Hiking: Pedestrian Karelia. Plus a bonus: advice for a novice hiker. Hiking What is included in the price

The article talks about how to organize your independent travel in Karelia: when to go, what to see and how to get there.

Russia next to Finland has a rich natural beauties And cultural heritage Republic of Karelia. The region attracts travelers with its pristine purity. It is ideal for both quiet, have a relaxing holiday, and for active pastime with a continuous change of environment. Hunting for birds and animals, along wild rivers, skiing and dog sledding, fishing, excursions - all this awaits curious tourists in Karelia.

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How to get to Karelia?

In the northwest
There are 4 options for how to get to the republic:

• By train.
  Direct routes are provided between Petrozavodsk and Moscow or St. Petersburg. If there are no direct flights from other cities in Russia, you can always take a ticket with transfers.
• By bus.
  The option is most suitable for residents of St. Petersburg. Flights to Petrozavodsk.
• By plane.
  Near the village of Besovets, 12 km from Petrozavodsk there is main airport Karelia. It is recommended to purchase tickets in advance.
• By car.
  An excellent option for traveling around Karelia in terms of economy and freedom of movement. Suitable for large families and companies. It is worth considering that many roads in the republic are dirt roads.

Choose a tour to Karelia

When you don’t have time to plan a trip to Karelia on your own, you can contact the guys from Alem-Tur. This is a tour operator we have verified. They have been working since 2002 and know all the most beautiful places in the republic. All tours are turnkey: accommodation + transfer + excursions. In general, we recommend it. Look at what tours to Karelia they offer now.

What to see in Karelia?

The republic has a huge concentration of cultural monuments. The most interesting attractions for tourists:

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• Valaam, Solovki – popular islands, which have preserved ancient monasteries and churches, many of which are UNESCO heritage. The islands are also attractive for their natural beauties: dense forests with slender fir trees, stone, steep banks, clean river water. You can read more about it in a separate article.
• Architectural Museum of Kizhi. On the island right below open air collected samples of the life of the peoples who lived on these lands many centuries ago. During the excursion, travelers will learn many legends and customs local residents.

• White Sea petroglyphs. On the islands of Karelia, archaeologists have discovered about three dozen ancient sites, as well as images and compositions carved on rocks dating back to the 3rd millennium BC. It is recommended to view the drawings accompanied by a guide.
• Ruskeala marble canyon. It was here that marble was taken for the St. Petersburg palaces. The canyon is surrounded by ancient trees, which makes it more beautiful and majestic.

• Waterfalls Girvas and Kivach. The first is unique for its location on the volcano, and the second for its size.
• Kuzova Archipelago. At 16 uninhabited islands Rare birds and animals huddle. Interesting place for visiting naturalists.

How to get around Karelia?

Least popular in the republic railway transport. Since the main task of Karelia is to preserve the pristine beauty of nature, new rails are not laid. Oktyabrskaya is relevant for travelers railway. You can use it to get to Onega and Kandalaksha Bays White Sea, Lake Onega. Branch lines have also been laid to Yushkozero, Belomorsk, and Sortavala.

To get acquainted with all the beauties of Karelia, it is recommended to travel by your own car or rent transport on the spot. Moving along the federal highway M-18 "Kola", you can turn onto any secondary road, which will certainly lead to one of the lakes of the region.

Karelia has marine and river shipping company. The water communication system here is well developed, so travelers can easily move along the White Sea coast, along the Neva and Svir rivers, lakes Ladoga, Onega, and the White Sea-Baltic Canal.

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• A two-day hiking trip with dogs with an overnight stay in a tent on the shore of Lake Okunevoe. Okunevoe Lake - good place for fishing, a lot of mushrooms and berries grow along the banks. The partner dog is attached to the belt and helps walk, and sometimes carries part of the load.
• The program is suitable for beginner tourists. No special preparation is required. Age: from 8 years.
• The tour is organized on dates convenient for you upon request from 2 tourists.

Tour program "Hiking in Karelia":

1 day:

Meeting tourists at the railway station in Petrozavodsk.

Transfer to the sled dog nursery.
The nursery is located in the village of Sailors (30 km from Petrozavodsk).

Breakfast at guest house.

Excursion to the sled dog nursery, introduction to expedition dogs.

Preparation for the trip: selection of equipment, instructions.

Exit to the route: the village of Sailors - Lake Okunevoe.

Picnic on the way.

Arrival at the lake.

Setting up the camp.

Fishing, picking mushrooms and berries (optional and according to the season).

Dinner by the fire. Overnight in tents.

Day 2:

Breakfast in nature.

Preparation of equipment, equipment, instructions before going out on the route.

Travel along the route: Lake Okunevoe - the town of Yumanishki - the village of Sailors.

Picnic in the forest along the way.

Return to the sled dog kennel.

Dinner at the guest house. The menu includes dishes of Karelian national cuisine.

Transfer to Petrozavodsk to the railway station.

No problem! Karjala Park tours are designed for both professionals and amateur beginners. Thanks to incredible amount rivers, lakes and other water bodies, water tourism It is very developed in Karelia and enjoys particular success.

After all, this is not only a way of moving along the river - it is a separate art that allows the participant not only to show his physical strength, struggling with the rapids of whimsical rivers, but also to have time to enjoy picturesque places. What can you see while rafting down mountain rivers:

• historical and modern villages: Rubchoila, Keret, Kinerma, Umba and Nizhnyaya Pulonga. Many of which are known for their uniqueness and historical significance. Each of the villages has its own distinctive characteristics and cultures;
• second largest in Europe - Lake Onega, the beauty of which fascinates, and forces true artists to take out canvases and perpetuate all the mystery and mystery of this place;
• largest freshwater lake in Europe - Ladoga. Its area is 18,400 km! Creating Lake Ladoga, nature did its best. Numerous islands that adorn the lake give it a special uniqueness and will not leave anyone indifferent;
• "Devil's Chair", also known as Mount Big Vara. A huge stone mass, which from a distance really looks like a huge chair;
• Botanical Garden. IN Botanical Garden plants were collected from all corners of the Earth. African, American and European exhibits can be found here. The special pride of the garden is the Karelian birch;
• numerous rapids different levels difficulties (Pink Elephant, Mill, Canyon, Temple, Big Tolly, Kumio, Bunker, Bear and many others);
• Mount Huatavaara, which has gained fame for itself mystical place. There are many legends about this place and this is not surprising, because this is where the burials of shamans are located;
• Mayachny, Andronin, Oleniy islands;
• rifts and rapids of the rivers Shuya, Suyoka, Uksa, Vitsaoya, Kolosyoki, Keret, Umba and others;
• lakes Oyarvi, Vedlozero, Pistayarvi;
• ten-meter Arengsky waterfall;
• museums: ancient Sami buildings, Sheltozero Vepsian ethnographic museum and a lot of other interesting and educational things.

This best way take a break from all the benefits of civilization and truly taste all the beauty of life. With Karjala Park tours you can learn to: cope with violent rapids; install chum; operate a kayak; operate a canoe and kayak. And thanks to carefully developed programs, rafting tours can be suitable for: both beginners; and families with children; And corporate clients; and large groups; or just for amateurs; or just anyone who wants to forget about the stress of work.

Accommodation and meals during tours

During the tour, participants will spend the night in the field and cook food over a fire. Dinner consists of fish soup or fried fish, which you catch yourself in the river on the banks of which you will settle. You will also have to provide breakfast and lunch yourself. Fortunately, rich forests for mushrooms and berries, as well as rivers for fish, will not let you go hungry, and the accompanying guide-instructor will not let you get poisoned by a poisonous plant. A sauna awaits you every evening. And not just a sauna, but a real camp sauna!

You choose the length and duration of the tour yourself, depending on your desires and capabilities. Rafting can last for several hours or several days. The cost of the tour varies depending on the duration. The price includes:

1. insurance;
2. rent everything necessary equipment;
3. food and accommodation;
4. accompaniment by a guide-instructor;
5. excursions and master classes.

When you go rafting down the river on or, you choose the opportunity to take a break from the hustle and bustle of the city, enjoy the primeval nature and feel like a miner and a pioneer. Freed from the shackles of work and obligations, you find yourself in a world of peace and tranquility. Surrender to the elements and lose yourself in the singing of birds, the rustling of tree leaves, the murmur of rivers and the atmosphere of complete unity with nature!

Let all your problems and worries go away down the river, and a fair wind bring happiness and good luck! When choosing Karjala Park tours, remember: Your pleasure and safety are our main goal!

You can and should be active - a hiking trip! If you want to diversify your vacation with a small but very exciting adventure, we invite you to go on a hiking and water trip with us one of the days. Here you will learn such wisdom as Nordic walking and kayaking in Karelia!

Hiking and water trekking program

Departure to the beginning of the route (15 min.);
A relaxed and very educational walk through the Karelian forest with Nordic walking poles.
Nordic walking with poles, which is also called Finnish walking, is a kind of amateur sport that is hiking, during which special sticks are used when walking. Such walking is very useful: when walking with such poles, the muscles of the back and shoulder girdle are trained very well. Therefore, you can relax in Karelia with health benefits; such a trip will be not only interesting, but also useful!

Picking mushrooms and berries (season from the end of July). Beautiful Karelian landscapes. Inspection of the site of a lonely monk (early 20th century);
Walking along a road made of logs;
Inspection of the first hydroelectric power station in Karelia, built with funds from local residents (20s of the twentieth century);
Inspection of the defensive structures of the Great Patriotic War(1941–44);
Access to the beautiful stretch of the Ukhta River;
Snack: packed lunch and forest tea.

Here we begin the water part of the route. Calm kayaking on the flat water of the Ukhta River. No rapids, just flat water and amazing views all around. It's absolutely safe and also incredibly exciting. Optional stop at sandy stretches. Swimming depending on the weather. Then kayaking to Lake Kuito, where our hiking and water trip ends.

Cost of the hiking trip:
— up to 3 people 1100 ₽/person
— from 4 people 950 ₽/person

Most popular view a hike is a hiking trip. Hiking They are also different: in the mountains, along rocks, across plains and steppes, and even through caves this is also a hiking trip. For a hiking trip, you do not need the skills of a swimmer, rower or climber. All you need is yourself and your desire!

Extreme route

Cost from: 9000 rubles.

Hiking along the Karelian Isthmus. The distance is approximately 50 km (this is approximately 8-9 hours of daily walking through the forest) through the most beautiful and fabulous places of Karelia. Wild forest, cleanest lakes and streams, glacial boulders and sun, all this and much more awaits true adventurers. Overnight without tents or sleeping bags. We do our own shelter for the night. You only have an axe, a knife, a rope, a flask and a pot with you. A hike for brave souls.

All-Union tourist route No. 30 - Thirty!

Cost from: 10800 rubles.

One of the oldest, most widespread and popular tourist routes in the USSR to the Black Sea through Caucasus Mountains, about 100,000 people passed it during the season. It was already active in the mid-1930s.

This unique route covers most of the landscape and climatic zones of Russia: fir and beech forests, alpine meadows of high mountain plateaus, permafrost on mountain peaks and subtropical coasts!

The route passes through the reserve, which helped preserve untouched nature, rare and unique animals, birds and plants.

Karelia. Walking to Koyonsaari Island.

Cost from: 7900 rubles.

Year-round weekend hike! Cleanest air scenic spots! Koyonsaari in truth most beautiful place Ladoga, with sandy beach, majestic pine trees, powerful rocks. This is a family route, designed for people of any age, i.e. A rather rare trip that can unite three generations!

A dozen lakes!

Cost from: 3500 rubles.

Pleasant, invigorating aroma of coniferous forest, sandy mountains, 12 picturesque lakes, springs, gentle sun, deep starry sky, hot and aromatic forest tea and the deafening silence of the Karelian Isthmus. You will see and feel all this on our weekend hike “A Dozen Lakes”!

The hike takes place with a preliminary group request of 10 people at a time convenient for your group.

Big and Small Thach

Cost from: 9300 rubles.

The incredible beauty of the mountains and their accessibility make this route one of the most attractive not only for experienced, but also for beginners, before conquering more serious peaks.

The Bolshoi Thach Natural Park is located in the Republic of Adygea and is included in the list of World Heritage Sites. natural heritage. And it’s no coincidence, because there really is something to see there!

To Yalta, through the cave cities of Crimea!

Cost from: 9800 rubles.

Why do people love hiking in Crimea? We'll tell you a secret! - what an amazing variety historical monuments, for cave cities, carved into the rocks, for waterfalls and refreshing mountain rivers, for the mild sunny climate. And finally, to Yalta, where we will celebrate the end of our campaign!