ACTIVE TOUR “WINTER KRASNOYARSK LAND” - Olympia

Olympia-Reisen-Sibir tour operator
630091, Gogolya str,3, Novosibirsk, Siberia, Russia.
Fax. +7 383 2184516, Tel. +7 383 2211743 www.olympia-reisen.ru
Working hrs Mon-Fri: 11:00 - 20:00 (Tokyo time) / 02:00 - 12:00 (London time)
Yulia Tsimpilova (ENG) mice@orsib.ru, Alla Romanova (ENG) siberia@orsib.ru,
Svetlana Nechaeva (DE) incoming@orsib.ru, Olessia Varnavidou (ITA) contact@orsib.ru
ACTIVE TOUR “WINTER KRASNOYARSK LAND”
(7 days /6 nights, season November-March)
Arrival dates for 2013-2014:
November, 05 – November, 11
December, 03– December, 09
December, 24 – December, 30
Day 1
Tuesday
Day 2
Wednesday
Day 3
January, 07 – January, 13
February, 04 – February, 10
February, 25 – March, 03
March, 04 - March, 10
KRASNOYARSK
Beginning and end of the program in Krasnoyarsk (Russia, Siberia, time zone
+8). You can get to Krasnoyarsk by train or by plane from many cities in Russia
and even by international flights from Beijing
From 09:00 check-in a budget center located hotel «Lights of Yenissey» 2*,
rest
13:00 Meeting with a guide in the hotel lobby, lunch in a café
Excursion in Krasnoyarsk Ethnographic Museum
Krasnoyarsk city tour, visiting such sights as a small Chapel with an observation
point, historical gates to the city, old monuments.
In free time you can walk around the city and buy souvenirs.
Evening time is free.
We recommend you to visit the Central city fir-tree – the highest one in Russia
(46 m high, 35 ton heavy); you can slide down slides, have a ride in carriages,
have a look at beautiful ice sculptures, join round dances, meet Siberian
Grandfather Frost and the Snow Maiden
Return to the hotel. Dinner independent.
* Overnight hotel “Lights of Yenissey” 2* (budget rooms, WC, bathroom). Lunch.
NATURE RESERVE “STOLBY”
Breakfast at hotel
09:00 Check-out (you can leave the luggage at the luggage room). Transfer to
the reserve by bus. Hiking uphill (7 km, 500 m altitude)
Arrival to a forest hut of your guide-ranger, rest, hot lunch with herbs tea
After that hiking trip (3 km, 3 hours) with overlooking or even climbing well
known rocks (First, Second, Fourth, Grandfather, Lion gates, Feathers etc.).
Fresh air, a warm atmosphere of informal communication, clean snow,
beautiful sunsets/dawns over taiga and mountains are awaiting you.
Dinner and overnight in the hut
* overnight in hut (common room, stove and electrical heating, no facilities,
bed linen are provided), breakfast, lunch, dinner
Breakfast
Extra services:
Air or train tickets to
Krasnoyarsk
Meeting at the railway
station or airport
Breakfast, dinner
Overnight in a better
room category or
better hotel
Extra services:
Banya
Extra services:
Thursday
Day 4
Friday
Day 5
Saturday
Day 6
Sunday
Day 7
Monday
Hiking trip to Wild area of rocks (12-20 km), not often visited by tourists, some
snack during the trip.
Return to the hut, relaxing and hiking downhill (7 km), you will be met by a
driver, transfer back to the hotel
Dinner
Overnight in a better
room category or
better hotel
* Overnight hotel “Lights of Yenissey” 2* (budget rooms, WC, bathroom).
Breakfast, lunch.
KRASNOYARSK
BUS TO SHARYPOVO VILLAGE
Breakfast at hotel, free morning in Krasnoyarsk
13:00 (time may change) transfer to Krasnoyarsk bus terminal
Departure by a public bus from Krasnoyarsk to a town Sharypovo, 5 hrs.
Upon arrival meeting with local horse riding instructors. Departure to the
village Sartachul (35 km) where you will have an overnight in guest houses and
dinner in family.
Extra services:
Any excursions in
Krasnoyarsk
Luggage fee in public
bus
Lunch
* Overnight in guest houses (no facilities, sleeping bags are provided), breakfast,
dinner
HORSE RIDING IN SNOW TAIGA
Breakfast in family.
Introduction lecture about horse riding, meeting with horses.
The horses are local, underbred, 3-10 years old, mares and geldings,
accustomed to forest, calm, enduring. Every day they walk 50km in the forest,
of middle height, their colour is chestnut, dapple-grey, grey, cream, black
You will have two-day horse-riding through a birch and larch forest till lakes
Prostokishino and Kozyavochnoye (a small, but very picturesque taiga lake),
Rakitka valley, lake Sarbogol, a stop at the top of Nichkuryupskiy range, a trip
to Nichkuryup river, a climb to Kamenka rock
Return to the village for dinner and overnight. Visit a banya.
* Overnight in guest houses (no facilities, sleeping bags are provided), breakfast,
lunch, dinner
Breakfast and dinner in family. Lunch (cooked on fire).
Full-day horse-riding.
* Overnight in guest houses (no facilities, sleeping bags are provided), breakfast,
lunch, dinner
DEPARTURE BACK TO KRASNOYARSK
Breakfast in family.
Transfer to Sharypovo town (35 km)
Departure by public bus back to Krasnoyarsk (bus stops at Krasnoyarsk airport
and main bus terminal).
By night it’s possible to take a plane from Krasnoyarsk to Moscow or take a
train to West or East direction.
* Breakfast
Extra services:
Banya
Extra services:
Hotel and transfers in
Krasnoyarsk
Lunch and dinner
Air o train tickets from
Krasnoyarsk
Recommendations “What bring and wear to a winter horse riding trip”
Thermal underwear, pants, sweater, feather jacket, shortalls, warm jacket (preferably down jacket), 2 pairs of wool socks,
free shoes with high tops, hat with earflaps, ski mask, warm gloves, cup, mug, spoon.
You should not dress in ski clothing, designed for active movement, because most of the time the horse steps and you
only sit, in such clothes it will be cold for you.
Group, pax
2
3
4
Tour cost in EUR, per person
750
612
590
5
536
6 (join-in tour)
429
*SGL supplement in hotel “Lights of Yenissey”, 2 nights = 29 EUR.
Included: Comfortable transport (sedan car or minibus), DBL accommodation in hotel “Lights of Yenissey” (2
nights), accommodation in wooden house in “Stolby” reserve’s territory (1 night, sleeping bags are provided),
accommodation in guesthouses in Sartachul village (3 nights, bed sheets are provided), meals as per program,
entrance tickets to museums, RSG on Day 1, instructor services in “Stolby” reserve, horse riding instructors,
equipment, bus tickets Krasnoyarsk-Sharypovo-Krasnoyarsk, insurance.
Not Included: services not mentioned in the program, accommodation on Day 7, transfers, translator services for
foreign groups + 500 EUR per group.
SIGHTSEEING TOUR “KRASNOYARSK MOSAIC”
(6 days /5 nights, season November-March)
Arrival dates for 2013-2014:
November, 16 – November, 21
December, 14 – December, 19
Day 1
Saturday
Day 2 Sunday
January, 25 – January, 30
March, 22 - March, 27
KRASNOYARSK
Beginning and end of the program in Krasnoyarsk (Russia, Siberia, time zone
+8). You can get to Krasnoyarsk by train or by plane from many cities in Russia
and even by international flights from Beijing
From 07:00 check-in in hotel «Lights of Yenissey» 2*, rest
11:00 Meeting with a guide in the hotel lobby, excursion in Krasnoyarsk
Ethnographic Museum
Lunch in a café
Krasnoyarsk city tour
After that you will go to Krasnoyarsk surroundings, stop at the view point
“Tsar Fish”, from where you can see the river Yenissey and blue mountains, in
the town Divnogorsk you can see Krasnoyarsk hydro power station – the
second biggest one in Russia. Next stop is in the fun-park “Bobrovy log”, you
will go uphill by a ropeway to a view point to the famous reserve “Stolby” and
all Krasnoyarsk.
19.00 Return to the hotel. Dinner independent.
* Overnight hotel “Lights of Yenissey” 2* (budget rooms, WC, bathroom). Lunch.
YENISSEYSK
After breakfast and checking-out of the hotel the group goes to the north of
the region along Yenissey tract to the town Lesosibirsk (300 km). It is a good
possibility to get to know the history of Yenissey province.
On the way you can visit a temple in the village Kazachinskoye with an icon
that can shed tears. Arrival in Lesosibirsk, where you will see some city
churches and the Museum of Contemporary Christian Art. In the Museum the
guide will tell not only about the authors’ style and manner of writing, but also
reveal the spiritual meaning of almost every work.
Excursion to Krestovozdvizhenskiy Cathedral, one of the largest churches in
Siberia (67 meters high).
Excursion to Yenisseysk. Visiting of Yenisseysk Regional Museum. The unique
collection of the museum includes pipes made of mammoth's bone, tungus
Extra services:
Air or train tickets to
Krasnoyarsk
Meeting at the railway
station or airport
Souvenirs
Breakfast, dinner
Overnight in a better
room category or
better hotel
Extra services:
Lunch
Banya
Day 3 Monday
Day 4
Tuesday
Day 5
Wednesday
Day 6
Thursday
tribes' clothes, collections of seeds, Stone age instruments, tungus boxes
decorated by beads, squirrels' tails boa and ancient fishing tools.
Walking excursion in the Siberian city among unique semples of wooden and
stone architecture, churches and mansions.
Visit to photo hut – an unique museum of ancient things collected by
enthusiast Peter Drozdov.
During the excursion you will see the Church of Iver women monastery,
Saviour Cathedral, men monastery of the Holy Transfiguration, Church of the
Resurrection, Epiphany Cathedral, Trinity church, Assumption Cathedral. All
of these treasures, you will see during the tour
Arrival and accommodation at the tourist camp “Rybnaya Zaimka” (50 km).
After accommodation you will have dinner with fish dishes.
* Accommodation in the tourist camp “Rybnaya Zaimka” (rooms with WC,
shower), breakfast, dinner
Please note, there are no twin rooms (only with one king-size bed) at the camp,
an extra sleeping place can be organized an a sofa
ANGARA
Breakfast and lunch at the camp
Free time
After lunch return to Krasnoyarsk by bus (270 km), arrival to the train station
19.20 Departure from Krasnoyarsk to Abakan by night train.
* Overnight on train (2-class, 4-berth-compartments). Breakfast, lunch
SOUTH OF KRASNOYARSK TERRITORY
MINUSSINSK-SHUSHENSKOE
06.35 Arrival to Abakan, capital city of Khakassia Republic.
Breakfast in a café.
Departure to Minusinsk. During the excursion you will see Spas Cathedral,
market, old merchants’ houses and walk around the city-center.
Visit the museum of Decembrists.
Lunch in a cafe.
Further departure to Shushenskoe village that will serve as a pass from
civilization to ancient times. The excursion to the ethnographical museum
"Shushenskoe" and accommodation at its guesthouses.
*Accommodation in wooden guesthouses of the museum “Shushenskoe” (WC,
shower in every room). Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
ABAKAN
Breakfast and lunch at guesthouses
Free time in Shushenskoe
Excursion to Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro power station (no entrance).
Sightseeing excursion in Abakan incl. local lore museum.
End of excursion tour program, farewell dinner in a restaurant with your guide.
*Accommodation in hotel “Abakan” 3*. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
DEPARTURE FROM ABAKAN
Departure from Abakan by flight to Moscow by “Aeroflot” or “S7” airlines
Group, pax
2
3
Tour cost in EUR, per person
1052
880
4 (Join-in tour)
769
5
718
6
657
*SGL supplement = 112 EUR
Extra services:
Under-ice fishing
Dinner
Train
tickets
Krasnoyarsk-Abakan
.
Extra services:
Banya
Souvenirs
Extra services:
Excursion to the park
“Shushensky bor”
Train tickets from
Abakan
Extra services:
Breakfast at hotel
Transfer or taxi hotelairport
Air tickets AbakanMoscow
Included: Comfortable transport (sedan car or minibus), DBL accommodation in hotel “Lights of Yenissey” (1
night), accommodation in “Ryabnaya Zaimka” (1 night), accommodation in guesthouses in “Shushenskoe” (1 night),
accommodation in hotel Abakan (1 night), meals as per program, entrance tickets to museums, RSG/ENG/GSG
services.
Not Included: services, not mentioned in the program, train tickets Krasnoyasrk-Abakan, transfers, insurance,
souvenirs, beverages, porter services.
Additional: train ticket Krasnoyarsk-Abakan, 3rd class = 31 EUR, 2nd class = 55 EUR
ACTIVE TOUR “SNOW JEWELS OF THE SAYANS”
(7 days /6 nights, season November-April)
Arrival dates for 2013-2014:
November, 24 – November, 30
December, 22 – December, 28
January, 05 – January, 11
Day 1
Sunday
Day 2
Monday
February, 16 – February, 22
March, 09 - March, 15
March, 30 - April, 05
KRASNOYARSK
Beginning and end of the program in Krasnoyarsk (Russia, Siberia, time zone
+8). You can get to Krasnoyarsk by train or by plane from many cities in Russia
and even by international flights from Beijing
From 07:00 check-in in «Amaks City Hotel» 3*, breakfast, rest
Lunch at a hotel restaurant or in your room
14:00 Meeting with a guide in the hotel lobby, excursion in Krasnoyarsk
Ethnographic Museum
Krasnoyarsk city tour, visiting such sights as a small Chapel with an observation
point, historical gates to the city, old monuments.
In free time you can walk around the city and buy souvenirs.
Evening time is free.
We recommend you to visit the Central city fir-tree – the highest one in Russia
(46 m high, 35 ton heavy); you can slide down slides, have a ride in carriages,
have a look at beautiful ice sculptures, join round dances, meet Siberian
Grandfather Frost and the Snow Maiden
19.00 Return to the hotel. Dinner independent.
* Overnight “Amaks City Hotel” 3*. Breakfast, lunch.
NATURE RESERVE “STOLBY”
Breakfast at hotel
Transfer to the reserve “Stolby” by bus.
If you have ever been to Krasnoyarsk, but haven't visited the nature reserve
"Stolby", you haven't seen the heart of the city, its lungs, its soul. The shape of
each rock is so unique, that almost all rocks have their own names - Grandfather,
First Pole, Pillars, Takmak, Elephant, Lion's Gate etc. The tourist-excursion area
of Stolby is almost 1,5 thousand hectares.
After a pleasant walk in the central group of rocks with an experienced guide
(3 km) you will have a rest and a hot picnic in a log hut of the real rock climber.
Extra services:
Air or train tickets to
Krasnoyarsk
Meeting at the railway
station or airport
Dinner
Souvenirs
Extra services:
Transfer from the
reserve to the hotel
Dinner
Banya or spa-center
Day 3
Tuesday
Day 4
Wednesday
Day 5
Thursday
Day 6
Friday
Walking downhill (7 km, 500 m altitude).
Return to the hotel by a public bus
* Overnight “Amaks City Hotel” 3*. Breakfast, lunch.
SKI RESORT “BOBROVY LOG”
Breakfast at hotel.
Till 12.00 Check-out
Departure to the fun-park “Bobroviy log” by a public bus, where everyone can
choose any available entertainment.
Excursion to the viewing platform by ropeway, where the magnificent
picturesque landscapes of natural reserve “Stolby” and the city can be
perfectly viewed.
After that free time in the park.
18.00 Transfer from the park to the hotel to pick up the luggage, and then
transfer from hotel to the railway station.
19.20 Departure from Krasnoyarsk to Abakan by night train.
* Overnight on train (2-class, 4-berth-compartments). Breakfast
SOUTH OF KRASNOYARSK TERRITORY and KHAKASSIA
MINUSSINSK-SHUSHENSKOE – “SNOW LEOPARD”
06.35 Arrival to Abakan, capital city of Khakassia Republic.
Breakfast in a café.
Departure to Minusinsk. During the excursion you will see Spas Cathedral,
market, old merchants’ houses and walk around the city-center.
Further departure to Shushenskoe village that will serve as a pass from
civilization to ancient times. The excursion to the ethnographical museum
"Shushenskoe"
Lunch in a cafe.
Excursion to Sayano-Shushenskaya hydro power station (no entrance).
Then the group goes to the taiga camp "Snow Leopard"
Accommodation, rest, dinner
*Accommodation in wooden houses of “Snow Leopard” camp. Breakfast, lunch,
dinner.
IN WILD TAIGA
A day spent in the taiga at the camp
Breakfast, lunch and dinner at the camp
Possible hiking excursions:
 to the hunters hut (1 km one-way, 1 hour)
During the excursion, tourists can learn about the lifestyle of hunters, learn some
secrets of hunting.
 to the suspension “Bridge of love” (2 km one-way, 2,5 hours)
There is a suspension bridge over the river Big On. Big On is a very sluicy
mountain river, which runs through a lot of rapids. There is a local tradition that
a man has to pick up his wife or fiancée and go along this bridge with her on his
hands.
 to White Lama Vostokov (15 km one way by bus, 0,5km on foot, 1,5
hours)
White Lama Vostokov is a professor of Tibetan medicine, who will tell about local
medical herbs and unique possibilities to cure the body in conditions of Sayan
nature
 to the Sayan (One-Hundred) Pass
Sayan pass is 2206 meters high. That is the border between Tuva and Khakassia.
*Accommodation in wooden houses of “Snow Leopard” camp. Breakfast, lunch,
dinner.
KHAKASSIA
After breakfast - bid farewell to "Snow Leopard" and taiga. On the route to
Abakan the group makes a stop at a Khakassian village where there is a
monument Khurtuyakh tas, where native women bring gifts if they wish to
Extra services:
Luggage room at hotel
Rent of mountainskiing or
snowboarding
equipment
Ski-passes
Tickets to the ice rink
Extreme attractions
(open by temperature
higher than -25C).
Lunch and dinner in
the fun-park (café or
premium-restaurant)
Tickets to Krasnoyarsk
zoo
Train
tickets
Krasnoyarsk-Abakan
Extra services:
Horse riding
Message
Extra services:
Lunch
Souvenirs
have a baby.
Sightseeing excursion in Abakan incl. local lore museum.
End of excursion tour program, farewell dinner in a restaurant with your guide.
Day 7
Saturday
*Accommodation in hotel “Abakan” 3*. Breakfast, dinner.
DEPARTURE FROM ABAKAN
Departure from Abakan by flight to Moscow by “Aeroflot” or “S7” airlines
Group, pax
2
Tour cost in EUR, per person
1024
3
4 (Join-in tour)
921
776
5
6
Train tickets
Abakan
from
Extra services:
Breakfast at hotel
Transfer or taxi hotelairport
Air tickets AbakanMoscow
743
690
*SGL supplement = 178 EUR
Included: Comfortable transport (sedan car or minibus), DBL accommodation in hotel “Amaks City Hotel” (2
nights), accommodation in wooden houses in “Snow Leopard” (2 nights), accommodation in hotel Abakan (1
night), meals as per program, entrance tickets to museums, RSG services, instructors, insurance.
Not Included: services, not mentioned in the program, train tickets Krasnoyasrk-Abakan, transfers, insurance,
souvenirs, beverages, porter services, translator’s services 72 EUR per group.
Additional: train ticket Krasnoyarsk-Abakan, 3rd class = 31 EUR, 2nd class = 55 EUR.
SIGHTSEEING TOUR «UNDER WINTER TUVAN SUN»
(5 days /4 nights, season February-March)
Arrival dates for 2014:
February, 10 –February, 14
March, 17 – March, 23
The program offers you a winter trip to Tuva republic. You will see the main sights of republic’s capital city,
discover secrets of the mound Arzhaan II, listen to the legendary throat singing, and join the shamans’
kamlanie ritual, taste national cuisine and visit real nomads’ yurts. During the second part of the travel tourists
will enjoy taiga beauties, visit remote settlements of Old Believer descendants, plunge into the atmosphere of
Siberian pathfinders, have a bird’s eye view of taiga.
Day 1
Day 2
Day 3
Day 4
Day 5
MEETING TUVA
Arrival in Kyzyl in the morning, transfer to the hotel, check-in, rest.
The place of this day is Kyzyl, the capital of Tuva. The first sight to visit here is
the Geographical Centre of Asia.
The next place of visiting is the Buddhist temple where you will have a chance
to hear a sermon of the lama. Buddhism in Tuva exists in harmony with
shaman beliefs.
Meeting with handicraftsmen. Also you will visit the Regional Museum of Tuva
(exhibition “Scythian gold”) and see unique archaeological finds of different
epochs.
Also visiting Kyzyl surroundings, a mineral healing spring.
Dinner in a restaurant with national cuisine.
* Accommodation in a hotel 2*. Dinner
YERZHEY VILLAGE
Breakfast. Checkout.
Departure to the village Yerzhey (170 km) in south direction by winter road.
Arrival to the tourist camp “Yerzhey” which is located at the bank of Ka-Khem
river (Small Yenisei) at Sayan foothill and 2 km away from villages Yerzhei and
Sizim, where Siberian old believers live.
Lunch. A walk around the camp, uphill from where you can observe amazing
scenery.
Dinner.
The lack of roads and public transport makes this trip unforgettable for
travelers who will see picturesque mountain lands, coniferous woods,
meadows and pastures.
*Accommodation in wooden guest houses (no facilities in a house). Breakfast,
lunch, dinner
OLD-BELIEVERS of TUVA
Breakfast.
Excursions to old believers’ descendants.
Coming back to the camp, lunch.
Free time. Visit a typical Siberian hot sauna called banya
Dinner.
Old believers settled in Tuva in the end of 18th century, when these lands were
digested by migrants. Still they try to live in reservations. But some families
agree to receive guests. You will visit this kind of family and learn about their
lifestyle, traditions, rituals of these unusual people. Their village is located on
the bank of the river and you can get there only by ferry which is moved with
the help of the river’s force. Meeting local people is always very exciting. It is a
real time travel, it is a world of totally different values and interests.
*Accommodation in wooden guest houses (no facilities in a house). Breakfast,
lunch, dinner
MEETINGS WITH SHAMANS
Breakfast, coming back to Kyzyl (170 km).
Arrival to the city, accommodation at the hotel, lunch. Departure to the yurt
camp Biy-Khem where you will meet a shaman.
During this meeting shaman will tell you about traditions, rituals and power of
shamanism. After that you will see a shamanistic ritual - kamlaniye.
During your visit at the yurt camp you can also taste national Tuvan tea.
Return to the city. Dinner in a restaurant.
Kamlanie is a ritual during which a shaman communicates with spirits, does
some magic beside the bonfire, producing plangent sounds and playing
tambourine. For some people it will be a cleanup ritual, for others – a chance
to meditate, and someone will just make a wish and soon it will come true.
* Accommodation in a hotel 2*. Breakfast, lunch, dinner
DEPARURE FROM TUVA
Breakfast at hotel
Transfer to the airport or bus terminal
Extra services:
Air tickets to Kyzyl
(from Novosibirsk or
Krasnoyarsk)
Train or air tickets to
Abakan
and
bus
transfer from Abakan
to Kyzyl (shared taxi
for 4 pax or private
bus)
Performance with the
traditional
throat
singing – “khoomei”.
Extra services:
Horse
riding
or
sledding
Snow mobiling
Visit a phyto-sauna
Massage
Extra services:
Horse
riding
or
sledding
Snow mobiling
Visit a phyto-sauna
Massage
Extra services:
Individual
appointments with a
shaman to learn about
your future, go
through cleanup ritual
and get some
information about
your health condition.
Extra services:
Air tickets from Kyzyl
* Breakfast
to Novosibirsk or
Krasnoyarsk
Bus transfer from
Kyzyl
to
Abakan
(shared taxi for 4 pax
or private minibus)
Train or air tickets
from Abakan
Group, pax
Tour cost in EUR, per person
1
2012
2
1190
3
897
4 (Join-in tour)
714
4 (individuals)
750
6
650
8
600
10
595
12
548
*SGL supplement = 125 EUR
Included: Comfortable transport (sedan car or minibus), DBL accommodation in Kyzyl, DBL/TRPL accommodation
in “Erzhey”, meals as per program, entrance tickets to museums, RSG services, Shaman’s Kamlanie.
Not Included: services, not mentioned in the program, air/train tickets, transfer to Kyzyl, beverages, banya, fito
sauna, snowmobiles riding, horse riding, folk performance, insurance, souvenirs, beverages, porter services,
translator’s services 136 EUR per group.