the city of sochi is gearing up for the winter olympics in a little more than two years time. it will be the middle of winter but come february twenty fourth scene 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. the games will leave an economic cultural and environmental legacy that won't just benefit sochi russia as a whole. and i wanted to see for myself how things were taking shape. if you're heading down here in the summer. to travel.

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 city in europe the hosts of the twenty four. the city's coastline extends an amazing one hundred forty five kilometers along the black sea and i was going to need some help to get to know it properly and who better. thank you very much my name is part of your friends for. a man who likes his sunshine moved to several years ago from siberia and to see

some significant changes take place. so. two thousand and seven. games. it must be almost a completely different city or so she said difference to you from yourself because . you know we have totally infrastructure we have. we have almost finished i don't think when you conceive of a coastal cluster where i mean we used 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 square it used to be the

twentieth century and the native people living in the mountains because. they fear to step here here comes on the twenty first century. gursky has put here small fish which is. a mosquito 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 lung the palm trees wonder if people would ever have such an exotic sexy. but much of the city's other old detection has a classical touch. this guy was called so with plastic you can see it looks

like bath and and is widespread all over the idea was that people need to be held in. to rest. so it was like a real palace. it might be known internationally for being lympics but for decades sochi has been russia's favorite seaside resort. who is still flocked to the beaches here every summer hotels are the place to cope with the expected increase in demand. you're always guaranteed to get down here. the weather can be very unpredictable.

they go to. the lake or quick getaway. and this was no wooden restore. 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. and they've been phoning these beautiful rainbow trout. centuries. this is russia's largest trials foam. of land two hundred separate. and some of the richest residents. still depend. on the campus that.

doesn't limit. the seven hundred to go. alongside the rainbow trout the farm has pools full of flashing amber trout and the famous blue. see someone would 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 just as trout. forty eight teeth in the form of hooks. there are teeth even on their tongues and gills. way should you let them buy two fingers right. stick your hands in there is the sound advice of their wounds will heal over only a couple of weeks later the form produces more than eight hundred tons of fish every year and organizes daily guided tours but 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 occupies 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 bugs 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. it's me because of these. or will fly. 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. missis. paul from the friendly wildlife it's also impossible to notice the stunning mountains here in the nature reserve and climbing isn't the only way to enjoy them . easy. so we decided to ramp it up a notch this. year and about to literally explore

its depths. canyoning is a popular 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. through the cracks and any way you can take advantage of any handy rocks tree branches along the way. 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. tell me

a little. bit because it's quite an intensive school and it. depends. on what is special about this. because this is one of the. places where we learn. another legion ski is filled with spent time. killa scenery. he wasn't wrong about the jumping. exactly this. reversing. the whole route was

a real adventure and around an hour later. and a bit battered at the bottom. mate. who is. think just about everything exactly. it's a sick fuck. on the people too good of a son but. once a joyful it was time to head back into sochi to take advantage of the good weather and do a little high rise so it seems now i'm a seaside town boy myself so i've been on the old fairground ride and see my stash of 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 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. motherhood to go through quite ridiculously heavy rainstorms to get clear skies but i think that view works the way. download the official application cellphone choose your language stream quality and enjoy your favorites from atsushi t.v.

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infrastructure that surrounds them everything's within walking distance and it means that it's pretty easy for me to take it all 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 ceremony is 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 fished the last letter t. ok you name up the mountain right. most beautiful mountain in because and right that's why they call it the beast if you see the arch you have to watch. they are like moment and not far from the stadium easy to see and if

you come to the site you see that i know from the sea to them. alongside the feast there are five other stadiums all within a few minutes walk the bolshoi stone and the shi'a where the hockey will be held the adler arena the speed skating the iceberg for figure skating the ice cube for curling. you see how cool the venue is our to each other we need five minutes to go from one venue to another bring is the most olympic park in the world during the winter games for sure. 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 it's all really neat you see games and near the sea sure this is. me and china seven ten seven minutes.

yes. i walked into the iceberg arena to see how the interior was taking shape and 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 i think they can probably use all the help they could get. and sorties transport 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 sochi is new three hundred million dollars ports 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 sochi airport has been open for business direct gay 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 is not on. the official very. cool tis a striking symbol of sorts but just outside the city is an area which has barely changed in libya. this is one of the highlights of the caucuses national reserve this unique subtropical forest which dates back ten to

twelve million. in a 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 the 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 them. but even those humans have never destroyed b.'s trees before says of nature have no such qualms. to tree over there and probably fell down because of the wind or maybe because of an earthquake we are

in an area where small earthquakes often happens. when. you 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 used for defense but who actually built it nobody knows for sure. this may be the most spectacular piece of tropical sochi 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 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 what with grapes you know for wine and here is 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 which so this is mr hu. and this is where we have this 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 by chose why did you decide to become a woman. actually i. didn't know why all the volunteers and i was strolling the place where they reflected and 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 of my first two rooms for this event and this was the thing which has changed my life. now i can't imagine my life without won't you know. sort of a very positive accident you have. 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 the place where you will become a real fantastic volunteers 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 . friendship you can join in the other duties as well.

the role playing 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 limpia 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 they go yeah. sorry this pick and wish you. well with this was a way to. ask my colleagues ok with that kind of self control you'd certainly want pavel on your team ice cold. i think you. know this you know

absolutely. so she knows the 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. thanks to the games and campaigns from people like the leg more and more disabled facilities are being put into place. the leg. of. doing is helping as 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 stakes. 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 tracks they've been around for more than three years. there are many facilities on the beach and they've given disabled people much easier access to cafes to restaurants and other places. and. beaches are expected to be made available in the same way as each season passes. and 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 see if we can keep dry. whatever the weather is a city that's built for tourism on the boardwalks a 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. balmy summer nights and 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 late night life been reliably informed that this place. heats up quite a lot later on. specials. with. please. a multitude of ingredients later very colorful drink was ready i didn't see exactly what went into it but this is the look the polls. should. give us bright blue with blue cherry. terribly manly but it is quite something. the drinks might be very modern but 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 and quite frankly there are far worse places to spend your summer.