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it for me and the news team for the moment we'll be back with more for your health an hour from now in the meantime as promised we visit a far away russian republic and meet the locals fame for that warm hearts and hospitality. if there's anywhere in russia that i love returning to again and again it's the caucasus. with beautiful scenery great food and fantastic hospitality it's my favorite region in the country this time i was visiting at a gala one of russia's smallest republics and home to just under half a million people. spring is in the air and out again especially here in the capital like cup which appropriately enough. means valley of the wild. the republican actually law is wholly within the krasnodar region but it has its

own distinct culture the native out again population has lived in the north caucuses since the thirteenth century and it's known for its music craftsmanship and some of the delicious streets. now it would come as a great shock to you to know that i am a man who likes his home so i was very excited by head out again as most famous export is eats cheap a line yet again to see. how it's made. a miller it comes from a very traditional recipe the production process is distinctly modern. again cheese is extremely popular throughout russia mild and salty it's a great aperitif and a favorite in silence and waving at the mill. and the. slippery slope to the top. and saliva that. you get a good step in and out of that hole in the full of these. lovely in the things he

did supposedly she shared taste different than any other place in all of the country because of the power of the mountain. it's a simple recipe that's been used in the republic the generations in the factory staff are careful to make sure it looks as well as taste right cheese gets clipped like a pancake given its stink on. once the cheese is already sent off to cool the full being packaged up to be sold around the country unless someone gets them first to. make so much of the stuff though and this little bit. is creamy like fresh mozzarella but it took about soul to pick up something while. believe me there. are you me out again. but they're delicious cheese isn't the only specialty you can find in this republic. i remember when i was

a child the one of my favorite stories was the tale of moses in the bullrushes and as you can see the lakes and ponds around here are absolutely covered in them and the other guy have been making use of them as a cross for tiriel for literally thousands of years. of still pursues a mark that's almost died out and out again weaving traditional bull rush markets and he offered to show me his collection of. mansoul agrees were discovered in graves dating back to two thousand b.c. and secrets and techniques have been passed down through families ever since. they created composite patterns they could be likened to a song. they are like music needless to say i am aware of numerous patterns but i want to make some of my own. you can see the differences for yourself do you

want to know how they are made please take a seat. before anything can be done the reeds need to be cut off in small manageable pieces. might be a lengthy process this one. and once the slicing and dicing is complete everything gets a good soak. water here as it speeds up the process and hopefully the end of it. flexible and will be formed in days gone by it would have been very strange to see men at the loom traditionally weaving was always done by the ladies of the house but some were deemed traveled far and wide to learn the secrets about a gay as master crafts woman and he was ready to teach me a trick or to. brush the string. be generous with force. nimble thing this time each rush must be threaded through the strings total for the

ends and then given a good bass with the loop handle suddenly moved to tickle them it looks worrying thing was that apparently in olden times that the guy girls were judged on how good a wife they would be by the quality of the carpets that they brought to their wedding. how this rate would definitely destined for a life on the shelf. fortunately zama dean was on hand to correct my mistakes but if anything was ever going to get finished. it was time for him to take over. eight seconds of the. i think somebody is going to speed up the process an awful lot. and i do again bryant was supposed to present three maps on her wedding day one for the living room one for the bedroom and one for prayer and nowadays many of some of dean's commissions are made for the islamic community. this is where the gay is cathedral church but

there's also a large muslim minority in the republic and until recently there was no where is impressive for them to worship but then the local government decided they wanted to change all that. they received a million dollar grant from the united arab emirates and all of the top architects were invited to submit a design for a brand new mosque and i'm about to meet. it's safe to say that i'm sure of success has been very good for business this works tower is a scale model of a new national monument he's designed for the republic and his triumphant mosque holds pride of place in the center of the capital the exterior is designed to reflect elements of the male and again national costume and it stands out starkly among the surrounding buildings this is one of the largest mosques in the entire caucasus made distinct by its square minarets and the inside is no less impressive

. coming. the columns that blend in with the dome meant to create a shape like a woman's body symbolizing the spiritual link between the two sexes as women coming from within but in the decades since the mosque has been built it's attracted a thriving congregation and according to local mufti no to be a me it's been hugely positive for the whole community. to be full of the most came into being the muslim community was disunited because muslims used to pray in their homes. today. of me and women come to the mosque and young people receive a moral education. churches to contribute to this mission joining forces to fight the evils of drugs and alcohol addiction. and as i stood back to listen to the a mom service it was easy to see just how popular the mosque has become.

it was time for me to leave my car and start exploring some of that again is glorious scenery and i have a special place in mind to start off. now through that again as most spectacular natural attraction the roof canyon and people come from miles around to hike and take a look at a seven beautiful wall. and it will easily take you a day to see it all. but some people prefer to take a closer look than others. or guess that's what they call the quick way that out o. me. her son and his friend ivana can units and they hike climb and i'm silent out every boastful they catch them sometimes they bring guests. by will's up today. we were going to tackle was fool them before all nicknamed the

girls plots because of its twisted appearance apparently it's perfect for beginners as long as they pay attention. safeties on. very tight. then that helps if your instructor has a sense of humor this is a serious waste of my latest one on this day if most of the more fool is around twenty meters high that looks alone way down when you still may end. up just like. abseiled down. there was no backing out mt very tentatively i dropped down the sign but i'm still before but the water makes everything very slippery that doesn't mean you can't have a little fun. my royce

was almost numb by the end but i made it to the bottom and then there's just a refreshing swim from the fill. up. like. it was definitely time for a change of clothes and a hot drink but i was determined to see as much about again as countryside as i could even if the weather did have a surprise in store for me. here the reindeer is interesting for the herders. and when it suffers. people do their

best to help go up. the distances are. and the roads are tough and unpredictable. will remedied the old china. there hasn't been anything good on t.v. . it is to get the maximum political impact. before the source material is what helps keep journalism honest.

we wanted to present. something real. so for instance in saluja the rights of. the roads if you came in for example a certain date on this but. breast cancers more than ten times told cancers fourteen times i will forget the exact details but the shoots numbers there's not nothing that you have ever found in any epidemiological study anywhere ever there is a way that brings victory. to its creator. he's not alone some are more severe than others we have sunday bees born without skulls without organs and sometimes with their legs totally twisted blood means death to those who it's pointed to touch. them. and to those who use this weapon. and they're celebrating and they don't realize stand

looking that there are future cancer. this is just. it's so sad. i have. leakage and i show you to the extent how much i have leakage. there's no doubt but our game is nature has its greatest assets the mountains and canyons are some of the most beautiful in the caucuses assuming you can actually see them of course. but this gives you an idea of just how changeable the weather can be up here in the mountains for most of the days it's been green sunny and lovely and now so we're plunged back into the

middle of winter. wallop my waterproofs. and within hours everything can turn stark white. if it hadn't happened i wouldn't believe this amount of snow could fall in such a sort period of time but it's not going to stop us because even though we are outdoors there is a rather beautiful indoor attraction that we can still visit. and that meant heading almost forty metres down onto the earth. it's not exactly dry but wow isn't this incredible it's the big a sheer scale caitiff translated from the russian and it's the largest open limestone cave in the area. this is one of the most spectacular caves in europe because of its wealth of style it tights and style of mites and it's one of the area's most popular tourist spots. take

a look at these stellar toilets here pertly it takes hundred years for them to grow just one centimeter so you know margin the thousands of years it's taken for it to get to that length credible. there's a lot of ups and downs to this cave if you want to see it in its full glory but if you do get time and there's a natural pick me up you can try. for the gator is a land of legend and this cave has its share now these two pillars supposedly have a positive and a negative charge and if you touch them similar taney asleep. specifically with energy. much missed. by the following morning it was like our little winter interlude had never happened and down by the water's edge there are some fascinating discoveries to be made.

this is the whites river and it's a real off kilter called treasure for the other gay republican because it's lists it with beautifully preserved examples of i'm on life all souls all of which state that more than a hundred million. hopefully. be a great example rights over here. as well as yeah. he said he says he hopes to be out soon as expected and when the. past has been studying it again is fossils for more than twenty five years and has helped move the best examples to the republic's stone hawk museum. become a look here kind of a cross section of the animal it's itself in the natural forward manes of the animal here and all these legs it is built up over the millions and millions of years to create this false top of. the pot both some of the largest and best

preserved dominants in the wolds i'm nobody has his own ideas about what they all look like. a mongolian sitting on his course here. but right this one is supposed to resemble a rodent the mole kind of brushing grandma than julius caesar but you know the case of perception. in the king of the jungle is well represented to animal. blood just a family of lions here with a male at the top children from the lioness head from that i'm going to hold pride in the law and here the line about spring will slide. resembling any from south park maybe they may be open to some artistic interpretation but it's impossible to forget that these huge natural sculptures so ancient they were formed when this whole area was still covered by ocean and the locals believe they have missed call properties so here they've taken inspiration for some. other guy

legends apparently if you climb up to the highest point in the stone museum and if we shout a particular word it will get rid of all our negative energy and vibrations so what do we need to shout hard. ok ross three. zero. and it's not just spiritual refreshment that's on offer in this republic you just need to take a trip out into the mountains to find it believe it or not these. no we haven't just hopped on a plane to china we'll still very much not again and this is the most northerly tea plantation in the world. according to head botanist boris core assume the tea plant is much more robust than you might think. this region is one of the best places for growing t.v.

because when temperatures here drop below zero it's normally accompanied by snow. our plants can withstand temperatures as low as thirty degrees below zero or about minus twenty to fire and it. although the cold weather does leave its mark. sometimes we find damage leaves like this one maybe this happens because of a cold. this is a seriously cool my product but sells for up to ten dollars per one hundred grams and everyone here is trying to make the most of it. so this. pruning is a very important process because it allows the shoots to grow back even higher so when it does come to summer in picking time you get a much higher yield we need to give them a good trim. although you have to make sure you're cutting in the right places.

that's just instruction given james ok. each bush takes around five years to reach maturity and when its leaves are harvested every time yields around two hundred fifty kilograms of precious black tea. oh it's well it certainly seems that this is a pretty exclusive team but apparently it's going to be really special i need to go in for one more ingredients. and nothing goes with it better than another locally sourced product. is definitely the right place to be a little bit careful. they peary's are commonplace in this part of a game and nicholai has one of the most successful apparently it's rare for the bees to attack you here but it doesn't hurt to take precautions to stick this on. and that is. a little frightening but it's one with

a tasty wildflowers of the mountains to feed on a good heart you can produce up to one hundred kilos of honey in a season and it was time to smoke out the bees well this supposedly makes the bees think that the hive might need to be abandoned so they start and it calms them down so hopefully no stings. and with its three thousand residents feeding away i was free to grab a slice. ok and try and avoid the be sticking its tongue in the comb next to me so moment of truth is off i'm. not beautiful and never had honey straight from a hive. that is not really sweet but it's just delicious and with my side dish cured i was finally ready for

a brew ok now i am ready for a tea party so my t.v. has been brewing here so pour myself some of that. it's just. this beautiful me. that. is a proper cup of. tea making is a relatively modern addition to add a game culture but back in my car i had a chance to take a look at one of the republic's most ancient arts. he had again have always been a warrior people and in olden times their weapons would never have been far from their hands in fact a man's most precious possessions were considered to be his horse his gun his sword

and his daggers and more beautiful they were the more pristine he had. and even though the battles may be long gone there's still a demand for these antique items of war morat is one of only a handful of weapon smith still working you know again and he offered to show me where he creates his pieces most of the time he's restoring old weapons to their former glory and it's a long and fiery process. for him and my chemistry correctly it's the. end of the blue flame that has to be the hardest bit trying to gather on the soul of. the melting please. remember that. once the silver is molten it's poured into a molten left hard cold the very. strongly so we have a little lump of silver here that should be hopefully used to decorate scuppered.

it's a complete drag and needs months of effort so we were going to concentrate on one tiny piece but even that takes some very delicate handiwork still some more room with this one then adults give it a good tug and now that we had our wire we needed something to attach it to. i think that that is done for us each of moron's ornaments is an original design and once the pattern is in place it's welded together so there's a. little decorative ball for a dagger and that's taken already about ten hours of work to get to this stage. look at this and that's three months definitely a labor of love but there's only one place where a dagger like this really fits and that's on a protocol case and comes to. mind you just want to find one that one thing

i've learnt in my travels is how important the music dance and addition is to the people because he says by the sounds of things i think there is no exception. some of. these talented musicians are members of a gas state dance company gnomes and they're preparing for a seasonal concert the drums are up against national instruments although pronouncing their name correctly is a bit of a tongue twister. that is sure. that. that is a sound that has not come easily avoided apparently it takes years to master this technique and i had around half an hour to catch up. look easy.

on me and. this is. i decided that if i played quietly i might just get away with it especially with a spectacular show going on in front of me. so. i could have your book over that's not the aggregator. for one of russia's smallest republics that again leaves a big impression. this is a place that shows off the best of the russian caucasus a fascinating culture breathtaking and a genuine warm hospitality for those lucky enough to visit.