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we've been coined is great for investing the theme this these everyone here just wants to get into bit calling because they are known as bit queen arrows. investors from all over are moving to latin america in search of bitcoin treasure. nowhere it is, the crypto currency value more highly than here. the queen in latin america starts august 18th on d. w. the, the rom, of vast country and the cradle of civilization. from the persian gulf to the caspian sea, from snow cap, the mountain ranges the burning deserts. the land by turns barren and 1st heil defines the culture and the live style of its 85000000 inhabitants. the,

the population in bodies any wrong that is both traditional and changing the boston, the stuff of fantasy yet rarely explored. t. ron is home to an ancient culture that even today co exist with a plurality of lifestyles, traditions, and religion. the mountain ranges, desert plateaus, coastal plain, seen from above, the spectacular landscapes tell a story that goes back to thousands of years revealing the identity of an entire people the

the around in central plateau comprises vast deserts and arid landscapes. its special climate and geography. explain why only a small portion of this territory is habitable for humans. from the motor on job desert, we pass over caution is for han and the oasis cities built in irrigated zones along the main strategic and trade routes. in the western province of farce. the ruins of per several as stand as reminders of the zenith of the persian empire. almost one 3rd of the country is composed of desert or semi desert areas, with sand dunes up to 470 meters high. the ear temperatures can vary

by more than 60 degrees celsius between day and night. the with its golden sand dunes, the motor on job desert is one of the ron's most beautiful regions. the yet, for centuries travellers have always taken a guide alone to brave it. that's because belief in the gym, evil spirits said to haunt the desert, has long kept caravans away. deeply rooted, both in ancient legends and in the koran. the superstition is still very much alive today. but to explore this unique landscape, today's desert adventures have traded in their camels for cars, the

located some 300 kilometers away from the capital to ron. the marin job offers visitors, stunning nights, guys on spoiled by light pollution. the the next to this desert lies no mock lake with itself across, under which only a few species of plants managed to survive. during the hot summer months, the lake dries up entirely. then its large salt crystals turn it into a ron's biggest natural mirror. and the modern day caravans make their way south with trucks carrying the salt markets, income and cushion. since water is rare in the ron, the mountains act as reservoirs for the cities. they are linked to one another by

a huge network of underground channels called cannot. the oldest ones were built more than 2500 years ago. the this, the regression system allows crops to be cultivated here, even though 80 percent of the territory suffers from drought. thanks to the underground aqueducts, the water was protected from evaporation and distributed to wells dug along the can . not in the mid 20th century, some $50000.00 cutoffs were still in operation and the wrong over a total length of 380000 kilometers. the distance between the earth and the moon, the today, thousands of channels still supply one or 2 we ron's most area. the areas and cut knots are employed and many other countries in the middle east. the

sean is the 1st of the major oasis cities on road 71, which connects to ron to the persian gulf, the it's a testament to the iranians, expertise in water, transportation, a prerequisite for life and the desert described as a paradise on earth. augustine, like many gardens, any wrong is located outside the city, surrounded by a wall and 4 towers. its water channels are a source of refreshment and life. the, the traditional water system enables plants and people to thrive despite the sweltering heat. it's symmetrical proportions and irrigation system provided inspiration for many european gardens, including the palace of her side. in france, the outside cause shown,

the air is filled with the center of roses carried by the wind from the surrounding fields. the rose is grown here and comes r benefit from the same water source that supplies the garden above the theme. the international reputation of these flowers dispelled to produce rose water goes beyond the perfume murray. moslems use comes our rose water to wash the black stone up the cover in mecca, the more desire nazzo res family has been extracting this essence for generations. mazda by, so you're buying good jewelry. she said, yeah, oh, destiny has always been linked to us. flowers, all sort husker mount rose cultivation goes back to the time of the center. we're not going to have pretends of all region have grown roses and produce rose water for more than a 1000 years beer in the regions of caution and comes side of them known for

producing the most gross. oh there's that, there's so much so that we have a ritual the which you know, we also role in flower so not to go to the toner. the bellas as how babies are covered in the flowers. i want to keep them life on protection and get her studies on as you buy associate's name again, the home by 16 childhood, you might say no. it was like this to give a life to nice flowers that always sometimes my parents, this my grandparents from the rooms. i didn't machine the to me, i'll find them all for that was a good one. what i was looking for that on a month to non carrying on the family tradition at all costs will be shut off times

on me and i haven't got all the the rose bushes grow at the foot of a mountain that protects the valley from the burning heat, a 1000 meters high. it helps restrict the temperature variations to around 10 degrees celsius between day and night. providing an ideal climate for mohammad the or damask roses. this geographical anomaly has turn to comes our into the biggest rose water production center in the middle east. every year in april in may, hundreds of women pick the flowers with great tear and harvest some 26000 tons of petals. the call us to go to my home. i got a hold of jose to book today. this rose is mainly used to make perfumes. that hobbies, traditionally, its essence was coveted for a small, remarkable policies. home in the woods at the post sewed opposite the cart. i'm also a business to fathom the mystery of the product. charging me with,

i mean there's also gonna sort of turn a lot of pressure at his comes our lab and copper advance mode is, are known as a re makes healing. roosevelt, according to tried and tested production methods there is no high tech equipment here, just to traditional craftsmanship passed down from generation to generation. that helps them extract an exceptional product. that's good, good. i'll give you a for that. why do you see learning toddler, who have a center himself designed in the setup? the 1st still to extract rose watson and the launch the industry. what about how much i'm say the how much a rose is a pound for the world, but it come down and go down as it's energize here. i'm chasing away the depression on the box stress and anguish unsure of time makes people happy that all of to digital are getting ready for their initial it's box. you the whole house to the use it for as many medicinal property or the variables in hospice. and so they

frequently put a bit of rose essence in the humidifiers that speed up, the patient's recovery that was uh, who paid on the ship by adding other residences to the rose water mode. as our nozzle re creates dozens of therapeutic elixirs that attract new clients, the life and cushion may have been made possible by the cannot the underground water channels. but it was a river design and a route that made is for han, a magnificent metropolis. the former capital of persia was a major stop on the silk road without the river and its life giving water. the

city could not have been built here. though its bed runs through is for han. the river itself flows through the city just one month, a year as its waters are diverted. upstream to irrigate the surrounding fields. though it was destroyed several times, as for hon is now 2500 years old and boasts some 2000000 residents in the evening. sun, the cod you bridge, with its 23 arches, offers a glimpse of the architectural and cultural diversity of this city. once called the pearl of persia, the illuminated at night the 17th century ali got blue palace reveals its full architectural beauty. its large cupboard balconies served as a royal tribune during events that took place on the square below. the monarch and his guests would watch polo matches, archery demonstrations and wild animal fights. the,

the royal mosque is one of the most beautiful, any ron, unlike many mosques which have been transformed over the centuries, it displays a remarkable unity of architecture and ornament. the knock should go home square is the heart of his, for hon. it's surrounded by the most important historical buildings of this a fall lead era, notably the royal mosque, the damaged and the 1980s during the iran iraq war. the mosque is undergoing a seemingly endless restoration the

pock delve. a family of craftsmen who have passed on their knowledge from father to son for decades are helping to repair this architectural masterpiece. on amount of time when that carried out, we'd love organizations have no limit. it's over a 100 or true. come on the on our farm, and name is mandy puck. amy's, i'm in charge of the restoration of the royal most of the east. she saw the house. i've been working at this site for almost 6 years. the front of the guy with good sound will be done in 2 years. the the dome is only one part of this huge renovation project, given the size of the building, and it's hundreds of thousands of mosaics. the task is immense. the splendid file and tile decor mix is plant motifs with chronic calligraphy. in the

persian tradition, yellow is associated with the sun and divine light. while blue and turquoise symbolized the sky, the god, who do the height of 50 a $100.00, malone is covered with some $200000.00 pieces that we have to put together and look at positive. doing well. as i think clearly seeing this huge job, i can only admire the artists of the past and pay tribute that i'm not you to the not i told him i don't want to go back to list them on top of others just now here we are in the process of dismantling all the ceramic tiles. how could i could show me the each piece is numbered out of out of each in a bash bend down in the workshop. going to piece the postal together to identify

the dumbest parts and replace them dr. or mr. whitish or hot fix issue, then we'll bring them all back here and then we'll kind of put them as a expected together and fix them. by the way, what does that according to the original project, has to be the case or whatever the need to be the is the hon is the cradle of arts, any ron and home to many artisans to this day, most of its artist, some craftsman were born here and fly their trade in the hundreds of workshops around enough che, johannes square the opposite. the mosque is the city bizarre to stalls offer hand crafted items made on site. this abundance of architectural and hand crafted wonders attracts to wrists from

around the world to the city in the middle of the desert. the if at all time on our mutations or your call back, so to speak, to the outline of the mosaic homepage number. you should, um, it's just that we cut and paste it onto a tile on the line. but as you can see, there is different colors near this sort of quite so we paced the pace for top of all the top, just one of them. and then we size them pod are shared, recorded in dot, in the, on the on those are a foggy care home to care for the family dog, nashville. it was the paper patterns pasted on them my know, doing it. besides the tiles, according to the pattern show, don't know because she asked me child sweeney identity. now i'm taking one of them

and when i'm done, i don't know. it's just me the title to my brother, pieces it together with the others or that i me them. and then when they get how they should, they should the, the, about the home you show a lot of our, you know, we put all the pieces together according to the number for the to them or me share a couple. so patch them with plaster should push, there's got to differentiate. injections are almost color equal, and by this tough, what you see here is a red pick around one section of the don't misses, very precise nature, which means the patch was like cutting amendment to 16 equal pieces. some of the hair cuts down. so the minimum of 4 more scan, 2 bedroom machine, the and so you're probably finished with the most as you created these works of the

angels sent to us for the old and the human be proud of the or the not with the more than 250 kilometers of desert, separate as for hon, one of the most beautiful cities in the islamic world, from which lies further south. it is frequently hit by sandstorms, so ingenuity was required to adapt to the merciless desert. the job is located between the deserts of dash because here in the north and dusty loot in the south where surface temperatures can reach 70 degrees celsius in the summer. just as also one of the world oldest cities. built for mud bricks and clay, it's traditional neighborhoods with their old oak or colored houses are still

intact. they are designed to protect their inhabitants from sand, storms and extreme heat, the to sustain life, and one of the world's hottest climates. the city's architect built by gears or wind cataracts. some of the world's oldest air conditioners, the wind rushes down through these towers to a water reservoir that cools it down. while the hot air inside is expelled through an exhaust system, the gigantic network of underground channels. the famous cannot transport water from the mountains to fill the cistern. in the afternoon, the crushing heat empties the narrow streets on the outskirts of y'all's to lie the

documents or towers of silence. the circular structures used during zoroastrian funeral writes as dead bodies were considered in fewer priests would leave them here to the vultures, so as not to contaminate the soils the . to this day, the fire temple of yas testifies to the presence of the last 3 and as i'm the 1st monotheistic religion of ancient e, ron, it has influence to judaism, christianity, and through them as long since time immemorial, y'all has been a city marked by spirituality, the

ahmed cash who lie lives in this ancient city known for its respect for ancestral traditions. several times a week after work, he goes into the old city to meet with friends. that honest your boss on your chart is funny. as with any name came out of the way the people of yaz are simple and pure. are attracted to the spiritual values the 1st session best to me funny as we do. but at the end gymnasiums known as their economies been gathered to practice by study. ron's iconic, traditional sport as they've done for centuries. the athletes work out with wooden clubs and whirled around in circles to the rhythm of sacred chance. the poly bonds, or heroes and persian, to take part in this ritual, are said to possess the souls of nights, and

a great sense of honor. typically that writers show us on a case to me is not just a 900 year old traditional and religious practice. it all the above. oh, it's a philosophy of life and she okay, i'm back and forth. so this the only discipline that could be practiced together by young children and 100 year old masters to be at the to out of the shop on the notice board and an art lars as a bus dunny also transmits value, such as respect for elders by bringing all the generations together, some combine of your dish, the dish not to those who would like to try it. most understands or the cut generosity, humility and toner and live model values that are more important. that's something

mere physical performance. let's say assignment that has a lot of the trouble that shows the rain so that i don't know what the level of the 100 percent or the i'm but i'm going to is this experience accumulated over the years old as it was through contact with the champions and the elders, knots have enough, allows us to improve. so net all that outside of tradition of bethany has been post down through the generations to show them you enjoy a pilot, not on media. the sports ones used to train warriors. it's architectural jewels. and the vestiges of

ancient religions. yeah, that's great store on preserving its cultural heritage, the at the southern end of dashed, a lute and care mon province lies the city of a huge oasis, surrounded by arid land. water from the ship, all bar, as mountains naturally feeds the seasonal past a rude river which runs by the city of bomb. it's under ground water networks make for a huge expanse of fertile soil, the more than $1000000.00 date palms that grow here account for a 3rd of the ron's total date production. the

dates have been grown in the region for thousands of years, yet cultivation of bombs fame is mazda, a faulty date, known as the pearl of a, ron only began here in earnest, some 200 years ago. the mars, the age of 40 was born and fall off. she has a special bond with her city, especially with the trees that are the symbols of its resilience. ended up going to get it by the end of the tunnel nourishing deep. i'm out of the them, they're one of the staple foods of the people of god. there's one of the great citadel of bomb dates back 2700 years. but on december 26th, 2003. it was raised to the ground in just 7 minutes by

a devastating earthquake in bomb 26000 people were killed and tens of thousands more were injured. the slide shows that sort of peach care visit. i don't see them so night of the years creek, i thought everything was over and that we'd never recover from it. how joining everywhere you looked, you saw the body of a family member or a friend, how to go back. busy and that's in the b c excitedly gave was to visit it. if i was 21 at the time from 20 there's and i been coaching my own girls' soccer team since i was 16 to do it, hold on. but do stuff on the web by me, a chevy to visit a day after the catastrophe is above, the one player was left to to get out. the rest of them are not the one that was invited to tell them about your fortune. the then the how much will title

insurance at the time of the quick destroyed homes and killed tom's people. i'm like, the dates, homes remain standing straight and proud. both of us are being to him that you called us youtube. small. it's worth recalling that here in bottom of the unit we used to count date homes. is the individual be just as if the one where i should have been being looked at. i do business, she's, you know, the date palms are strange, dreams of saddle, up, root them and they don't die shut and transplant them and they'll survive the shooting, the chop off their tongue. they're li by the reset and they'll die. that'd be like a big headed person. he guessed that is god's visit, the legal i'm driving to satisfy imaginable mind. because when i meet people in the town, they could see how complete my brain despairing. and luckily they lost on i showed

that they lost everything. you had that already keep much, that realization. what are the that pushed me to take up soccer again to do here? my the field was that you want us to play with to goes i do move, i guess a lot. it was either. okay. as you wish, take away the 2 yellow and get to have by the most you get and so we started over know the sports, the we some bruise who had cooked a bit better with the situation was we started to play soccer again, but again, that's doable. it's best to get the matcher who quoted me going to and by choice you that at times when i'm training the new players, it's actually i get the new girls who joins my team so your memories of the faces of my former players returned to hook it up there being an image shown, if you're seeing that makes me happy and push for the image as if they've come back

as if i'm still coaching the same team. i do a lot of that emotional part of the bible is unfortunately, the bomb city center has been rebuilt and the citadel is also being returned to its former glory, employing the same techniques and materials used in its original construction. the today over 90 percent of the restoration of the citadel has been completed using traditional craftsmanship shows the 16 years have passed since the clinic and we've reconstructed bombs, historical city center. we also rebuilt our team, and for 6 years running we were the undefeated women soccer champions in around

bomb is emblematic of the country itself, which has throughout history risen again from the ashes of natural disasters and invasions, well preserving its cultural heritage to the west is the province of fars cradle of the persian empire and home to the ruins of percept palace and of the city of figures about the these desert landscapes still bare the traces of ancient civilizations and provide a habitat for nomads. for the last 1000 years, the cash guy have ranked among the world's largest matic hurting peoples. they roam the iranian step with their herds, following the rhythm of the seasons the but over the last decade, climate change has made life more difficult. for this community of several 1000000

people. increasingly the nomads are being forced to settle the layla. how these are they is one of the cash. kaiser few female klan sheets, a status she owes to her strength of character and her enterprising spirit. she decided to settled down in this desert valley to open a small business, dedicated to tourism and to communicating her culture to i show you this tough and they can tie that tribal life is hard. i show you the needs and the you have to be able to cope with cold weather and living intense. a to sending he has gets, which are the same that he has to it's never easy and it's a very different existence from that of city to i'm traveling a lot of the challenge,

the bunch of bath, another stream of the phone with us the for the week before we had no electricity, i only lantern cubic. we had had no access to water either and had to travel from the mountain to another to find so many miles world within the south dakota time 140 by the showing you how much that was by. that's what, that's what you had on this. the excited, fortunately after so many rough years, we've had electricity for about a year now. and we receive deliveries of drinking water $2.00 to $3.00 times. so one of 55 is the for david calling the neither the sound quite a few miles on its own, but then maybe not, i can do the hardest work along with the man. oh yeah, sure you see it. it helps me to better understand my communities problem. do you me

to somebody to be on that? uh it takes it to side of the job has time. enjoy that a day. i think about my son's future. i think one of them at the state to help me, but he also goes to school in the city, the body of it. sometimes it's tough for him. i tell him again, thanks to his efforts off, he'll have a better life one day. then a year or so when he has as i let us to say that gosh, why, what i'm the range of the call. i mean, don't have grown up among the coast guard at no time. hey, well i am deeply attached to this land hurts this wild landscape that correlates peaceful here. that's kind of push out the, the side on the left us and i want to pursue my studies. but i also want to stay here before i try it. i really like this place, else i wouldn't want to do without the

the last on miscible stop on this journey through historical and contemporary. iran is the country's largest island cash. i'm due to a strategic location in the strait of hormones. the island fell into the hands of many different powers over the century. it has retained the large arab population, cash and also has a unique ecosystem. classified as a biosphere, reserve, the higher mangrove forest drive, and this tropical coastal region. the higher a tree or grey mangrove is resilient to extreme weather and salt water. these mangrove is also provide a sanctuary for fish. the cache them is home to several fishing villages and a few ship yards that still make the traditional boat,

the lens the the boundary people here are attached to their ancestral culture. the boundaries, literally the port people mainly live along the coast of the persian gulf. once a major part of the maritime soap road, the news shall hosting a to ron stylus, travels to the island to find the expertise she needs for her creations. she works with boundary women who still practice the centuries old tradition of gold work embroidery. you just use a kids a tab yet? teen john. i'm really attracted to the nature of this region. natal, i the way it and what she's one of the reasons that you know is the beautiful

reflection of the sun on the waters of a passion. go to attend the silver glint of the fish that swim. and that's crystal clear out here on the side as in global tad, how you mean i had him on the motif to use the shapes of fish cartridges of entry is honda that i seem inspired by what you can see in the village. i hear you too all, but clearly these motifs with pos, from generation to generation uninspired by this printer and home. i did read the level one and each region of the ron has any code dying that he meant to pick, which was that. ok? and because the women of this region on not victuals, very talkative, really, you know, i felt that maybe i could convey the voice through there on this one. i'm be who

she had a sliding scale. the space between the peacock and the judges. they don't audit. yes. but more than that, well, move in that cash. i'm go to sign on the thread. how many tele, when you make i got 2 goals. one. so do you prefer to use just one color, the shut off. 100. you know me get out of the tell you i've asked the girls that one branch and we'll see if it looks good. we'll do all the branches with the same color. i would assume you couldn't behind me, and i'm in a chevy fee. is the wife of a bundle, the fisherman? she finds inspiration for her embroidery is in the world around her, the horse dizzy? yeah, no, said i, the host susie is a customer of craft that the women of the island do at united card. it allows them

to, or maybe though their own money in the host do is there is no padre island because have a we don't draw any out of the most east on the fabric before digital as the ideas come naturally as from our minds our heart and we switch them right into the fabric you quarter. i'm john mcgee, the stuff i sure kit made a news. now news is last order goes back to the start of the year. mayor of the rooster had just begun, so i know who to speak when i'm do stuff and she asked if we could still restore most academy. she was the perfect occasion to come up at and with a completely new headline, you did have solar photos that have seen the stars. flowers on, you know we can embroider them all with our eyes closed. but the rooster was a 1st sluice he to the girls managed to come out and elaborate store and delicate design would get back to her. and on the,

on the call, i mean the mother in mass we where is called a borg a lease. so now it's a very with the tradition that concerned i've had to this day and i did. the study is the like. and you can see marian, the girls where the mask to show me that they are now when i did to get in to get it, had said that it completes our his job. so it's very important. hey, job last 2 pieces. the, the head who studies a yet the, the as on cash, and each village has its own shape for good or bad. the, almost that, that's the send the easy and older women get, the larger the mass in the more face it covers. when applied, behavioral sad,

mutual dukes has always been like that have with the whole issue now to initial bottom into that doesn't ask also protects us from this on that issue. now what that is, you can say the largest for good the only reveal the i fish and you can also be more and by women whose 10 is a very sensitive spell, the sun, that issue. now. now what are the next week in many on the day when i come to the sea to fish after a long working. okay. last time, what counts for me is not the catch and then that small, not my main priority. he did get up more than enough. i mostly come here to is to be alone at the for the for now. now with a said to about the hussy that 5 o'clock the from the sand, dune deserts and rocky ply, toes to the sea. iran is a country of contrast, a land that fascinates through its very people,

art of culture and history, as well as its stunning natural beauty, seen from above. the business, the view will tell you how happy the boxes. what's the story? we have a getting a visa is more difficult than finding gold hosted to use force and

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