.

the police will scan that. we have to pay the bill take over the closer shop. dungee was with an engine any 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 or 3 times a week. small farmers from the surrounding area come here to silver spices, fruit and vegetables, whole organic. of course, there's also plenty of meat for sale, even though officially it's strictly forbidden to kill animals in futon. you go in your prison in your 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 distant across 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. you don't you have other shoes. me, you know, you know, the work the company provides us with some minor rack in this job. they don't, most toxic ta fumes, melton, 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 if we don't work, we stone. that's why we come in to work and earn money. otherwise, how else would we be able to get 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 at their makes you camp. the workers get up at 7 each morning. i'll go wake up. you need to wake up ok. time to get up and this is our home. 25 people. i believe that we don't have problems sleeping here like this. so now we need to go and wash and get ready. we have to go to work that this isn't 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. the guy, yet, we've never seen

a place like this before. the mountains everywhere. gorgeous and cliffs. very dangerous working environment. it is cold here. it's no. even the rain is freezing and we've been working. if we have 10 days left and we return to our village, some work is 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 morgan. this part of my job is very dangerous, that we have to milk the tar and for that we have to heat it, move away. when you're near the bat, you must be vigilant at all times. to get out of all that you fall in, you'll die. love that guy

despite the sindbad cannot quit this work allows him to support his wife and 2 children for 6 months of the year. as long as i have legs to walk, i'll keep working in national happiness, built with the blood, sweat, and t is of foreign workers. happiness that has an ecological costs but not so if you turn 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. got him a lot of gross national happiness. he's no curial, but it has produced some tangible results. and it's 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. use the world forgotten about for a long time. at last, fabio grew and his colleagues are directing traffic again and the media transforms into a real painting once more. in 30 minutes. the little guy. this is the

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