with r.t. . the first settlements were founded here thousands of years ago. this is a land of ancient mountains and pristine forests the mountains here are very old and they are popularly known as the gray headed urals. russia's best honeys produced here. this is what we've got for today. and they use mez milk to make a strong beverage. three glasses of commerce a day keep the doctor away. and at the same time enjoy it's only view of the landscape. that i saw how he started falling down a stranger to graham's. best kid a cherished blend at the foothills of ancient mountains.

is a republican central russia in southern politics often acclaimed as one of russia's most spectacular natural features here the plame gradually blends with the old. in the southern europe is where europe in asia meet the landscape seems to absorb the best of what nature has to offer on both continents that is the place this place is surrounded by three nature reserves and three mountain ranges. move the fronts settle. a little bit higher. pull this bit back all the order to sort of the most of these twelve tourists. this is the first tory

they have ridden the whole. yes there's a group in a ten man group only one has ever been on horseback lots of us are moved through our job is to teach people how to saddle brush and bridle horses. just this movie is the starting point of a tourist route to the republic's most famous sites. it will culminate in. the highest mountain in the region. but before these tourists will take a trip to examine ancient. intense. the best caves of. the guys let's make a break. only one of them right now we are on the horseback track of the route for

the in six days we will head back to base. but some members of this group will then go rafting. and experience. to visit this place is. not to mention the breathtaking views. shooting a film. from. this summer the energy of the urals is different from the mountains of the alps or the caucasus. until you can feel inside how it inspires you with the old wisdom and ancient beauty. the strong winds make paragliding a very dangerous undertaking. strong gusts of wind make it impossible to raise the way. i'm waiting for the wind to. inch because right

now this draft won't give me any lives. the first attempts to take fail. this winter makes it impossible. i should find another place maybe i'll get lucky pack away my parachute just yet. cath of a cave curious main tourist attraction is located on the right bank of the river about three hundred fifty kilometers from the republic's capital.

gang. maybe stella tights. every fifteen minutes this group of. pauses to questions from a tour group visiting the celebrated cave they want to know what the scientists are looking for. here take a look. man may have come here to chip at this rock we assume that it was some sort of ritual. recently decided to spy on traces of an ancient people. while they were deciding the tourist route. to skulls and skull fragments make it clear that the young girls were of an ethnic group that inhabited the urals. it is not entirely certain think that the

girls may have been killed. and then buried here. this is a court order. however tourists are not allowed to see the most important discoveries of the cap of a cave there is the so-called graffiti hole at the top of the cave only research as are allowed to visit it. here we can see the first graffiti ever found on the territory of the urals that was back in one thousand nine hundred fifty nine they were discovered two thousand kilometers from the western european center of paleolithic art the discovery sparked a lively response. to. the graffiti picturing mehmet who says fifteen thousand years is a unique example of prehistoric such graffiti had been found only in caves in the south of. scientists still unclear about how ancient

people could make paints that have lost to for thousands of years. these natural paints are made from clay. they either used a stick or their fingers to spread them across the wall. i speed eulogists your ski has come to curia for the express purpose of studying cap of a cave he has seen it thirty times in his many years yuri has already examined almost every nook and cranny of its passage ways this book took hundreds of thousands of years to come. three take a. this is dream or broke call it would you like a rose away the rock to make its way under it. it comes out from the other side as a full fledged stream after merging with other sub to rain in streams.

we know it has enough water to feed into the so called blue lake but. it's a monument of natural beauty. there divers can. go down to a depth of more than eighty meters nothing will be moved west with this nickel. it pains the scientists to see a cave with the unique microclimate and rock graffiti slowly decaying under the impact of droves of tourists. where the disease you're going can see the enormous entrance to the cave that the people look like small insects against it of course the wind heat and moisture get into every corner of the enormous caverns ruining the ancient creations we're faced with the gigantic task of saving them i mean while the group of tourists is taken to catamaran spa before mounting

horses one small they will rough down the be a river all the way to cap of the cave. the billion is best carry is lot just a most important waterway. i. count on now altogether. until. less boards catch up i know there are new challenging rapids so dangerous will pools in the belly or river even begin as can go rafting i this time however the tourists have got off to an of a start only two of them in the group have evan laid the hands on a paddle. at the headlight is a relaxing route for the beginners. where doing great i. the district is one of most popular tourist sites in bash kariya.

the balia river is squeezed between two cliffs. many of them contain deep caves which is being studied the tourists halls outside the so-called antony's caves. them there were several levels in the case. as an engineer i was very interested in how they could climb to the second level. they took a tree and at the top of it they cut away the branches and then climbed up the stumps it up with his gums a bit earlier. that. the sheep is in his first year medical college and five he comes from the indian state of goa which is a well developed tourist industry. he's delighted with the beauty of the belly a river. especially the scenic mountains and the fog especially it was

really beautiful i mean like no european nature like i've never seen before and was a great experience coming on the road i mean in the mountains and never and the flowers and the reaping the summer part it was maybe. alexi the paraglider has found an ideal spot for takeoff he has been shooting a film featuring kitty is beautiful scenery. alexi took a few moments before had to plan his flight and select some points for filming this time his first attempt to raise the wing was successful. the close up team has been to the preacher for technological breakthroughs save

human lives. now archie goes to the sea. for unusual ways to protect nature. for farming pioneers place local cuisine to the highest pitch. of her future developments depends on the way. russia's black sea coast should close up on our. a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the walls streets they have. leads in tinsel and your chance to choose instead to get a book for example the status of the human experiment if it's getting on with. your

programs isn't this right means what it knows to movies allegedly trying to make sense of global economy and its arcane things as financial templates each of the research clambering to maintain a confidence in markets and thinking on the primitives points to be seen trade imbalances recession looks to be nations close to collapsing a sub prime loans foreclosed homes people expect to fail so we play banks again feel a little like think it's a us crash into imminent smash the ceiling seems to me just like putting it in a tradition in st the i meant to put strikes me on just programs increase the total economy. paraglider alexy continues filming the beauty of best kuria all his video camera but after five minutes of flight the wind become stronger.

i'll try to land. there some turbulence. gives up being caught in a dangerous downdraft the wing collapses thirty metres from the ground. still luckily the strongest blow was focused on safety still don't try to help me up i'll do it myself. if bashar has gone now i'm ok and i will be fine no worries it's ok. that's just the world is beautiful again.

well it happens when you want for what you paraglider sometimes take many risks they choose extreme routes and they might be in danger at any moment i'm used to it and i did everything in my power to save myself from the turbulence do you think you can go. to that alexy decides to call it a day. student of local history whose them is not so extreme in exploring his native country he was born in another part of bash curia but off to several trips to the head of the barely a river he decided to stay here. believes that the whole best kid a nation originated here at the southern foothills of the us. territory is the visiting count of the whole republic here as well as this area.

it is secrest sayings for each bash here. in the name of this range is by shots and it is close to the heart of the bashkirs people. from a war. if the territory surrounding the mountain range is poor. the best. memory of being preserved here. is treasured most of all they were brought to from the. east several decades ago since then the animals have fully adapted to the new environment. of a siberian deer they shed them each spring. have six prongs on them

which means the deer was six years old siberian dear girl an extra one with every year there. isn't a period in this forest. used to make a. musical instrument of the same name. it is taken. to. an experienced. stand. sit down place. here a found a. fine one told me from many of them. its great work. and they haven't. let me try.

me here takes just. or you need to do is make several holes in the stork. or this is how the first tool is made. another one will be three fingers away. like any musician. needs to have a good if in music this republican that was but that's only half the story. also he needs normally position teeth.

the curry is not just a plant or a folk instrument if each is curious national emblem. of the piece kind of could i grows only here in the southern europe this is where my people live my ancestors lives here too they may have played such instruments thousands of years ago. said to go to the forest to inspect their beehives. they are some of the few for the keep up. tradition of wild honey. bees bees produce highly valued honey. there are twice as many enzymes in wild honey as there would be in bee hive honey where the enzymes account

for only sixteen percent. of. wild honey do not use any special equipment. trunk of the tree is a length of rope. gathering wild honey is a treacherous. there are two men to a team in case one of them has an accident. i broke two bridge when i fell off the street for the first time. i became a wild honey farmer in one nine hundred ninety two after my father retired having worked here for twenty years. but. my legs trembled during my first climb. but now it's just routine.

in fact the local species of birds and b is just a symbolic of fresh kid as the cooler i is these bees produce. the honey. this is the first hole you've inspection of the salt they hope this year would yield a good harvest. since. we didn't get too much today. the bees have only just got down to work. it's a bit too early to judge this honey is not yet crystallised. like many of the locals wild honey farmers get around the forest on horseback the horse is the main means of transportation here.

have always been in the people but here solely used for getting around. this is the most famous. kariya is a beverage made of maize milk. i'm not one. to literate a time with three to four liters a day. manners need to be milked every two hours six times a day. people use the same production techniques and. is poured into a barrel made of a whole tree trunk. east they leave it for. the fermentation process. the end product is a beverage. that has been

fermented for one day contains one percent of alcohol. three more days its content is higher. used to treat tuberculosis and stomach ulcers. having finished venture the tourists. they are preparing for. in the morning they will be faced with the trip's greatest challenge scaling mouth shut tyke. in the area. it's in accordance with local tradition anyone who has visited this land at least once is expected to take away a symbolic souvenir these tourists

a lucky they are presented with a curoi made by a must. the fellow who do you know what to write is no. it's a national best cure instrument and also a symbol of bashkirian. and looks beautiful can i have one yes it is you can how do you play it it's difficult you have to learn it's easy to make tricky to play me here it is three bashkirs souvenir thank you very much. the distance between the tourist camp and the rope ledge that crowns man shot tyke is a mere ten kilometer. however the scenery radically changes over the two hours that the group takes to cover the distance. at an altitude of one thousand five hundred metres the plant life is

completely different. it's the last stage of the cloyd and the tourists are confronted by a cliff. only following what is to reach the top but the reward is where it. made it to the top and shacks.

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