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a look at the preparations for the source you twenty fourteen winter olympics. it will be the middle of winter but come february twenty fourth teen one russian city will be the hottest destination in the world. tourists from across the globe will be heading to the black sea city of sochi for the start of the winter olympic games. more than ten billion dollars is being spent to prepare and the idea is that the games will leave an economic cultural and environmental legacy that won't just benefits russia as a whole. it's a lofty goal and i wanted to see for myself how things were taking shape sent if you're heading down here in the summer you know you need to travel light.

that makes a very nice change to be able to travel around russia dress like this because here in the sub tropical south t. shirt and shorts is pretty much all you need i'm in sochi along a city in europe and the host of the twenty fourteen winter olympic games. the city's coastline extends an amazing one hundred forty five kilometers along the black sea and i was going to need some local help to get to know it properly and who better than a pick volunteer. why welcome percy. cancer researcher thank you very much my name as part of your with your friends for the race. a man who likes his sunshine pavel moved to several years ago from siberia and to seem some significant changes take place.

so the last time i was here was in two thousand and seven she actually got game. it must be almost a completely different city or so she's a different city from tucson because. you know we have totally infrastructure we have you run. we have almost finished on the big where you can see the big coastal cluster whereas i mean we use and sometimes maybe you have a feeling that. the fear of there one night when you would be spending most of months on the around the olympic site but first i wanted to see more of the city itself and pavel was happy to give me a tool and a history lesson this looks like a wealthy man's playground around here this is such a scene for what. actually this place was one big swam it used to be the

twentieth century and the native people living in the mountains and because. they fear to stay up here here comes on the twentieth century. or the gursky has put here small fish which is. yes. no mile area since nine hundred fifty no one was. so she's warm climate has led to a city full of lush greenery and even russia's most famous old bolshevik gets a tropical setting lead in the monkey palm trees and wonder if he thought he'd ever have such an exotic setting. but much of the city's other architecture has a classical touch. this guy was called so i think you can see it looks

like bath and it is widespread all over the idea was that people need. to rest in palaces so it's not like a real palace. that might be known internationally for the olympics for decades so she has been russia's favorite seaside resort. tourist still flock to the beaches here every summer and new hotels are popping up all over the place to cope with the expected increase in demand. you're always guaranteed to get a sunburn down here but. the weather can be very unpredictable. they go to. the make

a quick getaway. and this was no ordinary storm fortunately the almost black funnel stayed well out to sea but i was soaked and decided it might not be a bad idea to head away from the beaches and up into the mountains. you might think that a city on the sea would have all the fish that it could handle but it seems in sochi there's always room for a bowl and they've been phoning these beautiful rainbow trout here almost all centuries. this is russia's largest trial with more than eighty hectares of land two hundred separate homes and some of the richest residents. still the best way. to have a good it's not that. there are limits. to hunger. well. alongside the rainbow trout the farm also has pools full of

flashing amber trout and the famous black sea salmon which swim into mountain rivers to spawn that they can hardly be observed because they rush to the surface snatch the food and dive to the bottom. they are as veracious as trout. forty eight teeth in the form of hooks. there are teeth even on their tongues and gills. way should you lead them by two fingers right. stick your hands in there is a sound advice i think the wounds will heal over only a couple of weeks later the form produces more than eight hundred tons of fish every year how do organizes daily guided tours if you're more of a four legged form there's plenty of that nearby. you won't be able to ski up in the mountains at this time of year but it's still an amazing place to visit i'm

standing right on the edge of the course's national reserve and i'm off to meet some of the local. aleksei has been running this sanctuary for more than a decade but the history of the reserve here dates back to the nine hundred twenty s. . the initial purpose was to preserve the bison but later the nature reserve was intrusted with broader functions to preserve other animals as well as the natural environment the nature reserve all keep eyes an area of three hundred forty thousand hectares. these include links road deer and the famous bison as well as eagles and goats with some very impressive headgear busts if you like to get up close and personal with the wildlife as one animal that's definitely the star of the show

a little. oscar here is a male red deer yeah he's a handsome chap just me or some of these horrible flyers and in return for a few carrots the red deer is more than happy to gracie with his presents a bit of a provence going on. apart from the friendly wildlife it's also impossible not to notice the stunning mountains here in the nature reserve and climbing isn't the only way to enjoy them . as he had it easy so far in sochi so we decided to ramp it up a notch this now that he can hear. about literally explore its depths. the.

canyon is a popular summer sport in sochi and combines hiking jumping and swimming and once we had all safety briefing it was time to get into the water. basically maneuver yourself through the cracks and gorges here any way you can take advantage of any handy rocks tree branches along the way. to the. lovely stuff. has been leading groups here for more than ten years but i was happy to take a quick break and catch up with him. coming a little brats. because it's quite an intensive schools and. yes.

it depends on the girls. and what is special about this and. i think it's the best guess. because this little one of the. places where jobs we heard. another legion ski is filled with spectacular scenery. he wasn't wrong about the jumping. like. exactly this. your. profession. the whole route was a real adventure and around an hour later toyed and a bit battered at the bottom. plate.

think just about everything exactly. but. all the people to the subband. once a joyful it was time to head back into sochi to take advantage of the good weather and do a little highrise sightseeing now i'm a seaside town boy myself so i've been on the old fairground ride and see. this saw it entertainment but here in tsotsi the people are promising to combine the two to something rather spectacular. this is the grand opening of the largest ferris wheel in russia an eighty meter high monster then to celebrate its they've decided to have a massive multi-ethnic choir sing the national anthem on it well it certainly beats a ribbon cutting. the choir belted out their anthem with gusto and if you don't

mind a bit of a shaky ride the reward at the top is truly spectacular. to go through a quite ridiculously heavy rainstorm to get clear skies but i think that view was the way. the mushers that so much as i can which of course he's right on it so here oh and welcome to profit out here in a lot of us stop at the apec two thousand and twelve meeting. the news secret laboratory tim curry was able to build

a new its most sophisticated robot which on fortunately doesn't give a dollar amount anything tombs mission to teach the creation why it should care about humans and world this is why you should care watch only on our t.v. dot com. if you stay in the center of sochi you might never realise the scale of the building that's going on down in emirates in valley there may be peace and quiet here but the olympic coastal cluster has a very different story in the olympic site in miniature and this should give you an idea of just how close together it all is from the stadiums themselves to the infrastructure that surrounds them everything's within walking distance and it means that it's pretty easy for me to take a tour of the facilities this is the busiest construction site in the country with more than fifty thousand people working around the clock and i want to start off in its biggest stadium. this really is the jewel in the crown of the whole olympic

project the site of the opening and closing ceremonies a future world cup football stadium and a place where the all the unusual name right say or so this is the feast stadium it's not the fish stadium but feast the last letter ok you name up the mountain right. most beautiful mountain in because you and that's why they call it the beast if you see that you have to watch. they are like moment. and not far from the stadium easy to see and you come to the site you see that i know from the sea to them. alongside the fish there are five other stadiums all within a few minutes walk the bolshoi stone in the show about where the hockey will be held the adler arena for speed skating the iceberg for figure skating the ice cube

for curling. you see how close the venue is our to each other we need five minutes to go from one venue to another when it's the most olympic park in the world during the winter games for sure because the territory is just two hundred fifty six hectares and. everyone knows. this territory and that was of course one of the real unique selling point so it's very unique you see winter games and near the sea sure this is the side of me and tennis seven major test seven minutes and here are. the mountains yes. i walked into the iceberg arena to see how the interior was taking shape but it seems the workers here have everything under control even if they do have to work from some pretty precarious positions but that doesn't mean they're not looking for new recruits.

well the games might still be a few months away but as you can see this is a project that's going to take some finishing but i think they can probably use all the help they could get. and sorties transpose infrastructure is also getting a major overhaul. if you're going to invite the people of the world to your city you need to make sure that they can all get there and that is where this comes in so cheese new three hundred million dollar ports and by twenty fourteen i think it could be processing up to four thousand people every hour. it's taken over two decades to get this airport running after initial building was abandoned back in one thousand nine hundred nine but new owners came in and transformed it and since may two thousand and ten is such airport has been open for business direct to sergei says they're on track for

the olympics. major of course it's already. normal that everything is in place but still we need to do something before the. major focus is not on their construction on all the efficiency operations. the airport is a striking symbol of molten salt but just outside the city is an area which has barely changed in the linea. this is one of the natural highlights of the caucuses national reserve this unique subtropical forest which dates back ten to twelve million and the context of that history of you is just a baby it's over a thousand years old and still alive and kicking. and there are plenty more where

that one came from and i headed to me to say to tell me all about them. the reserve staff aims to preserve a listen enable visitors to come into contact with the wild in its natural state for years this place has remained intact trees here have neither been felled nor burned it will continue to preserve those. but even though she never destroyed these trees the forces of nature have no such qualms. take a look at that tree over there it probably fell down because of the wind or maybe because of an earthquake we are in an area where small earthquakes often happens just like some when. it can be dangerous. for the today. aside from the natural places of interest there's also a manmade relic here that's left over from the dome pages. have scaled

the fortress. i think that these walls date back to around about the seventh century a.d. and could have been built by the native people who used to inhabit this area was obviously use for defense but who actually built it nobody knows for sure if this park may be the most spectacular piece of tropical sort but it's far from the only part the climate here means that lush greenery flourishes almost everywhere and that includes the city center and i met up with pavel for the rest of my city too so this is a review our park which was. nineteenth century by mr hooper fresh and i reached across who wanted to make wine. and so all this territory was grown with. grapes one with grapes you know for wine and he has found that the grapes are to exit from wine are to say that you know yes and here scott's all the

grapes and he has put here tropical trees that show so this is mr hooper and this is where we have this book yes this white. bubbles work for the upcoming games has already seen him take part in almost a dozen different major events but it seems he fell into it rather watch out why did you decide to become a woman. actually i. didn't know all the volunteers and i was strolling the place where they reflected when my friends asked me to go there and they didn't know what was going on when i came there and i understand finally that i am a woman here my first two rooms. have this event and this was the thing which has changed my life and. now i can't imagine my life without won't you know.

sort of a very positive accident yes. and with such a glowing recommendation i wanted to find out what pavel's program was all about ok james now i'm going to take you to a place where you will become a real fantastic volunteer sent. all the participants here a young intelligent and speak at least one foreign language. when they're working they're supposed to personify the limbic ideal of excellence friendship and respect for your. friendship you can join in the other groups as well. roleplaying gives the volunteers a chance to bond but also an opportunity to practice the situations they might encounter on the job including some very demanding customers imagine this this is brooke this is

a world this is in for desk and this is a sign we have no tickets no where we big no no i'd like to tickets for the ski jumping please who are very sorry but we have no tickets. and so we're going to have been kind of. sorry this pick and wish you. well with us for that we did. ask my colleague ok with that kind of self control you'd certainly want pavel on your team ice cold . i think you. know this you know. so she knows that hospitality is all important and with hundreds of thousands of visitors expected in twenty fourteen the city is working towards becoming accessible for all. alongside the winter olympics sochi is also hosting the twenty

four team power lympics games and that. some significant changes for the city's disabled. a few years ago buses like this didn't exist in sochi but thanks to the games and campaigns from people like a leg more and more disabled facilities are being put into place. the like. hello. what we're doing is helping is experts helping the administration to tackle some of those many important issues when we give advice we advise on where something should be built how to avoid more mistakes. that includes being able to take advantage of one of sorties most simple pleasures a day at the beach and we met up with the legs friend rima to see what's been done

and what's still going on. but it's these trends they've been around for more than three years. there are many facilities on the beach and they've given disabled people much easier actually cafes to restaurants and other places. and. more and more beaches are expected to be made available in the same way as each season passes. fortunately it's just as easy to get off the sands as it is to get on them. one of the other great things about these facilities is that when the weather changes on a sixpence it does a little too often here it means that everybody is able to get under cover before the storm breaks so i'm going to go with these guys and see if we can keep dry.

whatever the weather sortie is a city that's built for tourism and the pact with souvenir shops and a whole variety of entertainment. you might spend your summer days sleeping on the beach in tsotsi but once the sun goes down here the city wakes up. oh me some annoying son plenty of high spirited holiday makers i mean this is a city that goes twenty four hours a day and if you're looking to check out the local music scene you won't be short of options. leave russia's biggest seaside resort without checking out the local nightlife been reliably informed that this place. what a lot later on it does give me a chance to try out how special. the with anything.

please plus. a multitude of ingredients later than my very colorful drink was ready i didn't see exactly what went into it but this isn't the look because. the super bowl should. get us bright blue with a blue cherry. perhaps not terribly manly but it is quite something. the drinks might be very modern for the music here is pure old fashioned rock n roll bands like the cocktails the audience laughs i don't. normally be heading home to most school around now but there's so much more going on in and around sochi but i'm going to stay on to find out more about russia's lympics city and its region then quite frankly there are far worse places to spend your summer.

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