TRAVEL EVERYWHERE

Part II

Rhonda charming because the city centre is being held on a deep ravine, which is on the edge of a miracle kept white residents houses. If accidentally falls from a window, a thing, it will not find any opportunity already. Even a bridge over the gorge - attraction in itself, because of its reliance height reaches 100 meters. Since the bridge during the civil war in the gulf dropped communist guerrillas and prisoners of war. I think that this kind of massacre, however, come much sooner because there is no way Ronda less than 10 centuries, and even from the Roman times.

Rhonda outskirts - closer than most ancient city selyatsyaNo Spain, and throughout Europe - Cadiz. It was built Phoenicians, then rovnyali with the land and acted anew Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs, and then took them away galeony to America, and now this port town without any notable monuments. We walk on the center, which went to inspect the ruins of a Roman and realized that the whole day here, we fail. So we ride our Ford Fusion and went to the most southern point of Europe - Cape Tarifa, which easily lifted a decent room in the hotel Alborada.

Tarifa - one of the most poetic seats Spain. First, here clearly visible from Africa. If you embark on a mole in the port city, the left hand will calm Mediterranean Sea, on the right - raging Atlantic Ocean, and right in front of you, across the strait - Villages on the slopes of the Moroccan Atlas mountains, birth desire to go immediately Gibraltar (then something was born and I have a dream to visit Morocco). In the ocean comes the sun, illuminating the medieval castle Guzman family, which is famous for its maniacal brutality, I do not know really why. Ocean Day is constantly revet and rage, creating a feeling of the cabin of a “Titanic”. With all this in Tarifa - cozy quiet town with a lot of Moroccan leather souvenir shops, pleasant old quarter and inexpensive restaurants.

It is not that we are not tortured trip. We circled on the southern and central Spain in the 3000 km length. Therefore, the last two days of travel, we were lying on the luxurious beach resort Marbella, allowing a decent 4 - star hotel, drank sangria and viewed by hundreds of pictures during that time. Дольше two days, I still do not because the patient starts, but I had an excuse in that much work.

Sand SalamankiMy Cathedral, in the end, ten days visited about 20 cities, small and large, but in his own way has always unique. Some of them were able to inspect only catch, for three to four hours. But I do not regret about it. Among the tourists there two points of view on such trips: one contemptuously say that “galloping” it is impossible to examine any of Europe, and have to live in each city to prochuvstvovat its atmosphere, others (one of which belongs to the author of this essay) understand that life is too short and the Earth too big to sit in one place. Mir inspect for life impossible. But two weeks might feel the rhythms of Spain this: go to the corrida, eat rabo de toro (bull tail), or María tabbouleh, see sevilsky Alcázar and catch Stork on the castle walls Avila (then release). And a lot of another try, try, feel and hear. To back on the road to the airport hopeless hand ispolinskomu bull against a backdrop of a blue sky with the consciousness of mission accomplished - I saw Spain.

Part I

Spanish simvolVdol roads throughout Spain installed huge black banners in the form of a bull. Horned parnokopytnoe visible from everywhere, and inevitably becomes one of the most popular symbols of the country. It has been said before, not only had the bull silhouette, but their eyes, and outlines the main elements of the body. They were billboards set a certain beer company along major highways. Then the company contracted with the state road administration ended, but the public demanded to leave the animals in their favorite spot. Bykov zakrasili black, and is now among the picturesque hills and meadows of yellow Iberian Peninsula against a background of blue sky everywhere flash Herculean most famous animal figures, each recalling tourists: in Spain, you guys.

We have been here as a youth, after 2 weeks of student vacations on the coast of Catalonia. But this time we just wanted to southern sun. At the May holidays could go to the East, but by the time of our memory had not yet vyvetrilos trip to Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia, so thirst for a comfortable vacation peresilila spirit of adventurism. Rassudiv that in northern Europe, except for the rain and frost on the ground, to catch this season still nothing (that we know well from experience), we are staying on the Iberian Peninsula, hoping that the sun will inevitably there настигнет us.

Spain will already have switched to the euro, but prices in the country have not yet had time to reach out to the pan-European level. Now it is even surprising recall, but a decent room with a bathroom and air conditioning could lift for 40 euros - today for the same money in Europe only plyunut you in the face. Typically, we stayed in the institution called Hostal [rest], which is about the English guesthouse. They do not pay taxes as hotels, do not contain 24 - hour reception at the entrance, and contain 4-5 rooms, not more. Prices are lower, service is decent for a man who does not use hotel accommodation, and for nights. In some hostales guests awarded the key to the front door, and the landowner all day, somewhere lost, and to pay, he needs to call on the mobile phone and arrange a meeting.

Instead pripadochnogo Renault Clio, which we were threatened with car rental company Europa Rent-a-car in Malaga, we received the Ford Fusion, almost unknown in Russia. It was quite a thing. Even worse was the fact that the airport in Malaga woman scientist in police uniform never wanted to miss me to the hall rental cars. It demanded from me “freight ticket, which I personally anxious to its attitude towards linguistics understood as a ticket to the freight / cargo transportation hiring.” How much will I have explained it to any (body language, gestures and in the languages of the peoples of the world) that the truck me to anything that I would Passenger transportation, everything has been useless. It is clear that no receipts freight / recruiting machine I could not be, because I broniroval it on the Internet.

Mimo me were dozens of people. In the end, even after the half-hour observation, I noticed that none of them any receipts baba did not, and all just show your ticket and pass by, looked at me throwing views. I learned a charter from Moscow to Malaga-Moscow.

– Aha! — said a female scientist - So this is the freight ticket!
– Sure it FLIGHT ticket, the procedure!
From felony me then saved my wife Lyudmila.

In Lis hotel in Malaga we arrived two o’clock in the morning local time. In one of the stories, read on the Internet, Russian tourist povedal that in a similar situation, he strolled to the very dawn of the city and Kabaka seen beauty night Malaga. When we settled in the hotel, my wife suggested to consider the same option. Exactly half a minute we fall.

A view of the GranaduPotomu that the next day we waited for Alhambra. Once, as we know, this castle in the town of Granada, the last two centuries served as a refuge for the European conquerors of Arab land. They, in their usual, built a mosque, palaces with openwork patterns on the ceiling and semicircular windows contain harem with eunuch. Apart from the prince, everything is in excellent condition, preserved as a very old and Granada, whose panorama which opens from the top of the castle, with a view of snowy peaks of the Sierra Nevada, no less picturesque, as the Alhambra itself.

Queue a fortress kilometre length boa - was 9 o’clock in the morning. We are pleased proshlis along it slowly, because we went to the window reservation. Tickets can be purchased in Alhambra on the phone, via credit card, and for the same price. This is doubly useful, given that when buying tickets in person barred castle immediately, but called particular time, in which he could visit her. And if the yard morning, a time of the visit - 16.30., Waiting very patiently may disappoint tourists. We knew his time in advance.

In Granada, near the Alhambra directly, I first tasted the cold tomato soup omelette (gazpacho), which failed to trace my health was ravaged by years of debilitating PR activity. Later, we found that in every city the Spanish omelette prepared in a variety of ways, but always perfect.

From Granada, enjoying the kinds of old city, we went to Cordova - another outpost Arab conquest of Spain. It is here the famous Mesquita (Mezquita), the former mosque, and now a cathedral built by Muslims as early as 9 century. After returning to the fold of Cordoba Christian Church, King decided to equal the mosque to the ground, although even then it is considered a wonder of the world. But local people (Christians, by the way) gave him to understand that better would it did not go. As a result of a Christian cathedral as a mosque would be built, saving for posterity one of the best monuments of Muslim architecture in Europe.

Vastness Mesquite, KordovaV Meskitu best fall between eight and nine a.m. - let free, and there are no tourists. At that time, Mass is held here.

Cordova fairly large city, and there may be a good idea to hold a two-day inspection of the urban and nearby attractions. If you find a parking space, you can stay in a comfortable hotel, Boston, where the clock tower with the central square of the city will inevitably remind you of the time even when it is you to anything.

At the famous street Flowers grow flowers in pots on the window sill. Their darkness here as tourists, for that matter. But here was called an excellent view of the former minaret, and now the bell tower Mesquite. In the outskirts of the city before it quite picturesque landscape of hills and gullies, crosses countless “gvadal” - glory of ancient Arab names. I think summer is intolerable hot weather in May was also very comfortable allowing enjoy the sun and rejoice with malice at the Moscow frost.

Reasonably rassudiv that in Madrid in a car better not surprised (as in any big city, including Moscow, Paris and New York), we stopped to come to Toledo, the capital of the ancient kingdom Kastilskogo, in the old Hotel Santa Isabel, one of the streets Old Town, located to the ground at an angle of 45 degrees. Toledo is on the high cliff, and most of the streets in it just such.

This is a remarkable town - primarily because of the pristine medieval architecture, construction and gift weapons “masapanam, local vysokokaloriynym sweets. Toledo is small, but you can walk on it is not a day - almost all the houses in the old city were built in 12-16 centuries, and some even when Visigoths, who also used the Toledo as the capital. After I spoke in detail about his wife’s mores and legends of Spain at the time, she could not sleep. Morning, it became clear to me that throughout the night she has avoided the rest bleak Middle Ages. She said that beneath our windows someone riding on the cobblestones on horses, constantly travelling carriages, and the church came to the front of witches and tried to deaden. I explained that this was all nonsense - no it is not witch, and only a ghost of St. Isabel, which for centuries ferment on the house where she was at one time cut off his head. The next night we did not sleep two. This also contributed to visit the gallery painter El Greco, who worked in Toledo. Here he created a lot of masterpieces, but all 12 apostles depicted his eyes for some reason are frighteningly asymmetrically. Smack on the Kunstkamera.

Weapons for every taste in the evening ToledoPod all tourists gather on a nearby hill to watch, as the setting sun illuminates old Toledo. Tower openwork Gothic cathedral discouraged last hours passing day. At the edge of the ancient rocks colored spire Alcazar fortress, where Columbus campaign Kastilskuyu Isabella and her husband Ferdinand pridurkovatogo sponsor his tour abroad, and then scattered in front of them American gold, the great pogubivshee Spain. Stop to rattle their swords dvuruchnymi rapirami and hundreds of vendors of antique weapons, but went to the streets ghost prisoners Inquisition. Yes, the city of Toledo is to remember that such evenings.

Additionally, Toledo has the important advantage that is only an hour’s bus to Madrid progress. Like any European metropolis, Madrid tightly wrapped multilevel road interchanges and armadami cars, which on its own trucking better not to be subjected to stress. But take a bus to one of the central bus stations, where with the help of all the subway can be obezdit capital.

In the Royal Palace, King Juan Carlos lives - the same that inherited their time in the famous dictator Francisco Franco. As a result of 30 years Spain rid of the heavy legacy of the fascist regime - the other day, for example, has been removed from Madrid last monument Franco. It is a great pleasure for the citizens, all the more so as it is in Madrid thirties years of civil war until the last day was the main stronghold of Republicans. People here remember it well: pervomayskih rallies at the Spanish Republican flags everywhere eagerly noticeably more often than government. A mayor of one of the small towns that we are travelling on the road, even post the flag on the balcony of his residence.

Our gone! — SalamankaPolzuyutsya popular as red flags with the face of Lenin, T-shirts with the hammer and sickle and other Shirts copyright commission for which our country (as a designer, manufacturer) will never get. We told the local “red” that the Russians are, and then we just were not on the hands. Unlike America, Russia is very fond of.

The historic center of Madrid buildings built in the style of the 18 th century: gilding shine, Stucco facades and other attributes of nostalgia for a bygone power Spain. The world-famous monuments in Madrid no (well, El Escorial palace in the suburbs, and that makes sombre reading). But there are Prado gallery, where if you want you can get an idea of Spanish art last 5-6 centuries: Velazquez, El Greco, Murillo, Surbaran, Goya and others. Why is Rafael remember the picture, which depicts trees so unnaturally straight, though it anywhere in their lineup.

In Madrid, as in many cities of Spain, are many guest workers. This is not so much a Negro, which has become habitually seen in European capitals, but South American Indians selling their nehitrymi cheap here. These guys look very exotic.

The legacy of American rule, however, is best seen in Extremadura, west of Madrid, where the majority were kind of Spanish conquistadors. Guide told us, for example, that the architecture of the city Caceres noticeable impact Aztec. But we have because of his utter ignorance of this is not noticed anything, although the city is very beautiful and worth seeing. In Spain, more or less every major city has its attractions. Avila - a giant fortress walls, in perfect preservation, as used for tens of nesting storks. Salamanca - sand-coloured city and the same color solar magnificent cathedral. In Segovia preserved Roman aqueduct with a height of five House, and in Merida - a Roman bridge over the River Tagus, the same era temple of Diana and amphitheater. Amphitheatres, however, in the Mediterranean are nothing new. In any case, all of the city is included in the tour of the country.

Roman aqueduct, SegoviyaPosle short-term visits to Portugal, where they will go in another essay, so as not to obstruct this, we once again returned to the Spanish blessed land, where gasoline markedly cheaper, and highways are free. (But, as my wife noticed, in Portugal can put the car at the bus stop, and for that you do not.) in Seville, we stopped at an establishment called Redes, geographically very successfull to see the city. Until that day I had never seen any room in the hotel was desyatimetrovy winding corridor. Well, I saw.

In Seville should visit the Alcázar, built Muslims, and look at the minaret of La Giralda, with absolute analogue in the Moroccan Marrakesh. Sevilla - this trendy city, because he promoted. Globalization has made tourism a major factor raskruchennost - about Notre Dame de Paris all know, and about Angkor Wat units, although when comparing Notre Dame seem just a shed. Similarly, in a charming ancient Toledo relatively quietly, and in the industrial megalopolis Seville teeming millions tourists. About the existence of Seville know even some American citizens. Of course, this brings some negative - a lot of tourists here. They sit on the ground (the stairs, grass, sidewalk), formed queues, load their phone cafes, and contribute to higher prices of food. But they at least this food can be found at any time of day. The fact is that the restaurants in Spain totally closed from 15 to 19 hours, and found in that time, even uboguyu pizzeria - already great happiness. In Seville come to this effect so-called “crown” (tapas) - sandwiches size 3 * 3 cm, which are served in abundance in any bar in the mode of non-stop. This is a national andalusskaya food. Sandwiches very different - fish, meat, cheese, salad, vegetables, mushrooms, etc. Of course, to 0.80 euros for a bite to pay not feel like, but if hunger is better than perebivatsya chips.

Even in the best of Andalusia make hamon - smoked meat. Here it is called “hamon iberiko (jamon iberico), and is sold in any store. In Andalusia is a city Habugo, which supposedly is home hamona - so reads guide. We are travelling on his journey through the streets plutali half an hour but never found any cooking store, no hamonnoy shops. Residents looked on us as lunatics on, which we have concluded that no amount is not hamona motherland. Indeed, after we brought to Moscow an entire pork leg of the hamona and hanged her on the balcony, in the neighbourhoods adjacent to the smell made unequivocal conclusion that his birthplace - to us.

Virtually the same happened with sherry homeland - the city of Jerez de la Frontera. Driving past him from Seville to Cadiz, we zateyali ferocious dispute, whether or not driven in Jerez. The assertion that we did not razbiraemsya fault because it does not use the, seemed convincing. No won the thesis that relatives and friends still need to bring in a gift - so nothing better than to invent and bring a bottle of sherry from Jerez. And so it turned out that we were in this hospitable city, where all breathe famous fortified wine.

Dazzling homes in the blue background, AndalusiyaI again it is - there is not much to them breathing. We walked around the entire historic center and did not find any store - everything was closed. We even found the monument to a person with sherry barrels - but the barrel was bronze. We remembered that at the yard 9 o’clock. Eventually, in some vegetable (!) Store and we sold сжалились miracle zavalyavshuyusya there sherry bottle.

On the south of Andalusia, you can just ride for fun. The province painted in white and blue. Bright blue sky, the nature of it, diluted with a taste of the bright-white walls towns scattered across the slopes of the many mountain ranges. The so-called “white villages” (pueblos blancos) fully justify their name from the houses, painted white, bright shining in the sun and causing a desire to stay here to live forever. In each one of you will definitely wait castle and the church date back to the days when Russia was a population density of two bears per square kilometre. The most beautiful of these towns are considered Arcos and Rhonda, though I would not do such absolute claims.

This traveler never lets things in the luggage. He attributes this to three factors:

1. Baggage long wait.
2. Baggage is often lost or deformed beyond recognition during the flight.
3. This traveler never need things more than is in his hand luggage.

In one trip you need a bag. This is a very convenient bag. You can hang on the shoulder or carry in their hands. It changes the shape to be placed on the luggage shelf in the passenger cabin. It weighs no additional five kilo. Bags roll is a beautiful thing, there are too many places where the wheels useful. but places where they will only create additional inconvenience in the world even more.

There are simple techniques to take a trip to only the necessary things. Take a small bag that the average person can raise Physique one hand, and it will include only those things that are never dispensed. Everything else it is simply not sure. Because the load always can be divided into two groups: that, without which really have to Meinert, and that “may be useful.” Let things fall in the second category will remain at home, otherwise most of them never see the light during the entire trip, Nilanjana suitcase at the bottom, and you protaskaete these things without the wing.

On the other hand, it is important not to forget that, without which, in the way will have to suffer. Never forget, as we bought one pair of binoculars to take him with me in Vietnam, but vzyat-to and forgotten, and how badly we were when we were standing at very high grief and tried seen that there feature away. “The minute I was ready to pay half of binoculars.

As a result of all our World Travel, a compact, but very functional list of what is needed to carry, Going to watch the world.

* + passport copy (a copy is better to keep separate from the passport: put it in another pocket, or leave at the hotel, if we lose documents. another copy appropriate to the house parents: lest they be experiencing a mass of emotions when you call them the other end of the world with the message of the loss of all documents and money)

* tickets (you have not forgotten about air travel? It would be a good idea to make a copy of a ticket back home - just in case)

* money (estimated at $ 100 per day per person in Africa and Asia, in Europe expect to double the amount, and think about credit cards, without which it would hardly be possible to rent a car)

* Second glasses (for the suffering poor eyesight, and if anyone in the travel-can, and you accidentally on-board their glasses, you should always be an alternative. Podoydut also sunglasses with diopter, but contact lenses leave home)

* camera charger + + Tripod (be sure Stocks film or memory cards, a tripod is needed when you want to be photographed together in the desert and, yes, in a crowded place, too, because you Aborigines photograph so that the frame will only four legs; for single travelers simply need a tripod, otherwise all the pictures appear to be hackneyed cards)

* + mobile phone charger (and the money to put themselves through to avoid chatter of friends and acquaintances then left home)

* guide (sometimes it is cheaper to buy locally, but this makes it impossible to accurately route planning in advance)

* useful addresses / phones (hotel, which booked room; embassy Russia, the host Tourism agencies and the representative who came to the airport to meet you and waiting, oafish, in a nearby terminal)

* medicines (model Russian travel sickness: the cold, headache, intestinal disorders, stomach Tormen, allergies all around, in addition, take a Burned cream, the Vietnamese “stars” and samokleyuschiysya plaster)

* binoculars (handy in the mountains, on-site inspection, the state borders - that, for cordons? - and even on the beach)

* flashlight (for the examination of dark lanes and sacred Buddhist caves)

Candle lighters + * (in some hotels may be arbitrary in time to turn off the electricity, but in certain it was not otrodyas)

* ballpoint pen (to fill questionnaires upon arrival)

* umbrella hat (saves from rain, snow, wind and sun-umbrellas impact not save, as a guide see the logo of the site)

* Eat and bottled water in the way (you want to drink and have it in the event that food will not be around

* MALLIST FICTION in the way (just grab something painful minutes waiting for registration for the flight: love or a detective novel, something relaxing. book I always take the VM Illich-Svitycha “Experience comparison Nostratic languages, M., 1964)

* Deere for the ears (many prefer hotels located directly above the noisy discos, and when you tire brutally traveled from the day 30-40 kilometers above the head necessarily loud noise and movement and ablästern some lizards, a couple of wall is not until morning rest)

* for personal goods (Shaver, brushes, pasta, zagarny cream, Deo, comb: women, the list could go on forever; leave in a bag about half the total space for its trehkilogrammovoy “kosmetichki”)

* machinery for the destruction of mosquitoes (do not trust travel agents: there are mosquitoes everywhere. They will not only there, where you come with your “fumitoksom”)

* ropes (do not hang, but for drying things vystirannyh evening on the balcony of the hotel)

* piece of toilet paper (there are places where it did not find uspevaesh …)

* pinch washing powder (rather than take a four-shirts, grab one of you can always hastily laundry)

* Cyanoacrylate (connecting together all that is broken and torn during the trip)

* Sewing Kit (spayaet what took no Cyanoacrylate)

* smelting / Swimsuit (even if you are going to the Sahara or the steppes of Mongolia, there can always be clean river, lake or mining pool at the hotel. Iceland has hot springs, but no one will come in the head tamoshnem swim in the sea)

Now a few words about what must not be allowed in your bag camping.

* towels (you can always steal or buy at the hotel in the beach kiosk)

* soap, shampoo, gel-dush (like towels, so leave your stupid habit of taking a piece of soap in the soapbox, hungry inherited from Soviet times)

* knife / scissors (quite accurately select departure and arrival on promuchaetes whole hour, identify where they go)

* Umbrella (from tropical storms are not saved, in the mountains and in walks the boat is useless, susceptible to the wind and adding any goods)

* Second boots (try to convince her that the shoe at shpilkah in Bhutan are not)

* Woroch clothing (mostly sex is a wonderful argument phrase “I can not look at all the photos in the same” masters solve the problem with a photo editor Adobe Photoshop)

And finally another. You will need a little handbags at every day. Put it in the passport, money, sunglasses, binoculars, a camera, gubnuyu pomadu for your companion, damp napkins for hands and a map location. Do not put it on the belt is the best place where she can be interested in people earning those to life. Hang on the shoulder, and then press it into the crowd to hand over his body - and the thieves will be sad sight provozhat you, wishing you Godspeed …

Part II

Near Shenini there is a beautiful, albeit krivovataya, “Semi mosque sleeping” (Sept Dormeurs), in which the seven buried. According to legend, they fell asleep in an era of the first Christians and prospali here a few centuries. All this time, their bodies grow, reaching 5 meters. Then they awoke, only to find themselves in the world of Muslims, and the wonder of dying. However, the legend said that they had yet to Islam just in case.

On the way back from the Sahara in Monastir, we have decided to wash themselves with sand and drove a couple of days to conduct qualitative hotel on the island of Djerba (Djerba). By this time, the sand was already everywhere. He generously sypalsya depths of the camera and pleasure hrustel between the teeth, mouth disease in any food served and the main element of any accepted inside the liquid. Pockets, shoes and camping bag were extremely rich in sand, but in the desert, we had a grant one night, and the rest being laundered in a more or less decent hotels.

Farewell to SaharoyTuristy at Djerba lead plant life despite the fact that the island is also rich in its history. Here live ibadity, representatives of the moderate sect of Islam, which replaced the continent with their more radical brethren. Military life felt throughout. Most of the island’s population still lives in menzelah-fortified farms, which grabbed among palm groves and fields of the island. In the south of the island remained unique underground mosque built for hidden ibaditami prayers, and if it were not for my wife starfish eyes, we would have it never found. But land, conventional mosques in Djerba hundred, and there is even a synagogue, praying that their god 60 families of Jews still living here since time immemorial. Perhaps the synagogue is the only place where tourists pushchairs because of the lack of public transport own car or taxi is the only way to see all the identities of civilization here.

Within Tunisia such civilizations, we counted no less than five, and each is not worthy of that little essay-large study. About people, monuments, customs and languages of these places. About the traditions, history and mystery distant past. About wildlife, underground lakes and red rainy Sahara desert. Those that can see in Tunis albeit people.

No, it does just visiting sixty countries, you start to realize that you have not seen the world …

November 2007

Itinerary: Monastir - Gabes - Matmata - Duz - Ksar-Gilan Tatauin - - - Djerba Monastir.

 Part I

Images from the paved part of the world here.

Sand dunes in the interior of the country SaharyEst known to be of interest to no one. Among such, I have all my conscious life prichislyal Tunisia. I thought that people go there just because they did not have enough money to go to the opposite shore of the Mediterranean, which is partly true. Yes, and that there may be, in Tunis? Lone drevnerimskie columns and amphitheatres, as a similar hands, which any reasonable traveler already sick? The square huts single dusty shades of reinforced concrete, with his obsessions Arabs nudnym bazarnym Bargain ( “Give me your last price!”), Five hotels with osypayuschimsya ceiling? All of this and in other countries of the Arab East policy.

Going forward, I would say that all of this, of course, is the truth-Tunisia and seen the average Russian odor. An airplane charter airlines swollen person we met passengers who have nothing to lose (it is thanks to them my wonderful country in the world only with vodka and associate), and at the spa in Monastir us with a beautiful smile up in a hotel room 5 * Amir Palace with panoramic overlooking the airport and the same fragrances and sounds. In a single night, we have to hold there, we both EVEN DREAM IT… that silver jet airliners fly into our room through the balcony and the same happen here skyward.

But we never lose hope! In the very same airport of Monastir met us in advance rented Nissan Patrol, albeit produced at the dawn of motoring, but still moving quickly, after which most of the roads in the Tunisian. The next morning, plunging it most needed, we went to the south in the Sahara desert, as Russian tourist is not known.

At palm finikamiV result of Tunisia has become one of the most interesting and colorful journey of my life. It turned out that the Sahara is a special culture, and the unique nature of the mass of sensations that people can survive only in this desert-bright, silent and endless.

And other people here, too. In the cities of Tunisia-ordinary Arabs, creating primitive, each trades something yes. They begin any bid to $ 50 and descend to 2-3 within ten minutes, but for those ten minutes you feel a multi fatigue. Such Arabs short conversation:

- Hey, friendship, how much you give to you Will this dagger in a sheath snake skin?
- 50 dollars.
- Poslushay, brother, I know the price and you better speak French. Let us not waste time.
- Let-it is responsible then-10 dollars.

Buy for 5 and exit, leaving him in tears. In neighboring huts pair delighted some tourists from Togliatti buys the same for hundreds.

Even I can not tell the story of how the Arabs selling mutton in roadside cafes. A log over tables hang 2-3 fresh ovine carcasses resulting in awe even those who responded to the wildlife and the green movement. On the table is looking at you head sheep, and the expression of the person it meaningful. When I come to this spectacle of himself, asked assortment of dishes, the Arabs looked at me and asked otsenivayusche so:

Meeting Berber girl with a white chelovekom- you kilogram, two kilo?
Yes-no, I eat, “I replied peacefully. - Well, eat something.

He leaves and returns with a man who thinks that knows French.

- Bonjour.
- Hello, you have to devour you can?
- Can. You kilogram or two? Try to take one and a half kilograms.
One and a half-kilogram WHAT?
- Ram.

I do not know. I am not about how much do I need kilograms of sheep. I take a piece of meat and sedayu it, and never in life is not intended, but it kilograms. All restaurants of Reykjavik before Dzhokyakarty gave me platter and called it the price, and I eat it with a degree of pleasure. And here, and so I went hungry, and angry, and ovine head provozhala me sympathetic glance.

And in the south of Tunisia Arabs little, it is the birthplace of Berber people, one of whom made a Tuareg-Sugar its fiefdom. Here there in the world - the Berbers and Tuaregs, and we went.

Several practical tips on the moving narrative. First, in plyunte of who assured that the need to Tunisia tourist trips. An independent traveler, it is not required. Clone put on the entry at the airport without a sound, and no voucher or hotel booking, which we are afraid of the Tunisian embassy is not required. Second: if we take naprokat machine, it must be SUV. Yes, it otkapyvat from barhana much more difficult, but the chances that he does not stuck, much higher. After all, not the same drive on the roads in the desert?

Because no roads in the Sahara, but there is a so-called pistes, a semblance of trails that are more or less cleared of stones and serve as a communication path between oases. Like the wild animal trails in the woods, often dual pisty, shrinking and slowly dissolved into the desert without a compass and then do nothing. In addition, the middle road might arise suddenly impressive size sandy Barkhan, nenesenny recent storms, and if the eye appears that the machine will overcome it, the reality might get a very different picture. Man is powerless against such a quantity of sand, and we are with you for nine months of the year otkapyvayuschim their cars from snow, it is habitually.

In search of the village Ksar-GilanImenno so we were looking for in the Sahara Ksar-Tarsin (Ksar Tarcine), the southernmost fort, once the Romans founded in the edges. At that time, for a Roman legionary trip in Ksar-Tarsin mean roughly the same as for us is translated to work in cities Kovdor Murmansk region, with the only difference that in Kovdore people live, but in no Ksar-Tarsine anyone. And if the Roman era here River Etaabin still functioned, but now it only remained parched, rocky track in Arabic ued. Here on this uedu and we had to reach the ruins, and then only because my wife’s eyes Wye remarked away some height, otherwise we may have to this day taskalis would Sahara.

This unfortunate ued remembered me for life. Until then, I was practicing extreme driving only at peak times on the Garden ring, and experience sports Trophy not know me. But at some point, I sensed that ahead of me, indiscriminate stone blocks, behind-the same as on the sides of dunes fresh, loose sand, and deployed too late. In those minutes, desperately rotating wheel and jumping from stone to stone, I thought that what the party to go in the next 10 km for help, where to take 2 liters of water that people should drink per hour, while in the wilderness, and the main thing is there Are we in this abnormal Tunisian car jack …

- How to think, there is in this car jack? - wondered at that point Lyudmila, and I clearly sensed a single to envy.

When, against all expectations, we finally got to the foot Ksar-Tarsina, we suddenly found ourselves here for the people. Three to four Italian travel at home SUV stationed in the shadow of Roman fortifications, razlozhili camping table and cut cucumbers. These were experienced people, and, judging by their bodromu mood, in their car was Jack, with a reliable, has a well.

QSAR Uled-Soltan- Do you have? - flegmatichno asked one of them, seeing the expression on our insane persons.
No, I answered firmly, “we would get from here …

Italians launched a polite map and showed us all the Nullity guide Lonely Planet, which has led us to Ksar-Tarsin dead. On the way back, however, we still have more than once had to unfold, because most pist was entered sands.

There is only one alternative-dromedary, dromedary Aborigines seats here. Once out in Timbuktu Gadamesa were hundreds of these animals, and to accommodate hundreds of them return, crossing the desert with a cargo of ivory and bad sacks spices, and a number of plot involving black slaves whose descendants still meet periodically on the streets of the cities of southern Tunisia.

The road to Timbuktu at the gates camel took 52 days, and it is surprising how they suffered so much time - I mean the people, not camels. I, for example, after two hours of movement on this monster feels as if it is not, I was driving on it, and it’s in me, together with the entire poklazhey.

In addition, a camel with no dogovorishsya. If no rope tied to his faces, it can rotate in the opposite end of the Sahara, looking for (and finds) on the road to steal spines, nindzya other camels and generally behaves razvyazno. Continuing had appealed to Said, a Bedouin Duza (Douz), which at its head offered to hold us in the desert sleeping.

The man has simply irreplaceable. Desert it is home. He was able razdobyt firewood for the fireplace, which we had cooked couscous, tea and mutton-mushuyya on a grid. In ordinary life I am more than comfortable about the lamb and couscous can not see, but that evening I figured that I taste anything in life not eat.

Mint tea parked in pustyneZa stakanchikom myatnogo sugary tea, sbivayuschego one leg with their scent, Saeed cancer and prolong watch us unyluyu Bedouin song. Around there was not a sound. Camels to hear the motive, wisely go somewhere, leaving them then had to go pol-utra. Kromeshnaya darkness, millions of stars at a distance of elongated hands, soft sand and silent ball. I looked at his wife Lyudmila and realized that she thinks about the same. Life ozhestochila us be spurred business suits and trained eye to determine the amount of dollars per bundle. We live in a consumer world of sex and money, and it seems to us that everyone else in the world, people live in the same. But no: Said general spit on consumer world. He sings his own songs, which naproch lost the desire to live, drinking tea and Fig Mint knows what thinks. (Listen “Said Song”).

To overcome suicidal bit unhappy, we came zadornyh him a few Russian folk songs, but their choice was either fails, or (more likely), we are somehow not as singing, but on the face exactly Said no impact, no emotions except light perplexing. He spoke in French rather Satisfactory, but it is much better oriented features in the desert existence. For example, washing dishes masterfully sand (a Tuareg hair and kicking them), know how to make a camel guttural sound lie on the knees and sleeps on the cold sand, not nakryvayas.

Even Said taught me tushkana-catching skills necessary for life in the Sahara. Jerboa digs hole goes in the sand and live in it, but pointless, as we all did it in childhood, there shed water from the hose, it does not affect him. No, Bedouin doing differently. He zasovyvaet in the hole goes hand in life and on it goes, explosives surface during meters. Here’s this jerboa can no longer withstand, jumps from two meters of sand from its hole goes and runs nautek, and if - if-you know the exact location where he jump, it is easier to catch light. But only the Bedouins and tushkan know this place, but we are not.

Generally wildlife deserts quite diverse. The morning when we prodrali eyes and released each other from sleeping bags, revealed that around tents natoptano great many traces.

Berber woman in Shenini- Who then, is? I asked Said. - Shakaly, he replied, splyunuv - Hyena. Berberiyskaya sand mouse. Desert Fox.

Yes … If traces of the language of faith, then around our tents for the night shlyalis entire flocks feasting, families wandering Hyena and desert fox, and berberiyskih hordes of mice, according to further analysis, and not hesitated to look inwards. But all were alive.

At the time, in this province have come kochevniki-araby and Berbers –locals were forced to leave the coastal areas and withdraw to the desert. Thus came their unique settlement in the southern city of Tunis-underground Matmata (Matmata) and ksary area Tatauin (Tataouine).

Underground house, curious and very logical construction. First you need to dig a huge pit, which is being held in the entrance to one side, through an underground tunnel. The bottom of pits is a playground 5 of 5 meters, and the walls are niches that serve as rooms, kitchens and storerooms. These niches can be as long as you want to dig any depth, and there are two houses under the ground. In the town of Matmata operates several underground hotels, one of which occurred shooting the film “Star Wars”, which decorations still hang on here potehu few tourists. Many underground homes lie abandoned, but the majority continues to be used, and at the bottom of pits around the well binding grow even small Sadiki. It has been said that there are cool in summer and considerably comfortable than in the ordinary Arab mud. Many homes are equipped with even electricity. And over the entrance necessarily hand painted blue and hanging from the fish-tail basilisk. The same giant tail of tuna sold at many local markets.

More koloritny ksary-reinforced high-rise village on the hills around the city Tatauin. They also built for defense, fencing monumental walls, and because of the lack of places they look like giant formicaries, consisting of a small clay kamorok. Today ksarah few lives already, but residents here store grain, hay and all things that we are normally burden on the balcony, fighting their inevitable destruction. Some ksary close for the castle, and we once raised ears at the village, trying razdobyt key.

QSAR Ez-ZaraEto the case. You fit surrounded by the wall and ksaru dergaete door. Closed. But in the immediate vicinity would necessarily people, which has no on this day, no classes, but to stand and look at your actions. You go to him and ask the French convincing tone immediately razdobyt key, or else terrible happens.

Even if you understand it, it was not anyone from their seats. Instead, dialing air in the chest, he began orat towards the end of another village, which is the same person. At screaming few residents responded, and gradually going to a small gathering around. Talk happens at the same time among all parties, except you, because you po-berberski still weak. Drivers and passengers traveling passing trucks and vans also involved in the conversation, but not stopping. Gradually clear that the present high expectations placed precisely on the person away, which is all that is not even a step towards making.

“Now he go and look whether there is a key-explain to you.

Passes five minutes. People around pleased to be able to talk with each other and discuss the ridiculous attire of white people. Then you Europeans shown characteristic impatience:

- Well, how do you? - you are saying that is the past five minutes, and the same person as standing at this point, and worth it. He goes for the key VOOBSCHE?
- Will, go-around livestock and begin again orat, “Well you go for the key?

You hardly see that people on the edge of the village and taken spohvatyvaetsya run on a trajectory of reality to it. After another 15 minutes to find that the key to the ksara there, but now it does not exist, because its holder went to the city and took the key with them. You are invited to await his return, after which you proschaetes with hospitable people and going further, to another village, you sure are lucky.

Underground house in MatmateV 20-30 kilometers from the start and did Tatauina present Middle Ages. Visit themselves to the village Ez-Zara (Ezzahra), and you will see. Ishakov are more than machines, people are walking in the national dress, sat on the edge of the road colorful old Tuareg groups or women in yarko-krasnyh attire with silver ornaments and tatuirovannymi officials. Here understand Arabic, but their native language remains tashelhit Berber. These guys do not like photographed, so either have to do it for money, either through a poorly hidden camera. The huge four-QSAR looming over the village, and with stones, vdelannym directly in the exterior wall, you can climb to the upper floors. By retirement age Berbers, apparently began to dream of a first floor or has been home forever, because no stairs except stones in the walls, there are not any.

In the abandoned ksarah-and sometimes entire towns with hundreds of homes, endless hills and slopes, still maintained mills Grinding Machine, quoted in the movement of donkeys and camels, and settled on rock ceiling still keeps flavor foods. In the largest of these cities, Shenini (Chenini), in the homes of cave walls and ceilings are decorated with paintings pre-Islamic style: circles, point Tifinagh graffiti letters, images of hands and feet, and often cross is a popular symbol of the Tuareg, as diverted to nevest once it from the Christians living here. Here in Shenini, apart from rare scorpions and even more rare tourists there is none, and the ancient art of the Berber is not protected nor hvalenym UNESCO, neither the Tunisian authorities. Sometimes, however, I think it is and for the better.

In 794 d. Lu Yu sent in Suzhou [苏州- Su1 Zhou1] where on the northern slope of Mount Hutsyushan [虎丘山- Hu3 Qiu1 Shan1] builds simple huts, built of stone spring, which is now called “spring Lu Yu.” By favorites zanyaiem - probovaniem studying water and tea-Lu Yu wrote this treatise on the best waters Podnebesnoy “Tsyuanpin” [泉品- Quan2 Pin3 - Classification sources]. In this book, he focuses on the quality of water from different sources China, the news of water he isprobyval for their lives. Here are twenty of the best sources of water Lu Yu:

“First-water waterfall [at] Mount Lushan [庐山- Lu2 Shan1] [in] the valley Kanvan [康王- Kang1 Wang2]
The second spring-water [in] Usi [无锡- Wu2 Xi1] [at] Mount Hueyshan [惠山- Hui4 Shan1]
Third-[in] Tsichzhou [蕲州- Qi2 Zhou1], [running between] stones near [the city] Lansi [兰溪- Lan2 Xi1]
Fourth-[in] Syachzhou [峡州- Xia1 Zhou1], [running between] stones near Mount [with] Shantszishan [扇子- Shan1 Zi4 Shan1]
Fifth-[in] Suzhou [苏州- Su1 Zhou1], water rocky spring Buddhist temple Hutsyusi [虎丘寺- Hu3 Qiu1 Si4]
Sixth-water [of the] pond Fantsyao [方桥- Fang1 Qiao2] next [with] the temple Chzhaosyansi [招贤寺- Zhao1 Xian2 Si4] [at] Mount Lushan [庐山- Lu2 Shan1]
Seventh-water Nanlina [南零- Nan2 Ling2], the flow of the Yangtze River [扬子- Yang2 Zi4] Eighth-[in] Hunchzhou [洪州- Hong2 Zhou1] water waterfall Sidun [西东- Xi1 Dong1] [at] Mount Sishan [西山- Xi1Shan1]
Ninth-[in] Tanchzhou [唐州- Tang2 Zhou1], [in the region] T unbaysyan [桐柏县- Tong2 Bai3 Xian3], the upper river water Huay [淮- Huai2]
Tenth-[in] Luchzhou [庐州- Lu2 Zhou1], water mountain ridges Lunchishan [龙池山- Long2 Chi2 Shan1]
Eleventh-water [from] Buddhist temple Guaninsi [观音寺- Guan1 Yin1 Si4] [in] Danyane [丹阳- Dan1 Yang2]
Twelfth-[in] Yangzhou [扬州- Yang2 Zhou1] water [from] Buddhist temple Daminsi [大明寺- Da4 Min2 Si4]
Thirteenth-filtered water uppermost Han River [汉- Han4] [in] Jinzhou [金州- Jin1 Zhou1]
Fourteenth-[in] Guizhou [归州- Gui1 Zhou1] next [with] cave Yusyudun [玉虚洞- Yu4 Xu1 Dong4] water Syantsi Protocol [香溪- Xiang1 Qi1]
Fifteenth-[in] Shanchzhou [商州- Shang1 Zhou1], [to] western mountain ridges Uguan [武关- Wu3 Guan1] water [river] Luo [洛- Luo4]
Sixteenth-[in] U [吴- Wu2], Sun River water [淞- Song1]
Seventeenth - [at] Mount Tyantayshan [天台山- Tian2 Tai1 Shan1], [at] the peak of water southwest waterfall Tsyanchzhan [千丈- Qian1 Zhang4]
Eighteenth-[in] Chenchzhou [郴州- Chen1 Zhou1], a spring water Yuantsyuan [圆泉- Yuan2 Quan2]
Nineteenth-[in] T Unlu [桐庐- Tong2 Lu2], shallow water Yanlin [严陵- Yan2 Ling2], Twentieth-water [from] snow. ”

Lu Yu give priority to the quality of water intended for cooking tea. Not in vain, in addition to tea, Lu Yu was connoisseurs of water. In “Shuy Ji Jian Cha” [煎茶水记- Jian1 Cha2 Shui3 Ji4 "Record [of] water [for] roast tea”], written in 814 city (only 10 years after the death of Lu Yu) Zheng Yu Sin [张又新- Zhang1 You4 Xin1], there is a legend about the unique abilities of the recognition of Lu Yu water, which also occurs in a later edition of the San Bay Liu Han Zu Shi Shi Chuan Qi E “[三百六十行祖师爷传奇- San1 Bai3 Liu4 Shi2 Hang2 Zu3 Shi1 Ye2 Chuan2 Qi2-360 stories [o] ancient masters’]:

“They say that thirty governors [with] Minister Lee Sue [李秀- Li3 Xiu4] and Lu chose Yuem water [for] brewing tea, Lu Yu said that the best water [for] brewing tea-water mountain springs, and for the best brewing tea-water inflow Jiang [River] [江- Jiang1 - Yangtze River] Nanlina [南零- Nan2 Ling2]. Lee [李秀- Li3] ordered two best officers to go [in] Chzhentszyan [镇江- Zhen4 Jiang1], [ at o] West [t] River Jin [金- Jin1], and reaching a spring Len [冷- Leng3] dialed water Nanlina [南零- Nan2 Ling2.] Both returned, but careless, half the water from buckets raspleskali. Oni, in order to make up for the loss, added to [tanks] of a number of rivers running. Lu Yu drawing view [to] Minister Lee Sue [李秀- Li3 Xiu4] tried [water] using bucket of water [for] [水勺- Shui3 Shao2] that floating in the bucket [and] suddenly said: “This is not water Nanlina [南零- Nan2 Ling2], a number of water from the river current.” Both officers zanervnichali best [in the form of Lu Yue embodied deity], immediately speak: ” We both [in] the middle of spring Len [冷- Leng3] obtained the water, there are one hundred people capable of [this] confirm. “Lu Yu did not say, quietly took the bucket, vylil half water, then said:” In the bucket remained only currently water Nanlina [南零- Nan2 Ling2]. “Both officers have been forced to explain what happened. Sue Minister Lee [李秀- Li3 Xiu4] listened, [and] enthusiastically said:” The teacher is a real c vyatoy people! ”

In 799 d. Lu Yu returns to the beloved Huchzhou [湖州- Hu2 Zhou1] where live happily and peacefully in his pavilion Qing Tan Bie E “[青塘别业- Qing1 Tang2 Bie2 Ye4" Pavilion privacy [y] Green Pond “].
B 804 city, reaching honorable age, dies.

After the death of his LuYuya story is not over. His life and works have left a deep mark on the culture of China and People’s obozhestvila love him, like other great people, Lu Yu placed next to figures such as Confucius and Laotszy, even when Tang Dynasty [唐- Tang2], giving it the title of tea bozhesva [茶神- Cha2 Shen2]. Thus, making identity Lu Yu Tea for basic culture and the arts, lively and topical today.
After Lu Yu resigned themselves great literary heritage - poetry, books on history, geography, hydrology, chaevedeniyu, Buddhism. But its greatest merit before tea culture. Indeed, to this day stand temples dedicated to him, producers, traders and tea lovers raise its image in the honorary ground as a symbol of respect and love. Setting their favorite Lu Yu-drink tea.
“Tszin Cha” is a key creature Lu Yu. Although a small book on weight - just over 7000 characters, it contains extensive factual material, and almost every hieroglyph very informative. Lu Yu wrote about the subject, who himself studied. For example, on the ground gradiruya tea cultivation, he writes about places visited by himself, and dures, which tried himself by holding in traveling several decades, and the idea to put it into the past 26 years of hard work on the tea. The book harmoniously merge three exercises - Buddhism, Confucianism and Taoism. Buddhism, the moral aspects of tea party, the moral aspect of Confucianism-ceremony tea party, Taoism philosophy of making the five-pervoelementov in tea.
Only a pereplaviv these three exercises, you can postignut Podnebesnoy spirit. Only postignuv depth ritual of tea preparation, studying his spirit and embarked on a path of self can become a tea man, whose image overshenneyshy c-Lu Yu Hon.
Lu Yu Tea has become immortal because it set a precedent with their lives - the ideal of a tea master, ottdavshego dedicated his entire life. He passed his way to ottochiv perfect their skills and transferring it to the testament descendants in the form of a small book, every hieroglyph which very informative. He materializoval tradition, the mystical way pereplaviv idea tea performance in the crucible of my heart, to make it visible. He was a foundation, gave guidance in the path of leaving. Besides, the creature of his life, “Cha Tszin” - became a world heritage, and not only tea and culture. Japanese tea masters to create their tea ceremony, with the thought Lu Yu-roots origin of the centerpiece of the “Wabi-sabi” come from “Cha Tszina.” Tea masters for centuries and will be checked against reconcile their business affairs with Lu Yu.
Ka Lu Yu was par excellence? Despite the fact that he left a Buddhist monastery, a large part of his life, he lived in Buddhist monasteries and Buddhist rituals practiced. Not in vain his friends dubbed “the Buddhist monk without Kasaï (monastic attire).” He has not created the family and left no progeny. But his students - all tea masters to the present day. He was vegetariantsem, saw no alcohol. Lu Yu was alien to the quest for glory and honor, wealth and power. That he chose to freedom, privacy in the fold nature.
Lu Yu was a patriot of his country, his poems, written during the uprising An Lu Chanet [安禄山- An1 Lu4 Shan1] inspired soldiers and his victorious in the end he captures his tripod, a description of which can be found in the “Cha Jin.”
LuYuy was emotional. He wrote that during the Mountain, his mood quickly changed - he then cried, then smeyalsya. Despite this, he was a man-rassuditelnym diplomatic and few could deny Emperor twice and left with their heads on the shoulders. The excellent friend and interlocutor of this echo-all who knew him. Many of his works refer to his meetings with the great tea master. But best of themselves can tell myself Lu Yu. This poem, it is said, was found in his home in Huchzhou [湖州- Hu2 Zhou1] after his death:

Lu Yu [Tang Dynasty].
“Songs [of] five zhazhdah.”

I do not thirst for gold cups.
Not thirsty white jade bowl.
Not thirst for high office.
Not thirsty laurels flag.
But without action, I thirst for water Sitszyana
Under the city walls Jinglin parish.

In 758 d. Lu Yu reaches Xing1 Zi3, rising to Kuang1 Lu2, which flows next to the best spring-Podnebesnoy Kang1 Wang2 Gu3 Lian2. Here, he wrote a poem: “Techet calmly thousands zheney Ren2-measure length, about 8 feet] [between] stones bearing one after the other ships in Jiu3 Jiang1.”
Soon Lu Yu attends spring Chzhaoin Zhao1 Yin3, next to the Buddhist temple Zhao1 Xian2 - sixth on water quality. From there, Lu Yu otpavlyaeysya in Hong2 Zhou1 to a meeting with Liu3 Dan4, co chinivshem Jian1 Shi4 Zhuang4 - “Letters [on] the great affairs. Educating After meeting with Liu Dan [柳澹- Liu3 D an4], Lu Yu sent to Pentsze [彭泽- Peng2 Ze2].
At the beginning of 760 d. Lu Yu removed from the world and on Mount uedinyaetsya Yu2 Hang2 Zhu4 Shan1, selecting otshelnicheskoe Sang1 Zhu4 Weng1-old man [from] shelkovichnoy groves. Here Lu Yu wrote “Cha Ji” [茶记- Cha2 Ji4 - "Notes [on] tea”] in a single scroll-proobraz future “Cha Tszina.” Living in an idle privacy, bypassing the scenic mountains, is an excellent source, which opened the track that it would be convenient to come to all. P o Izvestia that source has been called the source of Lu Yu “[陆羽泉- Lu4 Yu3 Quan2], or the source of Zhu Vena” [苎翁泉- Zhu4 Weng1 Quan2]. Autumn Lu Yu perebiraetsya in Vuchen [乌程- Wu1 Cheng2], which stops at the Buddhist monastery Myaosi [妙喜- Miao4 Xi3] at Mount Chzhushan [杼山- Zhu4 Shan1] with his friend Jean Jiao [皎然- Jiao3 Ran2 ]. LuYuy on the river bank Tyaosi [苕溪- Tiao2 Xi1] builds straw huts, which fled to quietly work on “Ca Tszinom.” During the holiday Chunyan [重阳- Chong2 Yang2 - "Double Yang, another holiday called" Double Ninth-celebrated at 9 day ninth lunar month. People raised in the mountains, vysmatrivaya and hoping to return home, located far away] LuYuy along with Jiao Jean [皎然- Jiao3 Ran2] hrizantemovy drink tea, in honor of which Jiao Zhan [皎然- Jiao3 Ran2] wrote stohotvorenie “Zhu Zhi Yu Lu In Chu Yu Shi Cha “[九日与陆羽处士饮茶- Jiu3 Ri4 Yu3 Lu4 Yu3 Chu3 Shi4 Yin3 Cha2 -" The Ninth Day scholar people drink tea with Yuem Lu. "
In 761 d. Lu Yu Jiao F together with a nom [皎然- Jiao3 Ran2] at the invitation of Minister Liu Chan [刘长- Liu2 Chang2] sent in Suzhou [苏州- Su1 Zhou1] carriageway Hutsyu [虎丘- Hu3 Qiu1] tries water source Guanin [观音- Guan1Yin1] - fifth of quality in Podnebesnoy, water Suntszyana [松江- Song1 Jiang1] - sixteenth of quality. Autumn Lu Yu wrote his autobiography, “Zhuang Ji” [自传- Zi4 Zhuan4]. Here he forms his impressive list of works created before that time, said that not only the literary talents, knowledge and interest of Lu Yu, but his productivity as a writer. On the list, there are “Cha Tszin” that may or later perepischikov box, or reference to the first one, nesohranivshuyusya edition of the book.

In 762 d. Li Guo Fu [李辅国] ventsenosnuyu kills wife of Emperor Suu Tszuna [肃宗], which soon dies of a heart attack. At holder throne of his son, Emperor Day Zong [唐代宗李豫- 726-779 town, the name at birth Lee Chu [李俶]]. Li Guo Fu [李辅国] and tried to subjugate it, but craftiness eunuch been solved and Li Guo Fu was executed in the same year. That same year he died and Emperor Xuan Zong [玄宗- Xuan2 Zong1].

In 762 d. Lu Yu several times visiting tea gardens Guchzhu [顾渚- Gu4 Zhu3], which itself collects and produces tea, which says “Gu Ji Zhu Shan” [顾渚山记- Gu4 Zhu3 Shan1 Ji4 "Record [of ] Mount Gu Shan Zhu] in the two scrolls. Navedyvaetsya of Vusi [无锡- Wu2Xi1], which tries water source Buddhist temple Hueytsyuan [惠泉- Hui4 Quan2] called Shitsyuan [石泉- Shi2 Quan2], which is considered the second in quality in Podnebesnoy.
In 763 d. Lu Yu travels to the Tsyantan [钱塘- Qian2 Tang2], which explores issues of tea. Justified on Mount Lininshan [灵隐山- Ling2 Yin3 Shan1], which says “Tian Zhu. Yin Lin Liang Shi Ji” [天竺.灵隐两寺记- Tian1 Zhu2. Ling2 Yin3 Liang3 Si4 Ji4 "bamboo heaven. Record [on] o boih Buddhist temples Linin”]. Bypassing beautiful shores of Lake Tsyantanhu [钱塘湖- Qian2 Tang2 Hu2-present name Lake Sihu [西湖-H i1 Hu2]], meets woman. Her name Lee E [李冶- Li3 Ye3], a literary pseudonym Ji Lan [季兰- Ji4 Lan2]. Gifted outstanding musical and poetic talent daosskaya nun, she has made an indelible impression on Lu Yu. And now researchers life Lu Yu breaking academic boom, in an attempt to shed light on the relationship between the two poets. Were they just friends? Were they love relationship? There is even the version that they were husband and wife. Due to lack of information and choppy unable to prove anything to anyone. Adherents’ version of love “is often quoted poem Li E [李冶- Li3 Ye3]. The circumstances of the writing of the poem are: Lee E [李冶- Li3Ye3] lying in a sick daoskom monastryre, and visited Lu Yu. A poem called “Hu Sheng Wu Bin Lu Si Hun Jiang Kyi” [湖上卧病喜陆鸿渐至- Hu2 Shang2 Wo4 Bing4 Xi3 Lu4 Hong2 Jian4 Zhi4 - "Above the lake is based on the sick, [but] happy [from processes that] Lu gradually, [as] Wild Swan, a “]. That alone bears the name luboky sense and a lot of information. “The patients [but] happy,” Lee E [李冶- Li3 Ye3] is not hiding his feelings, says, how important it visit Lu Yu. Another interesting end - “gradually, [as] Wild Swans”, a quote from “I Tszina”, which was named Lu Yu, Li E [李冶- Li3 Ye3] uses to describe not only the name of a dear person, thereby demonstrating knowledge Lu Yu origin name, but using the symbol of “Wild Swans”, one of the symbols of love-inoskazatelnyh expressed its attitude. Needless poem only confirms that sentiment:

昔去繁霜月,今来苦雾时.
相逢仍卧病,砍语泪先垂.
强劝陶家酒,还吟谢客诗.
偶然成一醉,此外更何之.

The past takes hard as frozen moon,
The future is worrisome, as it is time fog.
Encountered by chance-a sick lie.
Breaking it, the first thing tears falling.
The best wine adviser-potter,
And Ston takes to thank guest verse.
Coincidence graduated one [verse] ohmelev.
Moreover, all so why change?

On the other hand, although the exact date of birth Lee E [李冶- Li3 Ye3] is not known, many researchers believe that she was born in Vuchene [乌程- Wu1 Cheng2-modern Huchzhou [湖州- Hu2 Zhou1] at 709 d. (only date her violent death documented - 784 g.). If predpologaemye date of birth, and her Lu Yu, it turns out that she was older than Lu Yu for 24 years. A significant difference in age. Place leaves doubts the fact that the date of birth of both “heroes of the novel” is not accurately documented.
It is also against the Union can talk, and a description of the nature of Lu Yu and Li E [李冶- Li3 Ye3]. Lu Yu-kind eccentric, [but] a harmonious, zaikalsya [but was] good [in] discussions. ” Lee E [李冶- Li3Ye3], on the other hand, “came out [from] the recalcitrant pond” and “dexterous [and] cunning.” Although all know that opposites attract …
The interpretation of facts could continue, but with the same result. One thing is clear - I am among those people was deep and strong emotional link. And shades … Are they so important, with a depth and intensity of feelings? And why they went after the meeting in Johan [余杭- Yu2 Ha S g2] together?

This year, and is notable that ends revolt An Lu Chanet [安禄山- An1 Lu4 Shan1-703 g.-757 d.]. The biggest war ends, unessshaya about 36 million lives (only World War II was more krovoprolitochnoy-62 million victims). In celebration of the joyful events c is molded furnace was Lu Yu, which he described in the “Cha Jin.” In 765 onwards, after he visited the 32 provinces and himself issledov a liter of tea, in privacy Lu Yu finished the first version of “Cha Tszina”, which has not survived to the present day. Apparently, Lu Yu himself was not entirely satisfied with this version because it is not lost in the press, only a few versions go hand-in-hand friends Lu Yu.
Spring 766 d. Lu Yu sent in Hangzhou [杭州- Hang2 Zhou1], which stops in pletennoy of straw huts in Siline [西泠- Xi1 Ling2], which says “Ji Vulinshan” [武林山记- Wu3 Lin2 Shan1 Ji4 " Record [o] Mount Vulinshan “]. In July, the famous conflict occurred between Lu and Yuem Tivun imperial Qing Li Ji [李季卿- Li3 Ji4 Qing1]. Proznav that famous tea master Lu Yu was in Hangzhou [杭州- Hang2 Zhou1], Li Ji Qing [李季卿- Li3 Ji4 Qing1] invited him to tea beer. Lu Yu arrived, but simply dressed, without the ceremonial dresses. Lee Ji Qing [李季卿- Li3 Ji4 Qing1] thought it offensive, and his deputy said that such “wild head and the recalcitrant mind” can not do sensible things. Not paying attention to this, Lu Yu took up cooking tea. But Lee Ji Qing [李季卿- Li3 Ji4 Qing1] not even tried tea, Lu ordered to pay Yuyu and expel from the residence. Lu Yu expressed their anger by writing “Huey Cha Moon” [毁茶论- Hui3 Cha2 Lun4-Disk c siya [o b] tea Destruction “].
In 767 g. Governor Zhou Yan [扬州- Yang2 Zhou1] Li Qi Yun [李栖筠- Li3 Qi3 Yun2] big fan of tea, Lu Yu called on to the service. Next year, Lu Yu replaces the old quality controller tea province.
In 769 d. Lu Yu sent to Yuechzhou [越州- Yue4 Zhou1], which is also interested in the quality of tea, navedyvaetsya to Lake Tszinhu [镜湖- Jing4 N u2] in Etsi [耶溪- Ye1 Qi1] Yan and Qi [剡溪- Yan3 Qi1]. And writes poem “Huey Qi Dunsyaoshan” [会稽东小山- Hui4 Qi3 Dong1 Xiao3 Shan1 "Poklon to land grief Dunsyaoshan"]. Hence Lu Yu sent to Tyantayshan [天台山- Tian1 Tai2 Shan1], stopped briefly at the Buddhist temple Guo Qing Shi [国清寺- Guo2 Qing1 Si4], which collects tea from Mount Chifenshan [赤峰山- Chi4 Feng1 Shan1] tries water waterfall Tsyanchzhan [千丈- Qian1 Zhnag4], which is considered the seventeenth water quality.
With 771 till 772 g. Lu Yu uedinyaetsya for creativity. He concludes “Chzhushan Ji” [杼山记- Zhu4 Shan1 Ji4 "Notes [o] Mount Chzhushan”], “Ji Usin” [吴兴记- Wu2 Xing1 Ji4 "Notes [o b] Usin e”], “Tu Usin Jingye “[吴兴图经- Wu2Xing1Tu2Jing1-card Klasicheskaya Usinya], Tszyaofanlu” [教坊录- Jiao4 Fang1 Lu4 "Record [o] teachings of Buddhist priests], Chzhanmen” [占梦- Zhan1 Meng4 - "Be schy sleep"] in the three ancient and “Shi Xing Biao Jiang Pu [江表四姓谱- Jiang1 Biao3 Si4 Xing4 Pu3" Four Rivers list of names] in eight scrolls.

In 773 g. of the governor Huchzhou [湖州-Hu2 Zhou1] holder Zhen Yan Qing [颜真卿- Yan2 Zhen1 Qing1-709 g. -785 d.]. Perfectly formed, in the 22 years stood the imperial examination for high rank Tszinshi [进士- Jin4 Shi4-doctoral modern equivalent rank]. Zhen Yan Qing [颜真卿- Yan2 Zhen1 Qing1] place of the ancient kind, fascinations served with the imperial courtyard. He quickly rose to a career ladder, reaching the post of censor courtyard, but because of a direct hit mores in favor and 753 city has been downgraded in the office and exiled to the Governor Pinyuan [平原- Ping2 Yuan2]. During the riot An Lu Chanet [安禄山- An1 Lu4 Shan1] Zhen Yan Qing [颜真卿- Yan2 Zhen1 Qing1] organize resistance to the military rebels, along with his cousin Yan Gao Qing [颜杲卿- Yan2 Gao3 Qin1] Governor of Chanshan [常山- Chnag2 Shan1]. Rebels attacked at the rear support, successfully slitting their way supplies. In 756 g. holder to the throne of Emperor Sutszon [肃宗- Su4 Zong4-711 g.-762g.], Which is 757 g. of Merit before the Tang dynasty [唐- Tang2] in the fight against the rebels, Zhen Yan Qing [颜真卿- Yan2 Zhen1 Qing1] Pope as Minister of Justice. Again, because of its direct utterances against corruption and the influence of evnuhov in the courtyard, in its lowered position. So he became gubernatorm Huchzhou [湖州-Hu2 Zhou1].
Apart from the brilliant education, Zhen Yan Qing [颜真卿- Yan2 Zhen1 Qing1] was connoisseurs and amateur poetry, fine kalligrafom, whose creation still lives in vysekalis in stone, but he pridumanny calligraphic script used, and now his name is called Yan-[颜- Yan2]. Around governor met literary circle that started wars interrupted the project, conceived Zhen Yan Qing [颜真卿- Yan2 Zhen1 Qing1], “Yun Hai Yuan Tszin” [韵海镜源- Yun4 N ai3 Jing4 Yuan2 "Mirrored source Ocean Rome"] .
Lu Yu became the chief editors of this monumental work, which was completed in only 755 city working on this project, Lu Yu had the opportunity to meet with many old books, which had learned a new imformatsiyu for his “Cha Tszina.” Undoubtedly, the head of “Quotes” can be established in that period. In the same year, completed construction of the pavilion “Qing Tan Bie E” [青塘别业- Qing1 Tang2 Bie4 Ye4] is a place of creativity and privacy poets, conceived Zhen Yan Qing [颜真卿- Yan2 Zhen1 Qing1]. Here three years Lu Yu given only literature. Writes “Tszun Chen Qi” [君臣契- Jun1 Chen2 Qi4 "The relationship [between] [and] gosudarem subjects’] in three leaves,” Yuan Jie “[源解- Yuan2 Jie4" Razyasnenie sources "] in thirty Books, “Zhen Nan Bay U Kyi” [南北人物志- Nan2 Bei3 Ren2 Wu4 Zhi4 "Zhizneopisaniya important personalities north [and] south”] in ten roll, “Jin Nan” [警年- Jing3 Nian2 "alarming year"] in ten Books.
In August, 777 d. Lu Yu Zhen Yan goodbye to the Qing [颜真卿- Yan2 Zhen1 Qing1], which once again returns to the yard of the imperial regime. Lu Yu also sent to Uchzhou [婺州- Wu4 Zhou1].
In 778 d. Lu Yu received an invitation from the emperor Day Tszona become the supreme teacher, they are taken care Zhen Yan Qing [颜真卿- Yan2 Zhen1 Qing1]. But LuYuy Emperor politely declined the offer. Lu Yu was the most important thing is freedom of creativity and freedom of life, rather than power and wealth, which promised service in the courtyard. In autumn he sent to the capital Chanan [长安- Chang2 An1] visit and thank each other. On the back roads Lu Yu stops in Usi [无锡- Wu2 Xi1], a happy go Mountain Hueyshan [惠山- Hui4 Shan1], which enjoyed excellent water sources and writes “Hueyshan Yu Shi Ji” [游惠山寺记- You2 Hui4 Shan1 Si4 Ji4 - "Notes walk [on] [on] temple Hueyshan”]. The entire following year, Lu Yu was working on the final version of “Cha Tszina.”

In 779 g. emperor dies Day Zong [唐代宗李豫], whose son Dae Zong [唐德宗李适- 742 g.-805 d.] goes back to the throne in 780 g.

In the 780 town in the light goes “Ca Jingye, financial assistance for publication gave Jiao Zhan [皎然- Jiao3 Ran2]. After that, Lu Yu sent to the Lake Taihu Lake [太湖- Tai5 Hu2] to visit his girlfriend Lee E [李冶- Li3 Ye3], which is to mark the visit, wrote the famous line “Hu Sheng Si Lu Bin U Hun Jiang Kyi” [湖上卧病喜陆鸿渐至- Hu2 Shang2 Wo4 Bing4 Xi3 Lu4 Hong2 Jian4 Zhi4 - "Above the lake is based on the sick, [but] happy [of that] Lu gradually, [as] in Wild Swans, appeared.”
781 town marks the recognition of Lu Yu palace. Emperor invites him to the yard, zhaluya title “Prince of literature” [太子文学- Tai4 Zi3 Wen2 Xue2], but Lu Yu reject the proposal. Soon Lu Yuyu offer a new service and a new title - “The greatest prayer of all Buddhist temples” [太常寺太祝-Ta i4 Chang2 Si4 Tai4 Zhu4], which he also refused. Reject every emperor is already incur some risk. Often, there are cases that aroused the anger of London ventsenosnoy special and alive with life, but refuse twice, and survivors can only outstanding man with influential defenders and valued in society. Coincidence, and the fact that for the first time in the history of Chinese Emperor decree De Tszuna [唐德宗李适] trade in tea in 780 g. (in the same year out “Cha Tszin”) was a tax levy, and four years later became a state monopoly, that said, not only the economic importance of tea, but its widespread popularity. It seems that such a decision Emperor influenced version of the Cha Tszina. ”
In 783 d. Lu Yu move to Shanzhao [上饶- Shang4 Rao2], and if in two to the north of the walls OIT p art pavilion “Chzhutin” [筑亭- Zhu4 Ting2] delivers spring, board around the house tea, bamboo and flowers. Sroitelstvo ends in 784 city housing Later he called “Huntszyanchzhay” [鸿渐宅- Hong2 Jian4 Zhai2 - "Homes exponential geese], a well-spring Lu Yu.”
In 785 g. pavilion Lu Yu became sobiratsya poets Shanzhao [上饶- Shang4 Rao2].
In 786 d. Lu Yu, at the invitation of Governor Hunchzhou [洪州- Hong2 Zhou1] sent to the province, which stops at the monastery daosskom “Yuchzhiguan” [玉芝观- Yu4 Zhi1 Guan4 "Monastery nefritovogo svyashennogo mushroom Kyi]. In 787 d. Lu Yu ends “Lu Yu I Tszu Hunchzhou Kyi Guan Yu Shi” [喜陆太祝移居洪州玉芝观诗- Lu4 Yu3 Yi2 Ju1 Hong2 Zhou1 Yu4 Zhi1 Guan4 Shi1 "Stihi journey [on] [and] Residence of Lu Yu in Hunchzhou, daosskom monastery Yuchzhiguan “]. Unfortunately, the book is not. And “Hunchzhou Kyi Guan Yu Shi Ji” [洪州玉芝观诗集- Hong2 Zhou1 Yu4 Zhi1 Guan4 Shi1 Ji2 "Compendium of poems hunchzhouskogo Taoist monastery nefritovogo mushroom Kyi] in the three scrolls.
In 789 d. Lu Yu received an invitation from several times voennonachalnika Lin Nanya [岭南- Ling3 Nan2] Lee [李复- Li3Fu4] and leave from Hunchzhou [洪州- Hong2 Zhou1] in Guangzhou [广州- Guang3 Zhou1], which meets Chief Justice of the Province Zhou Yuan [周愿- Zhou1 Yuan4], which is sent to Lee [李复- Li3Fu4]. Lu Yu stopped in the garden of the General, in the eastern part of the villa that far from the city noise. Locals called it Dong Yuan Syanshen [东园先生- Dong1 Yuan2 Xian1 Sheng4-Teacher East Garden "].
In 790 g. returned in Hunchzhou [洪州- Hong2 Zhou1], in the monastery daossky “Yuchzhiguan” [玉芝观- Yu4 Zhi1 Guan4 "Monastery nefritovogo svyashennogo mushroom Kyi]. In 792 g. Lu Yu of Hong Zhou [洪州- Hong2 Zhou1] returns to the Huchzhou [湖州- Hu2 Zhou1], in his favorite booth of “Qing Tan Bie E” [青塘别业- Qing1 Tang2 Bie2 Ye4 "Pavilion privacy [y] Green pond]. Here it is given to literary uedinyaetsya and labor for three years. Here it ends “Usin Guan Li Ji” [吴兴历官记- Wu2 Xing1 Li4 Guan1 Ji4 "Record [of the] state famous personalities Usin [provinces]“] in three leaves and Huchzhou Qi Shi Ji “[湖州刺史记- Hu2 Zhou1 Ci4 Shi3 Ji4 "Record [on] rocky history Huchzhou”] in a single scroll.

Tang Empire [唐- Tang2] gave to China during the flourishing of art, literature and science, often still called a classic. When Europe fell “dark century” after the collapse of the Roman Empire, China was in the zenith of cultural dawn. Despite tight government control, the economy flourished. Alignment and easy manners, which e le dos, and later will not znavala Podnebesnaya himself emperor obeyed-drunk poet food! Wasteful pomposity yard rub with a transparent and concise painting calligraphy, poetry and philosophy which is not less than the labor poets and philosophers. Not in vain that period (618-909 g.) called a classic. For several centuries, the Chinese civilization has risen to the peaks of the great creative spirit. Tang Empire [唐- Tang2] VIII in the sixth century, under the administration of the Emperor Suan-jung [玄宗, whose name at birth Lun Li Ji李隆基, 685-762 onwards, the rules of 712-756 g.] reached epogeya flourish. In the early reign he has been outstanding and tireless ruler-p eformator: restructured bureaucracy, created a new tax system, so organized, and the first census P o dnebesnoy. The excellent diplomat and tireless Ruler: expanded the borders of China established diplomatic relations with many neighboring states. Fans and patron of literature and art. But unbridled passion led him and the entire Podnebesnuyu to tragedy.

One of the prominent people in this enlightened, but the turbulent era, Lu Yu Hon. Almost all researchers agree that the date of birth of Lu Yu - 733 town, but it is not documented, but some researchers as a possible cause, and other date - 712 town, 734 town, 727 city. H eizvestno even where, and in what family he was born. There are only a legend of its adoption Buddhist monk.
In “Tyanmensyanchzhi” [天门县志- Tian1 Men2 Xian4 Zhi4-Chronicle Tyanmensyanya "] so write about childhood Lu Yu:” It has been said that a monk noise awakened the morning, which raised the flocks of wild geese on the lake shore, which wings veiled baby, carefully protecting it. ” This has been a mentor monk monastery Lungaysi [龙盖寺- Long2 Gai4 Si4] in Tszinline [竟陵- Jing4 Ling2], later in pereimennovanogo Sitasi [西塔寺- Xi1 Ta3 Si4] Honorable master chan-buddizma Kyi Tszy [智积- Zhi4Ji1 ]. На берегу озера Сиху [西湖 - Xi1 Hu2] дикие гуси охраняли безымянного подкидыша, которого усыновил Чжи Цзы [智积 - Zhi4 Ji1]. There is polulegendarnoe event in the 735 g. Child moved to the monastery, and the reception father decided to give him a name. After several unsuccessful attempts, refused to take the name of the infant, expressing their discontent with loud cries Kyi Ji-[智积- Zhi4 Ji1] was almost in despair when he came on I thought Falabaxan Tszinu [易经- Yi4 Jing1-book Change "] , and so to find podkidyshu name. Jian had hiragana [蹇- Jian3 - gradual], the text of the commentary which reads: “Swan gradually approaching the land [陆- Lu4], its feathers [羽- Yu3] can be used for rituals.” By choosing the two-陆羽hieroglyph-Yu Lu, Ji Kyi [智积- Zhi4 Ji1] gave a name that had to love the baby. From the “I Tszina” from the description of the same happening trigrammy ofitsialnoe-tseremonialnoe name Lu Yu Hong - Jian [鸿渐- Hong2 Jian4-fully-Hong Lu Jian].
This, though documented, a legend of early life Honorable Lu Yu. Some facts Legend Of interest:
1. Why baby guarded wild geese? Around town Tyanmenya there are several places associated with wild geese [雁- Yan4]: Yanguan [雁关- Yan4 Guan1 "Gryada wild geese], Guyantsyao [古雁桥- Gu3 Yan4 Qiao2 -" Old Bridge wild geese "]. Arhetipny image of wild geese deeply connected with the region, as well as the names are carriers of the oldest linguistic information. It is possible that this myth tells of generic connection with the region.
2. The Foundling baby-Why? Despite parodoksalnost this issue, it is not pointless. World mythical tradition knows many scenarios orphanage beginning of the path legendary heroes. For example, the biblical Moses. Sirotsvo, so even a water / water - baptism-archetype, a symbol of the transition from the spiritual to the physical condition. For this fact say circumstantial evidence-everywhere, and in the autobiography, date of birth meets Lu Yu - 733 g. Sam Lu Yu ukazyvat its lineage - family Lu. Knowing the nature of Lu Yu, did not want to consider that claim a desire to improve their status in deeds. And for Divination by the “I Tszinu” need the exact date of birth. Where such knowledge from neumeyuschego baby talk? It is possible that the myth thus obygryvaet transition from mundane to the spiritual life of the Buddhist community.
3. Why it is called a baby and what information could be gleaned from it? Monashestkuyu adoption in the community and is accompanied by a new name-attribution may ritual gaining name was not an option behalf nameless orphan, and the attribution of the spiritual name? Knowing multi mythological information (Schliemann found Troy by myth), the link named Lu Yu, and “I Tszina” popolnitelnuyu can provide information. Divination by the “I Tszinu relates to the date of birth, which can be calculated by the method of” Heavenly trunks, branches of earth “, pointing to the possible date of birth Lu Yu-15 day of the eighth month, a night of the festival Zhong Qiu [中秋- Zhong1Qiu1 -" Holiday middle autumn, "coincides with the Autumn Equinox 23 September]. Of course, this date gipotetichna but getting better, tea, people can take it, to pay tribute to Lu Yu.
In 737 g. the event, which will change the lives of the Emperor Suan-jung [玄宗] and the whole of China. With small changes begin large. Empress dies U Huey Fei [武惠妃]. Closer to the emperor influential Eunuch Li Gao Shi [高力士? 684-762 g.] beginning to weave a network of intrigue, he introduces his wife to the Emperor’s son, Prince Shaw [寿王] Lee Meya [李瑁], the beautiful Yu Yang Huan [杨玉环- 719-756 g.]. She was so beautiful that it later became one of the legendary “four beautiful.” While the legendary story said she had a bad smell, and its removal was ordered to build a palace for a few swimming pools and constructed parfumirovannaya powder. And her birth was a benchmark of beauty in the time of Tang.
Plan Gao Li Shi [高力士] succeed. Emperor zavorozhila beauty Yan Yu Huan [杨玉环], and even though she lived only 2 years married to his son, on the dictates of his Emperor was arranged divorce, and to comply with decency, Yang Yu Huan [杨玉环] was sent the monastery Taychzhzn [太真], where it is regularly visited Emperor. After five years, Prince Li Mei [李瑁] married for the second time, and the emperor took Yang Yu Huan [杨玉环] to the wife, after which she received the name of Guy Fei [贵妃-wife, but neimeyuschaya state power]. Emperor came under the mercy and beauty eunuch. Ublazhaya its vagaries, stood palaces, each day the best riders on the best knight on the baton delivered historic Fresh Fruit, who loved Yang Fei Guy [杨贵妃]. Emperor ceased to be interested in the affairs of the State, finding joy in meeting the whims of Yang Fei Guy [杨贵妃]. Pustela coffers, the state began to edit surrogates beauty.

Next legend says that Lu Yu upon reaching the age of nine bulls shepherd and learns to write characters, sitting on the bull’s back. At first glance, the information usual, but the tradition Chan-paste bull is to improve its wisdom in the way of enlightenment, and sit on the bull’s back is the achievement of six of the ten stages on the road to enlightenment, which marks the umirotvoerenie reason. Scripture backs bull characters can be understood as high meditative skills.

As a simple monk Lu Yu deal of work and household: podmetal yard, cleaned latrines seats. It is known that he had filed a monks tea. Yes so skillfully that his father reception, it is said, so loved tea skill Lu Yu that after he left the convent, stopped drinking tea. In such a young age such skill! Reading Sutra, firm discipline monastery is not suitable for living a creative nature Lu Yu. The decision to leave the monastery displays a dialogue with his mentor Kyi Tszy [智积- Zhi4 Ji1]:
“The followers of Buddha’s life with no brothers, and after the death of offspring is not. followers And Confucius say that there are three types of filial nepochtitelnosti, and the absence of offspring, the greatest of them. Should withdraw from family, while enforce filial duty?”
At that Tszy Kyi [智积- Zhi4 Ji1] replied:
“So, then you have to accept the teachings of Confucius, Yu.”
When Lu K Yuyu turned 11 years old, and the 12nd year is the year of the full annual turnover zodiacal cycle time for a change. Time, I think, is not selected by chance. This is not a spontaneous escape buntuyuschego boy, and informed care, a decent young men mature spiritually. He ticking of the monastery and joins the troupe brodyaschih actors. Sharp turn of fate-Buddhist monk wandering in the actor. Interestingly, the legendary biography ends here Lu Yu-forward his life fairly well documented, including, and himself in his autobiography.
Of the classical mythological legends matrix of the year Lu Yu childhood vividly shows great respect for it, who will become the destiny will be given tea and tea bessmertym holy.
While wandering troupe with Lu Yu actor’s skill learning through participation in the comedy spectacle “Tszyaguan” [假官- Jia3 Guan1 "Falshivy officer], learning to play with dolls performances, studying magic, enjoying great success among the public, writes plays himself. His output in the world and the actor showed his literary talent, which was seen in 746 d. Governor Jinglin a [竟陵- Jing4 Ling2], and Lu Yu was only 13 years old! Ruler of the province of Henan [河南- He2 Nan2] Li Qi U [李齐物- Li3 Qi2 Wu4] palace intrigues later was downgraded in the post and moved to the post of governor Jinglin a [竟陵- Jing4 Ling2]. Regarding the appointment of a new governor of the prefecture staged a big holiday ordering Lu Yu and his troupe to show one of his plays. Seeing the play “Tsantszunsi” [参军戏- Can1 Jun1 Xi4 "Pesa flow [on] [in] the army], Governor Li Qi U [李齐物- Li3 Qi2 Wu4] was in a vosstorge talents of Lu Yu, which invited talk that the sign was a great honor. Lu Yu Odariv several books of poetry and recommendatory letter, Li Qi U [李齐物- Li3 Qi2 Wu4] sent Lu Yu literary talents to improve the Hermit wizard Zheng Fu Ji [郑夫子- Zheng4 Fu1 Zi1] at Mount Huo Shan Men [火门山- Huo3 Men2 Shan1] that the north-west of the city Tyanmen [天门- Tian1 Men2]. Master Zheng besides literary studiy, deepened knowledge and skills Lu Yu Tea in the case. Here Lu Yu made his first Opening tea-once he found a round stone on the six legs, which beat out by spring. He then Ladled water, beer at the tea. Tea has been unusually good! So Lu Yu realized the importance of the quality of water for tea. Now that spring is called a spring Lu Yu.
In 752 d. Lu Yu farewell to its first teacher of poetry Zheng Fu Ji [郑夫子- Zheng4 Fu1 Zi1], and returns to the Jinglin [竟陵- Jing4 Ling4] gratefully Li Qi U [李齐物- Li3 Qi2 Wu4].
In 753 d. Li Qi U [李齐物- Li3 Qi2 Wu4] again takes on the mercy of Emperor and returned to the capital. In his place appointed Guo Cui Fu [崔国辅- Cui1 Guo2 Fu3] [on another version Cui Guo Fu [崔国辅- Cui1 Guo2 Fu3] led the department for the purchase of horses], a retired employee of the Ministry of rituals, which also striking close friendships Lu Yu relations. They had two common passion, poetry and tea. His friendship, and they visited each other for three years. About Cui Guo Fu [崔国辅- Cui1 Guo2 Fu3] Lu Yu wrote: “[he] smile throughout each day, we compared the water together, choosing [her] for tea.” Cui Guo Fu [崔国辅- Cui1 Guo2 Fu3], a famous writer of short poems of five characters. He was the second teacher of poetry Lu Yu. Thanks to the support of a friend, Lu Yu waged a serene and secured by an idle life. This has been oppressing Lu Yu, who wants to do something meaningful. And he decided to dedicate themselves to the study of tea. His idea supported Cui Guo Fu [崔国辅- Cui1 Guo2 Fu3], not only providing equipment and dry food for the trip, but his favorite donation will of the black with a white muzzle, it is difficult at which their stores, went to find tea Lu Yu.
At the beginning of 754 g. Lu Yu farewell with Cui Fu Guo [崔国辅- Cui1 Guo2 Fu3] and sent to the trip. Visit Henan [河南-H e2 Nan2] - Iyan [义阳- Yi4 Yang2] and Bashan [巴山- Ba1 Shan1]. He is excited to get to the holiday of Ching [清明- Qing1 Ming2] before Iyana [义阳- Yi4 Yang2-modern Henan province [河南- He2 Nan2] Sinyana [信阳- Xin4 Yang2] to taste Spring “predyastnostny” tea. Soon he reaches Bashan [巴山- Ba1 Shan1], which meets production and tries famous tea those times, “Badunchzhensyanmin” [巴东真香茗- Ba1 Dong1 Zhen1 Xiang1 Ming2]. Here he learns from Penchzhou dures o [彭州- Peng2 Zhou1] Myanchzhou [绵州- Mian2 Zhou1] Shuchzhou [蜀州- Shu3 Zhou1] Yachzhou [雅州- Ya3 Zhou1] Luchzhou [泸州- Lu2 Zhou1], M eychzhou [眉州- Mei2 Zhou1]. Then Lu Yu turns in Ichan [宜昌- Yi2 Chang2] to taste Syachzhousky [峡州- Xia2 Zhou1] tea and spring water from the famous Gem [蛤蟆- Ge2 Ma2].
Summer 755 d. Lu Yu returned in Jinglin [竟陵- Jing4 Ling4] that the material sistematezirovat of tea. To that end, he uedinyaetsya in the village Dungan [东冈- Dong1 Gang1] that 60 whether Tszinlina [竟陵- Jing4 Ling4]. Here he begins work on “Ca Tszinom.”

In October starts Riot An Lu Chanet [安禄山- An1 Lu4 Shan1-703 g.-757 d.]. Anh Lu Shan [安禄山- An1 Lu4 Shan1-] - Favorite beloved slaves Emperor Suan Tszuna [玄宗- Xuan2 Zong1-8 September 685 town-3 May 762 onwards, the rules of 8 September 712 till 12 August 756 grams .], a beautiful courtesan Yang Fei Guy [杨贵妃- Yang2 Gui4 Fei1-1 June 719 city-15 July 756 g.], raised rebellion against atonic and mired in corruption and debauchery power Emperor. At the head of the army of more than 150,000 soldiers took Beijing [北京- Bei3 Jing1], the capital of eastern Luoyan [洛阳- Luo4 Yang2], and the primary capital of Tang Empire-Chanan [长安- Chang2 An1], where 756 town proclaims himself emperor.
It starts with being turmoil, a lot of crowds fleeing the war, fleeing the rebels. Even Emperor Xuan Zong himself [玄宗- Xuan2 Zong1] from the yard goes to the country’s southwest, in Sichuan [四川]. It was followed by another obozom and Yang Fei Guy [杨贵妃]. Guards accompanying the yard, running from the rebellion, accused the country in times of trouble Yang family. First was killed Guo Yan Zhong [杨国忠], but this was little military and demanded the death of the wife of Emperor itself. Not wishing to martyrdom, Guy Yang Fei [杨贵妃] povesilas on silk rope. Others say that her udushil Gao Li Shi [高力士].
In the same year killed grief imerator Suan Zong [玄宗- Xuan2 Zong1] abdicates in favor of his son Suu Tszuna [肃宗711-762 town, the name at birth Lee Heng [李亨]], and was placed under house arrest. New Emperor Xuan Zong [玄宗- Xuan2 Zong1] was under the influence of another eunuch-Li Guo Fu [李辅国], which kept almost all, even military power in his own hands.
Lu Yu also joins the refugees. Impressed ills refugees, Lu Yu writing “Shi Shi Bay” [四悲诗- Si4 Bei4 Shi1 "Four sad poems"], transported to another bank of the Chzhentszyan [长江- Zhang3 Jiang1], looking for a place where to settle, in the process collecting proceedings of tea. Makes up to Huchzhou [湖州- Hu2 Zhou1], in the province of Zhejiang [浙江- Zhe4 Jiang1]. During a visit to the Buddhist monastery Myaosi [妙喜- Miao4 Xi3] that at Mount Chzhushan [杼山- Zhu4 Shan1], Lu Yu familiar with the famous monk, poet and tea connoisseurs Jiao Jean [皎然- Jiao3 Ran2], and after several meetings they became close friends. Lu Yu remains in the monastery guest Myaosi [妙喜- Miao4 Xi3]. Despite the fact that Lu Yu during his expedition in Henan [河南-H e2 Nan2] and Bashan [巴山- Ba1 Shan1] collected a lot of samples of tea. He lacked knowledge on the production of tea and tea ceramics. Although the trip to Zhejiang [浙江- Zhe4 Jiang1] was forced and full of difficulties, he has received here, missing knowledge, found a friend, who became his companion and tea consultant in question. At some tea plantations Lu Yu even worked himself to the very understanding of the tea production, and was the first who laid the standards of quality control and production of tea cultivation.
In 757 d. Lu Yu sent to Huanchzhou [黄州- Huang2 Zhou1], then in Tsichzhou [蕲州- Qi2 Zhou1] where river water tries Qi [蕲- Qi2], the city Lansi [兰溪- Lan2 Xi1] excellent water Shisya [石下- Shi2 Xia4], X oulie [后列- Hou4Lie] third-water quality Podnebsnoy spring.

This article written by Tom Aiello, BASE 579. Tom has committed over 500 BASE jumps to the extreme 30 months, with more than 100 installations. He does not claim to have his reputation in the opinion of any matters relating BASE parachute jumping, or other forms, but his advice can be very helpful.
Almost every time I speak to anyone that I BASE jumper, the first question I get is: ‘how do I deal with this? ” Once I have answered this question many times, I have decided to present everything in writing not to make repetitive larynx of the same things.
There are as many different ways as BASE jump start, but there dzhamperov. However, upon reflection, discussion with friends, viewing material on the Internet, I have decided that the right course, which I hope I have, and which I try to send people like this takes place, as described below.

Make sure you fit this sport

BASE jumping-sport is not for everyone. Good to Do yourself and decide whether you want BASE. The most practically impossible to objectively evaluate itself, and can be useful if your friends (and relatives sensitive) will help you in this.
Does your physical abilities BASE? I am not speaking about physical training (although this is a great help), or athletic resignation (which are already beginning to play a role in advanced disciplines BASE). In BASE important physical qualities are the response times, coordination of movements, and a sense of balance. Test yourself. Worth ask themselves the following questions: If you are sitting at the table, accidentally uronili pencil from the table, you can only raise it with sex or fun catch in the air? If you overturned a bottle of beer, you have to move and get a new one, or you raise it fun, yet led too many? How often do you travel?
BASE Does your psyche? Best BASE dzhampery well organized. They are also very inquisitive almost all issues. Have you ever wondered how the reserve? How many times you have confidence in him his life, before it started to inquire? You always coupled fume rope themselves in the aircraft, or waited when pritsepit producing it for you?
In critical situation, you accept the right decisions? BASE dzhampery must respond quickly and correctly in situations that threaten life. At your strip ever carried him away counterclaim car? How would you have reacted? You had to assess the situation, or all happened spontaneously?
BASE is best suited for the curious, with a good response, reacting quickly and correctly (without excessive reflection of the critical situation), with good coordination, well-organized, and narrow (attached importance smallest details). You certainly can be dzhamperom BASE, even if you have a problem for one or two items listed, but if you are weak on most of them BASE not suitable sport for you.

Accept decision

You must be absolutely certain that BASE is what you want. This sport is dangerous, sometimes illegal, and he is delaying. It gets your life. I would never advise anyone to go into it (and I found that he was the most valuable experience in my life). During my short time in sport, I saw two rescue helicopters from the outside, more than two-Inside, the rear-seat saw the police car, a lot of broken bones and burial. I also spent three weeks in resuscitation, and 18 hours in the operating neurosurgery. You want serious?
There are many different reasons why you can come to BASE, and I have not tried to understand what kind of “correct”. What is important is that your reason was so important for you to outweigh the potentially unlimited price that you pay for your hobbies. If you do not avtogonschik, BASE will be much worse everything that you ever did.
Statistically, you have about 5% chance that you will die, legend BASE. Even worse: your chance to get seriously injured and tumble in the hospital are likely over 95%. I know three BASE dzhamperov with more than 500 jumps, who have not remained in the hospital more than one or two days because BASE accidents. But even they agree that it is only a matter of time, and they can get seriously injured at any time. If you are not ready to die BASE legend, you are not ready to jump BASE.

Make homework

Next, you need to do is find all of the materials which can dzhampinge BASE. Talk to each BASE dzhamperov who can find. Read all the articles about the filling of BASE, on meteorology, which can find. Remove from the Internet and read everything that belongs to BASE (there are more than you can presume).

Keep right path

Now that you have decided to jump, make sure you have everything in order with common sense. There are two important points to a proper understanding of the subject that will allow you to remain alive:
Never do anything unless you feel that it can. If you are not ready for something, do not do that. Each of us determine for themselves their own speed study, and any who can not say for you that is suitable for you. Do not let himself persuaded to do what you are not willing, nor senior comrades, nor the teachers.
Never be afraid to come down from the site. Requires much more courage to go back to exit-point than jump on it. But there are certain cases where it is right to abandon a leap, and knowing when you need to listen to the voice of reason in your head, your critical for survival. This sport is very, very serious and very quickly neserezny approach traumatizes, pokalechit or kill you.
Then you will develop their understanding at the time of your way, learning from other dzhamperov and gaining experience (good and bad) throughout your life.

Tell your family

This is the personal responsibility of any BASE-dzhampera tell his family that he was involved in BASE that he understood the risks that this entails, and that he made an informed choice and take this risk.
Sit with your family and tell them about BASE. Obviously, this very seriously. Put family to the fact that you have decided to engage in the form of activity which threatens your life may not be easy. However, this discussion is very important both for you and for the sport in general.
Fair, open discussion with your loved ones will enable them to better understand your decision. They will be able to see that in your decision to jump present maturity and reasoning. This will help prevent the recriminations, anger and accusations in your address, which otherwise might arise from your family and friends, if they do not understand what you are doing.
Your explanation that you understand and accept all the degree of risk inherent with the sport, will help prevent possible attacks by your family against other members BASE community, if your injury or death. There are too many examples of how the victims’ families accused dzhamperov, feuding, sudilis, and even pursued other dzhamperov from an accident. Do not let that this happened to your friends.
Write a letter to your friends and family, which will open in the event that you die, legend BASE. In the letter, describe why you chose BASE, hoping that you get from it, and why you risked dying for it. Otdayte sealed copies of your family and your mentor BASE (as a minimum). Do it to prevent any conflicts that may arise by reason of your death.

Make parachuting sport

To start, make a minimum of 200 jumps with a parachute. You have to do so much jumping to learn skills to manage the dome, precision landing and differences. You also need to acquire a general level of comfort in using parachutes, free-falling, and instantaneous decision making. Skaydayvery, the most well-prepared for BASE, usually jumped at high 7-sectional parachute fabric of the F-111, faced with a number of refusals, acted properly in the incident, and feel free to skydive- in several disciplines. If you only on fokusiruetes BASE dzhampinge not give in to the temptation to become svuperom-friflaerom. Instead sfokusiruytes at CRW acrobatics and precision landing, as useful for you skydive- disciplines.
To differences in practice, do a few jumps at maximum track. Do not expect the limited treking to the differences, or treking balanced group jumping on the track. Make the leap from start to finish for a maximum track, which only can, and practice with the camera, if possible, and the pressure to maximize flat and powerful track.
For precision landing exercises best use of the dome, with whom you are going to BASE jump. Try to start entry build low (below 500 feet) to simulate conditions BASE leap. Remember potrenirovat landing across the wind and the wind because you often will have to do so, legend BASE.
To acquire the skills to manage the dome, you should make a few jumps at the dome acrobatics (CRW), and then do a few exercises to manage your BASE dome. CRW is a great way to explore the flight characteristics of the dome in close before you to the terms of BASE jumps (CRW a dome on your BASE is excellent exercise, once you master the basic skills CRW).
During his career make several parachute jumps night. In some places BASE jumps occur almost exclusively at night (to avoid arrest, imprisonment and confiscation of equipment), and skills in Guy and landing at night, a dome customary condition of survival in such sweeps.
Take a few BASE jumps with your dome to examine the quality of its flight. Pay attention to the refinement of inlets, turning to the free ends, and perform exercises pillows and landing using free ends. Otrabotayte U-turn on free ends before raschekovki cm is the method by which you will be one day, shy away from clashes with rocks. It is obvious that you want potrenirovat this activity also with raschekovannymi klevantami.

Look for a mentor

When you engage in sport parachuting, you certainly acquainted with other skaydayverami at drop-zone. Try also to find and get to know the local BASE dzhamperom. Your goal is to find dzhampera with 200 or more jumps, which, in your view, could be a good teacher, and with whom you could get. Also, you trust your life to it (among other things).

Buy BASE gear

Now, with sufficient skills to manage dome, and with the instructor, you have to find BASE gear. The best choice is to buy new equipment for BASE rig from the well-known manufacturer of flat and put him in the present BASE Dome. You can also find good Used equipment from the ad. The goal is to get modern equipment, specially designed to BASE. Many people try to sell you skydive- modernized equipment (Raven, Cruiselite, Pegasus, etc.). Avoid such proposals, and currently BASE buy equipment. Everyone has different preferences of other equipment, but the key is to find BASE gear made in accordance with the current requirements.

Pass rate first leap

So now you have the necessary preliminary parachute skills appropriate equipment, and you see the instructor.
Time to go jump, as well? No!
Time to start working. Before you can make your first jump, you still need to examine the basis riggerskogo skill and stowage, with the office zero velocity, and the simple rules BASE ethics. There are two ways to do this.
The simplest of them is golden, about $ 1000, and a course first leap from one of the major producers of equipment. Because most of us do not have the “ugly things bucks to cast her,” there trying to skip this step. I recommend not to do so. Get a qualified and professional coaching really worth the money. You would not try to make your first parachute jump without adequate training, is not it? Even if you have a friend who vowed that he “knew all about it” and could easily teach you to jump. ”
Courses are also available first leap BASE from various organizations around the world, such as the Australian BASE Association (which maintains a database of qualified instructors in Australia) and the Norwegian BASE Association (conducts classes at the Lysefjord to minimize the occurrence of this popular spot). If you have money, I would prefer that you got a rate of one American producers because their “student facility” (bridge height 486 feet above the water with the huge grassy landing pads for) the most safe for novice dzhampera. There is a similar facility in Southern Europe, and Robert Pecnik first course offers a leap there.
Lots of people are trying to save money and ask their friends “teach” them. This is a bad idea for several reasons. First, you do not know whether your friend really have the qualifications to teach. Secondly, you do not know whether he really motivated to give you a full course of study. Of course, he can show you how to jump the first time, but whether he will teach you how to act in case of an unstable offices leap number 12? Third, you will learn more if your teacher during the course of the first leap is not the same coach who will hold you through your next 20-50 jumps. Finally, these “informal” first leap courses can drag on for weeks, months, even years. If you dogovarivaetes with real business, you know the exact date of your course, you can schedule time for him.

Watch the video

Now that you have an understanding of how to look BASE jump, please look at BASE video. Best Video for this is the “Lemmings Exits’ series with the bridge Bridge Day holiday. Try to get “Lemmings Exits” for a few years, and any other video, which can find. View the video, preferably with your mentor. Evaluate each leap. The more mistakes you can see before jump start, the more likely that you will be able to avoid them yourself.

Jump Start

You are now ready to begin the jump. After your first leap course you must have a solid knowledge of equipment, and laying riggerskogo skill, knowledge and bounce right of action in the event they occur, as well as practical skills offices on the site.
The next step is to come home and do so much jumping with your mentor, your can (in a short time). Constantly ask questions. Try to maximize learning. When you are beginning to feel comfortable (and your coach, too), and jump start with the other jumpers. Ask them the same questions (they may have other answers to them). See how other evenly. See how other jump. Always ask why they are doing so precisely.

Continue to learn

Now, when you have a 20-30 jumps, and you can jump with a local team, you can take a solid newcomer. There is still a great deal that you should explore, see and do. Never stop learning. In addition to the fact that this is a good way to stay alive, and that’s what always works in sports.

World-famous BASE jumper and Valery Rozov parachutist, together with the Russian Extreme Project expeditions and climbers Russian team Put Peace Wall, carried enormous mountaineering ascent of the western wall of mountains Autana (Venezuela, in the State of Amazonas). On the top of the wall Rose was committed parachute jump. The Team voshoditeley- Valery Rozov, Alexander Odintsov, Denis Provalov, Sergei Shaferov.
- Tepui mountains, towering in the south and south-east of Venezuela, is a unique natural entity. This ostantsy solid rock of old, has long disappeared Mountains. They break into all otvesnymi side walls (up to 1000 meters) and ispolinskimi monument penetrating the jungle. It is their Conan Doyle described in his novel Lost world. This difficult area inhabited by tribes of Indians little familiar with civilization, and do not speak not what the English, but also Spanish.

More than a week took Valerie Rose and his team to reach the foot of Autany. Towards the goal forwarders had to swim for three hours on the rivers motorized boat, to get acquainted with the local population Indians, a very friendly accepted Russian researchers, and another three days probiratsya through dense jungle (which here is called jungle), these armed with machetes and criticism from swarms kusachih insects.

Nine days team worked directly on the wall. Wall looms heavily, especially in the first half of the route. The terrain is very difficult missing, climbers accustomed to the system of vertical cracks, a lot of sites without any relief.

Very solid rock, a lot of moss and vegetation. All of this severely slowed the advance team top. But the biggest problem was the lack of water on the wall. All it had to bear with it. Air temperature reached 40 degrees by day, the wall raskalyalas and become a veritable griddle.

4 December Valery Rozov committed successful BASE Autana leap from the wall. The team of the past more than half of the route, but had to suspend the ascent of the acute shortage of water. Sam leap represented the many complexities because of a lack of landing pads.

Despite the unfinished ascent, the project was a success. The main part of a complex proydena walls, leap occurred.

Next Expedition Valery and his team is not far off. In February 2008, Russian Extreme Project Goes to Patagonia (Argentina), to the top of Cerro Torre.

Valery Rozov born in 1964 th year in Nizhny Novgorod. Since childhood, has been rock climbing and mountaineering. In 1993 th year tried parachuting sport.

Sporting achievements:

a professional mountaineer, Master of Sports
classes start climbing-1982 God
committed more than 50 climbing 5 B-6 candidate
undertook a large number of difficult climbing routes classic
in parts of the Caucasus Mountains Fanskih, Aksu and Karavshina
uchastvovol Championship in the USSR in 1989-1991 years technically class by the formula
the maximum amount of climbing for two weeks
from 1994 to 1996, party draft Seven Summits.
The project has committed to in climbing. Elbrus (5642 m), Mont Blanc (Europe, 4810 m)
Aconcagua (Yu America, 6960 m), Kilimanjaro (Africa, 5885 m), Carsten peak (Oceania Papua-N.Gvineya, 5040 m)
repeated championship prize USSR mountaineering (1989-1991 years)
Championship winner Russia in 2002 on mountaineering
Winner Championship Russia 2004 to the climbers
in 2000, organized a Russian company Extremes Draft
beysovyh organizer and host of rock projects:
in Venezuela, Norway, Switzerland, Mexico, France, Italy, Malaysia, in the Polar Canada (o.Baffinova Earth), in Norway, in Greenland, in the Kamchatka, New Zealand, Pakistan, Chile. ..
one of the world leaders of the movement BASE-climbing
Surveys by parachuting sport
the first leap: in 1993
the total number of parachute jumps: 7000 +
the total number of jumps beys: 500 +
Champ X-games on c kayserfingu in 1998 (USA, San Diego)
The world champions on parachuting sport in 1999 (Australia, Cow)
Silver prize X-games in 2000 (USA, San Francisco)
The second prize Silver World Aviaigr in 2001 (Spain, Granada)
Cup winner Mira 2002 (Austria Vienna);
Winner Championship of Europe 2002 (Spain, Empuriabrava)
Multiple champion Russia (1997-2003 years)
The world champions on parachuting sport in 2003 (France, GAP)
The world record for a parachute Sport 2006 (Thailand)
(Member of the largest parachute formations, 400 people)