Legends of the South | Nomad Explorer / Film by Anuar Nurpeisov

The idea of the nomad explorer movement was born spontaneously. Four years ago I made a shoutout on Facebook social networks that I was going to go to the Alatar region in sizes Kazgan area. This is a vast large region, historically saturated, has a unique cultural and historical nature. Also there are a lot of natural beautiful objects, historical sites. And generally speaking, is the center of Kazakhstan a holy place, especially those old town mountains. Therefore, I had developed a route, set dates and said to everyone that who has a desire to travel around this region can join me. On the first expedition came 29 ships, about 70 people. Everyone liked it so much. And we have decided to make this expedition an annual event. And this is how the nomad explorer movement has begun. The next year we made an expedition to Ustjr and then an expedition to Alta. And this year we made a South Asian expedition to the South. It's. Only few people think about what a titanic work is being done before organizing such a big event. Especially when we start to speak about the most massive traveling expedition in the history of the country. During planning, it's necessary to take into account thousands of factors and anticipate all the possible risks during the event. And one of the main things is timing. Therefore, in order to accurately calculate the schedule of the expedition, the organizers hide a bus to simulate the future route and its every segment. Then afterward, the plan stops had been recorded and analyzed. My name is Anwar and I am one of those people who has managed to see a whole process from preparation to the realization of the South Legend expedition. And in this film I will tell you about my feelings which I had experienced in this unforgettable project. For everyone who has participated and will try to learn more, more deeply about the NOMA explorer team and what drives them. There is a turn that is the road here to the owl going to Alabaz. The second is all is Sokady looking forward to the nearest 10 kilometers. As it turned out on the very first day, the rehearsal bus justified its presence. Let's make one more attempt. You won't pass, right? It's about 10 cm or 15 cm. The bus was unable to drive along the railway bridge. An anticipated unexpected surprise during a future expedition. One of the most important parts of any expedition is food catering. Several hundred people can be delegated only to professionals and for tasting the field cuisine. We arrived in the city of Shimkin to see cooker from the reception house of the Republic. And I'm sure that it will be very tasty and very satisfying. The organizers did not experiment and invited some of the best chefs from Tashkent to participate in the project. And after tasting all the dishes, I realized that the dream job is a taster inside the house of reception in Uzbekistan. It's just wonderful. Divine. Unreal. These guys definitely know the meaning of their lives. But still, I had one question for the main. What to do with everyone who does not eat meat with vegetarians on your expedition? Vegetarians need to eat meat. Well, now our path leads to a place where the expedition will end. A big gala concert. Which will be held around this place. And noticeably which I had reported on the page of Kazakhstan history book. And well, I could not imagine that it must still preserve the ancient settlement Sauron. Just look at this landscape and the scale. From a bird's eye view. 700 meters seems to me like this is normal. Then where is this concert hall? Where? This will be a sore project. I basically react. This power platform here is a good platform. We should transmit the color of the spotlights to the wall. Yeah, we all thought it all. Color perception is very important. It's important to set up a camp and build a huge stage near the walls of the ancient city. It's more than an idea. An idea linking generations of ancestors and their descendants through centuries. So that the scene blends in seamlessly. It was decided to build a decoratively styled fortress in the historical surroundings, which will serve here other social events. Who knows, maybe this newly ascended fortress in hundreds of years will become an artifact of the history of our expedition. According to the results of the rehearsal, of course we will adjust our plans for it. We will need to make divisions, but this will give us more confidence that we have set up everything correctly. Because sitting in Almaty office, all this cannot be forced. There are thousand little things and we need to try it all in real life. Action. After three day training road trip, important notes we made possible issues with eliminated unexpected risks had been identified with plans A, B, C, D, E, F and even C. Well, before you go on an expedition, let's find out. The mission of Nomad Explorer is. The mission of the Nomad Explorer team is to educate a citizen of Kazakhstan through the development of the domestic tourism. Why did we formulate the mission in this way? Because it's impossible to educate a proactive citizen of his country if the citizen cannot consciously embrace his homeland. Therefore, by developing internal tourism, we contribute to that. People see different corners of their country, see the best natural culture and historical objects and are imbued with the feeling that this is a whole country. All that immense Beautiful country and here birthplace. Each region of Kazakhstan became his own and native for him. And he empathizes and becoming more conscious about responsibility for every corner of his country. More than 700 people from all over Kazakhstan have arrived in the city of Taras, A point from where the start of the expedition tradition was skidoo. The weather did not promise to be good in upcoming days, but this did not affect the internal feelings of the participants. I remember once we got to a first location of the ancient palace complex Akatos, while people were getting out of their buses, did not go toward the archaeological park, but simply directed toward the nearest hill. And at that moment I had realized how strong people were. Missing a connection with nature, clean air and just a feeling of freedom because of constant presence inside stone jungle and endless stress. The Akatos palace complex dates back to the 8th century AD. Also, there is no consensus about who built it. Only one can be said with confidence about it that its long term construction and freezing of projects for making a profit have been relevant at all times. I hope the interest holders of those times still have managed to recover their unsuccessful investments. The next point of our route was the ethno archaeological park Conitaras. Under this gigantic dome, archaeological excavation are underway which should shed light on many issues related to the history of the ancient city of Taras. Well, in the evening we have arrived at our first camp which was set up in a bericar Jorge on the foothills of the Caratal. For someone, this knight will be the first in its hand. It will be a kind of initiation into ranks of nomads. But before going through the initiation, we will learn about the philosophy of nomads. The philosophy of the nomads consists of an encrypted meaning inside the word of nomad itself. Word nomad consists of five letters. Each of these letters denotes a concept that stands before our philosophy. First, N indicates a mood that each nominee take with him on an expedition and which comes deep inside out of the nominee's inner self. And no external circumstances can affect or our inner state. We are always in a good mood. The second letter O indicates the responsibility, the responsibility of the nominees for nature, for themselves and the other member of the expedition. The letter M means mobility. Each nomadite is very mobile, able to climb, always ready to discover the vastness of his homeland. The letter A means autonomy. The nomadite is always autonomous. He takes everything with him. He is self sufficient. And finally, the letter D means friendliness. Friendliness in relation to our colleagues on an expedition, in relation to the local Population in relation to nature. These five magic beech trees that add up to the worst of nomads creates our philosophy. All night without any stop, rain was pouring. As it turned out that night there was no initiation into nomads, but a real baptism fire of the survival school. Fortunately, everyone has survived, except for samovar with boiling water. Among this cold weather, they were dying at an incredible speed. But heavy rainfall played a perfect role for nearest hunting shops and buzzards. Newly made nomad has bought up all rubber booths and raincoat within a radius of 50km because there was still five days to go and the sun had not yet promised to appear. But the participants of the national games, Alderas, Pak and Kokbar, began to add some fire to that action. Those national games arose among the nomads for training and maintaining physical condition. And the rule is extremely simple. The one who knocks an opponent of the horse will win. This game also develops agility, courage and ability to control a horse in a close contact battle. Perhaps the most outdated game in the whole world is cockbar. For the first time I personally found myself inside an epicenter of the game itself. Believe me, the adrenaline in the middle of the struggle is too high. A rider and a horse should become a single organism, while a line between men and horse is completely erased. Now I understand why in the middle age no one could win the cavalry army, which is capable of doing archery and having close combat. And as Margot and Saison Bear would say, in this case, this is simply unreal. Tell me, were there any funny situation during the Nomad explorer expedition? Of course, there were a lot of funny cases. And usually an expedition always goes with such a fun atmosphere. We joke a lot. Now it just comes to mind a case when we went around to Stuart. Well, for several days now we are dirty dusting the mountain in Janovozen. You know, the city of Janovozen. We are severe oil workers with such dirty hands. Their hands like our Grimmy legs. We managed to go in some store and a member of our expedition near Boy Basarov wrote with me and he says, Margol and Kaliyevich, you can drop by the Star today. Today is my birthday. I would like to treat everyone with a cake. And we drove into the store. There is a big line of dirty, healthy oil workers. And we go in and this guy still has such a squeaky voice, a little squeaky and so thin. And when he went into the store, I asked him to buy lipsticks because I cracked lips. And it all turned out to become such a curious situation. He went inside and there is a queue of the man at the store. And he says, Can I please go as a friend? First one we in a hurry. And they let him go through a queue. And he started to speak with his thin voice. This is in the center of genuine within. I say today I celebrate my birthday with two boxes of beer. All so respectful in the queue shook their head. But a man is a man. We are celebrating my birthday today at sea. I have to buy two boxes of beer and all give me all that non alkali beer and a box of strawberry ice cream. And can you give me a medical lipstick, please? If I'm begum to be a business card of those harsh oil workers. And it was all right on their faces. And well, that's all. And it came to us. Meanwhile, the third day came and our expedition set off in the one of the most amazing places in our country. When I was there for the first time, I realized with difficulty that this is Kazakhstan Akmisht Cave. The second name is Dragon Cave. It doesn't matter how people call this place. It's important what kind of feeling you had during the descent into the cave. Imagine the space inside the mountain or the size of the stadium. For some time the cave ancient people lived there and held religious rituals and question like what they prayed for, who they were. All this question will never find the exact answers. But one thing is clear. How little we know about the history of our country. But what can we say? We know little about ourselves. In this place, time seems to be stopped. Eternal peace which is disturbed by the local feather and bats. Each time I come here, I have an amazing feeling. I have met many people who were disappointed in Lake Lahna, Stonehenge, the Egyptian pyramids. But there is no who regretted coming here. Sat Cave will become famous all over the world. And we will meet tourists from the whole globe. But for now, there are no longer curious inside the cave. And hurry up to see everything in its original form. Who knows. The cave will be a name and papers will be laid everywhere. A few dozen kilometers from Achmeshid caves was our next location. The mausoleum of one of the legendary mothers of Kazakh people. Dumalak Anna called her Narilla and the people called Domalak because of her fragile physique and short stature. But she was energetic and easy in movements. There are many stories and legends about this woman. And she was known for the fact that she had the gift of clairvoyance. Despite the patriarchal society, all men listened to the advice of Demolic. Honor. According to legend, Nourilla radiated love for children and even adults she treated with motherly love. Thanks to this, she managed to to reconcile the warring tribes. And today the Molacana is a symbol of motherhood. Local residents tell of wonderful stories when after much suffering, families came here, asked for blessing of the sin and then their children were born. Personally, I don't really believe in mysticism, but how can I explain the fact that during the visit to the mausoleum, the saint come out for the first time and it became finally warm. Warm as if all of us had carefully and tenderly embraced motherly blessings on the further journey. Mark Blankalievich, tell me how to join Napmat explorer In order to become a member of the Nomad Explorer Explore movement, We don't have any special requirements. We need to sign up with the three criteria to participate in any of our expedition. The first one should live without gadget for one day. The second condition is that this person must put up a tent on his own. And the third condition is to spend the night with us in condition step 10. If a person fulfills all these three conditions, which in principle are not complicated by themselves itself, then the person is considered a member of the nomad explorer team. So joining the nomad explorer is easy, but incredibly interesting. 40 kilometers from the city of Shimken, another discovery of Mount Kazguard was waiting for me and all the participants of the expedition. There are many legends around this place. Along with one of them during the world through Noah, his art arrived here. This is my fourth memory where Noah Morred Noah didn't exist with his art or not. But the place doesn't become less beautiful. At some point I realized that I saw similar views and photographs from Iceland and New Zealand. There are such surprises in our country. And now let's talk about the participants of this expedition. They all came from different parts of Kazakhstan. They are all different as our nature. But all of them small and great were united by one quality, the spirit of researcher and discoverer. Namely, this character trait forms a person. Because when you have a lost, interesting and looking world, you haven't yet opened a page that you haven't yet read. It means that you have become uninterested in this world and in general life. And as long as a child, curiosity lives in a person who is always young. Because youth is not the age about the state of mind. Our next point was a place where thousands of pilgrims come from different parts of the country. The stone of Adam and Eve. The stone is divided into two parts and there is a Legend that only person with pure thoughts can go through this gap. Does not matter your body shape, only the degree of purity of your soul. As you have already noticed, the opportunity as a kind of faith, control and holiness was in demand. With every passing year I see people want to believe in something. May it be a bright future. The forgiveness of all sins by chanting of mantras. All this, of course is a personal matter. But except for one thing. We are trying to find support in external things and attributes by shifting responsibility for our lives to something else or someone else. Forgetting the that the most powerful and driving force able to change our world is only in us. Sa. Nothing can unite people like a hotbed of starry sky and music. Every evening of the expedition ended in a bonfire on which everyone became what they are. Sam, Margo and Kaliwic, tell us about the discovery that you made during the Nomad Explorer expedition. Since the Nomad Explorer expedition is more probably for me, at least not about nature, but about people. For me, the main discoveries, of course we related to people to Nomad Explorer members. Because I know many of these people in the community conditioned cities in the environment familiar to them. During the expedition, they seem to be empowering, behave more naturally. We even have relationships in Nomad Explorer. We say we have no ranks, estates and property status, position and so on. On the expedition, everyone is equal as in a bathhouse. Related people behave quite differently on the expedition. Which of course leads to the fact that I know many people from a new side. This is a main discovery for me. During the Nomad Explorer expedition, Our way to the final camp ran through the coppice of poppy fields. The poppy blossom season in South Kazakhstan is very short. So if you want to see this site with your own eyes, plan a trip in the second half of April. Until this moment, it seems to me that the flowering of Papio was more of interest of the beautiful half of our society. But as it turned out, at the sight of this beauty, the male part of our expedition was also filled. Our caravan of hundreds of iron horses headed to the place where the great Silk Road ran. The railway passing in this place as technological evolution creating up a reference to the threat that connected the east and the West. Setting up camp in this place, can you imagine how the life of our ancestor Blue World here a few hundred years ago? Of course, each nomad felt anticipation from future days in this historic place, the ancient city Sauron. The first mention of Sauron in written sources dates back to the first half of the 10th century. And in the 14th century, Sauron was its capital of the Juchinsky Accorda. The city was an important trading point of the great Silk Road. Kind of border point between Central Asian Khaganates and steppe tribes. The city had many caravanserai of recreational and shopping place for merchants. According to scientists, up to 15,000 people lived in the city at its peak. Archaeological excavations indicate that the city had a water supply and sewage system. The discovery by Europeans of the sea routes to India and China meant the land still growing unprofitable. And this turned into an economic bankruptcy for Sauron. And the city began to desolate. At dawn, we moved the holy of Holies Turkestan region to the holy mausoleum of architect Arab Was an enormously legendary person. Legends say that the supposedly lived at 300 years. According to another 600 years and even 900. The reason for such a long life was that he did not find worthy successor to give him the Amana, a symbol of faith and calmly live for another world. According to legend, he is called the teacher and spiritual mentor of Hoxa, Ahmet Issawi. It was him that Arstambab dying was Amanat, which was persimmon bones. Not far from the mausoleum. One of the largest ancient cities of Central Asia, Otar. The scale of the former city is impressive. In the best year, more than 200,000 people lived in Otar. Otar is not just an ancient city. The area itself is saturated with history. Archaeologists still continue excavation. I hope that one day they will be able to discover all the secrets hidden by the sands in the bowels of the city's land. With 2000 year history. Then the expedition went to the city Turkestan to see for themselves the greatness of the mausoleum of Khoja Ahmed Esaui. The building of the mausoleum is striking in its execution and fundamentality. The symbol of past successes of the architecture of our ancestors. One can only imagine how outstanding Ahmet Esawi was that Tamerlan himself erected such a magnificent mausoleum in honor of him. You can live your whole life and not suspect the rich heritage of our culture. And in one day you can see the main pillar of our history preserved to this day. The feeling of touching the history of nations cannot be felt on the page of history books. To be built with the spirit of antiquity of these places, you just need to be here. The day of the rich in cultural education ended with a grand gala concert with the participation of domestic musicians and gave an unforgettable evening for each of the expedition members. I'm sure that this day, like everyone else, we remain in the hearse of every new baked nomad for a long time. And after years we will mentally return here again and again. Our country is huge. It's very beautiful. There are many national sites, there are many historical objects. In addition, our country is vast with different temperature and different climates. So I think this country will be very interesting for all types of tourists. I'm sure that tourism in Kazakhstan will develop and at the same time take great strides. It's only a matter of time before people begin to evaluate all this beauty when they are around us. Another expedition of the nomad explorer team on this journey has come to the end. Everyone is covered in a beautiful way to the country in which they live and themselves. Each of us lived a small but eventful life along the way. In our ways as in life, there were force major that could not be foreseen. But in the end we did. After after all, the main thing in life is to be able to soberly estimate the situation and make the right decision. And even more important, to fanatically believe in your business and only by personal example to charge everyone else. Sometimes traveling, we set the main task to get to the destination. But we forget that the way is a journey itself. As it's in life, we are often driven by purpose. And in this pursuit we are missing the most important part the process, this moment. Now we are digging up the past that will not pass away. We are waiting for a happy future that has not yet arrived. Or maybe we should look back and we understand that real happiness does not need much. No matter how long and winding our life destination is. It's important to remember that we all end up with travelers who get a free ticket to the most fascinating adventure called life. And I am sure that in the depths of the soul of every person on earth from a piece of that serious nomad. And while you hurt his beating, don't get try and get there to where you are. Still we haven't been yet. Because no one knows what opportunity waiting for you at the next turn of fate.