we're in one of the country's 10 national parks that lie on the border with india ever. captain c. 2 is a ranger at the royal men, us national park. he and his subordinate shakuma of the only men in uniform. we meet during our stay. who tom 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 posts, an 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 tourists packages in the hills of temple. 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, or 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 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. some entrepreneurs have discovered how to profit from these tourists, heaven hunger ever been to them until 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 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 rich husband. 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 under let's get to meet this guy. as i like watching my life like that today, she supports her entire family. the 2 waitresses in her restaurant, her sister's home in a couple wonderful and isn't. 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. it's example for someone else for young entropy, especially for young, gentle,

where we can show them like you can do anything. being a young interpreter 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. yeah. okay, this is right. when it comes to school thing fresh produce. grace mainly relies 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 the animals. when

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

because you have to know how to go. they have to listen to you. so you have some technic. how to blow 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 rise 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 a lot of car over here. 20 years ago. baton 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 and thanks to education and languages,

you can do whatever you want to live today. thanks to the generosity everyone civilized and developed, which i'm proud of you. grace says she's happy, a happiness she attributes partly to the king. so i think looking like the going through the happiness, what not with the product. so i think this is also the happiness that we, what we get from that is to remove the boots. a nice way of life is far removed from that of western style. consumerism avalanche, it's a system without fears, competition in ideally, both buyers and sellers always get a good deal when it comes to mcdonald gave see, i think like, it's not just like it's not that hiding it because i heard something i would like if see like the fact that you can, 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 our health. in bu tone. 80 percent of farmers have never used

pesticides. they crops are organic and they produce enough fruits and vegetables that the country is now almost self sufficient. however, the farmer's 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 low, you know, the vegetable, a basket, and i give her money. this is what i own in the city money and what she own in the village, the vegetables. so this is the system between long and the 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 what i'm home. thank you. good. and what are the ones that i mentioned this all helping one another simplicity connection to nature. it's the very definition of happiness put forward by the authorities in the g and h concept. however, some formulated this theory of happiness long before the boot and the government. namely, the monks 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 service 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 in central baton. 3 3 3 3 3 3 each morning, one of the monks is responsible for making sure that no one is sleeping in the plan. i mean, it's a rigid approach that some have trouble adjusting to at 1st the new jersey 80. to do that, when a new to some of us who joined us a form of drug addicts, to colleagues and troubled soldiers with them. and they have changed a lot upon you. they suffer a lot in the 1st few moments because of their addictions and bad habit. shopping your muscle, but then they change and become ordinary monks. don't use it,

hold you to some even have to use on their bodies. they used to be gang members and others who got to go to the doctor. you know, 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, sunday, for 3040 to fight. as me, before he began studying theology, cynthia was inter girls, alcohol, drugs, and street fights. this is my family. this me and just joins even with family members this i got one small go mark on the present it over done. 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 it past. he and nerve in our rooker died have a shared history here, no visit thing yet to talk about. that was really the 2 young men have only kept a few photos of their former lives and back then senior and nerve in spent their days hanging out in the streets of the capital with their friends to those in per didn't he let him only used to smoke to me smoking, to buy drugs and go binge drinking. cynthia would often rob people in his neighbourhood fighting this goes off some 10, some to him. it happened isn't coalition nice to have collision question thoughts? and after becoming monk is totally like

a new less now i wrong nation. i did when the bad things. so now because the moon is kind of abuse, it is now because they're all scenes the wrong. but i took and one of the 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 on when i say to become a mom. if someone realizes this, but this is a very, very rare case that someone realizes and really gets committed to become a monk. i just need to open a bus to enter the foster. gotta get as you want them, your life could someone call me and let and me and forces me in baton monasteries offer an alternative to prison but

one that requires sacrifice. thing is starting his 2nd year here in his cell. he spends most of his time reading sacred texts up to 10 hours a day. 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 is given to you happy in early, are you 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 reason is re yes, you know, it's nature miss, you know, i know the minds nature, but it's meant the physical needle. how about the renewal between my mother,

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. so subject doesn't really matter. the most important thing is the discussion itself and having some fun, whitehorse really white. you know, white isn't white and it's a living being a white horse or white glove. when the owner of the horse, he's the light. why? why do another of the monks recreational activities is the weekly outing. every sunday the monasteries residents go into town,

though there is no question of 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, almost some similar. and that's what they do. you know, we don't know each and every, all the parents haven't been even single be who haven't been. that is so in only getting all parents made. so it's is a big thing actually. and then the problem is that at the prison you can remember being of being our parents. and you really believe in the nation. of course, everybody's got it. you will you be my father, mother. what for you, the best interviewing for the next life again,

is among possible in return in a country doesn't matter what we've done is so the minister is not to say no, it actually is a paradise. it's very, very, very just because we are sort of, since we are looking on the scene this, this is normal, but actually some to be moving our guide company, cynthia, on his way back to the monastery. the reunion of the 2 former troublemakers is over and they'll return to their everyday lives. with me today, cynthia seems to have found the pathway to happiness. but he'll 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 and then we're going to be a 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 into town. it's a privilege here. let's have fun tonight. so

i'm going to walk summer here. futon has just a handful of bars where young people can meet. grace's favorite is the tim to club party bought for the capitals, affluent youth. ah, few they let loose to pope and rent be a far cry from traditional cultural offerings. the one right now, this is all new to my home 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 like here

men and especially women, a free to enjoy themselves without fearing the center of a society that still quite conservative because we didn't know what the and from do, i can find people moving for me and they want to have them in and they want to know what, what one important thing let me look in common when enjoying a woman who turns society and laws are changing in december 2020 parliament, the criminalized homosexuality. and at these club, young people smoked, 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? it was, it was a big movie. you know, the laurie strictly and he had to dive into town tuesdays alcohol free day where i can buy there was no answer in the country. yeah. why? it's like give me 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 cigarettes fails many small shopkeepers, still risk selling them under the counter the buyer will scan that. we have to pay the bill, take over the closing juice and engine. let me, let me do that. this 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 sell this 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 computing in your phone and i'm going to be alone with mate who turns neighbor to the south supplies the country with fuel and cheap labor in the rapidly expanding capital to improve most of the 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 this 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 were no protected clothing, less alone helmets. they work with what little the company provides arjun is 18 years old, and this is his 1st time on the sites. don't you have other shoes? you know, you know, the work the company provides us with some but mine and rec, in this job they don't last up as toxic. tough melton sickness, no protective gear and no accident insurance. this work poses many dangers, yet there is no shortage of applicants on the phone with poor. if we don't work the stone, that's why we come in to work and earn money. otherwise,

how else would we be able to get out of that? they work 10 hours a day, 6 days a week, often for 2 months at a time we're able to feel my typical day on the site at then makes it 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 believe that we don't have problems sleeping here like this. now we need to go and wash and get ready and we have to go to work. after the work is sleep fully dressed, high in the mountains without heating the temperature in the camp regularly drops

below freezing, like the others arch and leaves on the plains during the rest of the year. so this terrain is also foreign to him. neither guy yet, we've never seen a place like this before. there are mountains, everywhere, gorgeous and cliffs. very dangerous working environment. it is cold here. even the rain is freezing and we've been working. if we have 10 days left and we return to our village. i some work is counting 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 town. the border. this part of my job is very dangerous. we have to milk the tar and for that we have to heat it away. when you're near that you must be

digital and dead all the time. we get out of it, you fall in, you'll die. love that guy. despite the risks simba 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 on your national happiness, built with the blood, sweat, and t is of foreign workers, happiness that has an ecological cost, but not for baton. you have it in india. barrows, go back to india now. very bad for the environment. so we have to count them, pick them up and send them back to indiana. if you've 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 this 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 ah, ah films that touch on hearts made with courage, perseverance and talent. by young women years ago. what are they doing now? against all?

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