503. To Volcanoes and Geysers

 10 Day trip. Season : July 15- September 15

ITINERARY
Day 1. Arrive in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Transfer from the airport to your hotel. Overnight .
Day 2.Citytour.After lunch you will travel to the Avacha volcano plateau. Establish base camp and make evening excursions. Overnight in a wood lodge.
Day 3. Ascend Avacha volcano (2741m). Ascension to a crater of Avacha Volcano, (900 m > 2741 m). Excursion around the crater to fumarole fields. Have lunch at the crater of an active volcano where its summit commands a picturesque view of a typical Kamchatka landscape: snowy mountain peaks glittering in the sun, and the blue of the boundless ocean. Overnight in a wood lodge.
Day 4. After breakfast we drive to Bystraya river and float down the river to the pick up site. Fishing and Kamchatka ukha (fish soup) will fill up your impressions. Overnight in Hotel.
Day 5. You will be invited to the voyage around Avacha Bay (6 hours) to picnic with tasting a traditional Russian ukha (fish-soup). You will see Petropavlovsk and its surroundings, sea birds and their colonies, you will land on the beach for a hike. Overnight in a hotel
Day 6. Drive to the plateau of Mutnovsky volcano.Bathe in the Verhne-Paratunsky thermal springs.This is an unique place where the thermal water river falls down the hill Goryachaya.Drive to the Viluchinsky volcano and visit a place of salmon spawning in the Paratunka river. Relax and lunch. Taste ukha (fish soup) at the Viluchinsky waterfall. Further way to the Mutnovsky volcano.This is an unique place of nature. Overnight in tents/wood lodge.
Day 7. Breakfast. Hike to the crater of Mutnovsky volcano. Crater of Mutnovsky volcano is known as one of widest and biggest Mutnovsky is an active volcano. Mutnovsky Volcano's crater is noticeable for the most powerful in Kamchatkafumarole fields with large sulphur deposits, mud pots and pulsating springs. In the spring of 2000 occurred the last eruption with a formation of an acid lake in the volcano's crater. Here a halt and light snacks be offered. Then a further hike along the narrow canyon to the crater.Steep slopes form a wide and deep volcano cavity which is filled with sparkling glaciers, cracks and fumaroles.Excursion to the fumaroles fields (800 m > 1560 m) and a stream Opasny. Return to the hotel. It takes 11 hours for the whole hiking to volcano crater.
Day 8. Breakfast. Drive to the Gorely volcano. Ascend the volcano and view craters of the volcano. Halt and lunch.Drive to the hotel with a pool with thermal water. Overnight in the hotel/cottage.
Day 9. This is a day of rest and leisure to be spent anyway you might, except that this day may be used to re-schedule previously described events and excursion due to weather cancellations.Instead of this you can take a tour to the Valley of the Geysers. This unique and fabulous nature attracts tourists and researchers from all over the world. During the flight you will enjoy the beauty and greatness of active and extinct volcanoes, mountain ranges, taiga, rivers and lakes. As soon as MI-8 helicopter lands you realize why this valley is considered the Pearl of Kamchatka. We will have tremendous photo opportunities of geysers, perpetual sputters, and mud pots. The Valley of Geysers is hidden in one of the deep canyons of the Kronotsky biosphere preserve, 200 km from Petropavlovsk. You can only get there by helicopter.) Farewell dinner. Overnight in a hotel.
Day 10. After breakfast transfer from your hotel to the airport. Depart for home.

Price, Departure

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INCLUDED:

• Full board according to itinerary& breakfast in a hotel
• Double accommodation
• Transfers by coach, bus
• City tour and museum entrances
• Guide, interpreter and cook services
• Rafting
• Avacha Bay boat excursion
• Permits
• Visa invitation and visa registration