Karelia

Countryside vacations in Karelia are particularly popular in summer. This is the time when Karelia's lakes andrivers

become your guides to the wondrous world of nature and all local sights, from mid-May tomid-September.

However, in the land of thousand lakes, every season is beautiful, enchanting and exciting inits own way.

In autumn and spring, a vacation in Karelia takes a more reserved pace. This period is best for spending timeat one of

the numerous comfortable tourist camps located near lakes with clear, pure water. Nature's peaceand

tranquility soothe your body and soul.

In winter, the nature around transforms yet again, wearing its most exquisite costumes. It is a season offabulous beauty

and original mood. The sparkling snow covering everything around, the ice on Karelia's lakes,the Aurora Borealis in the

Northern skies – all this reveals a new kind of beauty you've never seen.

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Tour description

Program

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Meeting the group at Petrozavodsk

railway station

Breakfast at a restaurant

Commute to landing pier

First stage of the competition –

trolling (fishingfrom a moving motorboat)

Summary of the fishing competition

Second stage of the competition –

culinarybattle (cooking traditional

Karelian fish broth ona bonfire)

Lunch

Awards ceremony

Return to Petrozavodsk

Hotel check-in

Dinner

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Day 1(version 1)

Meeting the group at Petrozavodsk railway

station

Breakfast at a restaurant

Meeting the instructor, boarding SUVs, travel

to Girvas

Arrival to Girvas. A briefing on SUV driving

basics and safetyalong the route. A pilot trip

under the instructor's guidance

"Sandy sprint" special course. Driving along a

specially markedtrack at a sand quarry

"Rocky trial" special course, wading across

the river Suna on Poor-rapids, manually

carved in the rocks for timber rafting, visiting

Girvas volcano

Viewing an old (but operating) hydroelectric

station built acrossthe Pioneer Canal

(river Suna)

Presentation of memorial diplomas

confirming participationin the competitions

Lunch outdoors

Return to Petrozavodsk, visiting Kivach

wildlife sanctuary alongthe way and watching

the famous Kivach waterfalls,

a memorialof Karelian nature

Hotel check-in

Dinner

Day 1(version 2)

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Breakfast at the restaurant

Transfer to the river port

Departure in high-speed Comet boat to Kizhi island, the crown jewel of the Russian North.

Viewing unique masterpieces of folk wooden architecture entered in the UNESCO World

Heritage list

Lunch at a café on the island

Interactive performance program with performances by the Folklore and Ethnography

Theater at KizhiMuseum "Onega Youth Company". A company is a traditional youth party

with performances of oldsongs, numerous games and dances accompanied by singing and

playing the harmonica

Return to Petrozavodsk

"Karelia's Tablecloth" - dinner surrounded by the atmosphere of traditional Northern culture

fromvarious historical periods at an ethnic restaurant.

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Day 2