The Most Dangerous Ways to School

Episode 2

Kenya

For centuries now, the Dorn Savanna has been the lifeline for the Massai people. Until today, they refuse to get involved in the constant upheavals in Tanzania and instead continue to cultivate their traditions. And that in a country where barely more 50% of the population is over 15 years old and over one hundred different languages are spoken.

Episode 3

Himalaya

Gulu - a small Chinese village with only a few dozen farms- spread out over one of the most impressive plateaus of the Hengduan Mountains in the Province of Sichuan. Here live the Yi, a people closely related to the Tibetans. To reach the village, which is located 1400 meters above sea level, an additional hike through the mountains is necessary.

Episode 4

Peru

It is early in the morning as Ronald gets himself ready. He eats his Uro bread and drinks a Mate tea. Both things, like almost everything else here are made form the totora reeds. The Uros are a people that are very rooting in their tradition. They have even managed to preserve the Pukina, their mother language dating back to the colonial time.

Episode 5

Siberia

In Oymyakon (Syberia), the cold controls everything. The town is located in eastern part of Sakha Republic (Yakutia) which belongs to Russia and is known as the world's Pole of Cold. Nevertheless every morning the children march to school, the youngest just 6 years old, making their way by temperatures of -50 degrees Celsius.