A Ukrainian travel documentary that trades tourist trails for the hidden side of distant lands, led by journalist Dmytro Komarov.
Season premiere
April 28, 2012
Episodes in the season
15
Whole season
11 h 15 min
April 28, 2012
Season fully aired
August 30, 2012
Episodes
15 episodes · 11 h 15 min
28Apr 20121E01
Africa. Episode 1
45 min
We are about to meet three amazing countries - Tanzania, Ethiopia and Kenya. In Tanzania we will meet the primitive Maasai tribe and their shocking traditions. We will arrange a bull hunt in a barn and drink fresh blood with milk for breakfast. We will drop in on a meat feast in Ethiopia with Mamo and Ilya - Russian-speaking Ethiopians who cruise around the capital in a luxurious Peugeot from the time of Charles de Gaulle. With them we will try a local delicacy - fresh beef on the last day before the great fast. And finally, in Kenya we will hold an event of national importance. For the first time in history we will raise the Ukrainian flag on the equator!
We will also tell you about all the most interesting things awaiting you in the new season!
28Apr 20122E02
Africa. Episode 2
45 min
We are about to meet an amazing primitive tribe, the Maasai, and their customs.
We will take part in a real lion hunt with two Maasai warriors and understand why world record holders in running grow up here.
We will drop in on a wedding and find out why the bride always cries on such a festive day. And we will take a short course in wife swapping.
And afterwards we will bring a little Ukrainian tradition to the African savages by celebrating New Year with them, our way. With a Carpathian Christmas tree, Olivier salad made from Ukrainian products and a real Ded Moroz.
Don't miss it! It will be interesting!
7May 20123E03
Africa. Episode 3
45 min
In the third episode of the African season of "The World Inside Out" - an exclusive. We are going to Kenya to record an interview with the brother of the American President Barack Obama, Malik, in his native village. Does Barack help his African relatives? What is the most popular name for newborns in the village? How does the president's brother know Russian?
In addition, a report from the most modern city in Kenya, the capital Nairobi, where just a step away from ultra-modern skyscrapers the most dangerous urban jungle on the planet begins - the Kibera slum area.
We will visit a modern Maasai village, where civilized savages live in stone houses, use phones and even repair Soviet helicopters.
15May 20124E04
Africa. Episode 4
45 min
In this episode - how the cheapest shoes in the world are made, from used tires; Dmytro Komarov becomes a real Maasai; the hunt for albinos in Tanzania and the amazing twist of fate of a little albino girl, Frida - thanks to our program her life will change in just a few days.
21May 20125E05
Africa. Episode 5
45 min
"The World Inside Out" in Tanzania!
We are about to experience the most popular and one of the most expensive entertainments for tourists in Africa -- a safari. We will get to know elite leisure not just anywhere, but in the best safari park on the planet, the famous Serengeti reserve. We will haggle the Tanzanian way -- profitably exchanging Chinese watches bought in Ukraine for African souvenirs. We will find out where the animals in the world's zoos come from. We will meet a real trapper, David, whose pets are even in his native Yalta zoo. We will continue immersing ourselves in the life of the most famous African tribe -- the Maasai. We have already drunk blood with milk, and today the warriors will invite us to take part in another frightening culinary ritual. We will see fake natives, fake Maasai. From warriors they have turned into clowns in order to pose for money with tourists in their Potemkin villages.
Don't miss it! It will be interesting!
28May 20126E06
Africa. Episode 6
45 min
In the sixth episode of "The World Inside Out": - five-star mountaineering, African style! Together with you we will climb the "roof of Africa", Kilimanjaro (5895 m).
5Jun 20127E07
Africa. Episode 7
45 min
In the seventh episode of "World Inside Out": we find out how toothy reptiles are raised - we go to a crocodile farm. We learn how to harvest pineapples and visit the Tanzanian Chaga tribe, where we try a local delicacy - blood soup, and we look into the future - we tell fortunes from a goat's stomach!!
13Jun 20128E08
Africa. Episode 8
45 min
In the eighth episode of the African season, together with you we will mine tanzanite - the diamond of Africa. And we will meet Ukrainians from Dar es Salaam.
18Jun 20129E09
Africa. Episode 9
45 min
In the ninth episode - all about Zanzibar!! Africa's answer to EURO 2012. How they play football without a ball on a small island near Zanzibar! We will braid ropes from coconut, go fishing and visit a very, very old African.
25Jun 201210E10
Africa. Episode 10
45 min
In the tenth episode of the African season, the program "World Inside Out" begins its journey through Ethiopia. Our first goal -- the wildest and most famous part of the country -- the Omo River valley, where wild and rather dangerous tribes live. To visit them, we will have to overcome a long and difficult journey to the very south of the country. The road will not be boring. We will see how the struggle for water goes on where there is practically none. We will party at the mind-blowing tribal wedding of the Konso people, where instead of champagne they drink kvass and dance until they drop. And then we will master the most fun of Ethiopian professions - we will pick cotton. And not only pick - in forty-degree heat we will play African-style snowballs! The first tribe we will meet -- the Hamer. We will live with the natives for several unforgettable days -- we will try Hamer beer, master the profession of extreme beekeepers, and trade small goods at the weekly market of all the tribes of the area. Thanks to us, the Hamer will learn what toothpaste is and will properly brush their teeth for the first time. And they will see a movie for the first time in their lives. But the most interesting for us will be the main event in the life of any tribal family -- the rite of initiation of a boy into a man. We will learn why on this day the natives, as a sign of love, whip their women with rods until they bleed.
2Jul 201211E11
Africa. Episode 11
45 min
"World Inside Out" continues its journey through Ethiopia. In the eleventh episode of the program we will go to a real banana plantation, where everything is run by a young Ethiopian businessman, Abi. We will get a job with him and try ourselves in the role of African banana cutters and banana carriers. The crazy heat and thirty-kilogram bunches of bananas will make this task, to put it mildly, not easy.
Having gathered the banana harvest, we will go to meet another famous Ethiopian tribe -- the Mursi. We will find out why they are said to be -- not people, but beasts, and why not only tourists but the Ethiopians themselves fear them. We will show what it is -- the beauty of Mursi women: why girls cut and stretch their lower lip and knock out their front teeth. We will witness a shocking process: scarification with a dirty blade, without anesthesia or disinfection. And for a snack we will taste another bloody delicacy -- raw liver, and wash it down with the tribal moonshine araki. But most importantly - we will truly take a risk and do what no one has done before us -- we will stay in the tribe overnight.
9Jul 201212E12
Africa. Episode 12
45 min
In the twelfth episode of the African cycle of the program "World Inside Out" northern Ethiopia awaits us. Very bright and colorful. First of all we will go to the city of Harar -- the African capital of drugs. This is where the famous leaves with a narcotic effect are grown - khat or chat, the favorite stimulant and antidepressant of Ethiopians and Somali pirates. We will get a job with a local drug baron, where we will be taught how to harvest khat properly, and we will also get to a VIP ceremony of chewing narcotic leaves. But Harar is famous not only for khat; there are other plantations there too: pleasant, useful and very sweet. Sugar cane plantations. We will not only learn how to harvest cane, but also hold competitions for the speed of gathering the sweet harvest - Ukraine versus Ethiopia. By the tradition of our program - we will visit Ukrainians. Doctor Ruslana from Kherson and her husband will demonstrate how they turned their home into the best private clinic in the city of Dire Dawa. And they will tell about the secrets of a happy Ukrainian-Ethiopian marriage.
And finally - a night extreme tour to the edge of the savanna awaits us... An exclusive entertainment in Harar. Fun not for the faint of heart. Feeding wild hyenas. From the hands, and not only.
16Jul 201213E13
Africa. Episode 13
45 min
In the thirteenth episode of the African season, the program "World Inside Out" travels to the capital of Ethiopia - the metropolis of Addis Ababa. We will see how different life can be in one city: from skyscrapers to slums. At the National Museum we will see the skeleton of the great-grandmother of modern humans -- the ape Lucy, who lived on the territory of Ethiopia. We will ride in Soviet Zhiguli cars to the Russian Center to meet our compatriots who have long lived in Ethiopia. We will watch a Russian language lesson taught by Natalia from Dnipropetrovsk and listen to how little Ethiopians read poems beloved by us since childhood. We will visit an exhibition of paintings by the Ukrainian artist Elena, who grew up in the Donetsk region. We will meet an Ethiopian translator who translated Pushkin's poems and "The Tale of Igor's Campaign" into Amharic. We will check our health with another compatriot - Zoya from Simferopol, who treats half of Addis Ababa. We will find out why at an Ethiopian wedding, instead of a cake, the newlyweds solemnly cut a raw meat carcass, and at night -- we will head to the most dangerous places in the capital of Ethiopia.
24Jul 201214E14
Africa. Episode 14
45 min
Today we are in for a small but very interesting and unusual Ethiopian town of Shashamane - a true mecca of Rastafarians. We will learn who the Rastafari are and what Rastafarianism is. We will visit a local celebrity -- a music promoter and organizer of reggae concerts. He will give us a tour of a personal museum dedicated to the Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie. And in the evening we are in for the main party of the year in the town of Shashamane -- the birthday of the reggae idol of the Rastafarians -- Bob Marley. In the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa we will visit a man named Hapte Selassie. He is not related to Haile Selassie, but in his time he was also a very big man and close to the emperor. This is a former minister of tourism who stood at the origins of the tourism life of Ethiopia. It was he who opened the beauty of Ethiopia to the world, and tourism to Ethiopia itself, which had not existed in this country before Hapte's arrival. This man was the first to go explore the dangerous wilds in the south of the country, met the Mursi and Hamer tribes, made the first advertising photographs of African beauties, which even now, decades later, continue to attract tourists to the country of Pushkin and Ras Tafari. Now the former minister is in business, knows 8 languages, and Russian is the first language he spoke. He leads a healthy lifestyle, and at 85 he is cheerful, full of strength and easily withstands an eight-hour fashion show, which you and we will attend. We head for the city of Harar in northeastern Ethiopia. We are in the homeland of coffee. Ethiopia gave the world a drink without which most of us cannot imagine our morning. Without suspecting it, in the mornings we very often drink precisely Ethiopian coffee, and giant coffee factories buy products from local farms. Today we will see how coffee is harvested, how coffee plantations are watered, and how real Ethiopian coffee is prepared, than which it is simply impossible to find anything tastier and fresher!
30Aug 201215E15
Africa. Episode 15
45 min
"World Inside Out" continues its African journey. In the fifteenth, final episode of the African season we will return to Tanzania, look in on Zanzibar and, as a farewell, stop by Ethiopia! So, Tanzania. Today we are in for an acquaintance with a person of an unusual profession - a shaman! The acquaintance with the sorcerer will not be in vain - thanks to him we will learn that everything will be fine in Ukraine.
While in Tanzania it would be a sin not to look in on the magical island of Zanzibar. Our happiness - constantly chew coconuts, eat bananas! - the children's song seems to be sung about the inhabitants of the paradise island. For them coconuts are no more surprising than apples or potatoes are for a Ukrainian. Coconuts grow here in every garden, on every corner, and on huge coconut plantations. Naturally we will go to a master class on collecting coconuts!
But the island is famous not only for coconuts. Today we will learn how to do something without which not a single woman on Zanzibar can imagine herself - henna drawings on the body.
We will say goodbye to Tanzania and, as a final stop, drop in on Ethiopia once more. To the capital -- the metropolis of Addis Ababa. In previous episodes we already told you how large the Ukrainian diaspora in Addis Ababa is. Ukrainians who moved here forever work as engineers and doctors, artists and lawyers. The education received back in the Soviet Union does not go to waste here. Today we will meet Lyudmila from Crimea, who will show her personal elite lyceum, and Doctor Zoya from Novohrad-Volynskyi in the Zhytomyr region, who will save us from tropical infections.
Finally we will visit already familiar places in the south of Ethiopia. Somewhere here nearby in the Omo River valley live the famous Hamer and Mursi tribes -- wild, warlike and existing by primitive laws. They are famous, and tourists come to Ethiopia for their sake. But there are also other peoples, not so hyped and outwardly colorful, who long ago adopted the appearance of modern people and are used to wearing jeans. Today we are going to one of such modernized tribes of Ethiopia - the Dorze. These people live in the mountains, at an altitude of 3000 meters. They are famous for bright textiles, intoxicating mead, unique living transformer houses and, most importantly, the so-called false bananas. We will learn what a banana without bananas is and how to make real banana bread from it!
