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  • The Svans’ way of life is simple and suggestive of an illusion of an idyllic world. But behind the romantic backdrop a fundamental change takes place at the beginning of the new millennium. The history of the Georgian mountain people shows, the Svans hold on to their tradition and try to preserve their identity even though emigration and global opening is getting stronger.
    The Georgian mountains are difficult to access and time seems to stand still. The people live a mediaeval life in a breathtaking landscape. Until now the Svans farm their scant land without engines; archaic rites are an important element of their everyday life.
    The homeland of the Svans, Svaneti, all in all 40 mountain villages, is based in a scenic valley between Abkhazia and South Ossetia surrounded by mountains of the height of 5000 metres. Each house has his own fortress tower which once guarded against vendetta and enemies. Still they bring up the cattle to the mountain side with oxcarts and old folksy practices are performed with blood sacrifice and death cult in extended families.
    The Svans differ from the rest of the Georgians by their distinct consciousness of tradition, they try to keep their mediaeval culture using an own language and own cult of icons. Now a new era has started for the Svans, a time of change and variation, but they don’t want to take leave of the old values and traditions.
    Documentary: The Svans - Between Tradition and Modern World (2011)
    Direction: Andreas Lünser
    Production: Spiegel TV
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Komentáře • 554

  • @tomlee7956
    @tomlee7956 Před 29 dny +505

    Dear Svan, if you're reading this, read very carefully. I understand that life is tough over there BUT life where we are, in the "civilized" and "modern" west, in much tougher than you realize. We might have more than you do but we are NOT as free as you are and freedom is much more important than material goods. Stay there and enjoy what you have...do not envy us, we are all slaves here...

  • @user-yg1si9fv6e
    @user-yg1si9fv6e Před 7 dny +14

    As an American having lived through man made cancer and ever increasing degradation of society I'd trade places in a heart beat with these most honest and independent of people. We in the west have become much too soft and weak. These are the people who will carry on humanity after we all allow modern technology to render us too ignorant to survive. But most of all, they hold steadfast to Christianity and live the way God intended. They are the closest to perfection as humans can get. God will always protect them, it's beautiful.

  • @oeyt1982
    @oeyt1982 Před měsícem +149

    I visited Svaneti in 2018 and did the 4 days trekking through beautiful forest and meadows. It changed my outlook in life since then. I was lucky enough to meet the locals and stay at their guesthouses in all the mountain villages we stopped at. They are very sustainable and self reliant.

    • @alancooper3473
      @alancooper3473 Před 25 dny +6

      Was wondering if they are cheaper than other mountain places? I would suspect more reasonably priced.

    • @oeyt1982
      @oeyt1982 Před 15 dny +5

      @@alancooper3473 oh yes absolutely a lot affordable. The guesthouses only served produce from their own backyard. I met a lot of Germans, Polish and Swiss hikers in the guesthouse and they’re all impressed on the landscape and hospitality of the people.

  • @biancanagy3342
    @biancanagy3342 Před 28 dny +122

    This is how my grandparents lived in the Bosnian mountains ⛰️ 😢
    They were very , healthy and happy and lived into their 90s , still working the land 12 hour day's.

  • @user-fh1pe7mc4e
    @user-fh1pe7mc4e Před měsícem +81

    At time 14:05, When the boy kisses his Father, my eyes filled with water, after all ,the boy brings the food for his hard working father. Glory to the father. It is not only any modern world achievement like Marks and Medals,money but also your boy stood beside you when you work hard. Note that Many modern achiever left there parents. To me,this scene is very beautiful.

  • @narimanrustemov
    @narimanrustemov Před 24 dny +52

    I am from Kazakhstan and we have so many similarities with Svan people! I enjoyed watching this marvellous documentary! Wish them all the best from the bottom of my heart! God bless you!

  • @jaypees.8766
    @jaypees.8766 Před měsícem +105

    I envy these people because they aren't slaves to the modern world.

    • @hhunstad2011
      @hhunstad2011 Před 21 dnem

      You are a slave to the natural world there

    • @dpelpal
      @dpelpal Před 19 dny +7

      The difference is, the people in the "modern world" can choose to live however they wish. These people can't.

    • @hhunstad2011
      @hhunstad2011 Před 19 dny

      @@dpelpal 👍

    • @user-zs3um1if2q
      @user-zs3um1if2q Před 18 dny

      ​So i am totally ok with them​,swan people@@dpelpal

    • @cintiapollock2486
      @cintiapollock2486 Před 6 dny +2

      We live out on a farm we live free and only see other people 1-2 days a month I do love it guess we are lucky. No cell phone or car, we have satellite internet a few hours a day, lots of land, animals, plants and quiet

  • @markmcarthy596
    @markmcarthy596 Před měsícem +171

    The Svan are blessed by not living the modern nightmare

    • @savannahshepherd2283
      @savannahshepherd2283 Před měsícem +8

      Everything is a trade, + and -. No matter what situation or circumstance

    • @avalondreaming1433
      @avalondreaming1433 Před měsícem +20

      God save them from video games and smart phones!

    • @nadeemarab7935
      @nadeemarab7935 Před 22 dny +2

      Agreed

    • @banjopete
      @banjopete Před 21 dnem +2

      You would be running back home within the first month….to your modern nightmare.

    • @markmcarthy596
      @markmcarthy596 Před 21 dnem +1

      @@banjopete - you don’t know me

  • @user-bf3pc2qd9s
    @user-bf3pc2qd9s Před 12 dny +8

    Before you all get carried away with the "simple life", I lived in a similar situation in Turkey for a very short time. Life is tough, people aged prematurely, the winter was cooooold without modern heating and basically life was boring. Beautiful people though with a deep understanding of generosity and hospitality, great respect for elders, great love for children. Could teach "Westerners" a thing or two...

  • @ivanbaric4017
    @ivanbaric4017 Před měsícem +77

    It is better to be a slave to your own needs then the needs of the world. Upgrade of the modern world is never ending.
    We in the modern world have become slaves to the technology.

    • @tomlee7956
      @tomlee7956 Před 29 dny +2

      Oh, just wait till AI is fully functional. Welcome to Prison Planet!

    • @shah6697
      @shah6697 Před 29 dny

      Ooo
      Scary isnt it? ​@@tomlee7956

    • @hillwalker8741
      @hillwalker8741 Před 17 dny +1

      I cut wood for winter for 8 years - try that and you will opt out of that life - just too hard

    • @tomlee7956
      @tomlee7956 Před 17 dny +2

      @@hillwalker8741 I've been chopping wood all my life, using a chainsaw and an ax, and then splitting by hand and not using a hydraulic wood splitter. I am in my 60s and still keep doing it and enjoying it! I do truckloads every year because where I live I need firewood from the end of September to late May sometimes. It is a way of life...

    • @elizabethlovell9997
      @elizabethlovell9997 Před 16 dny +2

      If you grow up in a culture where everyone works hard, hard work is not a problem. It also seems obvious that the people support and help each other, and it’s a community so there is also social life. I am sure there will be local healers who are knowledgeable in the use of medicinal herbs, and that those who are really unable to work hard physically, are looked after. There is great satisfaction to be had in a life like this, such as when for example, you can look around at your winter stores and know that you are going to be alright. In the modern world we do miss out on a lot. Loneliness is very common because there is no sense of community; many ‘entertainments’ are superficial and empty at the end of the day. Families are split up and there often seems little sense of continuity. The importance of rushing and buying leads to envy and takes over lives; people get into debt trying to be like everyone else. Life for the Svan people, and others like them, appears to have more meaning and contentment. I agree with the first comment, that one should be very, very clear about what one would be giving up, in order to move to the ‘modern’ world. It is definitely not all it’s made out to be - with terrible problems like racism, bullying, addictions etc. that can be hidden, or glossed over.

  • @joegecko1963
    @joegecko1963 Před 25 dny +51

    I love how the narrator tries to make everything sound as a chore or tragedy. When it is actually a blessing, and the infiltration of modernity is the real hardship...

    • @withgoddess8029
      @withgoddess8029 Před 22 dny +4

      It's just his way of narrating everything. I think his 1st name is Rob...I knew it for sure a few years ago. He has had trouble with depression and it shows in his voice...

    • @CV_CA
      @CV_CA Před 18 dny +4

      AI Artificial Intelligence voice.

    • @alisong2328
      @alisong2328 Před 16 dny +2

      But it is a chore. 12 hrs/day, 7 days/week is no joke.

    • @CaptainAMAZINGGG
      @CaptainAMAZINGGG Před 7 dny

      You don't understand because you haven't lived it. 😂 it for sure feels treacherous every damn day.

  • @lianefehrle9921
    @lianefehrle9921 Před měsícem +80

    This is what humans are supposed to do. When technology came to the world that was our downfall. 14:03 what a lovely place. To keep up with this way of life takes back breaking work and the love of the traditions and family.

    • @michaelvavala3970
      @michaelvavala3970 Před 27 dny

      Exactly

    • @kwawrestling2
      @kwawrestling2 Před 25 dny +1

      What Ever!

    • @worldbuilding1405
      @worldbuilding1405 Před 22 dny

      Lol we just can never be satisfied can we? people here want access to modern technology so their lives will be a lot easier while cityfolks want less of it.

    • @TheSilmarillian
      @TheSilmarillian Před 12 dny

      @@kwawrestling2 Guess you have never had to work hard to eat or survive? No offence meant hope non taken.

    • @LyubomirIko
      @LyubomirIko Před 7 dny

      The technology allowed people to live in big cities where you can't do anything natural, just compete for money and luxury and the social lifestyle is built up on pretentiousness, pride, sex and fakeness. But technology alone did not did this, it's owr fallen nature that refuse to stay grounded.

  • @dsbmaximus406
    @dsbmaximus406 Před měsícem +38

    Preserve your culture fight for your religion ✝️ and save your tradition.

  • @CC-uq4hu
    @CC-uq4hu Před 8 dny +3

    Svan people keep hold of your lifestyle culture and traditions with both hands. Preserve it and guard it. Don’t wish for what outsiders have because you have everything they outside wishes…freedom!❤❤plant some trees for wood and fruit

  • @P2Tmedia
    @P2Tmedia Před 26 dny +24

    3:55 it's not about they don't use wheels.
    For their sloppy areas sledge is good which can even used in ice

  • @hirokawana
    @hirokawana Před měsícem +39

    they are helpfull each other . what a wonderful world they are live in! may god bless the people.

  • @TakeTheRide
    @TakeTheRide Před 10 dny +2

    This was a beautiful documentary, all except for the killing of the ox. Beautiful people. Close knit grounded community. Beautiful land. Beautiful mountains & ruins. Gorgeous river. I wonder if they eat fish from it. Thanks for sharing.

  • @Homesteadoffgrid
    @Homesteadoffgrid Před 9 dny +5

    I think the way forward for humanity will be going back to live like this❤❤

  • @passiflorapassiflora6058
    @passiflorapassiflora6058 Před měsícem +79

    I grow up in a village in Romania , and I see the customs are almost the same, I feel I am looking to a video about my own village...only the language is different....I am so suprized

    • @sks8198
      @sks8198 Před 17 dny +3

      Try to do it yourself Bro. You need a mobile phone with a good camera. Since you have first hand experience with the culture the narration will naturally flow from your heart. Go ahead, take the first step and go... We are waiting.. Good luck to you..
      👍🏼

    • @passiflorapassiflora6058
      @passiflorapassiflora6058 Před 17 dny +1

      @@sks8198 Well I can not as I live in UK, thats why I travell ,,by CZcams" back home or close, and back in time......, higher education does funny things to one person perception when you are young...but you see my friend, you never forget you roots , and you appreciate the humble, simple lifestyle only after you deal with busy XXI century city life.....but thank you for your comment.

    • @CaptainAMAZINGGG
      @CaptainAMAZINGGG Před 7 dny

      My dad grew up like this in romania.
      I visited his family for some weeks when I was living in the uk for a bit, I was definitely not prepared for such a complete change.😂
      I think it is different for people who just see it from the outside, but it is another thing when you are living in it. We had no running water, no bath, no toilet, no toilet paper (people don't think about these things, I think), i lived off what they had there, and eventho i am a girl, indeed I immediately was put to work 😂😂😂
      Which was fine because though I grew up in Canada, my dad raised me to be "useful", and as soon as I got there, he had me helping to build up the new house because his family home's roof had collapsed and it was otherwise too much falling apart..
      People glorify it from seeing it in a video but that life is a thing most people can't concieve properly, until they are living it, and have no money, no ability to do most things, and in many cases also basically no way out.
      It maybe also is easier now, than it was when my dad was in romania when it was still communist etc. They had nothing and couldn't leave.
      Also they had no dentist to go to, everyone's teeth were half missing. Another thing people don't think of, for sure.

    • @johac7637
      @johac7637 Před 6 dny

      Both my parents were born in Chernovitz, both moved to Canada, we live many similarities, to this day all us kids garden, preserve, and value simple lives, but have become Bible believing in the true hope in Jesus, not the typical traditional emptiness. Our families back home have also embraced the hope as found in Jesus.

  • @immi-gig13
    @immi-gig13 Před měsícem +29

    I wish I could travel there in the future and meet them.. Huge respect for this community.. nice documentry though.. God bless!

  • @robinwild1
    @robinwild1 Před měsícem +57

    Fascinating culture there as I sit here and watch from Eastern Canada. It is true, don’t want more than strong community, interconnection with others, a powerful association with the past in your family and culture….the mother who wants more progress for her children, no no no, the stuff they have now is so precious!

    • @leatheraccessories646
      @leatheraccessories646 Před 27 dny +5

      Every parent wants progress in their child's life, but they don't realize that at the same time, progress breaks ties and separates people from each other.
      We all enjoy the benefits of the Internet, for example, at the same time we all complain that it takes up too much of our time and that our children no longer know how to interact with each other the way we did.
      This is just a trivial example!

    • @thevocalcrone
      @thevocalcrone Před 23 dny +1

      A hot shower and a flushing toilet becomes vital after you've gone without.

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Před 14 dny

      She doesn’t understand what she n they will lose. Nor what they will go thru. She has no clue. She simply sees the ease available, not the extreme cost to the very soul of man.

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Před 14 dny

      @@thevocalcroneno it’s not
      They’ve not had a hot shower ever lol

    • @thevocalcrone
      @thevocalcrone Před 14 dny

      @@YeshuaKingMessiah lol exactly .. so she won't know what she is missing. People always say "oh the country life, the rustic life' until they realise its rife with its own difficulties and hardship and having grown up in a world of hot showers and flushing toilets I can't think of anything worse than being stuck in a tower for six months every year with a bunch of kids and a drunk husband. Unless its being stuck in a tower with a bunch of kids a drunk husband no flushing toilet and all that beef and potatoes and alcohol has gotta go somewhere and now I find myself questioning.. how do they manage it? save it in a bowl and throw it out the window? thats a LOT of excrement over six months.

  • @angelaberni8873
    @angelaberni8873 Před 29 dny +24

    These people, especially the men,seem very proud of their heritage and of who they are. Which is more than we usually say .Whilst my roots are extremely important to me for most people they don't seem to be and anything belonging to their grandparents are thrown out,to be sadly replaced with modern rubbish. 😢 Our children are spoilt and complain over the odd menial tasks( they should be sent there for a year and made to work), they have no respect for their parent's and we are all extremely wasteful. Violence and murders seem the norm and are not punished sufficiently. Shame on us all.

  • @tm13tube
    @tm13tube Před 25 dny +17

    I have similar experiences. Mom called me in, gave me a colander and big spoon and said go get potatoes which in the summer meant dig them from the garden and in the winter under the house. In the summers I stayed with my aunt and uncle They raised a year’s worth of vegetables and wheat they took to a mill to be ground for a years worth of flour. They had livestock, cows for milk, butter, cheese, they had beef and pork they raised wheat for meat. I used to get wheat kernels out of the bed of my uncle’s truck. I am so grateful I got to experience some of the things I envy about these people.
    They are a beautiful people.

    • @brandnewyorker
      @brandnewyorker Před 12 dny

      I wonder every day how this beautiful simple life has disappeared before my eyes just within the last 45 years… And the most scary is that there’s no way back to that. Even if the modern people escaped the slavery of our times and go to live off grid, they do not have a community in the old sense of that world. They only have their own beautiful family that they created but nothing else.

  • @eldarpuntushashvili1087
    @eldarpuntushashvili1087 Před měsícem +35

    If you love Georgians they will love ten times more. I am telling you the truth! Please trust me on this. 😀😀😀These people need you!!!!

    • @rmaleshri
      @rmaleshri Před 19 dny

      The Georgian politicians must not follow the western powers and NATO. Should live respectfully with Russia

    • @gigachaduneli1121
      @gigachaduneli1121 Před 2 dny

      ​@@rmaleshri how can we live respectfully with russia after what they did to georgians. Russia is pleague.

  • @janesmith9024
    @janesmith9024 Před 12 dny +4

    This is really how we all lived in Europe back in the old days. it is beautiful. Georgia has achieved parliamentary democracy and is a good place. I am in the UK but my NDA was traced by 30,000 years on the female said to not too far from there. When we look at the differences between us all in fact we are all similar. I have 5 children like the wife here and who we all interact with our families, give birth etc unites all humans. I liked the toast before the drinking - let there be peace in the world.

  • @IdahoMountainMom
    @IdahoMountainMom Před 12 dny +4

    NARRATOR: "The wheel hasn't made it here yet."
    SVAN PATRIARCH: Gets into Toyota 4-Runner with European license plate & drives to hospital. 😂

  • @somileisan3960
    @somileisan3960 Před měsícem +17

    Such unity and love in the community may God bless them.

  • @SurenderKVats
    @SurenderKVats Před 13 dny +4

    I live in the foot hills of mighty Himalayan mountains. Amazed to see the similarities of location, cultural practices, broad belief system and societal coherence.
    However, things have transformed very very rapidly in this part.
    The debate remains- for the good or bad 😊

  • @fredrickneqo2317
    @fredrickneqo2317 Před 28 dny +7

    Thank you for this documentary. It help those of us from the other side of the world and with a different culture appreciate the livelihood and culture of our friends in Georgia.

  • @JKent-ry9yg
    @JKent-ry9yg Před 29 dny +23

    Svans: You are in a good place for what is about to happen in the world. We live in dynamic times, the end of an Age, the beginning of another, much pain and changes for all of us, rely on no one but yourself. Rural West Texas here, I have put back (canned) 100 quarts of beef, chicken, potatoes, have about 1000 pounds of dried peas and beans, putting up 12 solar panels now. America is turning 3rd world quickly and will have hyperinflation soon that will ruin everything. You are in a good place, stay there. And....... I too believe our ancestors pass on in spirit and some stay around the environment to help us. Good luck.

    • @jillsmiley7701
      @jillsmiley7701 Před 26 dny +2

      Interesting. I admire your lifestyle. My grandparents canned, hung clothes, sheets on outside line. Darkroom in basement, homemade bread and noodles. Huge garden. ☺️

    • @JKent-ry9yg
      @JKent-ry9yg Před 26 dny +1

      @@jillsmiley7701 Do not know which part is interesting, but I do not wear an aluminum hat, I am a CPA with a MBA in economics and have been in the business world for 50 years, currently a cotton farmer. In the disorder around us, there is order, an order of fall of the American Empire, and as a result the fall, worldwide will feed on itself. You gotta wonder how many Chinese and African soldiers have come across the border, past 3 years, waiting for orders. Brics makes war against the dollar, we print it like it grows on trees, expect food prices to start doubling each year, people on fixed income will not have the money to eat in full. By a pressure canner and go to work. Read about the dangers if not done correctly - botulism death. When we die in flesh, we pass, at least initially, into a spirit world, come to us in our sleep, and speak to us in parables, symbolism, they just want to help, love does not go away. Do a search on cleaning the pineal gland, another on function of pineal gland - gotta have a clean one, to get the communications. Good luck. kent

    • @kwawrestling2
      @kwawrestling2 Před 25 dny

      ​@@JKent-ry9ygcult behavior. 🥴😡

    • @christineroerty2534
      @christineroerty2534 Před 23 dny +2

      ​jillsmiley7701 as i recall,, every family in the prior generation,, did canning,, sewing.. cooked everything from scrated...made noodles,, pies,, had a kitchen garden and grew vegetables and flowers.. whatever was purched at the store was organic because we didn't have commercial farming. The cows, chickens, pigs were outside in fields.

    • @rosamariewanjiru8659
      @rosamariewanjiru8659 Před 14 dny

      😳

  • @SabaDemeke-fg5kr
    @SabaDemeke-fg5kr Před měsícem +18

    Wonderful people and wonderful SLICE as well.

  • @simplyme3322
    @simplyme3322 Před 23 dny +5

    This is the kind of life that i really wanna live now i understand what an old soul mean ❤

  • @ladyhawk1083
    @ladyhawk1083 Před měsícem +10

    Plant trees all the time when you cut down a tree plant another all you have to do is take a stick in the ground for a root it's that simple I do it all the time plant fruit trees put plant nuts healthy trees to burn have big gardens

  • @paulcandiago9339
    @paulcandiago9339 Před 29 dny +6

    Grazie a voi tutti che avete partecipato a questo culturale e reale video del vostro vivere in un ecositema fra belle montagne della Giorgia.
    Come avete detto e fatto notare, entri pure il Progresso mantenenedo fermo il comune denominatore della vostra storica eredita', usi e costumi o dopo un periodo di euforia tutto sara' perso per sempre nello sterile e socialmente distruttivo turismo senza anima e gioia di vivere.
    Nuovamente grazie e complimenti a chi ha prodotto questo bel video, Paul.

  • @user-nb4ex5zk3w
    @user-nb4ex5zk3w Před 29 dny +10

    They could use wheels if they wanted but a sledge may be better on rocky ground...I will try it.

    • @LynxSouth
      @LynxSouth Před 29 dny +3

      Sledges are definitely better on hills that steep and uneven. They have a lower center of gravity, and are less trouble in mud or on patches of ice. Axles break, carts & wagons tip over, or roll away downhill or into the rear ends of the oxen yoked to it, etc.

  • @byravanviswanathan6460
    @byravanviswanathan6460 Před měsícem +7

    Loved this video. Never heard of these god fearing, kind and hard working people. God bless them. Such people make us all proud to be human. I am from thousands of miles away in the US and my ancestry has no connection to people of Georgia.

    • @SLICETravel
      @SLICETravel  Před měsícem

      We're so glad you enjoyed it 🙌

    • @psingerman4778
      @psingerman4778 Před 22 dny

      Although I have great respect for these people's way of life (I was raised on a small family farm), I also have a lot of gratitude for modernity. Modern medicine in particular. If I lived there, I would probably have died in childhood from my chronic respiratory problems.
      Then I would have missed the internet, with its opportunity to learn, learn, learn! What a blessing!

  • @a.p5578hg
    @a.p5578hg Před 11 dny +1

    I've heard about their tradition culture n a staunch warrior tribe..respect n salute to them🙏..frm a small warrior tribe called Nagaland.

  • @roerathomas380
    @roerathomas380 Před 12 dny +1

    Please you do know what you will give if you let too many tourist in. What a lovely way to hear of your traditions.

  • @arianadelsur1604
    @arianadelsur1604 Před 6 dny +1

    Thank you for sharing the rich lives of the Svens, long life to their traditions!

  • @catherinevelasco367
    @catherinevelasco367 Před 5 dny

    A lot of people want your kind of life,and u want somebody else's too.For me,you got the best life than most of us who wants that way of life.Just pray and ask for good health,nice weather and abundance of food that's all u need.The modern world is not a happy place for everyone,stay where u are,in paradise ❤️❤️❤️

  • @hair2050
    @hair2050 Před 27 dny +5

    Having been privileged to be accepted into the Georgian diaspora when living in Brussels this brings tears to my eyes. I only wish that as a nation they drank less, far less.

    • @YeshuaKingMessiah
      @YeshuaKingMessiah Před 14 dny

      It seems a hard life
      But the drinking still is w/o excuse
      Love ur Lord, not the excesses of life

  • @morrisanderson818
    @morrisanderson818 Před 24 dny +5

    I love these video's seeing how people in place's I'd never get to see,live and survive,what a stunning place,and a beautiful way of life, lovely family village an neighbours,stay safe
    Love from New Zealand, I'm

  • @robertamurphy1124
    @robertamurphy1124 Před 19 dny +7

    No griping over cell phones or tv programs! Heaven!

  • @virginialongdason9770
    @virginialongdason9770 Před 27 dny +7

    There place is beautiful.
    Hope that they will preserve and value their old traditions, specially the young generations.
    They maybe far from modern way of living but at least they are not tainted with the toxic ideas that sometimes modernization brings.

  • @manuelavila869
    @manuelavila869 Před měsícem +9

    ...peaceful families and great warm unions...thanks to share this documental...🙂👌

  • @faith5401
    @faith5401 Před 4 dny +1

    So sad n heart breaking to see the poor cows work so very hard, n very loyal to them, n yet they slaughtered the poor innocent cow 💔💔💔 Animals are NOT deserved it. GOD BLESS ALL PRECIOUS ANIMALS I LOVE MUCH 🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾♥️♥️♥️♥️✝️

  • @arcaquattro
    @arcaquattro Před 27 dny +4

    Being farmers and being able to do so while respecting and living in harmony with the rhythms of nature is beautiful. Perhaps the way of experiencing agriculture in such an essential way brings together many who have had this experience in other parts of the world. After all, the civilization that most unites us is the peasant one: even if we come from distant countries of the world, we immediately recognize each other as close people. Certainly more help from technology could help the Swanns. But I hope that this help is not massive enough to upset them and the nature in which they find themselves. And let's hope the government doesn't turn this place into a copy of Disneyland.

  • @elnarico312
    @elnarico312 Před 26 dny +4

    i admire these people... working hard for their family to survive

  • @bombfog1
    @bombfog1 Před měsícem +11

    Poor Nani seems dead inside; her eyes reveal weariness well beyond her years. I hope the area has an economic boom but wish for them to remain firmly rooted to their ancient way of life (of which I am envious).

    • @heide-raquelfuss5580
      @heide-raquelfuss5580 Před 13 dny

      Our economic rise, modern life was and is our downfall.
      Look around you 24/7.

  • @CaptainAMAZINGGG
    @CaptainAMAZINGGG Před 7 dny +3

    My dad grew up like this in romania.
    I visited his family for some weeks when I was living in the uk for a bit, I was definitely not prepared for such a complete change.😂
    I think it is different for people who just see it from the outside, but it is another thing when you are living in it. We had no running water, no bath, no toilet, no toilet paper (people don't think about these things, I think, but at least the covid time had no effect on me, thanks to my romanian experiences, in literally all the ways!!), i lived off what they had there, and eventho i am a girl, indeed I immediately was put to work 😂😂😂
    Which was fine because though I grew up in Canada, my dad raised me to be "useful", and as soon as I got there, he had me helping to build up the new house because his family home's roof had collapsed and it was otherwise too much falling apart..
    People glorify it from seeing it in a video but that life is a thing most people can't concieve properly, until they are living it, and have no money, no ability to do most things, and in many cases also basically no way out.
    It maybe also is easier now, than it was when my dad was in romania when it was still communist etc. They had nothing and couldn't leave. (He escaped and went from country to country, finally arriving in canada, with nothing).
    Also they had no dentist to go to, everyone's teeth were half missing. Another thing people tend to not think of, for sure.

  • @suechandler8162
    @suechandler8162 Před 4 dny +1

    You look just like me, I was shocked and thrilled to see how like you are to my Sisters and Mother and my friends. We live in Victoria Australia. We have freckles too, and auburn hair. Stay the way you are, cars and machines are so dirty and dangerous. Be happy where you are. You are safe from climate change and starvation. Big cities will be terrible when food and water get scarce .

  • @ebonyrenna
    @ebonyrenna Před 21 dnem +3

    I’m from southeast Georgia. Near Savannah to be exact. I too must be a Svan.

  • @BaronEvola123
    @BaronEvola123 Před měsícem +120

    They're wonderful and the lady who said "I hope the children have a better life than I do" doesn't understand that I think they have a better life than I do.

    • @loriannrichardson7644
      @loriannrichardson7644 Před měsícem +31

      It looks like never-ending back-breaking work 7 days per week. It all seems romantic until you actually have to do it.

    • @MrKitkennedy
      @MrKitkennedy Před měsícem +2

      lovely people

    • @armandbourque2468
      @armandbourque2468 Před měsícem

      Subsistence living means having no extra, no safety net, no backup. So you can't make any mistakes. Or be unlucky. Or get too tired, or too old, or sick, or be injured, or born disabled. Options, education, recreation, variety of ways to live, innovation, and choices won't be part of your life. And their delusional cult doesen't exactly help produce geniuses, either.

    • @thomascarroll9556
      @thomascarroll9556 Před měsícem +10

      ⁠@@loriannrichardson7644yes, and those saying they wish they could live that life, could do, if they really wanted to, but actions speak louder than words and they stay in their present life which the Svans would consider luxurious.

    • @ExcitedWindowTulips-tc8ll
      @ExcitedWindowTulips-tc8ll Před měsícem +4

      It may seems these people are deprived of luxuries of living,but they're happy,contended n life's pulling on--In reality that's how life should be,Caucasians are exceptionally physically n mentally strong,Love the way they are❤--From India 🇮🇳 ,🙏

  • @SamuelDieli
    @SamuelDieli Před 15 dny +2

    This is beautiful!

  • @TheKalikalam
    @TheKalikalam Před 18 dny +2

    This is the life i dreamed of for my entire life 😍 but am stuck in Dubai, someday i will break out of this busy scripted life and will have a similar life in some hill station 🥰🥰🥰 i hope the younger generation realises there cultural value 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽🥰🥰

  • @patricialong5767
    @patricialong5767 Před měsícem +15

    They seem like fundamentalists and very conservative, and there is nothing wrong at all with that. And like the Danes, my ancestors, my father's country, LOVE that schnapps! LOL

    • @lashalursmanashvili162
      @lashalursmanashvili162 Před měsícem +2

      Yes they indeed are very conservative and unique people they have their old language which is very differend from standart georgian and their habit and mentality is very different from other georgians and we often dont understand their actions they are really very unique and misterious people the svans of northern georgia.

    • @dAssasin355
      @dAssasin355 Před měsícem +1

      It's okay to be a fundamentalist when your christian I guess?

  • @susanaldawood5480
    @susanaldawood5480 Před 9 dny

    It reminds me my childhood in the province.I was born in Manila,partly studied in the province too.Sledge pulled by cows,carabaos or horses is the way of transporting goods/products from mountains and fields.I can relate the way they live.God bless these people!❤❤❤

  • @johnroff1941
    @johnroff1941 Před měsícem +6

    Very good video. Beautiful place. Lovely people and way of life. Good looking people.

  • @ladyhawk1083
    @ladyhawk1083 Před 20 hodinami

    Beautiful lifestyle I remember those days and I still try to live them❤

  • @harbanshurst3302
    @harbanshurst3302 Před 22 dny +1

    Watching from New Zealand. Congratulations Muhammed and Soghari on the arrival of your baby boy and welcome to the wonderful journey of parenthood ❤

  • @dopeman1356
    @dopeman1356 Před 3 dny

    God bless for Georgian orthodox brothers from Ethiopia

  • @edwardcook8982
    @edwardcook8982 Před měsícem +11

    This is an ideal community for me. Their Christian faith bond them together to act like a family. Beautiful community.

    • @user-rq7ug4dg9h
      @user-rq7ug4dg9h Před měsícem

      It's their culture that bonds them together.in Iran there are Bakhtiari trips that become Muslim but live the paganism and never changed their way of life

  • @user-cn2ny1zz4h
    @user-cn2ny1zz4h Před měsícem +5

    Lo dejare para mi hora Primium,ha las 8 pm , para disfrutar de este interesante documental

  • @raykosinski884
    @raykosinski884 Před 5 dny +1

    A wonderful story about an admirable people. Never knew.

  • @michaelwargo5702
    @michaelwargo5702 Před 3 dny

    Bless these beautiful people , keep them safe i 🙏

  • @margomoore4527
    @margomoore4527 Před 3 dny

    The traditional singing is wonderful!

  • @MegaGehendra
    @MegaGehendra Před měsícem +6

    Its great video, TEAM SLICE TRAVEL.

  • @HannaJakobashvili
    @HannaJakobashvili Před 19 dny +1

    Fresh air relax life fresh food no drama...I love svaneti best place to live

  • @johntsan742
    @johntsan742 Před 13 dny +1

    The Svans may not be wealthy, but they live a very rich life

  • @jeffreyherbert7627
    @jeffreyherbert7627 Před 18 dny +1

    It actually reminded me of growing up in a remote part of Devon in the 1950s

  • @gladysloan
    @gladysloan Před 14 dny

    ❤❤❤ Thank you for sharing the life story of the region which you all lived.

  • @rizaldycruz3511
    @rizaldycruz3511 Před 4 dny

    Beautiful children and hard working people

  • @dsbmaximus406
    @dsbmaximus406 Před měsícem +5

    Our ancestors died so we can pray to god freely ✝️❤

  • @mountains-lover
    @mountains-lover Před 5 dny

    Great documentary. I love such life, so simple without any tensions and stress of modern life

  • @louieadam251
    @louieadam251 Před 19 dny

    I love the simple life they are connected to nature, to themselves, soul and spirit. I envy them.

  • @acuteangle5237
    @acuteangle5237 Před 11 dny +1

    So beautiful people

  • @landryabraham642
    @landryabraham642 Před 22 dny +1

    Beautiful people's and beautiful cultures God bless ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

  • @rosajucglaserra4506
    @rosajucglaserra4506 Před 22 dny +1

    Moltes gràcies! ❤ Thanks so much. This is beautiful

  • @marysuzettecatipon6147
    @marysuzettecatipon6147 Před 23 dny +1

    Sending love and prayers to them❤️🙏

  • @barbarakloise6790
    @barbarakloise6790 Před 3 dny

    This video was very interesting and gave me a peek into the world of the Svans. Very enjoyable.

  • @collins5872
    @collins5872 Před 6 dny +1

    For me, it's finding equilibrium by integrating the comforts of modernity with the essence of traditional living. For example, I'd embrace using tractors on the farm while sticking to traditional organic methods for planting organic crops, solely relying on organic manure. Just a small bit of modern lifestyle is needed.

  • @fahvm4362
    @fahvm4362 Před 13 dny

    This is Paradise. 😮

  • @tinhtamlethi11
    @tinhtamlethi11 Před 4 dny

    Cuộc sống trên trái đất này còn nhiều điều tuyệt vời quá,cảm ơn video.Thanks❤❤❤🎉

  • @MrKitkennedy
    @MrKitkennedy Před měsícem +3

    respect for animal........love it

  • @harbanshurst3302
    @harbanshurst3302 Před 22 dny

    Ali and Fatima, you two are kind and generous, the link that holds the family together. Stay blessed. I also seen Muhammad talking today. May his good health return with the arrival of his son

  • @user-nk9hs4wr1s
    @user-nk9hs4wr1s Před 17 dny

    What a beautiful people!

  • @emmaceprianovelmonte5756

    I like your place very much, I enjoy watching your vedios. my ist time watching .more vedios please I will your vedios

  • @andiarrohnds5163
    @andiarrohnds5163 Před 3 hodinami

    this stuff is fascinating

  • @bombasticborneo
    @bombasticborneo Před 28 dny +3

    Keep up this tradition. It's very interesting. 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿

  • @lis819
    @lis819 Před 23 dny

    A beautiful life!

  • @cntrygrlTawanna
    @cntrygrlTawanna Před 4 dny

    I think it seems like a wonderful life!

  • @Soothingrainsounds937
    @Soothingrainsounds937 Před 18 dny

    They live a peaceful life. Blessings

  • @NT4XT
    @NT4XT Před 8 dny

    Lucky. Seems beautiful. Challenging but good.

  • @anjummirza1452
    @anjummirza1452 Před měsícem +1

    Excellent information and narration...

  • @rubenreyes4477
    @rubenreyes4477 Před 23 dny

    This reminds me when I was young. Looking back in time in the prov. in the Phils.

  • @vivid2
    @vivid2 Před měsícem +3

    Very nice documentary, thank you slice

  • @malindadurandt4134
    @malindadurandt4134 Před 5 dny

    Fascinating and interesting

  • @leandrodossantos5646
    @leandrodossantos5646 Před 4 dny

    The documentary is really interesting cause we've had been so much to learning about diferent culture.

  • @tonics7121
    @tonics7121 Před 26 dny +2

    Very interesting, educational.

  • @ContraDox
    @ContraDox Před 11 dny +1

    Armenia, Georgia and Bosnia are worth visiting.