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 meds milk to make a strong beverage. three glasses of commerce a day keep the doctor away. and at the same time enjoy it but it's only a view of the landscape. that i saw how he started falling down a stranger to grand. a cherished blend at the foothills of ancient mountains.

is a republican central russia its southern politics often acclaimed as one of russia's most spectacular natural features here the plane 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 front. a little bit higher. pull this bit back all the other to one of the most of these twelve tourists. this is the first tory they have ridden the whole. yes there is a group in

a ten man group only one has ever been on horseback lessons of us remove three of 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 cabins in tents. the best caves a. major waterway. guys let's make a break. only one of them right now we are on the horseback track of the route for the well 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 as. the conditions for a deal 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 . job i'm waiting for the wind to. because right

now this draft won't give me any live. the first attempts to take. this makes it impossible. i should find another place maybe i'll get lucky. just yet. of a cave. detraction is located on the right bank of the river about three hundred fifty kilometers from the republic's capital.

gang. maybe tights. every fifteen minutes this group of. 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 the 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 girls may have been killed. and then buried here.

to see the most important discoveries of the cap of a cave there is the so-called graffiti at the top of the cave only researches 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 moments. fifteen thousand years is a unique example of prehistoric such graffiti had been found only in caves in the south and for. scientists is still unclear about how ancient

people could make paints that have lost for thousands of years. these natural paints are made from clay. they either used to stick their fingers to spread them across the wool. speed eulogists yury. 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 thoroughly examined almost every nook and cranny of its passage ways this book took hundreds of thousands of years to come. three take a. this stream or brook call it would you like the way the rock to make its way under it. comes out from the other side as a full fledged stream after merging with other subdural a knee and streams. what

we did you read it now it has enough water to feed into the so called blue lake but here in the prebooking version you it's a monument of natural beauty. there divers can go down to a depth of more than eighty meters nothing will be moved in that will. it pains the scientists to see a cave with the unique microclimate and rope graffiti slowly decaying under the impact of droves of tourists. were the disease 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 has taken to catamaran before mounting forces one

small they will rough down the big all the way to cap of the k i. is best curious lot just a most important waterway i. come on all together i want to look. less bored i there are new challenging rapids so dangerous will pools in the belly a river even begin as can go rafting i this time however the tourists have got off to a new of a start only two of them in the group have evan laid the hands on a paddle. i cut i head lies a relaxing route for the beginners. we're doing great i the district is one of most popular tourist sites in best kariya.

here the barely a river is squeezed between two cliffs. many of them contain deep caves which are barely being studied the tourists are also outside the so-called antony's caves. there were several levels in the cave. 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 interposition comes of it and. that. is in his first year medical college and five he comes from the indian state of go which is a will develops 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 inferno european nature nick i'd never seen before and was a great experience right coming on the road an even the mountains and there and the flowers and everything that's on our part it was very. alexi the paraglider has found an ideal spot for takeoff he has been shooting a film featuring the best kitty is beautiful scenery. he 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. close up team has been to the region where technological breakthroughs save human lives. now marty goes to the sea.

where unusual ways to protect nature. where farming pioneers place local cuisine to the highest pitch. and where future developments depends on the way. russia's black sea coast should close up on our. from los angeles to chicago to birmingham twenty trauma centers have closed since two thousand supermom is not enough inpatient beds not enough urgency department beds and not enough nurses commandos there to take care of all the people who are the only real health care system that we have in the city of los angeles is the los angeles fire department in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to do and i started out want to just do fire fighting it's about eighty two percent of what we do the far the problem is medical i've got a rescue couple weeks ago waited four hours for i've waited sometimes three hours

but i was it's a safe francis and we went for four hours and fifty minutes standing against a wall with patients and we have a federal law that mandates that you can't turn no one away who seeks care in an emergency room. we have the most expensive health care system in the world and it's probably valued the least. paraglider alexy continues filming the beauty of best kuria all these video camera but after five minutes of flight the wind becomes stronger. i'll try to land. there some turbulence.

insult being caught in a dangerous downdraft the wing collapses thirty metres from the ground. slightly the strongest blow was focused on alexey 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. good that's good for 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. of that alexey decides to call it a day. student of local history who stem had chemo 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 rural. this territory is the visiting count of the whole republic here as well as this area. it is secrest sang's bridge bashed here.

in the name of this range is by sharks and it is close to the heart of the bashkirs people. from a war. if the territory surrounding the mountain range is. part of the best nature is. being preserved here. the siberian did is treasured most of all. 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 anything to siberia girl an extra one with

every year there. isn't a period in this forest. used to make a. musical instrument of the same day. it is taken. to. an experienced. head. stand. sit down place. here a found us. find. many of them. its great work. let me have a. let me try. making

it 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 best kind of could i grows only here in the southern europe this is where my people live my ancestors lived here too they may have played such instruments fashions of years ago. said to go to the forest to inspect that bee hives. they are some of the few farmers they keep up the 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 when 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 to grips when i fell off the street for the first time. i became a wild honey farmer in one thousand nine hundred 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 could i is these bees produce these sort off the

honey. it's this is the first time you've inspection of the sama they hope this year would yield a good harvest. since. we didn't get too much today. out of 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. the best kid has always been in nomadic people but his. use for getting around.

this is the most famous commis farm in best kuria commis is a beverage made of maize milk. i'm not one. to litter it's a time with three to four liters a day. manners need to be milked every two hours six times a day. is a drink turkic peoples they 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 low alcohol beverage. that has been fermented for one day contains one percent of alcohol. for two or three more

days its content is higher. used to treat tuberculosis gastritis stomach ulcers. having finished venture the tourists. they are preparing for. in the morning they will be faced with the trips greatest challenge scaling mouth shut tyke the highest mountain 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 cooler i made by a must of. the fellows oh do you know what cool raw is no.

it's a national best cure instrument and also a symbol of bashkirian. and looks beautiful can i have one yes yes you can how do you play it it's difficult you have to learn it's easy to make tricky to play and here it is the best you know souvenir thank you very much. the distance between the tourist camp and the rope ledge that crowns man shot ike 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.

if the last stage of the cloying and the tourists are confronted by a cliff. only following mysteries the tall but the reward is where it. made it to the top a shack sat. we'll

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