back in seventeen eighty five the british ambassador wants to fight the express command of the czarina catherine the great and rode the rapids here and i could hear them in the distance. things are just starting to speed up a little bit. now the last time i did this it was mid summer and about twenty five degrees celsius out a little bit different today. five degrees in the water. but there are two things it's worth getting out of the wrong people. i'm doing a little extreme sightseeing on this trip as well because just over here at. this place me one of the largest caves. you know of european russia and it's also got one of the longest underground streams as well going fourteen hundred meters back. and along the river banks you can find fossils buried in the rock face. go rafting here and you're combining a white knuckle ronnie's with a trip back in time. so we made it illumines does round the corner. but not a great little sightseeing five along the way. and i didn't even get wet. and the great lake is edged by a wild and beautiful landscape. but i'm here on the banks of the mighty lake ilm an