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it's. michael skin region deep in the sun darien far east is one of russia's newest territories formed in two thousand and eight it brought together the chips are i me arguing boreal regions and with it a striking mix of asian and european culture. traveling around you can find buddhist temples spooling national parks and remote villages that still practice traditions that date back

a thousand years but if you're flying here and be landing in the region's vibrant capital to top. whenever you're a new place of course the best way to get to know it is to have a local show you around and i know one lady here who's promised to send me a bit of what life is like in the fast lane. surest firms just over three hundred thousand people and it's a real mismatch of styles it's one of the only cities in russia that's based on a grid system and the downtown area has some beautiful european influenced architecture and the further you roll it the more soviet and industrial it becomes . if you don't mind your bugging your teeth this is a great way to see the city stanislav her and her friends on the only bike isn't true to. believe these guys prefers a ride off the roads. motorcycle

team is based we hold the transport coal motor sports federation the sports team is made up of more than thirty mins and the training called is just over here. most of the team are away at a competition but there were still plenty of people out for a quiet day of risking life and limb. to save broken bones here and there and having fun. and if a seven year old can make you around the truck in one piece. well also figure out how to stop the thing from stalling at least for. right society i'm making my own. never again. ok so i might not be a natural rebel without a cause but there are some people lynch who do live rather unconventional lives.

probably to say the recycling projects around russia still in their infancy but i know one around here. in exactly what to do with that. there are certain. things might americain. good deal should ski has developed a whole new take on hitting the bottle. it's not engineer who just can't stop building a more of all the expensive bricks and there are plenty of alternatives just lying around. many bottles if you pull it up over the years you know mineral water beer and the like i had difficulty getting rid of them so i thought i might as well use them for a good purpose so the first thing i made was a bathroom a nice and warm place. and as time went by and all the projects crop talked. this

powerful tower for instance from the inside it may be all counties version of the london muslim. but it's a place for the kids to play and help with the gardening to. some yeah is my swimming pool has a double purpose making it just your children's from in the water plant when it's used to watering plants and then will fill the swimming pool up again it will flamingo on a way to the fourth. or could these projects have made him a bit of a local celebrity he's always had plenty of fans to bring him supplies luxury luxury village news. and you could keep up with a new. country look coming at. it to seventy eight's people to collect these bottles even a particular order with everyone has brought. each building normally takes years to

complete it isn't slowing down his property empire is next one is an old chapel and he's always looking for willing volunteers if you want to try i'm with a few quick tips from the most i was well on my way to an architectural triumph. louis hold work in the hot sun makes a man thirsty. that sadly i don't have to stay and help or how to finish this project but i can at least help contribute to the building materials he would ring on the job is encouraged. with just one of course because my next stop was going to take some serious concentration if i didn't want to end up with a black. eyed. shock. to most a lot of. this is just ten c. karate club the biggest and most successful in the city. it's run by alexander one

of russia's most accomplished karate masters and he's a bilious sister to his son yevgeny he's only a first black belt so of course i was in for an easy ride. all day. it's been quarter while since on a throw to roundhouse kick in anger here gainey made sure i go an intensive professor course pretty. quickly in here or you're liable to get cracked over the head. has been teaching here since nine hundred ninety four and estimates he's trained thousand students. percent of the city's population. this is a man who says he wants to attack his with his always blindfolded. when he offered me a little. plane struction. to

take over just. the lean mean fighting machine. was just not good and i wanted to find somewhere in the city to relax and recuperate. hundred kilometers from the chinese border and there's a thriving chinese community here along with. they've also brought their relatives there are almost no russians working in this chinese medicine sense a whole range of different treatments. he was particularly effective and he was. around most. this is supposed to be great for your circulation and your joints. it also happens to be one of the most things i've ever experience.

when you just relax and do the thing. it does get better the longer you lloyd but i'm still counting down the fifteen minutes i have some waits. for. us to see. this new good. thing for. such a small person was capable of inflicting so much pain and i was any health way through the treatments. right on happy with this

procedures but both gentle and refreshing the first because now my back row feels like he's had an encounter with a tyke. understandably i was a little nervous so i climbed on to my next plinth but my instructor on dres soon be completely relaxed. and ready for some relief at least until i noticed i'm guessing i like a. good girl would of. course i would never do anything with them but. this is the truth. they may have been using me as a human flown by but it's also supposed to be great for the secular nation. compared to those volatile voyles this is a walk in the park well we're not sure that most kids sucked up into little clubs boy. it was really quite good and i guess this is the point because what

she thing will ok andre the boy. with my body chewed up by centuries of chinese wisdom he was trying to seek out some spiritual healing too and that meant getting out of the city. from the capital is one of the areas most beautiful nature spots. so this is the national park it's the biggest national park in the whole region and it's centered around a series of sacred buddhist monuments unfortunately most of them are high up on the hills which means if i'm going to see them. i've got a bit of a trick of. the locals i picked one of the hottest days of the year to do. this there's plenty of refreshment available. the trucks are said to have been here for millennia and each visit their response to do their bit to keep in flare.

these piles of stones that you can see here are made by the pilgrims taking the trek up into the hills it's traditional to remove obstacles from your park so that obviously helps you but also the others who are coming to follow in your footsteps and of course you never have a bit of good karma. it can be easy to get lost here if you don't know where you're going but i was lucky enough to have my guide by year waiting for me and one of the park's most spectacular points. is a buddhist who's been showing people around for more than ten years and he knows all of the whole nice most sacred places. this is a holy place in the long its name means goddess and one of the goddesses is right

here in the rock for much you can answer many questions and one can profit from the knowledge that just touched the rock with your hands and for it. causing my forehead to go through up hopefully it's supposed to impart some wisdom to me. stay. but there are plenty of opportunities to draw on the god's knowledge here dozens of children is journey here almost every day to make offerings will seek guidance in the park's various shrines and most of them i headed for one particular destination. it's been a long hot track but it's finally almost at the end because just behind me is the holiest sites for the buddhists in the whole of this park it's called the gates of

phaedra and people believe that fully marks the entrance to paradise. is take a climb up the stairway to heaven. as a cult drink the waiting room here then the. more you look enough to have the spirit speak to you or not there's definitely a special energy about our. incredible views and natural monoliths make this a memorable trip and i was looking forward to seeing more of the region has put its treasures. sure is that so much like you. were. an empire in disarray rupert murdoch and his immense media assets were under investigation in what is being called voice mail is this. a telemarketer broadcasting live from washington d.c.

coming up today on the big picture. in national park is an amazing experience for both hikers and pilgrims alike but. just something that can be found in the region but isn't plays a major role in culture in fact the region is home to the two oldest but it's temples in the whole of the country but it's not just people spiritual well being that they're concerned with here they've also got a pretty serious academic program to.

this dance and sample is home to around two hundred monks and really students and there's always a good argument behind. each. course of such discussions to students learn the philosophic truth of. your game is the senior monk here the muslims give me a tour of the impressive temple grounds. it was built back in the late eighteenth seventy's but fell into disrepair during the soviet union and for the last twenty years you have gagne and his brothers have been helping to restore it to its former glory. but the monks haven't only been rebuilding the temple they've also been restoring their academy. my enemy. as an english teacher who's been working here since one thousand nine hundred four most children study here for five years and as well as languages and all that i think is heavily on tibet and sciences. and that's . one of the great aboard the sciences fife publicizes

and for most of it you can teach tibetan that. he explained the types of paul. also says. there are lots of different wines is what your polls tell you're going to leave all paul's kidding appalls different kinds of long run this country. and all the others have to be at work a certain rate for fifteen years ok. kiba has the most important lessons concentrate on buddhist and i do and they have some extremely well charles professors from this class. the listeners this teacher all feel both of. them are they can from. his former you. have been in this thing. for nine years for this

is all things. i want to study and now these he teaches feel as if i asked what language is he writing a bit. more as a person is not what it should be high decided it was time to get by him in the monks well but these deep intellectual close is they do make you think. they may study it for five years but that doesn't mean that the philosophical question stop for the monks there apparently one of the favorites is simply how is it. who i am. ok that's something that probably would take a lot of time. but the people around here don't just like to exercise their minds there's plenty of healthy competition among the villages in this region especially when it comes to archery. but this is bowman ship style and that's a little different. be all she's

a must go to targets on the grounds and there are some fairly complicated rules. because it looks like a ridiculously accurate one and just because one point is he's not this from there . and stands on the twenty or thirty metres back and gets up to thirty two shots if you know the white house of the target zone hits two points any others but he won. it's a technique that takes years to master when in rome. i found some north of the bit of a. robin hood. though i thought i'd give it a shot right. all the bozo made from birch bark and horn and i have kevlar strings so not much chance of those you know my point here is the most experienced thoughts are in the village so if i was going to get a lesson from anyone he's the man. in the chair. his confession.

so. dread and release. was a perfect form without an arrow. haven't seen that in about it and then it was finally time to let loose ok so i need a lawyer. a little white. the one point. where if i get one of these people to put it up on the head would you. trust me. i decided to quit while i was ahead anyway compared to some of the other top of competitors i wasn't really dressed for the occasion. it was time to sloan's exploring some more of the local wilderness nowadays none of this territory is off limits but i was heading to a place that just twenty years ago i would have been anywhere near. there are huge

areas of understood step in this region but in the middle there's one place that was closed from the outside world for more than twenty years during the soviet union. and it's because of this but it is the largest uranium mine in the whole of russia and a fuel. of the country. i was about to head four hundred meters down into the price mine which produces eighty percent of the country's uranium. on this. day. you seem to constantly be. muddy tracks down several levels.

this. is a pretty serious quickly. these drills are used to holes in the rock which is then blasted with explosives and scooped up and dropped ready for. the feast of more uranium or hard to believe that within this is this small piece of radioactive material. unsurprisingly. use any heavy machinery. well you can come down if you avoid like this and. of course.

when you're dealing with one of the most potentially people substances on the planet i think i want to be purposeful for the for. the only thing you really like to suffer from down here is just inhalation bus and the four thousand tons of coal the horrors of the paper every day there's six tons of concentrated highly radioactive uranium to sobering fools. so it's a by most probably a tribute to your radiant mind without any noticeable effects. of the above obese bismillah glowing in. my time in the michaels good reason was coming to an end but i still have some souvenirs to pick up in the audience gloria region. hundreds of years of how to rip

a beautiful or an ornate weaponry like this antique silver knife but like with any old thing sometimes you need to give it a touch up and there's a lady around here who really unearth how to put the sparkle back into. the. system so the smith and if you want something to look it's best she's the woman you go and see. oh i thought i'd check if i could get discounts by helping out with the cleaning. specific. the bit of elbow grease this is mostly. showing a way to still be the envy of all. ok i'm probably unlikely to ever attend the wedding but dreamer did invite me to a glorious family picnic the next day with a bit of a difference. they don't do things by holes when they get together in these parts

and i did today was being supplied. cheap. so this is actually the most important part of the ceremony where you have to do it with your head cut. you make an offering to the four corners of the earth. is to ensure that the soul of the. goes to a different place and is well. to do what needed to be done and got ready to start cooking. so this is considered to be the biggest delicacy so particular mongolian. liver i'm actually. interested because the meat which is still warm.

with freshness here once we'd sealed the liver it was time for the second leg. so the meat now that it's been cooked has no wraps in the facts and then we go back and cook it again this is a very special treat. exceptionally primal and then meet our. i've been doing it for thousands of things. i felt the owner had sort of been able to share this experience with to remember her relatives. an authentic piece of the real family life the few westerners ever have a chance to be a part of. and it was a perfect summer time is up michael screecher.

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