Time they call me tangere a. Movie opener my ancestors were nomads. For 20 years i have lived with my own family and the staff. Cuts to be specially our music is about mongolian history and on customs and these are our never ending sauces in the song but this to all. Cost. Since i was a child i had visionary abilities and could sense the spirits of nature and. Our journey through mongolia and its capital on battery will start in the mountainous north of the country will follow the tracks of the Trans Mongolian Railway self across the vastness of the step and after about 800 kilometers reach the gobi desert and the buddhist time our money straight. To. It. I direct one station our 1st stop art from a communist past merges with contemporary advertisement. Planned economy once held sway here today its the free market. Dark one is the 3rd largest city in mongolia it was built in 1961 with massive support from the former soviet union and its name is no coincidence darkened means blacksmith and reflects the importance of the city for metal and heavy industry. In the. Tourists are rarely seen in this big cities train station. The no frills building was designed for commuters and travelling merchants in the metropolis with its hundreds of thousands of inhabitants. Darshan is a transport hub that connects regional routes with the Trans Mongolian Railway towards a line barter and further on to the chinese border. Anyone taking this train to the capital however should allow plenty of time. The train takes over 7 hours to cover the almost 250 kilometers because of the many stops along the way. Moreover the Railway Infrastructure is not up to european standards. The train attendants where kristi uniforms they are responsible for checking the tickets directly at the carriage door and they take their jobs extremely seriously. In mongolia respect and all thorazine are important principles that must be observed. Meanwhile its announced over a loudspeaker that it is strictly forbidden to take any moments including dead ones on the journey because the fare of the mongolian delicacy usually harbors flies which are regarded as carriers of the play. Was actually only about 3000000 people live in mongolia a country more than 4 times the size of germany. Its huge distances and vastness can be sensed through the train window. On it. And you also physically notice mongolias altitude a quarter of the country is between 2003000 meters above sea level. Travel is should therefore allow themselves a little time for climate has ation. It halfway between their heart and we are the 1st hills of the 20. The mountains begin. The mountain ranges considered the birthplace of the greatest mongolian of all times. Abroad the name genghis khan is mostly associated with conquests brutality and virility but here in mongolia it mainly stands for political savvy. The founder of the mongolian empire is considered to have been a patron of trade education arts and culture. Freedom of religion is one of his most important legacies even today christians buddhists muslims and adherents to mongolian shamanism practice their religions peacefully side by side. Sharman islam is the oldest religion in mongolia. All. Ancient symbols such as the swastika or sun we all want to end all supposed to pave the way for the shaman to reach the spirit. This religious decoration which was hijacked by germany as a symbol of the nazis can be found in its original sense as a spiritual symbol of luck everywhere mongolia. But. Not. Really. Through my trance or so i made contact with the spirits of the mountains and the water. There found my ways to be good and just. Therefore they do me the honor of showing me the right path. Mongolian shamanism combine. Madson and the worship of nature and ancestors as sherman is responsible for the welfare of their tribe. Through contacting the spirits and speaking with the voice of the deceased while in trance they try to show their community the right path for the future. Not. The battle. Through with ancestors really speak through the shell and remains a question of faith it was like with every religion. But the bus home but on a bus full well not everyone can be a sham and bunted like you do not appoint yourself as a shaman and just do something or this would send people on a wrong path and detach the soul from the body all false romanism is therefore even harmful. For all but unfortunately it happens quite often what they will be seeing is deserting him with that need when. Sacrificial rituals such as the milk sacrifice on men to appease the gods. For sherman is a balance between man and nature must be preserved and the growing economic interests in mongolia are a dangerous aberration. For hot but then at present people are digging in the air for all over they dont even care about sacrificial mounds theyre not respected and theyre not even being rebuilt orienting this maple is drilling digging and destroying things its very difficult everywhere. I want to go i traveled through western mongolia and saw that many creeks and rivers there have disappeared that dried up. And this is because people do not respect the earth which is probably why we shamans are also there to save nature and at least thats my belief that our thats disgusting but the only good thing to be part of. We follow the line further towards. The train is usually the faster and more comfortable choice in mongolia. Roads here are not comparable with asphalt streets in europe vast areas of the country have not yet been developed at all. On the other hand there is a very good chance of meeting herds of free range cattle. Over distances of several kilometers the animals often alone without their nomadic owners search for the best grazing grounds in the barren landscape. They have to build up their body weight as much as possible during the few summer months the hard mongolian winter often begins in august already when the 1st. Snow frequently falls. 60. Travel times among early are very long even on the train the Railway Infrastructure and many of the vehicles are decades old. Despite the beautiful landscape after a good 7 hours ride from dark on to the capital and bus our passengers tend to be pleased to finally arrive. At. The big city lackluster concrete buildings welcome the guests even though cool say you cant help but love mongolia but you can only endure us are. We learn about our Central Station is the largest Railway Station in the country and was opened in 1988. To this day it remains an important hub for national and International Traffic in the heart of mongolia. The train is the most important means of transport in the country not only for tourists and commuters local retailers also use the affordable rail connections to neighboring countries such as russia and china. It is not just that god. Was. After very long Shopping Trips hundreds of them are rife with new goods in every day. From here they transport their purchases to the shops and kiosks in the capital where they will sell them. Almost half of mongolias population about 1500000 people lives in orlando. The Economic Center of this land rich in Natural Resources is currently experiencing an enormous boom. The metropolis is considered a symbol of the wealthy growth oriented mongolia. In recent years hundreds of thousands of people have come here to try their luck. Few have become successful. And yes mongolia is experiencing the greatest rural exodus it has ever seen. And young people in particular dont want to be inferior to the west but they also dont want to be inferior to the asian neighbors. If you consider traditional nomadic life as a viable future. Bridges are already talked about but that in time the john good that we have a song that deals with rapid Technological Progress and in particular reflects the moment when too much technological optimization has occurred here to you to get back in that you get at this point what humans look for a place to slow down and return to nature and the origins of life. This is an Important Message that we want to give to the people he said especially to the Mongolian Youth so if. It took. A look at most of symmetry in the middle of an ambassador. For the band john its a backdrop that symbolizes an entire generation spheres for the future. They selves deal with Environmental Protection unemployment and also the danger. As of a Runaway Technology is ation. However they find a musical means in the old legends traditions and characteristic sounds of a mongolian culture. Junkie to give a little for the name john not is closely connected with the history of the horse head fiddle goli a National Instrument he told me things with a. Little mongolians a boy said but there was a very kind hearted man who owned a black horse named john not that you would say to it since it might mean that when it died one day when he wanted to honor it and built the 1st horse head fiddle and its image would sing yes. Sleep used its bounds at the tail and mane and hes made it the way to boston something that is whenever the longing seized him he played on it and he remembered his black horse john on hard money to send him on the way. To musicians represent a young and confident mongolia internationally as well as members of a young generation who went in search of their own cultural identity and found their place in the world. For a. Woman that. Would lead. Him to was a. Bomb someone with her in the day of judgment we hope that in the future people will remember our band jono for successfully having passed through. Mongolian music onto younger generations in a profound way for example just this a bad negative. In so much of the cue that is our wish to remind you that is what we hope our musical achievement will be. Altered it a little and if we think of it. The 2nd leg of our journey takes us from the capital and on bastar along the Trans Mongolian Railway to the city of chere 250 kilometers away in the heart of the mongolian step. With her Central Station 7 am. A real hero is waiting for the train to chair. Good at. Is the only mongol so far who has traveled into space. Since his space flights in 1981 he has been treated like a superstar in his country. The retired air force Major General was also the countrys minister of defense until 2004. However most mongols see him 1st and foremost as a heroic cosmonaut. There for the 1st place followed by a mongolian was a significant moment for our people and will stay a part of mongolian history as an important event these days young people learn about it from newspapers and magazines from radio and television from their parents relatives and siblings. As a result mongolians are firmly into their memories. On the. Seeing him. Even in retirement the Major General still has very little free time. He regularly speaks at events on military history about his experiences as a Research Cosmonaut on the soviet so use 39 Space Mission and about his 8 day stay on the sa youth 6 day station good actor just dead to me dean was awarded the title cosmic hero of mongolia to honor his career hes the only living mongolian to hold it. But ill be. Done with the nickel to go with his brother 3 nor will i try not to give myself so much importance. What have i done so far what are my achievements in the about the job i dont really think about myself that way or ask those types of questions i have to think about the think its not the things that matters to me is that i want to remain the same person i was before i went into space i thought of this it did back then my space ship commander and friend buddy mir are exam going to china back off said to me after space travel youll have many new friends but please dont forget your old once. They get i still think about his words to this day but its not on which is why i want the public to see me as i really am about the product thing with sally if you want to check. The cosmonaut is a role model for his fellow countryman someone they respect even though they recognize that his feats were idealized in soviet propaganda. His ride on the train has been announced the entire train crew and even the cook know the famous space traveler will be on board. The cook is actually a star chef who was assigned just for this journey. It will be up to him to make a top quality meal in the few square metre kitchen on the wobbling train. But he will be serving delicious dumplings and potato salad to the cosmic hero. Dumplings are filled with beef and tasty modern town who should make fantastic dumplings. The chef does not pass up the opportunity to serve his hero the food in the dining car personally. The potato salad served is actually made according to a german recipe. Its a calendar left over from the times of International Friendship between mongolia and east germany. The trans mongered in express takes a good 3 hours to get a chair in the province of god his number deep in the mongolian step. Them idiom is no stranger to the city until the early 1990 s. Both soviet and Mongolian Air force bases were located in the region around so the station was strategically important to the retired cosmonaut knows it well. This is why the station start in by. Celebrity guests to join them they proudly record this is story moment. True you know. Nowadays the 72 year old increasingly looks back not only on his achievements but also on his roots as a simple known that. They have not the most of us on the mongols have actually been watching the skies in space from very early on signals or again if people are long history shows that weve used celestial bodies to navigate by for thousands of years. Moreover to survive as a pastoral nomadic people. We have to be able to foresee the vagaries of the weather and thats why the mongolians always directed their gaze and thoughts toward the celestial bodies. So. How about long. While the trance Mongolian Railway continues on its meandering course towards the chinese border. We stay a little longer in the wild blooming step around chair. I. I. I for centuries nomadic castle breeding has been the mainstay of the entire region. Camel herds roam their Natural Environment freely us 2 horses sheep or goats. The step landscape around cinder about 50 kilometers from church is known for its fertile ground. This is where all tangere l. Has settled for most of the year the nomads horses live while. They have to withstand winters with temperatures as low as minus 40 degrees celsius as well as wolves which the horses can severely injured or even kill with one kick. The cattle herders family lives with their horses following the rhythm of nature wearing a watch would be a superb feel as luxury. We get up early and were out all day until dark. We had the cattle and move them from here to there. Since were album all day long we dont need to ask what time it is for us there is morning noon afternoon and the movement of the sun. You always keep an eye on the song after all its the only thing you can keep in view here because its the sun that is always determined whether it is day or night. And the. Sound. Where. The action songs of the nomads tell of their longing for their beloved homeland the endless expanses of the step and the deep blue mongolian sky. The way. That. While her husband takes care of the horses and in a suit turns the rich milk from their goats and sheep into quark yogas and cheese. These are staple food stealing the summer months. The youngest daughter is still lives with her father and mother her older siblings are already attending school and live with their grandparents in the city. A daily walk to school through the step would be much too arduous and too far. Looked at them differently its got to be teased at that we have never really thought about living in the city if we have work to do in the city we take the train as it usually runs at night. That way we are there early in the morning before work starts and then you can get a lot done in a day yes stamps. I didnt know and heard as arent interested in material wealth they see possessions as additional ballast but the number and conditions of their animals on the other hand are extremely important to them because they show their diligence and skill. You know one another well we get over 200 kilograms of kashmir wall sometimes even 300 kilograms from 700. And the money we earn from the wool traders are not to cover all the expenses that come up over the year that hootie and the other school fees in order to pay for the 2. 00 or 3 workers who help us. Pay for anything important that crops up in the year and we also prepare the meat from our condo to feed ourselves in winter. But we also sell some of it so we live from the immense productivity of our animals. Of the. Mining has dramatically increased and. All sorts of things are being done to the soil which is having a negative effect on the bodies of water and pasture land. We now get very little water from our wells. And it hardly rains anymore although someone is it when i look back on my childhood it often rains continuously for 3 or 4 days and i was. In. Mongolia sits on huge deposits of Natural Resources. And around one of the countrys largest and most important centers of mining iron ore and lignite is growing. However mongolian Mining Companies on profiting from the countrys wealth of Raw Materials nearly as much as Big International investors and energy giants. Still the development is good for mongolias railways the next work is growing and jobs are being created. Oh look oh goodness so me just. Kaname has a major influence on the expansion and development of the real race and vice versa. The Mongolian Railway is currently expanding the locomotives and real cars are becoming more advanced just the rail network and the entire real logistics are currently being revamped. For the freight traffic in particular is increasing. So the future of our railways looks really promising so. For the. Most traumatic. Aerials are exposed to neighboring countries china however uses a different gauge of track to mongolia