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that's. if you're taking your first trip to russia you'll probably be more inclined to pack a fur coat rather than a bucket and spade. if you have down south so the president or region you'll find long sandy beaches and hundreds of kilometers of beautiful coastline literally

millions of people flock here for the holidays every year proof that while russia may be famous for its snow and skiing there's plenty of sun sand and see here as well. locals say that this is the longest develops abutments in europe fourteen kilometers of it and in the middle is this lady a white bra it's supposed to represent the hopes dreams and beauty of feature. and it's a stunning place the results of frame by the background of the caucasian mountains i know a sunny day of the seascapes can rival anything you might find in the greek islands and if you want to see the area in its full glory you just have to jump into a cable car. is the way to do it on this hike. straight up.

you get a pretty good view on the way up here but they all want to go just a little bit higher and also it's an excuse to pass if they're. up here you can find the black seas equivalents of the london eye although admittedly this is a little more retro. going to the most technologically advanced roi that's one safety equipment. there's a big hole. just. five minutes to get to the top and if you. you managed to cling on you're in for a treat. this is the highest brought on the and saw a black sea coast meters above sea level. the scots incredible. little bit when going to be a bubbly. tourist stores will arrive

here in april when the season can continue into october. attractions really area are geared to appeal to the whole family and i wanted to check out one of its newest success stories. people come from all over russia to visit the black sea coast but if you're looking for a different sort of multiculturalism it's probably a pretty good place to start. from boy names here this is simply cool old park bench lee it's not very old at all but take a walk around and you'll soon get a picture. who needs a foreign holiday when you can come here the pyramids of egypt. temples of ancient greece. but even a roman billion dollar less strong than it takes to create. exam direct sales opened the park back in two thousand and four with an ambitious plan in mind. we were out to get

together many cultures within the narrow space or east west caucasus russia. these architectural structures are filled with substance and as you look around you begin to realize the culture of humankind is a synthesis of many cultures hoarded it in places the whole period from the ancient designs all the way to modern architecture. alexander has areas that in case it's more than ten different cultures it wasn't normal to be paid all respects to zeus but we found ourselves in ancient egypt. maybe a little smaller than the pyramid of giza but it's based on but it's certainly posting some fine acoustics. so. he's going to some gold roll was listening he could have

been so impressed with all seeing as it probably began to rain. it was a perfect moment loosehead indoors and visit the parks medieval town and there's a bird's eye view of the grounds. oh here we are james this is our territory that is that's one of the our aim is to build a space where architecture and nature merge into the harmony where we all want to be. which is. if you feel to have something to do with the top two probably a pretty good place to start and if you go there early enough they'll be plenty for some of that setting off for the morning catch. one of the best things for me about coming to the coast is mattel's the house and breastfeed so that's why we're on board that. this is going to take us to the place we can collect sit down there.

are sand we will work from the stir. so again his crew will muscle an oyster farmers been breeding with tasty mollusks for three years but they're already proving very popular. i guess i can tell you that as far as r.c. france it is concerned this is a budding market. traditionally people here hate shish kebab and fish but now there's a great demand for seafood the not only locally but also in moscow st petersburg and elsewhere there were no shellfish an oysters in the menu bar the restaurants only local people like to cook shellfish for a very long time. so those poll know how xander is an oyster diver and once they've arrived at the beds he still begins. the boats. were in the right place so the secret.

but once everything secure the catch has to be loaded into the robots and that's where the hard work begins. if you're not a fan of dirty jobs it's probably easy for you. pretty much guarantees you a sea wall to show on sliced fingers and plenty of unwelcome guests. little crowds there as well as good as. it is about all. of us to some soon can be surprisingly hard to find. so this kind of reading program apparent doesn't yield too many oysters they're quite rare the city got tons and tons of mussels but only one or two oysters hidden among them. might have been a needle in a haystack. gave his crew. this still huge to mourn for fresh mussels locally i'm going moscow and there's definitely no shortage of them. so this is going to be one of the biggest seafood buffy's you're likely to see we've got a right under twenty muscles are here invading crabs in space and of course the

odd question is. it's not often you get to eat seafood when it's this fresh unfortunately on an oyster boat there's no shortage of experience because. most of us are ok so. may not be the most romantic setting to try whatever makes us great aphrodisiacs you don't give them much fresher than this. not to mention extremely tasty. so i had my long journey over water and i'm not sure that even the most generous marine biologist would count we still mussels among the small system called screeches swimwear that is intelligent animals really do. well when you're behind a black sea and tough to find. them. hello

. again here is. that the some of it. say hello to zurich and see you know three beautiful little things they've been living in before me here the dolphinarium for more than ten years and they go there picking technique down to a foreigner. but this is only the best quickest way to make friends i think. this one is great. theirs is the best way to get quickly. and to share their breakfast. with the ladies clamoring for some day goes. to go. in a row the boys have won the. rivalry. and.

are in around two hundred fifty kilos and zurich tips the scales over three hundred fortunately there's plenty of food for everyone. so the girls eat sixteen kilos a place where they go through a scene. can you imagine how many of these that is yeah i know me is still. hungry and that means that he's quite happy to run through his room seems there's a real don't often look at first i'm sure to him track is the tension and then you throw it. to your mate. and it's a come on. oh

. in a box ok now we know the. wait a little bit. of the season hundreds of people come to see zorak and his girlfriends every day and practice is certainly made perfect. i get the feeling he's the star of the. call but. this is the first thought i might have the chance to get up close and personal with. jane for gets ready to take and it was better i can possibly imagine.

going to be one of the most amazing experiences. much of it doesn't mean that nothing ever will. give this amazing feat. although it could do the less. in a beast way. look at margin and. thankfully peached don't think is a rare sights along the black sea coast but you can find quite a few unwelcome additions to the shoreline. unfortunately like many other resorts around the world a black sea coast has its own problems with but as they say sometimes one man's

trash can be another man's treasure or in this case the woman's treasure. oh she ran away from poland probably in sacks production and some bottles here you can see waste from shoes production just like you was. for the polyfill in and used sacks seven years ago a name in the queue for over and gave up her practice is a doctor to become an artist and amar mentalist. recycling is still rare in russia and glitter is a common sides and then has opened the white horse gallery to try and draw attention to the damage the waste is doing to the local area airborn it's always a pain to see the earth turn into a garbage can i try to collect some of the rubbish but of course my efforts were in vain the trash was not getting smaller many people just don't understand me i don't know how to explain it to them my idea is to make people remember my work and

everything that i have taken care of before the litter i want them to remember my beloved next day in the fish it will be great if they begin doing such things even better than me i mean or offer to give me a quick lesson in how to make plastic bunter stick their let's make a fish ok come on we're making a little addition of the name is biggest installation a sculpture that's intended to represent the whole of the black sea the first let's get rid of unnecessary stuff here is that their mug on take a look it's not clear if it's a fish yet but now we're going to shape it look here is the tail. and now we're going to collar it and it will become absolutely fabulous is hard work start with the. summer and. that's right. yes beautiful a perfect and no you should shake it

a little bit to let the paint spread so that every month sort of. like me around the. exactly sure what breed of fish we were creating but it was pretty colorful and once the finishing touches are demanded it was ready to take its place in the gallery norwegians we go james and here is here to make this work now you have your own beijing in the back seat of that's right engine to see find a nice place for her hope she'll have a happy life. it's amazing to think that you can transform this rubbish and something really rather beautiful and hopefully the people who say it i don't think a little bit more before they chuck away that next hour. we're taking a look at that sculpture of the black sea reminded me of another thing a perhaps one of the time for us. i've been busy here in the cloak style was good about my things. and it is up here.

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projects free media dot com. so far on my trip i had the chance to meet a few of the black. there in the hills there were plenty more who preferred. the least most of the time this isn't just an ordinary it's a rescue and a retirement center for injured performing animals without was enjoying her early morning. more than sixty different species and with his keeper. and sally still to be working here three years ago i was a hunter but it seems like the animals. let's go. this is the himalayan boulder you want to say hello you want to have fun and. he's only ten months old he's growing like

a weed. now that when he gets bigger. it's going to be about a hundred. and i think he's. going to have it and pointing everything in his meat. every careful. think to lose a handful weightily liters friends makes. it's a good morning baby. with a space of recent the zoo now has around three hundred animals and they've set up a new three for their baby cats why can't we all get along like this. my genes the most used to becoming a little street and just a few months ago they welcomed one of the world's rarest animals so this little is adam a baby i want so i guess i'm the son of two confiscated tiger so he really is

a little nervous. and you can already see. it's not going to be too long. he's going to turn into the world and his cat a bit of a killer and i'm hoping he's going to be gentle with me. here have been rescued from poachers or from circuses but some come from rather more unusual backgrounds. this is grigori he lived with her grandmother in know what i see he was living in a simple flat for a long time is more than ten years old grandmother has brought him here some three years ago she was a very old woman she brought to bear here in a car without any cage just using a leash she cooked a big delicious cake for him that grandmother is just too old to look after him. i'm just trying to imagine a bad living in a granny flat now and. a better big spare room. i've never

seen woman have such a bond of trust with so many different creatures it was like being around a real life. a nickle in hopes that the thousands of visitors who come to the park take a new appreciation of the animals away with them. having survived for a visit to the supply and minor cuts and bruises i figured it was time to visit one of the black sees more sedate stories to tractions and maybe get myself something to eat. one thing you learn quite quickly about the russians is that they love their bread whether it's brown growing pretty much comes with everything we just point strains in the two years i've been traveling around this country i've never seen one of the others. it's a replica of a mill that was growing flour in this area more than a century ago and with the help of a few modern improvements it's back in business. yes the history of this company is

fairly typical of russia founded in eight hundred ninety five it was nationalized in one thousand eight hundred. in the one nine hundred thirty s. it was renamed sickle and hammer and wasn't service until the early one nine hundred sixty s. . a few years ago the original mill was stripped transported and rebuilt and the old gears were given a new lease of life. there are some new parts to this windmill but it really is a timeless bit of engineering vertical axle turn by the wind power and that energy. is then converted down here by these wheels. and this one is part of the original nineteenth century mechanism the windmill still running day. which moves these two parts up into the grinding stone. and we get flour the same way it's been produced for hundreds. and making it is

a really simple process the so. they get. and now follow me. here is the receiving bunker more of this way here that's now in the process of how already underway plenty of bleeding and baking. time for some. ok so i've heard of a ploughman's lunch but i'm guessing this is a miller's lunch this milk. and bread and they were there are. this mill may be an example of the region's recent history but their own relics along the shoreline date back to one take. this is the ancient city of gold to appear it was home to thousands of people until it was destroyed in the third century a.d.

and it's one of the best preserved examples. of an eighteen city on the rocks and cursed the great names the city after samarian king and its ruins cover around forty. it's still possible to wander through the so is of great houses and you can even discover the citizens favorite temple i bet the neighbors would have been one of the most popular places back in the days of good because it's the remains of an ancient winery people who cross the grapes here do stand would have come down these forests and into these enormous buckets. show you. down here. unfortunately. all we've got now of course is rain water back in the day which would have held the equivalent of thousand miles. have been long since deserted of the descendants of its creek settlers are

still in the area and they still have a passion for the great. this is russia's wine country around sixty percent of the crop comes from around this area and on about the people who make some of the best . these. grapes i believe yes and this is a very important son of the. forest. and his family are almost ready to start making the latest batch of their famous st so. it's a much pending on the use of stress i will set you back around fifty dollars but this much of grapes went. let me introduce to my father as a go on. the beginning. there was. his bring in the harvest he likes to have

a few friends or. tradition. will go to the cellar where it's. just so there was a pretty big power of grapes to cross so it seemed only wants to take the plant. is supposed to get everyone stomping away in a nice uniform rhythm a lumia greek. around on fifty kilos of grapes takes some doing. and i was about to get more than a minute for. that so i think. we definitely deserve a drink thank you very much. yes this is good. she was six continue into the evening but i want to take a stroll across a number of new regions landmarks before i called my plane back to moscow. when

it's this windy even plenty of wind what you can warm. my savior's we're close journey his son max and run a t.v. thaws along with. and also tackling the dunes and suddenly beats walking back to the hotel. it may have been getting chilly but as a born and bred seaside town boy i was sad to be leaving the black sea coast it may not place the infrastructure of some of the famous mediterranean resorts but with months of sunshine and relatively low prices and no troublesome visa or is used it's easy to see why millions of russians come here for their summer holidays it's a place to relax bring the family and enjoy the warmest only water the russia has to offer.

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