kyrgyzstan is a land of legends and there are so many associated with so many places
so i thought i'd make a separate video to tell you a few of my favorites
and there's a common theme okay i'm not gonna tell you now you have to
wait till you hear a few of them and then you'll find out all right let's go
if you have not seen my kyrgyzstan travel guide i would definitely recommend you
check that before continuing with this video because it has tons of information
there that's really really important and you should know that before you actually
start planning your visit to this country so check that out and then we continue with the video
there's even a legend associated with the wind that blows over issyk kul lake what happened
was there were two men who lived on the opposite shores of the lake and they were madly in love
with this one woman who was really beautiful the woman wasn't really happy with the whole you know
triangle thing but as the old men used to do they were like okay let's fight it out they were trying
to get ready for the fight and the woman was not really happy with it so she took her life
and i don't know what exactly happened to the men but apparently the wind that blows is the two men
that are coming from the opposite shores of the lake fighting it
over still fighting it over that beautiful woman interesting weird that's how it goes
so obviously there's a legend associated with this as well i'm gonna tell you the story
which goes like there were two brothers which were kings of the neighboring kingdoms the elder brother
had a really beautiful wife the younger brother fell in love with his brother's wife and asked her
hand he obviously said no so he kidnapped her interesting the elder brother wanted his wife
back and he sort of asked nicely his brother and he said okay in seven days i will attack you if
you don't give my wife back please return her he obviously didn't for seven days the elder brother
chopped off the head of one bull and fed his people so the name seven bulls come from the seven
bulls and the younger brother when he actually saw that he was losing the war after seven days
he brought his brother's wife and cut her throat and the blood the warm blood when it splatted
across the mountains it turned them red that color the elder brother got so mad he took out
his sword and he plunged it into a big rock which tore into two and that's called the broken heart
and you will see it when you're actually coming to the canyon i'll show you in a separate video
that's how the legend goes so a lot like a lot of legends in kyrgyz folklore the poor woman dies
and the guys get to you know live on heartbroken but they still live on so that's the legend
there is a legend associated which has a much better story to tell there was a king who had a
daughter and he loved her very much and there was a prediction by a wise man that she would die when
she was 16 years old by a spider bite now the king obviously being the king wanted to protect
his daughter so he built this tower to protect her and she was installed in it there are very
few people allowed everything was checked before it went inside and on her 16th birthday the king
was really happy that she survived the prediction so he went up himself and he was really really
happy so he got her a present of fruits now you can imagine what happened next the fruit had some
spider who bit the princess and she passed away almost instantly the king screamed so
loud that the top half of the tower fell down or crumbled i don't know what happened to the king
but it's it's an interesting story that the locals have for the tower and it's destruction it was
later rebuilt during the soviet times that's why you see a little bit of a tilt especially when
you go to the other side guys this is brown boy travels let me know what you think of the video
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