Escape from civilization: Essential Altai Mountains

natural / active / cultural / gastro

Escape from civilization: Essential Altai Mountains

Age recomendations to participate in the tour
Age range
12-80
Number of days and nights
Tour length
13/12
Recommended season in which you can take the tour
Season
may-september
physical activity 4-5 hours
Tour difficulty
average
on the route there is accommodation in rooms without amenities, tents
Comfort level
Basic
part of the tour is individual, part in a group
Tour type
Combined
Altai is a place of power and a corner of Russia, where everyone should visit at least once. It has everything: snowy peaks, turbulent rivers, endless plains, pristine lakes, and landscapes of incredible beauty. People come here to escape from the hustle and bustle and be alone with nature.

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General tour description
Gorny Altai is the complete opposite of noisy cities with round-the-clock illumination and supermarkets at every turn. The local way of life has hardly changed for decades: herds of horses still graze here, people believe in spirits, and mobile communications appear sporadically. There are villages here that cannot be reached by car for most of the year, and residents carry water with a yoke and bake their own bread. This is the perfect place for anyone who wants to escape from the world of progress for a while and find themselves in the wild. The water in the streams is cleaner than tap water, to see the stars at night - all you have to do is raise your head, and there is no such silence as here in the city. The Altai Mountains are a place with incredible energy. They turned the map of the area into a kaleidoscope from different areas - with their own microclimate, plants, and sometimes even ethnic groups. The highest point in Siberia, Mount Belukha, is located here. Altai is the land of nature not spoiled by man. People here breathe deeply, children are born more often, the earth bears fruit more abundantly. There are almost fifteen hundred glaciers here. No one lives for many kilometers around them, birds and animals rarely come here - it is difficult to imagine a cleaner place than a glacier. A quarter of the Altai Mountains are nature reserves created to preserve unique landscapes and animals. High in the mountains, occasionally getting caught by camera traps, snow leopards, and rare argali live. Cormorants and seagulls nest on Lake Dzhulukul on the border with Tyva, and swans winter on Lake Svetly in the Altai Territory. In Lake Teletskoye, grayling and taimen are found, and in the rivers of the Altai Territory, there are more common carps and pikes. In Altai, hundreds of paths converge, and the stories of ancient peoples are layered one on top of the other. On the site of the modern Chuysky tract, the northern route of the Great Silk Road once passed, along which traders, storytellers, and shamans plied. It is not surprising that the world's oldest pile carpet was found in Altai. Since ancient times, whoever lived here: Scythians, Sarmatians, Turks. After them, petroglyphs were left on local rocks - drawings carved on stones or painted.

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Tour cost
price on request
Tour start date
Individual
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By day tour description
Day 1
First acquaintance with St. Petersburg and Russian cuisine.
Day 2
Saint Petersburg. Romanov’s Dynasty, Orthodox Architecture.
Day 3
Peterhof. Treasures of the Carl Faberge Museum and acquaintance with the legendary tastes of sturgeon caviar and icy vodka.
Day 4
St. Petersburg - Moscow. Arrival in Moscow.
Day 5
Moscow. Heart of Russia and famous Russian metro.
Day 6
Moscow. Heritage of Russian Tsars and Soviet Union Epoch.
Day 7
Moscow. Great Russian Art.
Day 8
The First Meeting with Altai
Day 9
The Treasure of the Katun River
Day 10
The Ancient Roads - Chuiski Tract
Day 11
Culture and was the Altai
Day 12
Flight to Moscow
Day 13
Moscow. Farewell to Russia.
Tour price inclusions
Accommodation in comfortable hotels with best reputation of the selected category on the basis of breakfast (not all cities have accommodation of the highest categories in such cities, accommodation in hotels with the maximum stars and the best reputation)

Individual/group transfers according to the program

Individual/group excursion program accompanied by a professional guide

Visa support and any advice on obtaining a visa

Online support 24/7 during the tour and concierge service

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International flights

Medical insurance

Meals not indicated in the program

Any additional options during the tour that are not indicated in the main program

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