Azerbaijan's confidential to long life? Mountain air

There are various objections all over the planet popular for the life span of their occupants.

In Japan, Okinawa's chipper centenarians deserve it the moniker "Place that is known for the Immortals." Campodimele, Italy's "Town of Endlessness," is demonstration of the Mediterranean eating regimen. In the radiant Californian town of Loma Linda, a local area of Seventh-Day Adventists receiving benefits of clean living.

There's one enduring corner of the globe you will not have heard discussed so a lot, and it's home to the world's just Exhibition hall of Life span. That is Lerik in southern Azerbaijan.

The South Caucasus nation is home to a few districts known for creating occupants who live to significantly increase figure ages, including Lankaran and Nagorno-Karabakh. In any case, another, Lerik, is rumored to have the most noteworthy convergence of centenarians.

In this emerald land high over the mists in the Talysh Mountains, arrived at by many circles of a serpentine street, individuals appear to have found confidential to a long and sound life.

The Gallery of Life span

The two-room Gallery of Life span, worked in 1991 and remodeled in 2010, holds in excess of 2,000 shows recording the lives and recollections of the area's most seasoned occupants.

It outlines individual life expectancies with the family things that they've outlasted, for example, three ages of attire irons. There are chests loaded up with headscarves and shirts, silver pitchers and bowls, flawlessly sewed socks, and hand-colored floor coverings that are still splendidly shaded in spite of their age.

And afterward there are the letters, written in the two Azerbaijani and Russian - individual curios so old that the ink is beginning is blur.

Maybe the most enthralling highlights are the pictures of centenarians that cover the gallery's walls. These pictures, dating from the 1930s, were given by French photographic artist Frederic Lachop.

The exhibition hall, and official Azerbaijan measurements, characterize "centenarian" surprisingly freely: Here, it implies anybody more than 90 years of age.

In any case, back in 1991, there were in excess of 200 individuals in Lerik enlisted as being over 100 years of age, out of a populace of 63,000.

Numbers have been less noteworthy from that point forward, which local people fault differently on radiation from correspondence towers and ecological decay, however could simply be down to more thorough record-keeping.

Today, there are 11 individuals over 100 years of age, out of a neighborhood populace of 83,800.

The story of the 168-year-elderly person

Lerik's ongoing most seasoned resident is Raji Ibrahimova, at 105 years. That is a fine classic, yet it could not hope to compare to the age supposedly arrived at by region's generally celebrated centenarian, Shirali Muslumov, a shepherd who probably lived to be 168.

The business repository of his identification guarantee that he was brought into the world in 1805 and his tombstone expresses that he kicked the bucket in 1973. If valid, it would make the most seasoned individual to have at any point lived.

Sadly, back in the mid nineteenth 100 years, birth enrollments seldom occurred in such far off towns as his origination of Barzavu, so there is no certifable record of when he was conceived.

Endless letters sent from everywhere the world on his different birthday celebrations leave most likely that he was without a doubt of an entirely good age, yet calculating in a base 20-year safety buffer is maybe best.

Among those relating with Muslumov were Vietnamese socialist pioneer Ho Chi Minh, who sent a postcard welcoming him with the charm, "Dear Granddad."

This life span quality appears to run in the family. His 95-year-old girl, Halima Qambarova, lets CNN Travel know that - while she probably won't live to 168, similar to her dad - she essentially desires to live to the age of 150, similar to her granddad, or 130, similar to her auntie.

'Tranquility of the brain'

At the point when the weather conditions turns chilly, most centenarians move to the kinder seaside climes of Lankaran, yet Qambarova was still in the Lerik town of Barzavu when CNN Travel dropped by her dad's unassuming two-story home, encompassed by enormous apple and pear trees (presumably counterparts of her well known father).

Sitting by the window, enveloped by a wrap, she talks with a slight emphasize, exchanging frequently to her local language of Talysh, a vernacular expressed by only 200,000 individuals and named "helpless" by UNESCO.

She flaunts her identification, which doesn't list a month or date of birth, just the year: 1924. She might be 95, yet she is completely present, interfacing with her extraordinary grandkids, and exhibiting her enthusiastic awareness of what's actually funny. At the point when asked her age, she merrily answers, "15."

"Tranquility of the psyche is important for their mystery," the gallery guide says. "They avoid pressure, contemplating life rationally, living each day in turn, absent much by way of arranging or stress for what's in store."

Great sustenance and normal cures

Qambarova's day begins at first light; she doesn't allow herself to snooze. "I get up when my eyes open," she says.

She goes through the entire day working in the nursery or around the house. Her room is little, with a thick delicate rug and pads on the floor. Many individuals here favor dozing on the ground, with simply a meager cover rather than a sleeping cushion, as it's accepted to be the best method for resting the back.

In opposition to mainstream thinking, the centenarians of Lerik truly do eat meat, yet they acquired an inclination for new dairy items, for example, shor (curds), spread, milk and the yogurt drink ayran from prior centenarians, for whom the restraint from meat was more because of monetary situation.

Qambarova's little girl in-regulation gets a major plate with pears and apples from their nursery and some sweet-smelling tea.

It's home grown, botanical and invigorating. Back at the historical center, the aide shows a table with the different spices local to Lerik.

"The mystery of long life is great sustenance, the minerals in the spring water and the spices that we add to tea to forestall ailments, so individuals need to take no medication, just utilizing the regular cures," says the aide. For sure, Qambarova demands she's never taken any medicine.

Ages living next to each other

Past her windows, it might appear to be that the town is peaceful regardless. However, the actual work that locals put in each day is massive. From dawn until nightfall they work in nurseries and fields as well as around the house. They sew and weave and deal with large families.

Such was the way of life of Mammadkhan Abbasov, a 103-year-old from Jangamiran town. Sitting on the floor covering, opposite the window, the centenarian has totally lost his sight and can scarcely hear his child letting him know that visitors have shown up, however when he at long last gets it, he begins singing, offering supplications and great wishes.

Next to Abbasov is his incredible grandson - a century hole between them.

Very much like Qambarova, Abbasov has been a bustling resident his entire life, working in the fields until around a long time back, when his vision disintegrated.

'Anything God gives'

"He has forever been a decent man and carried on with his life appropriately," his child says.

As far as food, he eats "anything that God gives" with only one limitation - he never drinks liquor.

Abbasov credits his long life to day to day actual work, not to the mark of weariness, but rather enough to challenge the body.

Alongside the great sustenance from the ranch items, he likewise used to drink liters of super cold spring water, which is rich with minerals said to add to life span.

The migraine instigating heights of mountains may likewise be a variable.

A recent report by the College of Navarra, Spain, found that living at high height diminishes the gamble of coronary illness, stroke and diabetes. A recent report by the College of Colorado Denver found that these high as can be occupants likewise live longer.

The times of a portion of these praised centenarians might in any case be questioned, yet here in Lerik their heritage lives on through individuals that actually keep the straightforward mystery of Lerik's life span: actual work, great nourishment, loads of water and a demeanor to life that says: We just live once, however on the off chance that we get everything done as needs be, once is sufficient.