Animals of the Bialowieza Forest drawings in simple pencil. Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park: prices, photos and a lot of useful information. Farmsteads and houses in Belovezhskaya Pushcha

The case when the expectation-reality did not match (

What do you imagine when you hear the Bialowieza Forest? Personally, I am a “Reserved Chorus, a more conservative daaaal”, a huge dense forest where you walk, enjoy the fresh air and accidentally meet either a bison or an elk)

After all, we were told from childhood that this is the main Belarusian reserve, almost the best attraction in the country. Perhaps many people think so, but I have a completely different opinion. Unfortunately (

What do we have in fact?

Most of the forest is closed to visitors, as it is a border territory, only a specially assigned piece is available for tourists. About this one.

Drive up to the parking lot, leave the car - go to the cash register.

Visit Prices

There is a lot of information, even too much, but the girls at the checkout are polite and friendly, help to navigate about the services.

Among the services offered:

• Aviaries with wild animals - 3 rubles per person.
• Visiting the Museum of Nature and the Museum of Folk Life - 3.50 rubles per person.
• An excursion to visit Santa Claus by bus is available all year round. With making wishes, round dances, jokes, jokes and gifts. 8.50 rubles per person.
• Others: guides, audio guides and others.

You can buy tickets only at the box office at the entrance, only for white. rubles. You can pay in cash or by credit card.

Right next to the entrance there is a rental of bicycles and other vehicles (for example, sleds in winter).

There are several cycling and hiking routes. And they are all paid, everyone has their own cost) Moreover, even if you ride your own bike or go on your own feet.

And 2 things are incomprehensible to me 1) what is the reason for this payment, depreciation of asphalt or what? 2) routes begin at a decent distance from the main entrance. If you don’t knowingly did not buy a ticket right away, then come back?)

Strange, very strange.

Aviary with animals in Belovezhskaya Pushcha

A very sad sight. Maybe in winter they look good, but on a sunny summer day, when on the street +30, all this looks like a mockery of animals. Especially did not spare the bears (

Aviaries are really big, but not in bears. But for some reason, trees were cut down, and animals are sitting in a vacant lot. This is how bison walk under the scorching sun.

And sitting on piles of sand. I am not a biologist and I can be mistaken, but in my opinion, it is weakly similar to natural conditions familiar to bison.

A similar situation with deer.

Red deer with huge horns are sitting in a swamp.

The coolest, shady territory is horses.

And here are the bears.

2 bears, in 2 maaalenky cages with bars. In the photo he climbs into the trough to cool in the water - and you know what? There is practically no water there. Just have a drink (Why so with them - I do not understand.

Lyova liked everything, but the adults around him were somewhat puzzled by what they saw.

You can ride a horse carriage or a children's train across the territory.

It seems to me that the surest option to visit the forest is to ride one of the cycling routes, but on the other hand, if your company has someone who does not ride, there are not so many entertainments for him.

Maybe a good walk - I do not exclude such an opportunity. But then again, if someone in the company with you does not like or cannot walk for a long time, there will be frankly nothing to do with him.

The forest itself is incomparable, infrastructure and organization confuse.

And nature is beautiful, there are no questions to nature.

Where to eat in Belovezhskaya Pushcha

On the territory of the national park there are several places where you can sit, relax and eat.

Not far from the enclosures there is a cafe "Forest Tale". Prices are quite affordable, the choice is great. But the guys work strangely) If the kitchen has a little more orders than usual, then the institution is in a panic, and no one is responsible for anything)

On the day we arrived, schoolchildren were fed lunch in this cafe. An announcement was posted at the entrance that the establishment was closed for special services. In fact, it turned out that everything works, only a) the waiter will not suit you, go order yourself; b) not all positions are; c) wait for any dish for 40 minutes.

As a result, we sat down to eat at the Sosny cafe.

I can’t say that it was super tasty, rather satisfying. But all the food is edible, and I really liked the fruit drink.

Another cafe is on the estate of Santa Claus. And I think that there should be several more in other places.

Souvenirs

There is no shortage of souvenirs.

There are many of them, they are different and quite inexpensive. Magnets, figurines, plates with bison, wild boars, bears and much more.

These tents are located between the main entrance and the aviaries.

Working hours

• Cash desk is open from 9.00 to 18.00
• Bicycle rental - from 9.00 to 18.00
• Museum of Nature - from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• The residence of Santa Claus - from 9.00 to 18.00, buses depart at 11:00, 13:30 and 16:00

How to get there

You need to get to the village of Kamenyuki.

It is located about 150 km from Brest. Regular buses go here, some of them drive right up to the gates of the national park, some do not, but go from the station no more than a kilometer. The schedule can be found on the ticketbus.by website.

The distance from Minsk is about 360 km, you can only get there by your own transport, the road is good.

Hotels in Belovezhskaya Pushcha

On the territory and in the vicinity of the national park there are good options for living. You can search for them on different resources.

March 13th, 2017, 01:00 pm

The name "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" is well known to all residents of the former USSR, if only thanks to the famous song, famous in the performance of "Songs". This is such a well-known brand that came from the Soviet Union, like "Uchkuduk - three wells" or "a house with a carved palisade." Some say that there is nothing beyond this - an ordinary forest, of which there are many in almost any region of Russia. But for me, Belovezhskaya Pushcha has become one of the strongest impressions of recent years. In the story below, about those corners of this magical place that I managed to see.

1. From to Belovezhskaya Pushcha 50 kilometers. About halfway there is the ancient city of Kamenetz. The following story will be about him. Immediately after Kamenets, two deer frame the road, indicating the approach to the reserve:

3. The easiest and fastest way to get to know the forest is to join a sightseeing bus tour, which is held twice a day. You just need to come to the main entrance to the reserve by the time the tour starts and buy a relatively inexpensive ticket. You’ll be rolled across the territory at such a MAZ (in Belarus, in general, everywhere you can try to use your products). The bus is not to say old, but rumbles pretty well. Against this background, the guide’s offer mockingly looks more closely at the windows in search of animals - from this rattling vehicle the animals most likely run for several kilometers.

6. One of the objects where the bus stops is the double-headed eagle bridges that have remained here since the time when the tsarist persons of the Russian Empire liked to hunt in these places:

7. Many objects of the reserve are marked with information plates with a brief description of the attraction in Russian and English. Specifically, on this you can read about the "royal" bridges. Belovezhskaya Pushcha, by the way, is unexpectedly generously flavored with EU symbols:

8. On the bridge, his age is clearly visible. Obviously, the traffic here is very small, which allowed it to survive without much reconstruction:

11. Inside - an exposition of pre-revolutionary Pushcha life:

12. The museum should be something like Kizhi or Vitoslavlits. But, of course, no comparison. After them, here it’s frankly boring: everything is new here, the walls and floors are trimmed with lining, as if in a bathhouse, on the walls in the middle of an old belongings and utensils, elements of modern life are visible. But people are trying to create a high-quality tourist area here, for which they definitely have a great respect.

14. We pass Lyadsky lake - the largest in the reserve. It looks very picturesque. And you can’t say that this is just a reservoir created in the 1960s:

15. Next stop is the 600-year-old Oak Patriarch. Although it is one of the largest and oldest in the reserve, it is here, however, both larger and older. It's just that this is conveniently located near the road, so they put a sign near it and tourists here:

17. Drive past the bison feeders. This is not an aviary or paddock, it's just a barn with feed in the middle of the forest. There are no fences between the shooting location and the feeder, to the left of which a bison is visible. This is the only place in the forest where we saw a free-walking animal:

19. His visit is paid extra. At the exit of the bus, only those who pay extra for his visit are released near the enclosures. At the same time, the territory of the zoo is not fenced in any way, and you can just walk to it from the entrance. In this case, as I understand it, strict employees of the reserve may ask to present a ticket and, in its absence, force them to leave the area at the enclosures:

22. A bus tour allows you to superficially evaluate all the most interesting. For a more detailed study of the Bialowieza Forest, hiking and cycling are provided. Walking here too far distances too long, you can’t do without an overnight stay. But the bike is the most. Having paid the amount corresponding to a particular route to the ticket office, you will receive a diagram of this route and a bicycle rental, for the time for which, according to the drafters, you will have time to go around this route.

24. Speaking of spending the night: there are guest houses and all sorts of “fisherman’s houses” on the territory of the Pushcha, so spending a few days here is more than realistic. With tents, it seems, it is impossible. While already in the reserve, I realized that it would be great to stay here for a few days, but, unfortunately, the trip was already scheduled in advance.

25. Perhaps the only problem with cycling trips around the reserve is the huge tourist buses that drive along these narrow paths. They drove us to a miniature MAZ, but all the other buses on these roads were high interurban. Apparently, the majority travels in organized tours, and they are mostly driven on the same buses that are being taken from the city. They drive through the forest, God forbid, so when riding a bicycle I constantly had to listen to whether the engine of this engine was roaring somewhere around the corner.

26. As I already said, when paying for a bicycle route, a booklet is issued with a map and a description of the remarkable points along the way. On the terrain, they are all indicated by the corresponding posters with descriptions:

27. This growth on a tree trunk, for example, is romantically called the "bison head":

28. In addition to the booklet, at least the signposts at the forks are sent along the routes:

29. In principle, no one will control you in your movements. The main thing is to return in time and turn in the bike, and don’t meddle at the border posts. But from a cognitive point of view for the first time it is interesting to see the proposed attractions.

31. Fused pines:

32. One of the attractions of the route is this section of the road. The fact is that it was laid along the line of a narrow gauge railway that existed at the beginning of the 20th century. An extensive network of narrow gauge railways with a total length of more than 300 tons was organized here in 1915 by the Germans. During World War I, they occupied a significant part of Belarus, including Belovezhskaya Pushcha, and at a sprint pace, they began to export resources from here, in particular the forest. The railway network was built in haste, by the forces of Russian and French prisoners of war, as well as local residents. It was used for the export of wood. The Poles continued to operate the line, into whose hands the forest after the war fell. Nobody could repeat the damage that the Germans and Poles did to the reserve.

Recently, I really like the natural attractions. From the sight of many of them, it literally just tears off the roof. Over the past year, Tanya and I have already visited three national parks in three different countries in Europe. We climbed rocks in Spanish; admired the crystal surface of rivers and lakes in Polish; and then wandered through the amber forests in. And each of these places was magnificent in its own way.

That is why in January 2016, Tanya and I decided to visit another national park. This time - located already in our own homeland. I think you understand what is at stake. Therefore, I’ll say right away: Belovezhskaya Pushcha completely and completely met all my expectations. Sheltered by the lace of January snows, the oldest forest in Europe looked amazingly beautiful in winter and somehow even a bit fabulous. Massive silhouettes of centuries-old trees stretched somewhere to heaven. And therefore, from the mere sight of dense thickets with narrow ribbons of paths that are lost behind the next bend, a strange feeling of inspiration appeared in my soul. Somewhere above his head, a lively woodpecker trill was constantly heard. The forest lived its own life. And for a short moment, our roads intertwined with him into one whole ...

How to get to Belovezhskaya Pushcha?

Hmm ... I’ll start with organizational issues, so to speak. You can get to Belovezhskaya Pushcha either by car or by intercity buses. At one of the forums on the Internet, I read that today, in the direction of the ancient forest, there are also a certain number of private minibuses. But I myself did not check this information. Therefore, I will not dwell on this in detail now.

Regular buses from Brest go to the Pushcha all day. Some of them will take you directly to the gates of the National Park. Others will only reach the small village of Kamenyuki. From there, you will have to walk to the gates of the complex. But do not be in a hurry to get scared: walk to your destination no more than a kilometer. According to Google Map - 0.8 km.

You can see the bus schedule from Brest on ticketbus.by. For those who are too lazy - I attach here two screenshots with the schedule and prices. Everything is pretty simple. How to get to Belovezhskaya Pushchai think you’ll figure it out.

At the gates of the National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha"

All buses to Belovezhskaya Pushcha arrive directly at its gates - to a large parking lot located nearby. Security is on duty here. And next to her post there are stalls with various kinds of souvenirs.

The choice of magnets, trinkets and plates is about the same as in Brest. Plus some local flavor. At the same time, despite the rather large number of tourists coming, the prices are quite affordable. In January 2016, most of the magnets cost around 20-40 thousand (1-2 dollars). The selection is pretty good. For a thousand hundred, you can purchase the full program.

If you have enough money, for a million and a half (50-75 dollars) you can even buy yourself such a corridor rug. Made very realistic. I was even somehow afraid to take it in my hands.

Prices in Belovezhskaya Pushcha

Each of the routes laid along Belovezhskaya Pushcha has its own separate cost. And this fact for me personally was in this place the most unexpected discovery with a minus sign. Usually in a national park this way: you buy an entrance ticket, get a card and walk yourself wherever you want. In Belovezhskaya Pushcha, each route is paid separately. In Belarusian money - it turns out from 50 cents to 1 dollar (depending on the specific direction). In food coupons - from 10,000 to 20,000.

The routes themselves are six at once (although some of them are intertwined and are, in fact, an augmented version of previous routes). There is plenty to choose from. Special stands with descriptions of various directions stand right behind the gates of the complex. For reference, each of them shows the length of the path, the type of route (bicycle / pedestrian), as well as designations of the main attractions located along its entire length.

By the way, there are such stands next to the route description.

If you wander through the forest randomly and randomly, you can inadvertently wander into the territory. Therefore, if suddenly during a trip somewhere far away you will see the brilliance of some modern spa complex ... hmm ... so to speak ... do not go into the light. The customs authorities of the two countries are not welcome.

What other paid services are there in Belovezhskaya Pushcha? Visiting open-air cages with animals, a tour of the Museum of Nature, a trip to visit Santa Claus and all sorts of nonsense (like renting audio guides and other things). Personally, we went directly from the gates of Belovezhskaya Pushcha to watch local bison. But I will tell you about this a little later.

Hotels in Belovezhskaya Pushcha

There are a lot of different hotels, hotels and tourist complexes on the territory of Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Some of them are located in the national park, others in the nearby village of Kamenyuki. You can find suitable options in several ways.

Option number 2. Search for options on Booking.com.

Option # 3. Check the options offered on the AIRBNB website.

Only in this case, you need to look for options in Kamenyuki, and not in Belovezhskaya Pushcha itself. Another little secret: AIRBNB has special discount coupons. Register by the provided link and you will automatically receive a small discount on the first reservation (it works automatically when the amount of the reservation is 75-77 dollars).

Personally, during this trip we booked accommodation in the city of Brest (from there you can get to Belovezhskaya Pushcha very quickly). For those who decide to choose this option, I suggest looking for hotels on this site. I myself use it regularly.

Aviaries in Belovezhskaya Pushcha

Royal deer. Aviaries of the Bialowieza Forest.

Belarusian bison, royal deer, wolves, foxes and other animals - this is a real "must see" of the National Park Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Going to these parts, I heard several times that with good luck they can be found even in a natural environment. But this, so to speak, is an amateur thing.

It is much easier to look at the animals living in the forest in special enclosures of the reserve. Entrance here costs 20,000 rubles (about $ 1). Cages with animals are located to the left of the entrance to the park. Finding this place is easy.

I will write more about which animals can be found in local enclosures in a separate article. Well, for now I’ll say only one thing: aviaries of Belovezhskaya Pushcha   - The place is very cool and interesting, completely unlike a regular zoo. The territory of the complex is quite large. Therefore, many animals almost do not notice the cells. In winter, by the way, it was possible to go round the whole complex on such a charismatic horse. But again, this is another story.

Where to eat in Belovezhskaya Pushcha

As indicated on the reserve’s official website, there are only three catering facilities on the territory of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha National Park. Plus one more - in the village of Kamenyuki. In addition to enclosed spaces in different parts of the reserve, you can also find small tents selling pancakes, herbal tea, barbecue and other goodies. By prior arrangement, picnics are also possible (at least as it is written on the official website).

Personally, Tanya and I dined respectably at the restaurant with the poetic name "Pines", located to the right of the entrance to nature reserve. Bialowieza Forest   surprised by a pleasant price level. Going on this trip, I honestly thought that everything would be much more expensive here.

So, what is the Pine Restaurant?

• Pleasant price level.
• Delicious food (we took warm borsch and pancakes with blackberry jam).
• The menu contains interesting local “chips” like Bialowieza moonshine (“Pushchanka”) and herbal tea brewed at the gatherings, which are collected somewhere here - in the forest.

Minuses:

• Unpretentious interior.
• Lack of toilet (instead of which there is only a lonely washstand standing in the corner).
• The absence of a certain hallway in the restaurant, which is why it constantly blew a little from the street. Visitors came and went. And approximately every third one certainly forgot to close the door behind him (which, I repeat, goes directly to the street).

Pancake prices.

Overall, I liked this restaurant. The money that we left here, he was definitely worthy. The borsch was delicious. Pancakes too. And herbal tea is generally the highest class.

National Park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha": a walk along the snowy paths

In my previous articles related to this trip in the Brest region, I have repeatedly written that we have chosen not the best time for travel. In the first half of January it was very cold in Belarus. Tanya and I were completely frozen. Therefore, I honestly admit, we failed to make a full-scale trip along one of the tourist routes. Honestly, I’m already thinking about going to the reserve again (Belovezhskaya Pushcha) when it gets warmer. To take a bike, rent a room in one of the local "hotel complexes" and just spend a day and a half traveling along the protected trails of the oldest forest in Europe. Damn, guys, do you even know that once looked like our whole continent ?! And only in Belovezhskaya Pushcha you can see with your own eyes what the Old World was like before the period of urbanization and the great industrial revolutions. Agree - this is a unique opportunity.

Returning from heaven to earth, I will say that we walked along the paths of the reserve quite a bit. However, this was quite enough to get to two sights marked on numerous tourist maps at once. I was absolutely delighted with each of them that day. Well, in general, see for yourself. Here they are.

Attraction number 1. Birch with a bison head. I agree, it sounds strange. But it looks pretty cool. Unusual, at least. It is a pity that it was covered with snow in winter. In the summer, they say, it looks even cooler.

Attraction number 2. Hermit Oak. This one reminded me of some Tolkien ent. Well, remember, such talking trees in The Lord of the Rings. Take a closer look. This oak seems to be looking suspiciously at you.

Endgame: final word

In general, walking along the Bialowieza Forest, it seems that this forest is one huge living organism. In the bushes constantly heard some movement. And somewhere above his head almost every minute there is a measured knock of a woodpecker. In short, as you probably already understood, I really liked this place. I understand that a trip to Belovezhskaya Pushcha is difficult to brag to friends (at least the phrase “I went to Belovezhskaya Pushcha” is difficult to pronounce with the same pathos expression as the phrase “I went to Paris”). But this place is worth seeing. Our country also knows how to surprise. And it can also be infinitely beautiful - no worse than, for example, Poland

Or how we met Santa Claus in the primeval forests of the Motherland

Chapter 1. Flora and fauna of Belovezhskaya Pushcha. The terrible secrets of the primeval forest.

The bison is a large shaggy-haired cow. This cow weighs about 600-800 kg. But this particular goby in the photo weighed 1,200 kg. This is one of the first 5 bison brought to the Pushcha from Poland after the Great Patriotic War. He successfully propagated there. And now we have 312 bison in Belarus. And if they continue to breed, they will devour the Pushcha. Therefore, they will often be actively exported to other friendly countries .... 5 bison will soon leave for Moldova.

But in the Bialowieza Forest there are no bears. At a time when there were few bison and they were on the verge of extinction, vile bears drove them to ice on the lake in winter and bison, like big cows on ice, simply broke. By force far superior to the bison, the bears killed them with one blow to the back. Therefore, hunting for bears in the forest has always been allowed, and currently there are only two bears left there - Misha and Masha, who peacefully snuffed out in the aviaries while we examined them.

When does a deer grow horns?

No, wrong. Deer grow horns in the second year of life. And they do not grow bone immediately, but fluffy. Such superb velor horns. And every year a horn grows on them. That is, a deer or a moose in years \u003d the number of sprouting horns + 1. True, the rule has exceptions. Starting from a certain period of aging (each individually), the number of processes decreases in the opposite direction. So the old moose is a bald moose.

Females do not grow horns. They get much more. For the horns I was "placed" in this perspective to be photographed with a deer.

Well, let's move on to the storks. It turns out that storks are not swans at all. T about eating a stork a man does not care who to live with.   Returning from the south to his nest, a male stork can meet a completely different female stork there, and not his missus. Scandal still can not be avoided. The missus arrives later (well, it’s delayed ..) and what it sees is treason and betrayal. The male stork leaves the nest and gives the ladies the opportunity to find out for themselves this piquant question - who should live with him ... Everything ends sadly - one of the storks is forced to leave the nest and their stork.   Well, if no casualties. And the stork takes it for granted.

Female storks are generally cruel birds ...   a white stork with black will not work, because the white lady just does not understand what this black wants from her? That is, love, courtship and all that jazz for God's sake, but they don’t know how to do children. Learn the materiel, as they say.

Beavers.   Beavers are good as you know.   But in advertising they show us a terminally ill beaver at the end of their days. In life, beavers have yellow, even tan teeth, and the darker they are, the stronger and more valuable they are for a beaver. but when he has white spots on them - this is a disease of the teeth, extremely undesirable for a beaver naturally.

Wolves in the forest are not uncommon. A wolf differs from a dog in principle in that it always has a tail between its legs and never curls.

There are no less interesting birds in the Bialowieza Forest - black grouse and capercaillie. I think many people know why the capercaillie is called the capercaillie - he is completely deaf when he sings his mating songs, and it is not for nothing that the deaf man sings disgustingly. That is, he feels good, but to everyone else ...And when he sings like this, he can be removed with his bare hands from a tree, which hunters have always used. So about the morals of these birds. They can mate with each other, although the birds are completely different. And their offspring is called the unflattering word mezhnyak. And this mezhnyak is barren after colorful storks.

Foxes are the most arrogant and dirty animals,among the inhabitants of the forest. Literally. They never clean their holes and, excuse me, poop where they eat. Unlike badgers. Those very clean animals, and often they clean their own burrows for the foxes that the foxes have occupied.

  A raccoon dog is our Belarusian possum. Just that - she immediately pretends to be dead, and if you kick her so to speak ... check her deadness ... jumps up and runs away with a wild squeal ...

Lynxes have wide paws to run in the snow and not fall through, and a small heart so as not to run after prey for a long time. Either immediately or never - their motto.   If it was not possible to immediately grab it, then catching her lynx may simply die, which of course she does not want, and prey is released on her own.

Of the nocturnal inhabitants there are, of course, bats of all sorts of different varieties .... As you know, bats are guided by ultrasound. This was established by mocking animals.   - At first they were blindfolded ... and they all were perfectly oriented ... Then they were blindfolded ... and at least something ... And then they got to their ears ... I can not guarantee the purity of this experiment ... nevertheless, by I’m telling the memory ... but nevertheless, we found out as a result that they are guided by ultrasound ... Everyone also probably knows that our cauldrons often get tangled up in the hair .... And all because the hair does not reflect ultrasound ... And then scientists found that white also does not reflect ultrasound.   And it somehow became creepy to me in this museum. Blondes are better off in caves with mice. Blondes especially :)

All sorts of reptiles, insects and plants simply flood the forest. All the same, you can’t tell about them all ... but I must say it’s impressive ....

Chapter 2. Belarusian Santa Claus.

So, let's move on to the second part of our journey - a meeting with Santa Claus.

This is the official residence of Santa Claus.   In total, there are four of them officially registered in the land of Santa Claus, we live in Lapland; Alaska must be assumed, too; Russian Santa Claus lives in Veliky Ustyug; and ours is in Belovezhskaya Pushcha. Also Santa Claus. Well, it’s clear that one grandfather can’t cope in any way. There are four of them ... however it doesn’t matter :)

  Electrical elements of the Residence

Here it is !!! Summer! Talked to us. I wished all the best and fulfillment of all desires. The children gave him their letters right in their hands! In general, it was, in fact, cool. Really for real. And then we went for a walk around his possessions. The real world of fairy tales. Truly magical was the meeting with REAL DED FROST!

Vitalik was lucky - he found his frog princess. And an amazing tree is a black alder. This is the only tree that drops green leaves in the fall!

And on the way

The mill, which had to be touched and she would grind all the bad deeds done in a year, and then the dwarves would take them far into the forest. And if you then behave yourself well, then this evil will never return to you. Teremki, Dwarves and Snow White and other heroes of fairy tales - there were a lot of them! The pond in which the frog princess lives. The magic well. And then we came across a clearing of twelve months. I had to touch my desire to make a wish before my month - it will certainly come true.

Brotherhood with the Dwarves. High five!

Emelyn Pike

Ilya had a wish in the snow. It will surely be fulfilled

The Little Humpbacked Horse

These gnomes love mushrooms ...

Small saxophonist

  The Magic Pond, where the Princess Frog lives

  Around the Christmas tree ... dwarves are no stranger to progress

Pinocchio of course on Tortilla

  New tales. Ilya and the wolf. Fury wooden and in the flesh

  New tales. Masha, Sasha and the Bear

Golden Scallop Cockerel

Just a gnome

Good old tales - Anfisa

February is the second month brother. I had to touch my desire to make a wish

Princess Frog in person. Men kiss her to find their half

There she is! Beautiful mega-tree of the country! Only in summer. Around her in winter dances and sing the most famous song about the New Year and the Christmas tree of hundreds of children. Song - "A Christmas tree was born in the forest!" by the way in 2006 turned 101. And an unknown school librarian from some village wrote her words to anyone ... I don’t remember. And the music was composed much later.

She is very tall, and most importantly .... real .... and beautiful .... she could break her neck to see the top. 40 meters.   Attention - THE HIGHEST LIVING EUROPEAN TREE. She is 120 years old !!! Around the tree there was also something to see.

There is also "Skarbnitsa" is a repository of gifts, as well as letters, drawings, photographs and crafts sent by children to Santa Claus.And this we are sitting in the chair of Santa Claus while there is no Santa Claus. This office also houses the Museum of Santa Claus, which contains antiques.

  Very beautiful flowerbed near Skarbnitsa

In the office of Grandfather is a museum of antiquity. Stupa to your attention!

In the chair of Grandfather. And around - all the gifts of children to Santa Claus

There was also the house of the Snow Maiden. Only the Snow Maiden does not live there. And there was none. She comes in winter only. But we found out who her father was))))) .... The snowman is her father. Mom is unknown

Chapter 3. Living wild animals.

And then we went to the cages - to watch the very wild animals that we were told about in the museum. It turned out that they are not wild at all. The bison, however, were far away, the bears were breathing, some there didn’t leave the hole. But many did not refuse to eat.

  Warned - wild animals! We go to the cages.

  In the forest, animals breed well. Young growth

  Bison - kings of the forest. Waiting for shipment to Moldova

  Four-year-old deer pulled a carrot from my hands

  No one refused to eat. Moose eating bread

We went very well and had a great rest. There is amazing nature.   There is clean air. I saw the real Santa Claus. I made wishes. And already I want to go there in winter - for the New Year.

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I have long wanted to get to Belovezhskaya Pushcha. This dream arose under the impression of the song “Belovezhskaya Pushcha” by the composer Alexandra Pakhmutova and poet Nikolai Dobronravov, very popular in the recent past, in the sincere performance of the equally popular ensemble “Pesnyary”. But you know, if you really want to, then dreams come true. The song haunted, Belovezhskaya Pushcha beckoned, I had to go ...

The village in which Belovezhskaya Pushcha is located is called Kamenyuki of the Kamenets district. Bialowieza Forest is the largest forest in Central Europe. These are the remains of a primeval forest that once stretched from the Baltic Sea to the Bug River and from the Oder to the Dnieper.

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When we arrived at the entrance to Belovezhskaya Pushcha, it turned out that visiting the park was allowed only with a guide. Scientific, ecological tourism and excursions are carried out on special routes under the guidance of a guide-guide or a park specialist. Excursion service is provided only for organized groups of at least 6 people. Organized cycling groups are also conducted along the approved route and are accompanied by a guide, and single visits by cyclists to the park are prohibited.

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Since, when we arrived, there were no more people who wanted to visit the reserve, we had to be content with an unauthorized and independent inspection of a small area to open-air cages with animals.

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The first thing we saw on the territory of Belovezhskaya Pushcha was a monument to the heroes of World War II. The inscription on the plate read: "Comrade! Bare your head and bow reverently to this place of memory of the three Soviet soldiers who fell in battle with the Nazis on June 27, 1941 in Belovezhskaya Pushcha."

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There is information that written references to Pushcha of 983 are found. And already at the end of the XIV century, the Lithuanian prince Jagiello declared the forest reserve and imposed a ban on hunting. In 1588, a Forestry charter was issued prohibiting deforestation. Since 1795, the territory of the Pushcha became part of the Russian Empire, after the First World War - Poland, since 1939 - into Belarus. The wars caused great damage to the protected forest. In 1939, the forest was declared a state reserve, and in 1945 part of it was transferred to Poland.

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There are two small hotels in the reserve.

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You can book hotels online.

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It is not allowed to move around the reserve on your own; passage of vehicles without special permission is prohibited.

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The park is famous for its ancient registered oaks, whose age exceeds 500 years. But there are also young aliens from North America - these are red oaks, which were planted as an ornamental plant in the last century. It turned out that this is a dangerous alien species, because it displaces the Forest species of trees, as it is very unpretentious and quickly spreads through the territory by seeds.