My country part 3

Hi everyone welcome back to "Faraway countries” part 3. Today I am going to tell you about people in my country. Do you know that Kyrgyz people are ancestors of Khakass, Altai, Shor people? Do you know that epos  “Manas” is the biggest epos in the world? Stay with me and you going to know more about Kyrgyz people.

Ethnonym “Kyrgyz” means inconsumable. History of Kyrgyz people begins 201 years b.c. in Chinese sources tells about that people who lived near the Huns. According this information Kyrgyz people is one of the oldest nations in Central Asia. We have a rich history with ups and downs. In 840th year Kyrgyz people were the one of the powerful countries in Asia under expansion of them were Altay, Priirtyshya, Tuva and etc. But under invasion of Genghis Khan Kyrgyz people were divided to two parts one stayed at Altay other moved to Tian Shan mountain system, where were the territory of modern Kyrgyz Republic. From X to XVIII century Kyrgyz people we part of Turkic Khanate. From 1709 to 1876 years we were under control of Kokand khanate and from 1876 to 1991 we were part of Russian Empire and latter part of Soviet Union. In August 31^st of 1991 Kyrgyz Republic began to exist.

Epos “Manas” is important part of our culture and history. This epos about hero Manas who collected divided country to one powerful empire. Even China was afraid of our power. 1000 years epos Manas were passed from mouth to mouth  by singers called manaschy, who saw in dreams story of manas hero. There were two great manaschys Sayakbay Karalaev and Sagymbay Orozbak uulu all epos has approximately half a million lines. Academic Chokan Valikhanov start to write epos in 1856 year and he He called "Manas", "steppe Iliad." And continuation of "Manas" - poem "Semetei" - he described as the eastern "Odyssey". At school we have lessons about Manas hero, we study about his “Osuyats” that is kind a laws. There is Seven Manases Osuyats which basically like Ten Commandments,  thus people always will know he’s powerful ancestors, this is good ideology for future because young generation will try to bring back that power what we lost long ago.  

That is all folks! Stay tuned for my next podcast, and thanks for listening!

My country part 2

Hi everyone welcome back to my podcast part 2. Today I am going to tell you about economy of Kyrgyzstan. How good it was during USSR and what we got today. Do you know that economy of Kyrgyz SSR was in leading positions of Union? Do you know that there were two revolutions in 2005 and 2010 years? Stay with me and you going to know more about Kyrgyz republic.

My country has long history beginning from 200 years b.c. in 2200 years there were changed a lot of regimes basically before USSR our country was typical nomad country wealth counted in numbers of livestock such as sheep, horses and cattle. Everything changed after soviet regime come. Russians invested a lot of money in our economy built a lot of factories, roads and other infrastructure, so it brings up 1^st place in Union by producing meat and wool. There is big river called Naryn it is very important in the generation of hydroelectricity. On this river were built 7 hydroelectric stations all of them in period of USSR which consumes by country and rest of it exporting to Uzbekistan and Kazahstan. In soviet period there were no homeless people, 90 % of population were middleclass.

What we have today? After collapse of USSR in 1991 Kyrgyz SSR become “independent” and in 1993 we got own currency called SOM, 1 USD was equal to 8 soms, now 1 USD = 56 soms. In 1995 we got own constitution, in 1998 we entered to WTO (Word Trade Organization). Since then every year GDP is falling down, today we are in 146 place from 193 countries in the ranks of Niger, Cosovo, West Bank and Gaza. We’ve got two revolutions in 2005 when the president Akaev was overthrown and in 2010 when the president Bakiev was overthrown these actions greatly undermined economy. Average salary is 200 – 300 USD in a month! It is not a life it is survival… Today everything corrupted system will not work without bribery.

This was sad part of my country but we have very friendly people and I am going to tell about it in the next part of my podcast. Thanks for listening everyone, and stay tuned for my next podcast bye-bye.  

My country.

Hello everyone and welcome to “Faraway countries” I’m your host Bek. “Faraway countries” is a podcast that reviews country where I’m originally from Kyrgyzstan. Today I am going to tell about geography of my country. Do you know there is a mountain called “Jenish Chokusu” or “Peak Victory” which is highest mountain in Tian Shan mountain system at 7 439 meters or 27 406 feet tall? Do you know there is 7^th deepest lake in the world called “Issyk Kul”? Stay with me and you going to know some knew for you facts about Kyrygyzstan.

Kyrgyzstan is a country of nomad people, who lived there long ago Soviet Union, Russian Imperia or invasion of Genghis Khan. 2200 years ago there lived Kyrgyz people and borders of their territory was much bigger then what we have now. Under attacks of enemies people were gathering on mountains and know our country surround by mountains 90 % of territory is mountains. There is mountain called “Jenish Chokusu” which located between China’s and Kyrgyzstan’s border is the second tallest mountain at the Commonwealth of Independent States. There was expedition to this mountain in 1955 year by two groups of alpinists one of that group Almaty team climbed to an altitude of 6930 meters, but fell under a snow storm and from 12 alpinists survived only one.

One of the attractions at Kyrgyzstan is the lake Issyk Kul. It is the 7^th deepest lakes in the world 668 meters deep and second largest mountain lake behind lake Titikaka in the Andes South America. Water of this lake is salty, people says that it is healing water. Because of lake on high altitude there is only two month of swimming season if it is warm year it could be three month second part of June, July, August and first part of September. The Lake is never freezes even during the cold winter temperature can drop below 0 Fahrenheit. Lake rich in fish and local people fishing them. There is a lot of trout which is delicious.

This is end of part one of my podcast. If you interested in Kyrgyzstan just visit it. In second part of my podcast I will tell  you about economy of my country. That’s all for today. Thanks for listening everyone, and stay tuned for my next podcast bye-bye.

Survival school

Survival school would work great if it will be at Issyk-Kul. Why exactly this place? Because here you have all survival conditions:
1) There is a huge lake
2) There are forests
3) There are mountains
4) and There you can find a lot of no human living places.

At location for survival school students will survive like in real extrime situation but with instructor. Instructor will show how to make fire, shelter, teach students how to fishing and hunting. It will be two seasons for new and normal person level easy - It is summer time, when conditions are benign, and level hard - It is winter time when temperature can drop to negative degrees, a lot of snow, no eatable plants, hard condition for hunting and fishing. This level is for crazy people who loves extreme conditions.
 

Wishes

I'm not sure...
I wish for every creature in this World freedom. Millions of cows, pigs, chickens and a lot of different species are living in cages, because human wants their meat, leather, milk and etc. I saw video today it shows how we human get food https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10201253217875128&set=vb.1312159511&type=2&theater now I'm thinking about eating more plants.

My friend wishes to get green card so he could go back to his country to visit his family and come back to US to work, because he can earn legally more money then in his own country. He says he want's to earn money to build a house for him and get married to her girlfriend, but he saw her only by skype, he wishes that she would be a good wife.

I wish there were spaceship which can send me to different Galaxy. I just want to see different forms of the live and visit far places of Universe. I wish to see Earth from the Moon. There is good pictures from the Moon. Also I wish to see deep sea creatures in Mariana trench. And I wish there is no mistakes on my blog :)