not far from Moscow - less than 100 kilometers in the direction of Kaluga, is an interesting place with a position title - Etnomir. Want to say straight away that one weekend was clearly not enough to explore all the interesting things that is in the territory of almost 100 hectares - And this despite the fact that the complex still under construction and is now sold approximately (by my count), not more than 20 percent of the planned construction. Currently (February 2011), much of this territory is meadow, but by 2020 all the voids will build up interesting objects. According to testimony people coming to Etnomir year you can see how slowly, but still moving construction and every year there are more new features. For example, currently under construction and is preparing to open in May at home in India and Nepal. What is interesting is here now?
far from roomy parking lots (not less than 100 vehicles), located directly beside the road leading from the small town Borovsky (Etnomir is 7 kilometers away), the main entrance to the complex is a long two-storey building, which houses the administration and where to take guests, with shops (souvenir and grocery) and cafes. It also houses and occupies a large portion of the building is one of the most important sights and zest Etnomira - Street Peace. Wide "passing" part is actually just walking (after all this "street" - inside a building). On both sides - a small two-story, stand back to back "home" with facades decorated in traditional style. Each house represents a State or part of the world. Some countries have received separate houses - Such as Japan, China, India, Nepal, Georgia and Egypt, while others - united by parts of the world, such as a house in South-East Asia, Africa and Latin America. Facade Each house is made in a traditional and recognizable style for the country - that we go through the red wall with paper lanterns Chinese at home, followed by masonry structure of Nepalese, and if you rotate the head to the right - in colors and patterns of the walls of the house is impossible not to guess the flavor of Africa.
Internal the decoration of each house to be honest - I was delighted. Everything is done to the glory and the soul - at home styled objects of culture, history, and somewhere - and the nature of (mock Iguazu Falls in the home of Latin America) the country or part of the world. In the houses of master-classes - for example, in the Japanese house you will learn origami, and Chinese You can try their hand at writing characters - you will be awarded a full set of brushes of different sizes (depending on how big characters you want to paint), will show how the Chinese are preparing ink (get soaked dry paint in the form of small black briketika) and after work you can put on a piece of personal seal master - small stone engraved with the signature dunks in a special blend of thick reddish-tan color, which is imprinted on paper.
in open territory Etnomira are (in the location, approximate to the present geographical) Slavic part - which presents Russia, Belarus and Ukraine, and a little further north - the yurt northern peoples and enclosure for dogs, huskies, where you can ride in a dogsled. South - Kyrgyz tent, of a different type. And further south in the process of building the Indian and Nepali home.
The range can be come one day, but you can stay the night. As and day - night will be no less interesting and informative - in fact there are no hotel rooms in the traditional sense. If you decide to sleep in the Slav parts - You can sleep in the hut, fashioned after Ukrainian hut, and if you want something more exotic - you can stay in a room that looked like a tent. Nor in the hut, nor in the tent lack of comfort you will not feel: Each room has a bathroom, toilet - and there's really warm in the February frost (in the days of our stay was minus 15). Summer opportunities to sleep in a lot more - from the double yurt up their own tents.
In one of the cottages is of Slavic pottery, where the potter in his spare time doing all kinds of pottery that you can buy, but you can learn to do yourself at the master class and go home with his own hand made a bowl or pitcher. Very well be seen as spiritually related to his work there the master potter.
evening we got on a master class on evenkskim folk dance, which was held in great khan-ger - it fits comfortably almost 30 people and more - all fun practicing under the traditional round dance music dance Evenki. Immediately after the master class, we moved to another place - a house, designed as an Old Slavic barn (storage space and processing of grain). Here until almost midnight local musicians sang and played soul, inviting guests from the audience wishing to Russian traditional and modern popular songs. The next day we were back at the music event and were surprised by yesterday's transfiguration wizard evenkskim dances in the Siberian Shaman with a tambourine and jew's harp, proclaiming throat singing, and yesterday's Executive bard changed pop suit and combed back hair, tied in a ponytail on the popular shirt, sandals and wild hair - the musicians were told playing and improvising on folk melodies of northern and southern nations, using unusual musical instruments - long and short tubes, jars and homemade-sounding string instruments with exotic sound ...
Our weekend concluded its tour program, which has won nearly two hours, telling and clearly showing the wedding rituals of the three nations world - the first Mongolian, was held in a light tent of Mongolian nomads in traditional costumes, the second - a Russian, a Russian house, and the third, Khakassia - in an octagonal ger hakasstsev. Wow, all accompanied by stories not dry, and this "touch" to the life of peoples, and this occurrence in the role.
Indeed, one weekend a little to catch see all offers Etnomir - visit the house and look at the life of the people, listen to the really exciting stories of guides on different excursions.
not had time to look a lot - most sorry for that and did not reach the cages with the dogs husky. Well - next time!
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