raised to the fullest writes on a sobering take. those are our top stories coming up next our special report which brings us to the southwest of russia and the city of start up all that's next here on out. know i'll be the first to admit to making films and traveling around russia is a great way to earn a living but life on the road can get a little tiring so when i heard that there was an area of the country where rest and relaxation is the number one priority it seemed safe place to visit. the stabber pool region in the north caucasus is home to the cool cajun mineral waters resort it's a series of wells and spawns that have been soothing the aches and pains of russians for over two hundred years more million people come here on holiday each

year and when you take a walk through some of its beautiful cities it's not difficult to see why. aren't is certainly the order of the day here artists paint and sell their works in the town center while the most strenuous activity you're likely to see as a hard fought game of chess. just in case you do accidentally over exert yourself relief is just a short walk away. really is the lifeblood of this region all the resorts here have been built up around mineral springs. pride and joy is this one. spring now this world goes down around about six metres i literally thousands of people come here every single day to have a taste. the spring is set to the nineteenth century gothic building where dozens of taps of the different varieties of water so whether you like your pick me up cold salty you also feel rich this place has them all so for the princely sum of

about ten cents i have my cup and i get to try out some of this famous water now supposedly this is a bit of a cure all for everything to go to dickie tell me this is what you need if you're just feeling under the weather this will sort you out and apparently. but. the only. reason because big business here is not what you put into. it. i have to take a trip. take a ride out how. completely unique. properties. of the park. is really just. accept

help you. try to. push. where it's kept in a series of. up to six people. and that means a lot in fact. just. you can see how that's done as well. once the guys are finished cleaning off this machine. and ready to transport. the basement is filled with water pipes which raised the temperature of the mud to forty three degrees celsius four hundred nine foreign hornets' the ideal temperature for maximum health benefits on the stuff is so precious that using it only once would just be a waste. to take the recycling pretty seriously here has already been used to the

treatment it's good apparently three times so it's been used cheats come down here they're all run out. all through this great. ready to go on some other people that's more like the sound of that. i was hoping that i'd be lucky enough to get a fresh batch for my not both but either way it was time to see what all the fuss was about. so this is the place apparently where all the magic buttons this wonderful. aspires to sort out your intestinal problems improve your circulation and generally leave you feeling like a new man so clearly in the interests of science you understand i'm willing to get down and dirty. those of you with a weak disposition should definitely look away and. please

like these keep your head down. that's right. this. will simply be the strangest. of big companies. that. isn't taught. but you have plenty of time to get over the initial show because you know for over a quarter. of the. ten minutes we'll. say. it does feel good. because it is beautiful but this is full of. facts so. i think that. it's.

possible a. family. with a good will over the best thing you can do is take the rest of the. tough life sometimes. still perceive time on the street. but you can't really expect to get healthy by just laying around and if you want to and in the stabber polar region there are a few interesting options as you would expect in a health resort there are plenty of places to work out but this one particular gym has abundant. treadmills in favor of something.

people have been lifting weights since nine hundred two in the oldest gym in the country. you can have a go at thirty machines created by swedish scientists exercise pioneer sunda back in the late nineteenth century. with my. and they will still. play one of the world's first muscle. about a little. controlled by generators in the gym's basement then whether you're looking to buy. a little excess flesh there's plenty of choice you really can get a good. machine just wondering if we had particularly polite personal trainer. perspiration. trouble.

it was time to get in the fresh air and taken some scenery this most of the region is located in the caucasian foothills and the views out here never short of spectacular with all the space in this region it's hardly surprising there are a few old airdromes around now this plane is grounded but i am going to meet a few men and their admittedly. friends meet here every week to fly their remote controlled planes against these beautiful. there are fifteen to twenty people who regularly come to take the air here there are plenty of colorful planes on display. no you can see. more. special. few.

more and more. unexpected turbulence. and then. everything is ok. you should leave the other pilots put off introduce me. so how long does it take you to cook. good. to see every day right. we had an absolutely perfect day for us and it wasn't long before your limit was sending her extremely expensive cold piper into the. draw the moose surprisingly trusting me not to crush it. i'm trying to feel it's because you stick to your instinct to receive. help me i mean.

it's still in. just about something under your limbs watchful supervision we got the plane down in one piece. it was going to say a long time for me to become a decent pilots prevented me there was another way to enjoy the stop of reaching sky that's. one thing you find out about being in the caucuses you're never too far from a spectacular view but even up here there's an even better way to see it properly and i'm going to meet a man who's going to help me see it yeah. but to me say you're going to be my paragliding instructor this was another first for me but it has been doing this for almost ten years and was able to give me plenty of helpful hints. just wrong wrong wrong wrong direction writes. do not. before i think i can manage that. will stop.

ok. so it's really. all my fault. i will. only write ok in fits. of the study of the jungle. the whole of. the moon. had been firmly attached and the alien had stuck an altimeter on. we were ready to take off.

once you feel the currents pick you up this is an amazing experience i could see for hundreds of kilometers and. in the view of the cities below and the mountains in the distance is really breathtaking i didn't want to come down. like you. anybody. but if your instructor is working in love be prepared for a long track back up to the car. was the easy bit. this is

all. an exercise i was getting i really was feeling good and i knew that there were plenty more healthy options that the star of pole region still have to offer. coming into the future. from michel martin one cars what makes a mechanical engineer an automotive pioneer open a book and reason world's most innovative to change the checkered flag on the update here on. the french. culture is the same i understand not only are they for you or some of you look but you're in the market banner not discussions continue whether muslim women should be barred from appearing public with their faces veil is this.

i've had the chance to take it in from the air and i was looking forward to seeing more of the stabber polar region from the ground the city is pythagoras' because one of the most popular destinations for tourists and has some of the most memorable monuments an architecture in the region and if you're looking to spend more time in the countryside they've got that cover to. be famous for their mountains but they're also as you can see some pretty picturesque parks here so i was thinking what would be more refined and civilized than just a gentle bike ride into the forest well the answer is that a leg and his friends weren't exactly looking to take it easy. this is an extreme sport. it's like snowboarding in winter in summer it's the bicycle. it helps me to be in good shape i want enough adrenaline to keep me going i don't want blood in my veins to become stale. boy i was quite happy for my blood to stay

exactly the way it was but it wasn't long before i found myself heading off the beaten track and out of the saddle now i want to go most things but i think this next. i'm going to sit it out. because the boys want to try out a little high flying biking. just another relax and in the countryside then if you're looking to test yourself the terrain here can be a real challenge the forest floor is steep and fast and there are plenty of rocky outcrops to negotiate well somebody's thought if that's more you'll think you couldn't have a better spot for the balance in bike riders and spectators and like. one sweet song called going to civilization but was ready for a bit of culture and i knew that in key slovyansk there was a rather special concert being planned in the local film. oh it's very good

and back to back to when i was seven years old. my. mom has been a professional organist for more than twenty years and she's one of an exclusive club because she's so rare spent alone or is in high demand she performs in europe and fills concerts here twice a month patients pay an average of forty dollars a ticket a high some compared to the average salary in the region. and when people are shelling out serious money they expect everything to be perfect. for some pretty serious work i must tune an instrument of this saw it's. possible maybe if you want to you can try while i'm trying of course if you're well it can she try. to negotiate is not does not mind i think it's possible you can because you have

yes it's interesting. to see how they repair a million euro instrument well extremely carefully it seems that. the mayor is changing the vibrations of the pipes here by touching the little lever as he moves it up the pitch goes down and down. there are more than seven hundred pipes here and this precious little room to maneuver. did his job perfectly and there was just time for test everything out with a little j.s. bach. this .

isn't the only rare instrument you can find in the stump or paul region no one is particularly important for a prominent ethnic minority. is one of around twenty five thousand people of greek descent in the region and he's been making law as in his workshop since before the second world war it's an instrument that's been part of greek culture for thousands of years this part is the humble they call this the pair now we've got to make holes for the little things he was introduced to the lawyer as a teenager when his uncle married into a greek family and he made his first one back in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight but now he's the last of his kind in russian so these are holding. the line in place. each lawyer is made up of several different boards and takes a week or more of solid work before it's ready. by the highest.

tree. this course here is made of fred with four years ago i took it to athens and showed it a contest to only risk represented germany from turkey i represented russia and what the president i want to prize micheline may be the last of russia's lion makers but its future here seems secure he already has orders from young children who are starting out as musicians and there are still plenty of his friends around to teach the. plates. and although we were sparing the crockery i didn't get a chance at least to practice the language. so you.

couldn't stay to enjoy the past my time was running you know it's in the stabber polar region and there were some particularly following four legged friends i wanted to meet. your business. and. the locals have always been excellent. and dimitri is in charge of one of the oldest stock farms in the country. breeding pureblood arabian horses here for over one hundred twenty years and stallions in these stables have been particularly prolific. the only male breeding horses are kept. twenty of them have photos of the arab horses in the region. the main process takes place right here and can cost several thousand dollars

a time and one horse who is always in demand. is owned by prime minister vladimir putin and is the proud dad of twenty five foals in the last year a loaded no wonder he needs a good rubdown he's quite. tired from producing so many babies. to fly. each of the horses gets time every day in the exercise yard where visitors can watch them run around them treat them with a sugar cube or two assuming they're in the right mood. he's a bit wary of me i was really hoping i get a chance to write one and dimitri told me that i was an ideal candidate is

definitely the biggest ever written but he was impeccably behaved. this is what it feels like to sit on a real the he so. very nicely. swift deportation. immigration haven't come calling so i'm keeping my fingers crossed. two weeks in the standard polar region it was nearly time to head back to moscow it definitely been an adventure but little did i knew i had seen anything as. the. health industry you can see there are plenty of people. that brings them from all over russia just call it tourism. exactly what that means it's supposedly a mixture of orienteering cross country running and climbing and i had to go to

quite literally show me the ropes i need to change me because this is my favorite mc stream sports you can probably see so. local team had just beaten ten others to become national champions and. safety gear will be very tight we headed off to the first obstacle. course get. very. good as desha shin down and up the of the signs. hold the rope i understood we were taking on something different entirely. no i got it wrong we're not going to be going down and up just going to be cross. despite the fact that it was clearly safe

and vova was able to zip across like a monkey having to entrust my life to a couple of bits of was not very comforting who genuinely genuinely really quite frightened of doing this. taking leaps of faith. it's a good. this is. this is john. true. it's not scary. despite a few anxious moments i managed to make it's beyond the sun.

you'd be surprised how much will hit the ground. out of motion. but of course that was just the beginning. everything in sport tourism is done against the clock and it wasn't long before we were up and running again. i knew i wasn't just going to get away with an easy rope swing the final challenge was to scale a cliff face apparently the goal is to pick leaves iest roots with symbols from where i was standing. although of course they were both at the top before i'd even go. i was to have made it out without injury or problem in about twenty five seconds. this will stop me falling. could be any more easy or pleasant tribes. things began pretty well

the whole foothold seemed to disappear and i was stuck for eight years but with a bit of a helping hand i was able to get up to the top. i think i might actually fall off at this point caught. muscles and have a new i had i tell you well if you like a challenge. definitely you but one word of advice you need to be a bit more sporty than i am if you going to do sport tours. well you just want to relax so you're looking for a place to get fit the stuff or pole region should take all the boxes with it's miraculous minerals hotels and spawns cool enough adventure sport to satisfy even a halt cooler adrenaline junkie it's easy to see why this is still russia's most popular holiday sport.

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