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about love seduction and power ice. cold passion starts october 8th on d. w. ah ah endless deserts and deep gorges along the old silk road, we travel by train through a mysterious country whose back histone ah, the former soviet republic is a country offering both 1001 nights and communist style prefabricated homes a country with strong women twins in uniform and some very special camel driving techniques.

a journey from the deepest caves in the world to the remains of the r l. c. ah. tosh kent capital of the presidential republic of his back, his don, founded only in 1991 in 1966, it was the victim of a devastating earthquake. it was rebuilt in the modern soviet

style. now massive transport routes, chris crossed the city the main train station is located in the city center waiting on platform one east this so called silk road express engine driver, ask mo, who j. u dash f chicks. everything once again, so that the train can leave on time at 80 in lesson is going to so rustling in the halls of love, even as a child i dreamed of becoming a trained driver because my father was one. but he drove old soviet machines that the working conditions were really tough. back then over today, everything is much better and more comfortable. although you also get him on

a salary asset. the rail road is still a lifeline for his biggest on and it's 33000000 inhabitants. it takes about 20 hours to go from tosh. kent across the country to the east to the former shores of the arrow. see, the road network is poor in his back. it's done. and flying is expensive because of this, most people just take the train was biggest on is located in the heart of central asia between afghanistan and kazakhstan. our journey takes us from the capital tosh. kent towards summer comes along that he saw mountains and further to boot her up and across the desert to the almost dried up our i'll see

water is the greatest treasure of this dry country. in the 1970 several dams were built on the slopes of the t, an sion mountains which still fulfill tashkent water needs to day. but there's not just water in these mountains. hidden deep within them is a secret that the soviet union got at the decades. in the 1940s uranium was discovered here. for the mine is a top secret city, was bills out of the ground to day, it looks like a ghost town. ah ah,

a one of the last inhabitants of yanine but is merit in your cave. who was one of the 1st people born here 67 years ago. every morning he makes his rounds 1st, don't the daycare. what for this at seemly at nasa? was it a sales nor a message for me? yeah, i was only one month old from my parents brought me to this daycare in 1954 currently at now nobody is left. she'll fill spots. so yes, go say use them. when the soviet union collapsed and the mine was closed, there was normal walk and almost every one that is a busy, fitness the year will arrive both it near boulevard with things a lonely and younger. but the former music school, like the whole city, was built by vulgar germans it feels

like a faded european memory in the middle of asia a meal or both of which are you at the school, the 3 gordon of the piano. when i was a child, i took piano lessons here, but there were to leave after 3 years the teacher told my parents, so i shouldn't come anymore because i had no chance of becoming a musician or you can watch. i mean i was incredibly happy with this statement. yeah. well is, can you start up salvage 5 years ago merits got married for the 2nd time to his childhood suite. larissa, she said, what are we having? stay at the blue cheese soup? will it taste good? of course. yeah, you know it, well, i can't remember if there's new life in young,

but again the olympic boxing team is training here in the pleasant mountain. and larissa and merit have befriended young. so he beth, and perhaps adopted her obese yasmina my vote for fishes from nuts to val gordon. a. i started focusing in 2017 and i've been on the national team since 2019 half of the month. i am at home. and the other 2 weeks i train yeah. bought a lot of information. mm hm. and the training is hard for the olympic team. while boxes in other countries prepare for the competition in high take. jim's the coach, he knows break his don has more rustic methods in mind. i

was there is through it. i bought the orchard vicious so good. originally we only trained men here, but for 6 years we've been preparing girls for competitions as well. develop it through the past on as years and the regimen needs to strict get up at 5 o'clock, then an insurance run off to break this training in the whole followed by stern lifting at the river. i want to succeed and i hope to take part in the olympic games some day and when a girl of metal ah, the training in yonah about is exhausting. so it's nice to have a surrogate family like the one so he by has oh, he greetings my be give all his neither. dalton, god,

i know he to nice bone of seat or snuff creature. i am very off time sake. but my will to achieve something in boxing is simply great asked as a new i've no washing priyanka for them. it's so nice to have you because we miss our own chelsea chain budgeting mara, sons. like so many others you have long since left younger bud. ah, the silk road express has left the mountains behind and is now moving through increasingly sparse vegetation. with the construction of the railroad began here more than a 100 years ago. and soviet times the railway network was the highest priority. and there still is a lot of construction going on it rosanna,

thousands of years ago caravans travelled along the banks of the czar of shawn river to the east and west. it's the lifeline of probably the most legendary city in central asia. some kind the center of the city reg is don square to day a populous font for photos. and in the 15th century, the site of the most prestigious university in the islamic world was becky stone is considered a police state. and recently, even has special police. the tourists twins fatima and so for us we're actually english teachers before they joined the police. they beat the register

to wear a uniform. it was a dream from our childhood and how the opening new department to res, full is a virus food time to work here. so i thought it's me and i to why my sisters with me with patrolling isn't that easy for the 2 of them? because the tourists want one thing above old. a photo with the twins in uniform that people as fest sheila, teenagers wanted to take a picture. and mostly girls they wanted to via like fullest men like this place was a hub for mathematics and astronomy. in the 15th century. sure

is india is a magical place. for 600 years, the necropolis has been hanging on the hills over summer can mazin up to gunny, caused the faithful to prayer. the launch tomb lies within the twins precincts all in it because we've worked in this a place historical place. and when we have a nicer relationship, and when i say a relationship, then i walk oil will be easy. ah, if some travel so happened, it was, this is theresa when they worked together. ah, during soviet times the 11 mausoleums were left to decay. but recently they've

undergone extensive restoration. let all the new storm stuff in the kitchen. alden and the old owl, and the past life as a devout muslim, was very difficult. there were only a few masks in which one could pray. there was hardly any possibility to train is a museum monopoly. today there are 2000 masks in respect. you stand up and new ones are still being built. really curious, rosalyn, a kind of in those raised every muslim to once again, freely and openly practiced their beliefs. and i was all love that if yours that are fond of the machine of do. ghani is also responsible for the care of the tunes. the most important place in the complex, the to move a bus who is said to have brought islam to summer. i can't shut

off this and what other trunk you will match while good will joy for me, it is always a deep feeling of gratitude than i am given the honor of serving here in law to us . asa, this is a holy place because our boss who lives here was the prophets cousins along. i'm like another a bus to all one data. definitely. yeah. ah, it's evening in some kind. the police twins fatima and zapora have been invited to their grandmother's house for a small family celebration. ah, no mother was calling about changed into medicine. i am so proud of my 2 granddaughters. even when i was young, it was unthinkable for a woman to wear uniforms. come the twins each,

have one daughter that are divorced and live independently. our parents gave us a really nice life because they hadn't said she lives on their own life. and now we tried to be to show our valuable on what children ah, me to the east of some kind mountains rise abruptly from the landscape. here once stood the magnificent palace of t more who conquered all of central asia in the 14th century. the he saw mountains of the western most foothills of the himalayas. here over

millions of years, the deepest caves in the world were formed. speedily ologist bloody me, a dulcie and puzzled bear are on their way to uncover a great secret. but then i can see it silicon where the fisher i have it's and what we want to go to the, to more in cave, to investigate legend has it that he more hid there with his entire army. we want to find out if this was actually possible or it's a lot but the route is long and difficult. ah . after 18 hours on bumpy roads in an old terrain vehicle, they can continue only by foot. i saw a 100 so and then when she'll follow the trigger was very long and we're tired of

it. we won't make it to the cave to day. we'll set up camp here and on a sunday, besides i get this and to morrow morning. it all begins heading down into these canyon. ah, vladimir and pavel have been working together for 8 years now and have explored many caves. the cellar brought by somebody to show where you go, go, but i have not heard eliza meza beach by gift. this is the simplest and cheapest food. there is the classic student today, here in the mountains, it's very convenient because it's so easy to prepare to get through to my doctor here in the mountains, there's hardly any infrastructure. the 2 men are on their own. they must be careful, especially in the evening after old bears ann leopard,

still live here at 6 in the morning. the march to the t more cave begins. all of us, our thoughts just with us, with some civil docket plant. we have to go down here and then along the river through the gorge, and then back up again with us. the cave must be behind there somewhere. down the steep cliffs. we go into the canyon called the color, cher hon. the lion fortress.

the cave has 2 entrances. the explorers decide to take the smaller one. if you shoot that one over, inside the cave, that will be very cold. so we need to dress warmly, which we will try to explore as much of the cave as possible, i think, to see if the survival of many people have as possible the toll. most importantly, of course, is water without drinking water. no one could have survived to hold it with as much as the rhythm of this is rita delivery. even though it's really hot outside, inside the temperature drops quickly into the single digits.

close my business correctly, duffy trophies of my picture. the goose looks like left of his here. take a look at this. i don't think so. let's go note on here though. all right, that's got no mo, daylight reaches this part of the cave. the explorers find themselves in total darkness . was just that i said to and if we have to descend deeper now, we suspect there's water down there. if the stories are true, there must have been some kind of lake here in timor's time on the ball with and if it exists, we'll find it. my daughter seymour ruled an enormous empire in the 14th century. from present day india, to turkey. his victorious campaigns are said to have begun from this cave

look for though and above, there's a small waterfall there. yes, the water is collecting down there. grinding noise from the drinking water for tea more more but was water alone enough to cape hundreds of soldiers and maybe even their horses alive. when ashley goes stiff, as i have of course to liberty, there was testimony hold food. how old it is, however, is difficult to say. trespass modern place. after 5 hours in the cave, they stopped their way back. i found a small reservoir, so there is water here. dogs am appointed to store, however, the way into the cave is difficult. it's hard to say if it could have been done with horses in any case they could have been sheltered. so can you show, ah, still there's not enough evidence to say whether timor was here. it still remains

a mystery. rock veil come back to explore tea more in cave. further from here, it's less than a 100 kilometers to afghanistan. the silk road express is now heading west again. every one has their own way to pass the time. of course food is also important on such a long trip and it served at their seats like everywhere in the country. the national dish peel off is on the menu. rice with carrots and meat cooked on a cold stove. off them know the sun and the stove,

push the temperature in here up to 60 degrees celsius. it's really hard to cook and such heat was big cuisine is full of meat here. mutton goes with every thing. fairly fashioned all the guests mainly want to eat peel off or meat skews and god willing i'll have enough to satisfy them all piled up when the train is now entering the next famous city who horror the oasis of booth laura is said to have been inhabited as early as $500.00 b c, it was once famously rich. and one of the most important stops on the silk road. ah,

who hara lies some 2800 kilometers northeast of jerusalem? yet it's home to one of the oldest jewish communities in the world. daniel, nuts itself, son of the old rabbi, is a watchmaker. here in bo hora. he's rented one square meter from a small travel agency to carry out his business where a thumbs image so much sarah, boy, that we've been watchmakers for generations. my grandfather, my father, my brother's me and also my son. when my grandfather lived here, the jewish community was huge. sir marcella, thank god, but as time went by, it became smaller and smaller than me. then when a woman shall from in the shop every day at

6 o'clock shop, the 53 year old closes his stool and heads hon. the 1st jews from this ancient community. a said to have settled here after the babylonian captivity around $500.00 b. c. even 100 years ago, the jewish community contained more than 25000 members. to day daniel and his wife, you bob, and about 150 others make out the last juice in the city. well, how was your day? how was yours with quite good and have not have with the she'll my meet him more, the chena as it same way the off she like that of our children, my son, israel b. what kind of life would that be alone without our children?

we have to go with a and our grandchildren, alchemy, even though it will be very sad to leave this wonderful house behind leudemann though as though dead after her father in law, the old rabbi died. the 49 year old and her husband took care of the synagogue just across the street to day community members are preparing a memorial service for the dead or go doing it by limping my ethically. we want to remember my mother in law today. her name was anovia, maria, and she died in the usa at the age of 90 and was buried back to my car every year. we held this memorial day here in her anatomy ramey who died. a community member has agreed to read and it will all be streamed live for relatives in the u. s. he is the has on the can tool and has no training. look at every one around these

table wants to leave the country in the next few years, mainly for economic reasons, for israel or the u. s. very nice. there they can easily get a residence permit hmos, ohio hot weather yesterday for even if i leave bo clara. i won't forget our traditions. i carry them deep in my heart and i will continue to live the life of a book. what are jew everywhere? it is simply in me and i will pass on everything i know to my children and grandchildren repeated l. swaim did i know it seems that the 2500 year old history of the book are a jews is about to come to an end a religion that was indigenous here for over 1000 years before for islam came ah

ah, by the early hours of the morning the silk road express has reached the edge of the castle comb. was becky's dance great desert either at all the loss of allah get spell out of it. my father used to tell me how hard the work was, especially on long distance trips in the sun, shone so strongly on the metal roof of the locomotive that it became unbearably hot for the driver to get one. to day, it looks completely different. the driver's cap is comfortable and we even have air conditioning. give us up to me. unfortunately, for those in the carriages, there is no air conditioning. everyone tries to cool down in their own way.

despite the heat, the most important thing in every ooze. big train con remains the tea kettle for people. hot tea on a hot dice the most normal thing in the world. john, i've already taken off my shirt because of the heat with a good working ventilation system. it would be more bearable here, but one will still applies if you drink cold water, you sweat more. if you drink hot tea, you sweat. bless id. cuz ill cool means red sand. the enormous desert stretches from the curriculum desert in took, menaced on through was pakistan to kazakhstan. originally the days it was populated only by no mads, but was settled in soviet times. borders are unfamiliar to its inhabitants. so the

l e r. o family. originally from kazakhstan, has been living on, was big territory. the decades father columbine has decided that today should be a special day for his 13 year old daughter. ask or not cousin lab over at she saw the god willing i want to teach my daughter how to milk hamilton. today, she has to be able to stand on one leg and found the bucket with the other. we have 6 ammo mass, and then not easy to mil to lift the elevator, how addon bad it in there. alice, and i'm looking forward to the milking and will give up my own. okay, good. mm. but before that the dishes have to be washed and that's the work of nausea and her youngest sister. ah, now can i?

this is out that have been happy to help in the kitchen, but now i enjoy working with the camels. yes, i love that atlas. but unfortunately, the camels, which are left to run free and there. oh, and the father can't see them anywhere. the eldest son, callum joan, is supposed to search for them. but before that a refreshing bowl of camel milk. then off to find papa's motorcycle. ah ah, today is also a good day for carl him,

john. because normally his father wouldn't let him use the motorcycle just kept up the desert, his pig, and there's no trace of the camels. but with gold tell, i will find them along. ah camels have a good sense of direction and always find their way home. but when no one knows. luckily, cullum john has a good nose and discovers them grazing on some desert grass. gyla darling, i really found well, i can try some homes milligram with us all my sister will be so happy talk rather

than everything would be fine. oh, cullum, joan has an unusual but effective driving technique. every one is ready and waiting. the milking can finally start. ah, i am getting a game, but the 1st thing we need is a cough to drink from the mother, then the teeth swell, and you can milk them. look how nicely the milk comes out. oh, how many? ah, mother felicia has years of experience, but nas yucca is anxious, but now i'm scared. i hope to camels won't kick

me. don't worry. you don't have to be afraid. standing on one leg is not so easy. ah, but then somehow it all works. mm. the 1st bucket is fine, leaf, food, cit, the all. and again, most of the time we sell the milk at the market except that when we are invited some way, for example, to a wedding block, we also like to bring the milk is a wedding gift. i suck product valenzuela had a these camels to still have to be milked today. although i

think i now understand how it all would cover something didn't get it. now i can help my mother with the milking, but like i said it in and she still has 5 more camels ahead of her today. ah, in the blistering heat, the train crosses the biggest river of was pakistan. the imo daria inside. every one is exhausted. and the on board restaurant has already closed on that a little after i've cleaned everything up now it's back to square one for the return trip. again, i'll prepare fresh p laugh. beef steaks must have an equals so the tall guests have

something to eat. sometimes passengers have extra requests, and i tried to fulfill those as well. for the 35 year old train driver, the shift is also slowly coming to an end gimme one. again, 2 yolanda. i got married in 2012 and had a son. he's in the 3rd grade and loves everything about trains. he's constantly playing with his little diesel and steam locomotives lateral. when i come home, he always asks dad, where have you been? how was your trip out there? he's just interested in everything. if he becomes a trained driver, some day back would make me very proud as well. so wasn't fucking love, you know, the silk road express has almost reached its destination. new crews, the former gateway to the r l. c. a little further north. once lay the world's 4th

largest in land lake, starting in the 1960s its tributaries were cut off to irrigate large cotton fields . to day it's coast is just a rock facing the desert. not far away, the foam, a port city of moines up. back in the 1980s, it was still located on a peninsula surrounded by water. most of the people he is survived by fishing. today their boats lie in the desert sand near the foam, a harbor erosion of the sand is now the main problem in the region. a few years ago, a launch project was started with the aim to make the desert green shock re is studying environmental science in touch kent. and he's one of the 1st to witness the project success. hello, you've vladimir. yes,

that's me. led him is who? yes, leads a conservation effort. here you do not lawrenceville motor vehicle gun will you do? i'm going to take you to the bottom of the or i'll see us before that we can see the plans for yourself because i've heard and read a lot about your program. now i'm very curious to see what it looks like. in the early 1916, the r l c was about the size of bavaria. everything that's now called our outcome or our al does it was covered with water to the right of the path. the 1st results of the planting project are already visible. ah.

the water will not return. the hope now is to bring the constant sandstorms under control. with z login, i can hardly imagine that 30 years ago this place was deep at the bottom of the lake. good day people just walk around here. unimaginable get, get shot, freeze grandmother herself, comes from marina, new jersey and mother there. now, i'm 21 years old. and when i was born, the water, he had already disappeared. now with the plans, we can at least stop the sand from a routing measure them causative. you can always do something. that's why i'm so interested in ecology. the roots of the bushes reached deep into

the earth and provide support to foil. where did the bushes come from and how do you plant them? well, what image to the home in shortly that your local citizens all over the country collect easier, promulgate? but when, when you so good. see yoga is from a truck to because they are then distributed, either by trotter harrington from an aeroplane over the desert, or to promulgate redrum rural to assimilate only a tiny part of the or i'll see basin has been planted, it seems to be working, which gives the people here hope to buy your product. let's go, i'll show you the best part. come with the water of the arrow. i see a puddle compared to its former

glory, but still impressive. blood in me. his father is still a fisherman and he himself has a very special connection to the water. come on my going swimming. i want a bus. yeah, yeah, yeah, no, no, not me. oh garage grandma are, i'll see him is your son vladin in that i put a curtis with her whenever i am here, my heart tells me has to go into the water. but the most her somewhere my whole life is connected with this water. hold him the sky, this earth we're yes, the you are physically. but i love being yet, because nobody knows how long we lost remains of the sea will exist,

which then you despite he's moving words, he can't persuade jeffrey to join him from the remains of the earl, see across dusty deserts, to the green highlands that he saw mountains was pakistan, a land of extremes into the conflict zone. no sooner had president putin, amex, for regions in ukraine. and his troops were forced to flee from a key city in one of them for humiliation wasn't lost on russian commanders. i guess this week from care of you who are sure craft deputy head of the presidential

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