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Activity: Karelian Safari
Duration: 5 days / 4 nights
Accommodation: Hotel
Cuisine: Russian
Karelia - Karelian Safari
 
 

Highlights

Experience beautiful Karelian nature, visit old wooden villages and churches. Karelia is a wonderful country of blue lakes, waterfalls, hillocks and barren rock. Karelia is a unique museum of peasant culture, where epical poetry and traditional ceremony are cherished. The natural beauty, historical and cultural monuments, as well as, peaceful and friendly people have long lured visitors to Karelia. The best known tourist attractions are Kizhi Island on the Onega Lake and the monastery archipelago in Ladoga. Kizhi is famous for its many churches and old wooden architecture. In 1990, the entire Kizhi museum was added to Unesco?s universal catalog of cultural heritage. The archipelago of Valaam with its monasteries is part of the living history of the Byzantine culture. Visitors are also interested in the national parks in Paanajarvi and Vodlozero, as well as, the preserve for the Karelian birch, Kivach waterfall and the healing spring with its iron bearing water. So get inside your snowcat for 5 days snow riding across Karelia.
 
 

Itinerary

Day 1
9:05 ? Meeting at the train station. Transfer to Veldlozero 10:30 ? Arrival to Veldlozero. Accommodation in the wooden cottage, breakfast with Karelian drinks and tea. 11:30 - Preparation of the equipment, trip planning. 12:00 ? Snowmobile trip to beautiful lake and Karelian villages Kukkoila and Kinerma.(60km) 17:00 ? Accommodation in wooden house at Kinerma, Russian Banya and dinner.

Day 2
9:00 ? Breakfast 10:00 ? 15:00 ? Ice fishing 16:00 ? Lunch in the village house with Kerelian fish soup Free time, walking in the woods. 19:00 ? Russian Banya, dinner.

Day 3
10:00 - Breakfast 11:00 ? Snowmobile trip (50 km). Urleginsia ? Kukkoila ? Koivuselga ? Kohtuselga-Kalateselga(through woods). Visiting oldest Karelian villages. 16:00 ? Lunch in Kohtuselga. 19:00 ? Arrival to Koltaselga village. Accommodation at wooden houses. Russian Banya. Dinner.

Day 4
10:00 ? Breakfast 11:00 ? Trip to Pitkaranta ( 150km) 15:00 ? Lunch. During the trip you with stop over to visit famous places and vilages. 18:00 ? Arrival to Pitkaranta. Accommodation at the hotel ?Pitkaranta? 19:00 ? Dinner at the hotel restaurant

Day 5
9:00 ? Breakfast 10:00 ?City tour around Pitkaranta. 13:00- Lunch 14:00- Trip to Salmi 18:00 ? Arrival to Salmi. Dinner. 19:00 ? Transfer to Lodeinoe pole. 22:00 ? Train to Moscow
 
 

Travel to Russia : Karelia - Karelian Safari


Price includes
-transfers
-meals
-accommodation
-Russian Banya
-snowcat rent
-guideinstructor
-equipment(overall, helmet, gloves, shoes)
-fishing equipment

***Please note: Travel to Russia can book all varieties of business and cultural travel in Russia. This tour, available for groups and individuals, is just one example of the many of its kind available. The prices differ in accordance of the chosen accommodation, activities and the group size.
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Prices are subject to change under conditions of changing transportation tariffs.

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Karelia - Karelian Safari
 

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