coast of russia the city of sochi is busy preparing for the twenty fourteen winter olympic games construction is booming transport infrastructure is being completely revamped and disabled on such points of being installed across town. but aside from being russia's second lympics city sochi is also one of the country's most popular tourist destinations people flock here for the long hot summer as the spacious beaches on the warm seas busk if you're looking for more than just a time it's also an area filled with some amazing natural highlights. so i've been spending a lot of so i'm in the city but off in the mountains there's the caucuses reserve which is literally the size of finland so i've met up with one very experienced.

and we are all fun and. it's fair to say that if you're driving up here then you're in for a bumpy ride so you might be lucky and find some tama but mostly it's just to try brooks fortunately alexei's wonderfully named wozzeck is up to the top. model looks like much of this is spin spin on this the seconds and. we're going up and down to crash the blasts. still going. to the hospital. because it's. just a couple of days in the caucuses reserve had what my appetite for the mountains the biosphere here is filled with unique flora and fauna some of the best hiking trails in the country. but getting to them wasn't going to be easy especially as there are plenty of places that even the wild. i can't go. james take this one place it'll

be my bike. i'm on the blue one. to get into the forest we need to cross the nearby river but paul's like these you need to be careful where you're putting the wheels. on the. problems of the house until he's punctual. i say so that. shows it. and once we were up and rolling it was time to head across the. room a bit lloyd. is going to avoid foley and. this is.

alex a work says the head of a conservation and knows almost everyone based in the coaxes national reserve he gets to go home most nights but they're all forest rangers that live here with their families three hundred sixty five days a year and their little enclave was on a stop. the rangers are here to police the reserve and keep it as unspoiled as possible and even though it's still late summer they're already preparing for the winter. the area comes a total of fifty four filson take this means you've got a lot to do considering that the group is very small the season is almost over shall we help out of course sure. help is always welcome. it was great to eat some real food after a long rawitsch and lending a hand in the field seem like the least we could do. take quite a lot of upkeep this place and that includes several hungry horses the more hay we

collect now. ship enough to. see them all through the winter. right how much i can balance my focus i could and. i'm sure a couple of hours we've gathered a mini mountain and range alexander took us off to collect all reward we still had a fair way to go and i was pleased to have someone else doing the hard work. ok in the stirrups. so i want butch here. which i guess means that i like says on sunday. hoping that it should make going up the hills a little easier anyway oh boy. was all going to go out his role the spirits had mountain to control we rode off into the forest. got the calm one here the pulse here can be

a little treacherous and i was glad to have alexander leading the way down to the water's edge. we managed to cross over but with the pathway getting narrower alexander was forced to turn back with the horses and alexei and i were on foot again but not for long. we're way past the river spring the high point but the water here is still blowing so alex and i going to need something quite sturdy we're going to get down in one piece and i think. that mission do the trick nicely. as i'm. ranting is one of the most popular summer schools up here in the mountains and

various. companies offer trips down the river and extra crew to make up the numbers and it certainly helps with the public. but it wasn't exactly white water as you can probably tell because of the fact that i'm still dry but we made it with down here and now. we get to tackle the cliffs themselves. i was expecting a nice hike up in the reserve and apparently one does exist you just have to climb up to it. but i'm worried about. is this supposed to be the easy.

grabbing a helmet and harness from the group or the bottom of the cliff but prepared for the ascent. of the a couple of close before this is particularly steep. losses got me through everything so. put my faith and again. first attempt the student exactly inspire confidence. that it's a done this before he got me into trouble and what needs and. they. are you coming your way here it is nothing. let's see how far we will get out. it seems to do

this well you have to haven't. credibly strong finger it's as it's impossible for me to create a rope with the whole hand otherwise it can be a very painstaking process but after some long breaks and the old cotton bruise we made it to the polls above. well we've made it to the top. broken. feeling sore. my shoulders. but. i don't know if. i. finally we have mountains all around us and a clear road ahead and i could start our trek into the middle of the reserve we still had a long climb in front of us but at least it wasn't vertical this time. the

trails just stumps it's even absent it thankfully it's been really tough so far it's the specific. because i think it's all going to be worth it. this trail is only been created in the last few years and it's made the tough journey up into the reserve considerably easier meaning more people have a chance to enjoy it but there's still plenty of work going on up here to make the area more welcoming for tourists. something like a four hour hike into the mountains. some construction work as kindly guiding me up three the least i can. do my bit for the national park. all the building is done using ecologically friendly material and the team up here are busy creating two new houses for those visitors who prefer not to sleep out in

the elements but for now. it's a case that if you want a decent kip you bring your own tent. she's going to try to get her out quickly before the weather changes. to the big grey suit. fortunately we've brought a modern tent with us and it was only a few minutes before everything was staked out and ready to go. home sweet have. time to think. it wasn't exactly going to be haute cuisine but as long as it was hot and there was

plenty of it it was fine by me. here take this you can warm up with some tea. i recommend drinking it with some honey from our local bees because it's naturally effective. in the meantime i was enjoying a brew with a good dollop of honey and it's a bit of a local specialty here. the reserve is full of beautiful flowers like these and that means millions of be nice great caucasian mountain bees to be persuaded makers of the tastiest honey. in the region. miller has been a beekeeper in this beautiful spot for more than twenty five years and has dozens of hives in her back garden and the residents are incredibly well behaved. that's the first time i've ever seen anybody open a hive and not use smoke. and told me that the bees were quite friendly and it.

seems to be the case. the bees are perfectly adapted for the mountain flowers and supposedly have the longest tongues of all honeybees. all of them serving her majesty the queen. breeds the queen specially and uses them to start new hives here and the cross the region. the highly prolific and it doesn't take the work as long to produce a honeycomb like this just don't expect them to give it up easily. we're going to share it with. an energy the honey was a great start but i was ready for my main course.

there are many wild animals out here. we could even see bears today for lucky. they might come to our tent even. because there aren't any berries out there so. hunt for food because their hibernation is over. so let's not leave any empty cans. to meet the hungry. take precautions. let's add some meat. when you camping there's always room for more calories and who can resist chicken from a can. that moments everything's going to taste good. and after just four or five minutes on the boil it was time to dig in. james and your

ball over. this is porridge or soup or i don't know what exactly to call it it doesn't matter. we just need to eat the food we eat out here needs to be filling with lots of calories so you have plenty of energy. and some for me. so how is it. actually surprisingly tasty about eight hours. i was completely exhausted and with darkness closing in i was ready to crawl into my sleeping bag and just hope that alexei didn't small too much.

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with another long day ahead in the caucuses reserve aleksei was keen to get going shortly after sunrise sleepily wandered down to a nearby street. for a. morning. very misty announcing day. totally to try and wake up. it's. not. the full set me do. not sell a decent cup of tea of course and around here it has to be some of the local brew. one thing that the russians and the british certainly share is a great love of tea and here in the sub tropical south the lucky russians actually have the climate that they can grow themselves this is the tea plantation

and it will be hard to believe that it's the biggest in the country it's been here since the late one nine hundred forty s. but the whole operation was restored and modernized back in two thousand and six the plants themselves are extremely robust and able to survive winter temperatures which can drop below freezing but they have to be harvested carefully and one man who knows all about that the man who's worked in the business all his life. with those not. just the tips that the work we make green tea from these leaves why don't you try some of the best and very healthy the healthiest and tastiest part of what we're going to try. of course when. it's a little bit better because of the turn and. i think i prefer mine in a cup. becoming an expert tea pick it takes time and experience but they're always looking for new recruits.

each plant has to be harvested up to eleven times a season and they sit there and the jewel. they give us come out of one of these issues in your absolutely so you can see why you need these sort of clothes but. when you think about whole way each one of these sacks weighs around forty kilos and they're delivered daily to the new processing plant. is part of all the load from the fields and we going to see how it's turned into the sea. might seem works only automated production line and that's a two man job. just about but if. they hear they go to the steamer the temperature is ninety degrees to you but. you

can't get out after that they're cooled by this ventilator. which of them there we did. it but then they're dumb to winter over which whips them. what they teach on the tealeaves then subject it to easing with. the results look a bit like this. the process to use send to the packing factory and it's ready for the show. that is the team making process from start to finish now all that remains is for me to sample the goods myself. and i have to say that drinking mountain tea in the mountains takes particularly good and enjoys to alex and i packed up a. set off again ready to make our way right into the center of the reserve. james

check this place out. it's very interesting because it is here that the russians german troops operating in the mountains that was during world war two otherwise known in this country is the great patriotic war. the germans were aiming to break through to the black sea and seize its oil deposits there. the fighting in the mountains was a tough job considering the local terrain around us. there weren't any tourist routes back them. and nearby was some considerably older landmarks. or the the more these stone structures might well date back a thousand years people began breeding life stalk here and attempt century shepherds use these structures as shelters if these twelve ruins are anything to go by a dozen shepherds would stay here at

a time while their animals grazed up in the mountains. as we moved forward into the mists we passed on the travellers making their way towards camp and they told us we were close to an oasis. you can swim here. thinking about having a swim. every whoever was better go ahead but it's not cold. this is the round lake it's fed by six surrounding springs and it's clear waters team with wildlife did you know this lake formed as a result of glaziers making depressions in the ground it's likely to be hundreds of thousands or even millions of years old.

and just beyond its banks there's a view that's worth all the effort it takes to get here. so i said i want to see the most beautiful parts of the mountains and i think definitely counts it might have taken on with the day of walking on a pretty uncomfortable night and finally made it right into the heart of the pool there. is a been an amazing journey but i wasn't relishing the thought of lugging my pack down the mountain on foot but one of sorties a limb. development's was about to come to my rescue. i have absolutely no. sign of civilized way of getting down it's about the best thing. in the last twenty. one and.

i said goodbye to alexei and prepared to head down back to the city of sochi but before i did i thought i deserved a little or no the only thing that i want to do now is steal away my aches and pains in the banya or the bath house and it's probably one of the most russian thing. or in this case is it. l.o.l. i mean it's the british band yeah that's right can i come in thank you very much. jay jay jay z. that's all i was thinking am i going to see pictures of the queen on the wall the old cricket bat here in there so what's british about the british. well even though not very british anyway i think. to do with the fact that it's like a british tradition to get. them in one place like. james looking has

lived and worked in russia for more than fifteen years and he's turned his pandya into one of the areas most popular spot but it's not always been easy to retreat didn't work because people will include russia they want to come on holiday to. you know barbecue especially so their idea of vegetarian teaching and walking in the mountains you know it wasn't very. well but in the end we built a body in the banya works and it all went from there. and as i went away to get changed the first room was heated up well wait and see what. the temperature inside the banya pushes one hundred degrees celsius more than two hundred foreign oil it's the process is all about getting rid of the bodies impurities stiffening the system and having the man told me and hold it. and it'll be something that's all come up. the whole experience is very intense and feels

more like a tribal ritual than a small session but if you find yourself getting into the light headed there's a sure way to wake you up again. body and soul. space was less. fortunately the pain is temporary and they have an extremely original recovery method. the story said.

ok so being covered with honey beaten with sticks and then boiled in pots might not be traditionally british but some things never change they wanted something. that they are. told so this is actually see i bring back from england the time travel that. winds. of course change you know. it's. too many to enjoy. it was an eccentric but wonderfully relaxing and to my trip into the reserve the scenery is incredible and a stark contrast to the bustling city

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