Exploring Kazakhstan's Desert and a Sacred 700-Year-Old Tree

Exploring Kazakhstan's Desert and a Sacred 700-Year-Old Tree

In this episode of a road trip through Kazakhstan, the traveler explores the desert landscape, encounters locals, and visits a sacred 700-year-old tree believed to have healing properties. The journey includes navigating unmarked roads, camping at a museum, and experiencing the vastness of the Kazakh steppe.

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coming up on this episode of road tripping kazakhstan the truth finally comes out so cass madeline is finally gone what are you really thinking fitting in with the locals but you know what they say when in kazakhstan too is the kazakhstan chaos but first let's talk about this video sponsor skillshare as i'm sure you guys already know we love skillshare a platform full of courses to help you learn new skills or develop skills that you may already have all for less than ten dollars a month as i'm sure you can imagine this has been super helpful for me throughout this whole editing process trying to turn finger paints into masterpieces without having the guys nearby like the other day for example i was trying to put together a thumbnail for episode one

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since i don't have ty's long arm to help me out here i'm just gonna have to roll this intro myself morning sunshines it's a beautiful morning a brand new day i can't see what's in the shot i don't know hopefully you're in it unable to find accommodation the night before we actually convinced a museum to let us camp out in their garden and after a full night's sleep we were ready to take on the surrounding national park i got a child america am i supposed to grab it now after you burn yourself three times

so we slept in the garden in the back garden and we fill up our water in the front garden you buy water or water we're heading to the white mountains today we lied and said we had a gps so we didn't have to take a guy we didn't want to take a guide so we lied but we don't really know where we're going our inability to read a map didn't ruin our mood it didn't ruin this perfect sunny day it didn't ruin the desert landscapes it didn't even ruin the amazing sense of adventure and freedom that we felt no but something else did

that's horrible oh my arms oh my god i'm pretty sure we're in the middle of the seventh place the camera doesn't do justice to how big they are it's the size of our middle finger oh [__] it's angry now go before he calls his family to come attack we quickly realized that the flying grasshoppers were actually going to be the least of our problems that day as the day dragged on it became evident how harsh and vast this desert really

is and we all started questioning our decision of not having taken a guide that's his leg now in the back the thing that's most don't really know what we're looking for i found the white mountain that's racist do you have sunshine i know but after hours of driving aimlessly down unmarked desert roads we finally saw a thin stretch of the

actual white mountains on the horizon right so we've been driving through the altenew desert all morning most of this desert is covered in red mountains but here in the eastern part of the desert there's a strip called the white mountains and guess what color they are black they're black mountains so cass natalina's family porn what do you really think of him he made it

and having ended the day on such a high note we were exhausted and ready to make our way back to the museum to eat some dinner and get some sleep before continuing our adventure the next day it's gonna be a musical episode okay all right i'm so strong so today's our last day at the national park and we're gonna go see the singing dunes find out if they actually sing somehow i doubt it no but they are called the singing dunes because apparently they hum so let's let's go check them out that way or that way

good luck now are you afraid to press obviously it's not it's still beeping but it is without sound wait it's open i know you do it did you do anything with it no just now when you put it in did you turn it or not try it try manually unlocking the door yeah but what do we do okay move back careful

the lights are flashing vamos a lazunas with the car finally functioning and cast behind the wheel we were ready to make our way to the dunes oh hello hi okay let's go you have to say it today we're going into the singing dude there's going to be so much fun so excited oh my god i'm driving 60 kilometers what's good

hello singing dunes we thought we'd made our way to the dunes but apparently not i want excuse me hello very difficult to get to these dunes no i don't hear anything hello sing to me i got in my eye that's what she said oh

hear that i think i hear something an eternal flame i think i hear them singing yeah i think i hear them singing do you hear what happened so good we met this russian guy and he's a cook for expeditions just in your hand like what are you gonna do with that well we're gonna eat it with beer thank you yeah no we're not we're gonna throw it out after spending the entire morning finding our inner children at the dunes

we were absolutely starving and ready to eat lunch before making our final stop for the day i'm really excited because god says we're gonna go see a magic trick foreign which one is it people from all over kazakhstan make the trip to come and hug or even sleep under this sacred 700 year old tree and the tree is even believed to have special healing properties

we are from in amateur wilson yes and usual same class or friends yes we are friends situated today and you came to see the tree you come here to see the tree yes would you say it's we hug the tree and what happened yep what happened as we were hugging the tree in hopes of feeling some of its healing energy we noticed a group of people nearby and decided to

head over and see what was going on good so we won't go to the hospital no hospital for us so we drink and then we're very strong you know and healthy i'm healthy i feel so healthy right now so apparently you got it this tree produces water it's good for your health scoop it out from here any day now don't lose the spoon there's a spoon yeah that'd be bad how do you do it he's like a little magician can you help me oh wow he's good all right so it's brown not sure if you can tell but you know what they say when in kazakhstan do is the kazakhstan cheers that's really bad

great being in such a sacred space i swear i tried to keep it together but don't do it come on thank you so much it was great nice to meet you oh my god thank you i think that's a good thing ah the magic tree it's great you so much alrighty hurry up okay bye oh that's really bad

i don't know what's worse the taste of that water or this smell of the toilets on the indian trains oh and i had to smile for those kids it's supposed to be good for your health but i think we might die tonight wow wow my goodness i think the fish wave in the back tastes better oh i need one wow

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