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family and friends are like why do you
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want to go there I mean they hate
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America and so you don't you know it's
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part of the world we shouldn't shouldn't
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be
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at times of a question I'm like you know
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is this the smartest thing to do you
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know I thought about it you know it's
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like wow you know as Baxter's got with a
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more hardened al-qaeda it sells outside
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of Iraq and Afghanistan in Uzbekistan
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right now there's been an uprising in
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the southeastern corner in a GG on it's
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very ugly when you look at the news and
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I don't want to don't play what's going
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on but of course I'm little nervous that
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that's gonna affect what you're but
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because if they cross the border to
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respect its own even though we are not
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going through this troubled area I
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really don't know the answer to what the
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outcome of World War two will be at that
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point so I just cross my fingers and
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keep a positive attitude I had a little
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talk to the group yesterday and I think
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that was in place because we need to
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have everybody on the same page and I
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don't want anybody to freak out I know
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people are sitting at home and getting a
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little freaky about our progress so they
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just have to keep it calm
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and I think I hope for the best that we
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don't have any issues this groups really
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seems to be amazing everybody's keeping
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their cool everybody brings something
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different to the table there's different
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personalities and different wrinkles
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going on in here and there but when the
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hits the fan or when it really
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comes time everybody's there completely
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getting in dues Beca Stan was not a
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problem despite recent violence between
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protesters and the authorities in the
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city of and Ishod however due to
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political unrest in the country the
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government has banned motorcycles from
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certain parts of the cities and we're
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forced to ride in a convoy with at least
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two police cars through the entire
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country
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reason is that motorcycles you know
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they're too loud that's the explanation
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we've got but as as the rumor goes and
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the rumors are the big source of
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information this country is that the
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president got some information that's
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going to be a tack on him from some kind
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of a motorcyclist and what he did he
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just prohibited motorcycling and and
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that's what we were we ended up tomboy
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got a long way to go and a short time to
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get there
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well writing the convoy coming out of
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town in the mornings not so bad because
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you kind of feel like you just did a
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parade and traffic's all stopped and
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everyone waves and it's fun for a look
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about the first 10 minutes or so then it
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gets a little tricky I guess mostly
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because I think everybody feels a little
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confined some people like to ride fast
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and they can't write as fast as they
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want so we would like to be able to stop
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and they can't stop when they want so I
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think everybody feels that they've
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compromised their riding somewhat nobody
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gets to do exactly what they want
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but it is nice getting in and out of
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town when you don't have to worry about
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traffic lights or other traffic or
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anything like that feel kind of like a
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celebrity but it does wear off after a
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little while with Becca stan is actually
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a very clean country they're poor but
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it's neat the road so ideal it's you
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know desert of course and it's a little
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warmth or you need to vents open like
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that and otherwise everything is
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wonderful it's great time
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many of us would see on some of our CNN
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that we pick up about problems in some
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of the countries and could we go there
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and they were fine when you get on the
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ground you realize the problem area may
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be well away from where we're going they
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like American most of them they come
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through and see a motorcycle they do a
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thumbs up American thumbs up things are
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much more sophisticated than the little
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news bike we get
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so the central asia we consider the five
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stance
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the former five soviet republics whose
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biggest on is located right in the heart
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of the central asia because it's
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surrounded from all sides by other four
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stance i have the calm the stands
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because it's like Turkmenistan
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Uzbekistan Kyrgyzstan Kazakhstan
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response oh you see Central Asia is very
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different so every stand is different if
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you want to have kind of an adventurous
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tour I would say that Kyrgyzstan is
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quite a nice place if you want to see
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more traditions more history you'd
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better go to us Pakistan which is right
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in the heart of this Central Asia m2
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which stands right on the Great Silk
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Road you will see such series as bukhara
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Samarkand which are really an oasis in
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in the desert and historically those
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places were on the Great Silk Road so
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you will feel the the atmosphere of the
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past in those cities
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this architectural complex consists of
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three big monuments and one minaret this
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minaret was built in 11:27 it means that
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it is 20 years older than Moscow the
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height of the minaret is forty six and a
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half meters in fact there is a winding
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staircase was 105 steps so the first
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function of the minaret was that of a
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lighthouse but in the reign of the last
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dynasty Mangat dynasty which was very
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cruel the minaret was used for
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executions people who were sentenced to
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death the throne of the minaret that's
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why they also call it a death star there
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are many legends about this tower they
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say in 1220 when bukhara was conquered
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by jenga's come Genghis can't destroy
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the whole city he destroyed all the
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monuments but only this minaret was not
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touched because when he looks at the
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minaret it was so high that he dropped
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his cap his cap fell down and he bent to
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pick it up as if he bowed when he said
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if this minaret makes such a great
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personage Angus come back to him let him
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stay so the minaret is greater than
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jenga's come that's why he bowed to the
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minaret the minaret is connected to the
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mosque column or column the biggest
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mosque in Bukhara the second mosque in
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central asia after the most big
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economies summer camp the area of the
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mosque is about one hectare about 12,000
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people can pray in the small small
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tennis league there were more than 100
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mattresses in Bukhara bukhara was a
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central religion a central religious
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education but in the Soviet time the
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religion was discouraged and all the
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mattresses were closed they were
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transformed into hotels into store
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houses into shops and museums normally
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in every madrasa as he enters the
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building there are two big rooms on both
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sides one is a mosque and the second is
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a classroom on the second floor there
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was a library and inside there is a
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courtyard with two floors of rules for
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students that was a dhama tree in 1997
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before the jubilee they restored this
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building I mean that all these tiles are
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new although the building existed but
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the tiles were not available in the
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Soviet time in the Soviet time this
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mattress was also used as a hotel now
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there is a concert hall and there is a
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Center in the morning of the classmen
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come and they work in the rooms of the
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dormitory and they make different Handy
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class
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I've traveled a lot in all these
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countries so the most religious country
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is as biggest an religious I mean not
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fanatic not fundamentalism but people
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really believe in God and they're really
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they take it very serious many of these
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areas too that we've been through
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depending on tourism tourism has been
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down and they want the Americans to come
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back because that is a segment of their
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tourism industry that they have lost and
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it's hurting their income level and they
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wants to come back to gain an
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understanding but whatever you have to
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interact we have to go there and meet
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them and maybe they'll come and meet us
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- and I and I hope more people go there
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because it's a wonderful place to travel
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it's not an easy place to travel you
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have to deal with some government and
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and visas and things like that but just
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get that taken care of and jump in and
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go it's it's well worth there is my
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severally place and heroes in my stuff
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and I have a two kind of ceramics one of
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them you see the blue and yellow a blue
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and green they're from Fergana Valley
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and yellow and green they're from
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pokhara you know how the Americans best
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customer
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because America uses dollars and but
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French or Germans they use a different
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one if American we say $10 they notice
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you don't have to change the money
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ten dollars it might end off if it's 20
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dollars of my 20 because it doesn't have
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an extra change know what I love I love
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my job spend the money to buy for myself
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our stuff
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this is the best one having traveled
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through the country before
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LJ comes prepared with prints of his
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photographs to give away if he can only
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find the people in the pictures he took
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he's in luck and finds this gentleman
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who happens to be wearing the same
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clothes he had on a year ago when Helga
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took his picture Gaston is like a big
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trading post you know that was you can
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feel still feel the old Ford proud it's
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an eye-opener for me an eye-opener
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because I didn't know I really didn't
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know that there were that many cultures
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that many individuality I thought that
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maybe it was all Russian it's not much
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at all it's really it's really
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individual I wouldn't say tried so I
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wouldn't say clans I would say people
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they are there some people know that
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they look a little bit different I can
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tell but there are different people like
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an Italian is different from the whole
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region I sort of feel like this has been
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one big compare and contrast essay
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because it's the compare that has struck
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me more than the contrast the Silk Road
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has been mixing and matching cultures
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for
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hundreds of thousands of years we've
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seen that words that I learned in
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Istanbul came I could use in
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Turkmenistan the languages are related
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and to see that commonality as we've
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gone through these major border hassles
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in different countries and different
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languages there's something about the
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people that's been a continuum and not
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this discrete tonal change
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it is a beautiful sunlit day I'm looking
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off I can see the mountains I need oil
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but they didn't have oil at this gas
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station that's up the road somewhere so
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anyway we did this fantastic repair on
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the baggage we found a nice welder he
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welded those two places together it
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makes the whole thing much more sturdy
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anyway this is gonna be a very fast trip
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this morning because we have police
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escort all the way and some of them are
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fast and I have to catch up some were
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slow and I have to put on the brake but
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normally it's pretty good I mean you
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don't have to get anywhere in a hurry
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because everyone's right here you know
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you can't hold anybody up so I'm happy
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to get there miss all those checkpoints
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it's a little warm but we need to get
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going a little faster and then we'll
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find us great I love it just hired a
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taxi because the police car shown so we
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don't Aska there it comes
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a few miles later a real police car
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replaces the taxi and then quickly runs
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out of gas
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fortunately for him there's a few bikers
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who know how to fix the problem
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such a simple thing as buying gas can be
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quite an adventure when you're
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travelling in another country so the
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whistling is to tell the pump man shut
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off the post
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very unusual guarantee they sell more
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gas than you get your tank however most
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of its on the ground
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anybody throws out a cigarette we're all
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in deep doo-doo he doesn't have a good
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shot off he runs his gas basically at a
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fairly rapid flow and then once he sees
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it coming out he yelps the guy inside to
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stop it it's not uncommon let's go fill
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up at your own risk
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second one right fine
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585 18
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one crop above all others dominates the
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landscape of Uzbekistan despite its
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intensive need for water in this arid
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part of the world cotton production rose
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to new heights under Soviet rule and it
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remains an important export of the
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country I would say that whose biggest
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stunt has the most fertile area in the
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Central Asia so that is why when you are
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there you will see a lot of fields a lot
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of gardens orchards and especially when
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you're in the bazaars bazaars is the
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main feature in Uzbekistan so you will
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see a lot of different products and it's
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it's it would it won't look like a
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supermarket in your country but it is
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you know the abundance of different
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things
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as to the historical heritage it's we
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have a lot of buildings and they're more
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or less well preserved and thanks to
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UNESCO we have such buildings because
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Bukhara and Samarkand they are in the
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list of the world heritage
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so let's thanks to that organization and
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of course thanks to our government to
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preserve it so that is why always among
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the guides we say that thanks to these
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buildings and of course thanks to
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Tamerlane who built up some account we
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have the job now many famous conquerors
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came through the city like Alexander the
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Great who captured the sage in the 4th
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century BC and you know he left
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something behind him for example when he
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left the country people began to build
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houses and abused columns and since that
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time until present day people still use
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this Hellenistic elements the next
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conquering batino he was one of the most
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cruel countries of the world Kangaskhan
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and city grew and it reached its
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flourishing but you know the city was
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just razed to the ground by him but the
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most of the history of Samarkand is
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connected with the name of Tamlyn and
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you know he left many beautiful
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buildings behind him and if you were
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stopped to Samarkand you can see very
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beautiful monuments survived since the
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time of tourmaline for example you can
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visit the ger Amir mausoleum it's just
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the mausoleum where Shyamalan found his
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last shelter he himself and his
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relatives but only men not women have
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buried here the next one
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a place I recommend you to see it's a
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very famous register on square which is
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nowadays is used as the great Bazaar is
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a great Craft Centre the culture the
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history there things that I didn't know
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about and they're just intriguing it's
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just a whole nother world you know and
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when we're in school like grade school
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high school and we have our history
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classes we don't learn much about that
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part of the world at all and there is so
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much there as an American there's a
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whole history of this region and a way
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of thinking and looking at the world
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that's different from ours
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that's all older than ours that makes
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one sit back and realize that the world
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is not Western century not
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western-oriented
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as we Westerners think it is when we
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were struggling in the West with
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civilization some of these civilizations
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through here were much more advanced
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tashkent is number four after Moscow
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Saints visible in Kiev territory is 240
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square kilometers so it is as big as
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Kiev by population 2.5 million people
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the population is divided into two parts
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you can exactly divide it like they
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divide Delhi it Delhi there is a New
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Delhi and there is all jelly we have the
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same we are in new trashcans now you can
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see TV tower 375 meters as an altitudes
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of 100 meters there is a rotating
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restaurant during one hour
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it makes the two circles and the people
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who are sitting there we may have dinner
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and just observe from that altitude the
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city for some people it is very
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interesting to see that and then there
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you see 9 storage buildings
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prefabricated concrete houses these are
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apartment houses of Soviet style we
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still continue building that because
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they are very cheap very cheap 1-bedroom
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costs one thousand dollars the central
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thing this rotunda is the burial place
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that is the common graves that's where
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many people died really for nothing some
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people died during the battle or during
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the civil wars and many of them are
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buried here in the common graves the
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Khan madrasah was built in the 16th
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century and houses the Muslim religious
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board of Uzbekistan these plaques
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reflect the changes in writing as the
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country moves from the old who's back
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national script to a new Latin based one
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there are more than 1,700 mosques in
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madrasahs in Uzbekistan including 250 in
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Tashkent although this is one of only
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two that were left open during Soviet
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times across the way at the cast imam
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mosque this book printed on deerskin is
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thought to be the oldest Quran in
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existence it was written in the period
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while Muhammad the Prophet was alive and
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then after that six copies
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other six copies were made after this of
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course by scholars
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and they also lost because 1,400 years
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passed and only three of them we have
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the main one which is believed this is
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the number one because of blood of a
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caliph was man yet his orders this book
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was written and one is in Mecca another
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one is in Yemen the rest of those that
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were in Baghdad those that were in Basra
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those that were in Istanbul they
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disappeared no one knows this Bazaar is
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alter Cuates Bazaar it is just the
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beginning of old quarters and this maybe
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is one of biggest bazaars if we have
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about twenty bazaars in the city this is
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very well more it's very pictures it's
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crowded always and it was always crowded
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before because it bizarre something
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special for most banks always they spend
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their time and not only for buy anything
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but sometimes to see to keep on every
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day practically they go to pass up the
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passer is just a place we are used to go
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well every day you need something this
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you can find on the buzzer if you look
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if you don't this way to the right you
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see there Korean ladies they are selling
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kimchi and the spices the Korean
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population is and whose base are also
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those who like they come here to the
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bazaar to have Korean spices
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this this museum you may call it a
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museum or you may call it an exhibition
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of
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applied art everything that you see here
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this embroidery wood carving ceramics
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terracotta twice and then we have Karpis
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and many many other handmade things by
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artisans you know there is a school
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otherwise this art maybe will die we
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have seen there embroidered things this
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embroidery comes from generation to
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generation and even little girls ages
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seven they already start embroidery they
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don't need it they can go to market and
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to buy that but anyway tradition is
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tradition we have school with trained
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young girl people to follow the
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tradition of all embroidery or ceramics
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so there is the studio and old craftsman
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are training younger people I think it's
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a good idea where we can shorten
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following that in the future what we
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were doing 19th century or all all time
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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what they love about my country is about
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a nice nature it is a mountainous
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country and they'll have a fish of fresh
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air of clean water in the mountains
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you know fresh places there's a good
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thing about the kyrgyzstan about nature
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[Music]
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[Music]
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understand countries that's former
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Soviet republics that no I independent
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and really struggling to find their
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identity in this region of the world you
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saw just the other day in Kyrgyzstan
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there was an uprising yes it was started
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by the people and really nobody really
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knew what were happening all of a sudden
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the president were hosted and know
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they're gonna have his election heard
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I've been a little nervous about the
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reports and stuff because you don't want
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to take a group into a political
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situation but it's very cool no it's
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okay and for some reason if there should
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be problem we can navigate around all of
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this but it sure Gaston is such a
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beautiful concrete by itself
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why didn't worry that much about
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political safety until about a month
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before I left and I visited my brother
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and he said do you know there was a coup
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in Kyrgyzstan over the weekend and I
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thought he was joking
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Cuba's people have this romantic culture
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and coming from nomadic culture people
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like to move free and the kind of more
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democratic minded people
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that's why Kyrgyzstan was called as as
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you know Ireland of democracy and that's
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why this change is political search also
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people are demanding that the elections
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should be more free more democratic and
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Keystone's I think can be leader in the
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sense in the region Bishkek know nothing
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about it I got in late in time to spend
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three minutes don't my stuff hop on the
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bus go for dinner but what I loved about
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00:27:01,600 --> 00:27:06,480
it is we came in as during dusk and
548
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,340
everybody was out there out walking
549
00:27:09,340 --> 00:27:10,900
talking to their neighbors put some baby
550
00:27:10,900 --> 00:27:13,690
carriages and I like the feel of it I'd
551
00:27:13,690 --> 00:27:15,310
love to go back and spend more time
552
00:27:15,310 --> 00:27:17,770
and see our people we just had the
553
00:27:17,770 --> 00:27:19,090
feeling that people are out and about
554
00:27:19,090 --> 00:27:22,510
and enjoying the evening and that's a
555
00:27:22,510 --> 00:27:23,380
wonderful thing
556
00:27:23,380 --> 00:27:26,620
yeah Bishkek is in terms of history it
557
00:27:26,620 --> 00:27:31,150
is relatively young cities so it has we
558
00:27:31,150 --> 00:27:35,260
celebrated under 25 years old only well
559
00:27:35,260 --> 00:27:37,660
this is our capital city now it's you
560
00:27:37,660 --> 00:27:39,220
know official it's more than million
561
00:27:39,220 --> 00:27:41,590
people although it's you know it's
562
00:27:41,590 --> 00:27:43,390
relative to other cities which is walk
563
00:27:43,390 --> 00:27:51,190
with it but this is coinciding with our
564
00:27:51,190 --> 00:27:53,380
arrival to Bishkek the annual
565
00:27:53,380 --> 00:27:55,480
International Day of the children with
566
00:27:55,480 --> 00:27:58,420
festivities throughout the city
567
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[Music]
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00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:36,550
[Music]
569
00:28:40,660 --> 00:28:43,729
[Music]
570
00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:49,580
that's a place where the old nation time
571
00:28:49,580 --> 00:28:53,030
vollis Arkham City existed this was one
572
00:28:53,030 --> 00:28:55,220
of the greatest cities in the the Silk
573
00:28:55,220 --> 00:28:59,840
Road and now the one power is remains at
574
00:28:59,840 --> 00:29:02,690
the old time and there used to be a big
575
00:29:02,690 --> 00:29:04,880
bazaar and everything you know people
576
00:29:04,880 --> 00:29:07,340
come in from all from the east from the
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00:29:07,340 --> 00:29:10,760
west trade in there and even when the
578
00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,490
King Genghis Khan the Mongolian Empire
579
00:29:13,490 --> 00:29:17,630
came who destroyed you know literally
580
00:29:17,630 --> 00:29:21,500
everything he decided to save that city
581
00:29:21,500 --> 00:29:23,470
because it was too important and too
582
00:29:23,470 --> 00:29:27,500
good city so that's and Kingston was
583
00:29:27,500 --> 00:29:29,300
right in the middle of the Great Silk
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Road
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[Music]
586
00:29:39,620 --> 00:29:43,350
95% of kyrgyzstan lies in the mountains
587
00:29:43,350 --> 00:29:45,750
of the Tian Shan and the Kyrgyz people
588
00:29:45,750 --> 00:29:48,180
are proud of their beautiful country
589
00:29:48,180 --> 00:29:50,070
they've done a lot to promote and
590
00:29:50,070 --> 00:29:51,770
protect their natural environment
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00:29:51,770 --> 00:29:54,030
including a creation of a biosphere
592
00:29:54,030 --> 00:29:56,400
reserve around the crown jewel of their
593
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:59,490
country Lake disappeared more than a
594
00:29:59,490 --> 00:30:01,830
hundred rivers flow into the lake but
595
00:30:01,830 --> 00:30:05,070
none flow out this entire area was
596
00:30:05,070 --> 00:30:07,440
off-limits during Soviet times when
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secret testing of torpedoes was
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performed here in the mid 70s the lake
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00:30:12,060 --> 00:30:14,640
was reopened and resorts returned to its
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00:30:14,640 --> 00:30:17,850
shores a classic example the Aurora
601
00:30:17,850 --> 00:30:20,550
resort the stark white building with
602
00:30:20,550 --> 00:30:22,980
endless hallways and rows of bathtubs
603
00:30:22,980 --> 00:30:25,050
was once an old-school communist
604
00:30:25,050 --> 00:30:27,210
playground that drew the top Russian
605
00:30:27,210 --> 00:30:30,210
brass from the Politburo now it's been
606
00:30:30,210 --> 00:30:32,490
reopened to the world and patiently
607
00:30:32,490 --> 00:30:35,010
awaits crowd from bishkek and Almaty and
608
00:30:35,010 --> 00:30:37,520
come on the weekends
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[Music]
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in Kyrgyzstan and live to the seminoff
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Canyon we were down at lake issyk-kul
612
00:30:50,789 --> 00:30:52,470
but it was fun riding up there because
613
00:30:52,470 --> 00:30:54,570
got to take a lot of dirt roads and
614
00:30:54,570 --> 00:30:57,090
singletrack up into the mountains and we
615
00:30:57,090 --> 00:30:59,639
saw where these people lived and
616
00:30:59,639 --> 00:31:01,769
everything is up up in a deep valley up
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00:31:01,769 --> 00:31:03,389
high in the mountains it's just a
618
00:31:03,389 --> 00:31:05,789
perfect nature setting it's just
619
00:31:05,789 --> 00:31:08,249
beautiful those are the interesting
620
00:31:08,249 --> 00:31:09,960
riding things I don't have to be honest
621
00:31:09,960 --> 00:31:13,110
with you I don't expect a trip like this
622
00:31:13,110 --> 00:31:16,289
to be interesting riding so I'm excited
623
00:31:16,289 --> 00:31:17,879
for this through pavement trip with very
624
00:31:17,879 --> 00:31:19,649
few curves it's straight I was here for
625
00:31:19,649 --> 00:31:21,419
the to see the countries for the travel
626
00:31:21,419 --> 00:31:24,269
aspect so the fact that I get a few
627
00:31:24,269 --> 00:31:27,210
bonus days where I'm really riding it's
628
00:31:27,210 --> 00:31:29,150
just this is icing on the cake
629
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[Music]
630
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[Music]
631
00:31:47,530 --> 00:31:50,830
[Laughter]
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00:31:50,830 --> 00:31:52,539
[Music]
633
00:31:52,539 --> 00:31:56,450
first games were something I've never
634
00:31:56,450 --> 00:31:59,990
seen before but the they started out
635
00:31:59,990 --> 00:32:03,770
they had a lady take off writing and
636
00:32:03,770 --> 00:32:05,899
then they had a guy chase her down and
637
00:32:05,899 --> 00:32:08,419
he had to catch her and it was all very
638
00:32:08,419 --> 00:32:10,760
ritualistic kind of you know so if he
639
00:32:10,760 --> 00:32:12,409
caught her she was like his and
640
00:32:12,409 --> 00:32:14,090
everything like that so they did a
641
00:32:14,090 --> 00:32:16,279
couple games like that but the the main
642
00:32:16,279 --> 00:32:18,950
game which is the national sport they
643
00:32:18,950 --> 00:32:21,590
take a gold and they sounds kind of
644
00:32:21,590 --> 00:32:23,929
gross but they they beheaded but then
645
00:32:23,929 --> 00:32:26,029
they take the carcass of the goat and
646
00:32:26,029 --> 00:32:27,919
they play a game
647
00:32:27,919 --> 00:32:30,890
the there's I believe four people on
648
00:32:30,890 --> 00:32:33,440
each team there's two teams and they
649
00:32:33,440 --> 00:32:34,970
take the goat carcass and they have to
650
00:32:34,970 --> 00:32:38,179
score goals but they the goat carcass is
651
00:32:38,179 --> 00:32:39,500
on the ground and then they have to pick
652
00:32:39,500 --> 00:32:42,409
it up and ride it's a lot of interaction
653
00:32:42,409 --> 00:32:44,960
between the two teams trying to grab the
654
00:32:44,960 --> 00:32:59,179
goat carcass culture keeps all those
655
00:32:59,179 --> 00:33:03,500
this Asian games as they used to be and
656
00:33:03,500 --> 00:33:06,950
today you saw several Kyrgyz games on
657
00:33:06,950 --> 00:33:10,399
horse so this is the Asian concept which
658
00:33:10,399 --> 00:33:12,950
I think the gave idea to the
659
00:33:12,950 --> 00:33:17,090
contemporary of this Olympian games form
660
00:33:17,090 --> 00:33:20,179
or what I raise up today and the Kilgus
661
00:33:20,179 --> 00:33:23,450
people try and still play it same way it
662
00:33:23,450 --> 00:33:28,159
is used to be in all days I definitely
663
00:33:28,159 --> 00:33:29,840
did relate to these people and they were
664
00:33:29,840 --> 00:33:32,029
very interested in our motorbikes and
665
00:33:32,029 --> 00:33:34,340
stuff and they were having the road
666
00:33:34,340 --> 00:33:35,840
right with us on their horses as we're
667
00:33:35,840 --> 00:33:37,460
riding on our bikes and stuff they're
668
00:33:37,460 --> 00:33:39,549
always looking over checking us out and
669
00:33:39,549 --> 00:33:42,470
riding up to the homestead there's
670
00:33:42,470 --> 00:33:44,750
everyone was out looking at the bikes
671
00:33:44,750 --> 00:33:45,539
and everything
672
00:33:45,539 --> 00:33:47,639
and even though we don't really didn't
673
00:33:47,639 --> 00:33:49,229
speak the language we had an interpreter
674
00:33:49,229 --> 00:33:50,999
but you can still interact with our men
675
00:33:50,999 --> 00:33:55,190
and you know just kind of communicate
676
00:33:56,010 --> 00:34:27,679
[Music]
677
00:34:27,679 --> 00:34:32,069
your this traditional half of kiki
678
00:34:32,069 --> 00:34:35,099
Chickie's house and still today many
679
00:34:35,099 --> 00:34:38,790
people prefer to have good yield and you
680
00:34:38,790 --> 00:34:42,199
can use it anywhere in a nice fresh area
681
00:34:42,199 --> 00:34:47,190
everywhere and to have guests there food
682
00:34:47,190 --> 00:34:50,069
to sleep there this is a wonderful
683
00:34:50,069 --> 00:34:52,440
because this is a all natural and all
684
00:34:52,440 --> 00:34:55,079
handmade this is this is a good
685
00:34:55,079 --> 00:34:57,420
tradition with which Kyrgyz people are
686
00:34:57,420 --> 00:35:00,270
preserved they don't live in and here
687
00:35:00,270 --> 00:35:03,299
during the wintertime during the
688
00:35:03,299 --> 00:35:06,450
wintertime they came come down those
689
00:35:06,450 --> 00:35:09,119
places are called you know summer
690
00:35:09,119 --> 00:35:12,359
pastures the key according to the all
691
00:35:12,359 --> 00:35:14,940
Kilgus traditions all day they used to
692
00:35:14,940 --> 00:35:17,130
take animal up in the high mountain
693
00:35:17,130 --> 00:35:19,349
during the summertime and they would
694
00:35:19,349 --> 00:35:21,630
come back down and didn't winter time so
695
00:35:21,630 --> 00:35:23,660
they have winter places of summer places
696
00:35:23,660 --> 00:35:27,059
but this is a really nice places to stay
697
00:35:27,059 --> 00:35:29,400
during summertime here oh it's
698
00:35:29,400 --> 00:35:32,640
absolutely gorgeous it's so green I
699
00:35:32,640 --> 00:35:35,190
think I must have cloud up and get a
700
00:35:35,190 --> 00:35:37,140
shower about every afternoon to stay
701
00:35:37,140 --> 00:35:38,840
green like this
702
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:42,810
7,500 feet thereabouts this is no
703
00:35:42,810 --> 00:35:46,610
imagination this is pretty cool stuff
704
00:35:46,640 --> 00:35:49,890
yeah hard to get hit off I mean it's
705
00:35:49,890 --> 00:35:53,040
tough to to ride around the boat a
706
00:35:53,040 --> 00:35:55,260
little bit I had a little crash this
707
00:35:55,260 --> 00:35:57,720
morning and I banged up a little bit of
708
00:35:57,720 --> 00:36:02,100
the side of the crash bar but everything
709
00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:03,530
else is okay though
710
00:36:03,530 --> 00:36:06,900
heads up now we have to get back a
711
00:36:06,900 --> 00:36:09,840
couple of river crossings of a couple of
712
00:36:09,840 --> 00:36:13,920
potholes and we'll be okay this is an
713
00:36:13,920 --> 00:36:16,760
awesome area
714
00:36:25,230 --> 00:36:28,890
I think that the people should know
715
00:36:28,890 --> 00:36:32,160
better about the region about the Silk
716
00:36:32,160 --> 00:36:34,800
Road region and specifically about my
717
00:36:34,800 --> 00:36:37,530
country Kyrgyzstan because I have a lot
718
00:36:37,530 --> 00:36:40,140
of friend is different composition
719
00:36:40,140 --> 00:36:42,660
clothes of the United States and when
720
00:36:42,660 --> 00:36:46,140
they talk to me I give them right
721
00:36:46,140 --> 00:36:48,210
information whatever happens in the
722
00:36:48,210 --> 00:36:50,190
country said this is a safe place
723
00:36:50,190 --> 00:36:52,500
this is a nice area for tourists to come
724
00:36:52,500 --> 00:36:56,670
and they touch me if you just watch what
725
00:36:56,670 --> 00:36:59,510
is on the news you might get a different
726
00:36:59,510 --> 00:37:02,070
investment that you might be scared or
727
00:37:02,070 --> 00:37:05,100
you may not decide to complicate fun and
728
00:37:05,100 --> 00:37:06,930
I hope that people will get right
729
00:37:06,930 --> 00:37:09,570
information and they can come to these
730
00:37:09,570 --> 00:37:14,600
nice places which is naturally the dirty
731
00:37:16,900 --> 00:37:17,350
[Applause]
732
00:37:17,350 --> 00:37:30,290
[Music]
733
00:37:30,290 --> 00:37:39,900
so no idea what happened here how do you
734
00:37:39,900 --> 00:37:43,110
feel you feel like you're in one piece
735
00:37:43,110 --> 00:37:46,860
yeah we all except fries - yeah I got to
736
00:37:46,860 --> 00:37:48,590
see the teeth here
737
00:37:48,590 --> 00:37:58,400
thank bye - yeah now give us a smile
738
00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:01,800
yeah lost two teeth so it looks like you
739
00:38:01,800 --> 00:38:04,230
were here when I got here yeah I came
740
00:38:04,230 --> 00:38:07,230
along and like the sideways in the road
741
00:38:07,230 --> 00:38:08,790
and his legs were under it I didn't
742
00:38:08,790 --> 00:38:11,100
couldn't tell if it was laying on his
743
00:38:11,100 --> 00:38:12,570
legs for a while I was laying facedown
744
00:38:12,570 --> 00:38:16,260
but he's fine he just got a little shook
745
00:38:16,260 --> 00:38:17,760
up there for a minute I don't remember
746
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:20,460
what happened well by the looks of the
747
00:38:20,460 --> 00:38:22,170
skid marks it started back there behind
748
00:38:22,170 --> 00:38:32,190
the Rogers bike my bike is maybe a
749
00:38:32,190 --> 00:38:35,340
little further back than that yeah I
750
00:38:35,340 --> 00:38:36,720
don't remember what happened
751
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:40,410
I was out did you lose your wallet okay
752
00:38:40,410 --> 00:38:42,980
you're still
753
00:38:44,860 --> 00:38:46,940
[Applause]
754
00:38:46,940 --> 00:38:49,860
you're otherwise here yeah here okay
755
00:38:49,860 --> 00:38:51,980
stuff in the middle
756
00:38:51,980 --> 00:38:55,070
well into the dentist arrives
757
00:38:55,070 --> 00:38:58,870
[Applause]
758
00:38:58,870 --> 00:39:15,160
I made a boo-boo emergency repair its
759
00:39:15,160 --> 00:39:18,310
liable not to hurt ya because there's no
760
00:39:18,310 --> 00:39:22,780
Pope showing what happened getting
761
00:39:22,780 --> 00:39:28,600
complacent is hazardous continuing to
762
00:39:28,600 --> 00:39:31,150
learn continue to sharpen reflexes and
763
00:39:31,150 --> 00:39:34,720
scanning it sharpens and at the end of
764
00:39:34,720 --> 00:39:36,340
the day you're more tired than had you
765
00:39:36,340 --> 00:39:38,440
transported yourself over the same area
766
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,320
with the car but it has enhanced the
767
00:39:41,320 --> 00:39:43,870
enjoyment so realizing that the danger
768
00:39:43,870 --> 00:39:47,350
is there sharpens your response but it
769
00:39:47,350 --> 00:39:52,850
also enhances the reward that you get
770
00:39:52,850 --> 00:39:55,310
that the biggest risk I think to me as a
771
00:39:55,310 --> 00:39:57,350
physician is that someone's hurt or
772
00:39:57,350 --> 00:40:00,380
injured on this trip there's not medical
773
00:40:00,380 --> 00:40:02,420
care available and I don't really think
774
00:40:02,420 --> 00:40:04,880
people know how bad it is and having
775
00:40:04,880 --> 00:40:06,140
your little Matt Jette card in your
776
00:40:06,140 --> 00:40:07,280
wallet it's wonderful
777
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:09,650
assuming you can last 48 hours to get
778
00:40:09,650 --> 00:40:12,200
out of here because they can't get you
779
00:40:12,200 --> 00:40:28,250
out of here very fast and we're gonna
780
00:40:28,250 --> 00:40:35,240
keep visors down in their jacket ah well
781
00:40:35,240 --> 00:40:37,340
I've been riding on the back of Rogers
782
00:40:37,340 --> 00:40:39,860
motorcycle for about 12 years and I
783
00:40:39,860 --> 00:40:41,840
really love the freedom of being on the
784
00:40:41,840 --> 00:40:43,940
back of Rogers and really experiencing
785
00:40:43,940 --> 00:40:46,340
you know the countryside and the smells
786
00:40:46,340 --> 00:40:49,730
and the sights and and I have kind of a
787
00:40:49,730 --> 00:40:51,820
photographic memories have many many
788
00:40:51,820 --> 00:40:55,490
wonderful images from this trip you know
789
00:40:55,490 --> 00:40:57,920
pictures I just didn't take when you're
790
00:40:57,920 --> 00:40:59,300
on the motorcycle you can take something
791
00:40:59,300 --> 00:41:02,060
but just you know families and children
792
00:41:02,060 --> 00:41:04,030
running and playing along this
793
00:41:04,030 --> 00:41:07,310
there's all the animals and baby animals
794
00:41:07,310 --> 00:41:10,180
it's just it's been a tremendous trip
795
00:41:10,180 --> 00:41:13,150
from a motorcycle standpoint we rode
796
00:41:13,150 --> 00:41:15,860
unfinished roads high mountain passes
797
00:41:15,860 --> 00:41:18,440
but if I had to pick one today it was
798
00:41:18,440 --> 00:41:19,760
from lakeya's to coud going in
799
00:41:19,760 --> 00:41:20,540
Kazahkstan
800
00:41:20,540 --> 00:41:23,450
where we went over this high mountain
801
00:41:23,450 --> 00:41:27,080
border post on this plateau probably six
802
00:41:27,080 --> 00:41:30,280
to seven thousand feet where there were
803
00:41:30,280 --> 00:41:34,600
animals out grazing and almost no people
804
00:41:34,600 --> 00:41:38,090
roads were dirt gravel
805
00:41:38,090 --> 00:41:40,820
potholed when you had some of the
806
00:41:40,820 --> 00:41:41,330
blacktop
807
00:41:41,330 --> 00:41:44,240
but it was just magnificent riding
808
00:41:44,240 --> 00:41:45,580
through it
809
00:41:45,580 --> 00:41:48,730
[Applause]
810
00:41:51,240 --> 00:42:19,369
[Music]
811
00:42:23,910 --> 00:42:26,530
it's a friendly and hospitable city
812
00:42:26,530 --> 00:42:29,500
it's multinational until occasion in a
813
00:42:29,500 --> 00:42:31,840
beautiful place by the mountains it was
814
00:42:31,840 --> 00:42:33,850
part of the northern branch of the Silk
815
00:42:33,850 --> 00:42:36,400
Road and it's imagined before people
816
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:38,590
went along the northern slopes of
817
00:42:38,590 --> 00:42:40,690
tension towards the bauhaus lake the
818
00:42:40,690 --> 00:42:41,110
trade
819
00:42:41,110 --> 00:42:44,380
sold and some precious stones from India
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from China and Almaty was one of the
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trade centers along the Great Silk Road
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because it's a former capital of
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Kazakhstan there are many theaters and
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places to go out and at the same time
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about 36 or 37 international and
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national banks here so I would call it a
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big cosmopolitan city business and
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cultural center southern capital of
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Kazakhstan what is interesting about
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this Cathedral said it was rather lucky
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not to be used as a stables or a
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warehouse during the Soviet time it was
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used at the central museum National
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Museum of Kazakhstan and in 1995 it was
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given back to the Russian Orthodox
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clergy there was a restoration nowadays
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it's functioning Cathedral so it's one
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of the pearls of Almaty I would call the
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beautiful blend marks of the city ok now
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we're standing at a war memorial which
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is dedicated to the Second World War and
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actually consists of three parts the
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first part is called the vowel and you
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see the soldier of the Red Army holding
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two horses which means that two of his
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friends died but he's still determined
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to establish the socialist regime and
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it's 1917 1920s a socialist revolution
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and a civil war an essential part is see
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the multinational group of soldiers in
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the shape of the Soviet Union and behind
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them there is a Kremlin what is written
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beneath is the Russia is huge but there
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is no place to retreat behind us is
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Moscow if the Soviet army would have
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lost Moscow they would lose their
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and the third part is called singing the
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victory and is also dedicated to world
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war ii wrote 145 and in front of the
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whole complex there are black tombs made
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of labradorite which symbolize the
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city's heroes Moscow Varna varices clean
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not care chat etc and inside a routine
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there is a metallic caption with land
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from that city
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we have our own club and this club
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exists only one year so every group
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which comes from from actually any part
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of the world is welcome so we we try to
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invite them for some parties just help
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them to maintain bikes and help we try
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to advise them on the routes local
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traditions and so just trying to be very
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friendly one of the benefits of hooking
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up with the local riders getting to see
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new places like the one Elvis is taking
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us to this morning I thought that it
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would be a good chance for you to see a
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canyon because it's only way to Kazakh
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Chinese border so you have noticed that
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it's only 20 kilometers from the main
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road and this is the unique Canyon so
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much resembles to the canyon in Nevada
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so maybe it will make you homesick yeah
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a little bit the name of the canyon is
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cherien Canyon because down there which
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is called Sharon you go down to the
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canyon you have to have a lighter bike
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not a bike touring like the bikes that
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you have
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look at this place it's awesome it
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reminds me of one of my favorite places
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in the world - Utah
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[Music]
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[Applause]
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you up dude Rick ah collecting
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apple seeds from all the apples that I
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can get in this area
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collecting apple seeds oh yeah got all
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five of them apples have five see them
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yeah um because I'm not a mean father of
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apples and this is where geneticist
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believe that all apples came from came
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from so I'm gonna bring some of these
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apples he's home and hopefully they'll
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sprout whatever oh really so you're
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gonna take them back to Oregon yep and
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get the I'll mark the apple tree in your
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backyard yeah that's cool yeah I've
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already started an apple orchard yeah
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and I don't think these will be all that
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good but I got to do it anyway make
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sense to me she was just excited to see
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Americans and and she was just joking
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saying that I'm touching Americans well
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the software adventure is for me has
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been truly an adventure every day has
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been an adventure something different
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the people have just been absolutely
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wonderful I take him back bye-bye all
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the people I certainly changed my
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attitude it's made me more aware that we
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are one world these people here are no
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different than we are at home they love
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their families for more information on
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the Silk Road adventure with hellgate
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this and other globe writers adventures
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please visit our website
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