SEASON: July 1^st - September 30^th
Departure 2008: for travel companies only.
Group size - up to 10 pax.

Saddle up and ride over, up and around Kamchatka’s highest and most active volcanoes. Feel the ground rumble beneath your tires and pick your way across a moonscape that was used to test the first Soviet “Lunar Roving Vehicle”. Support by 6WD truck.
The route of this tour passes through the most active volcanic zone of the peninsula and along a high-mountain (1000 meters above sea level) plateau, surrounded by 9 of the highest volcanoes of Kamchatka. Passing outstanding volcanic scenery, some formed only 20 years ago, you will have an opportunity to ride cycles throughout the Ash-cinder plain resulting from the Northern vent eruption. While riding you will be able to hear the heartbeat of the Earth. You will always remember the beauty of the largest active volcano of Eurasia - Kluchevskoy (4850 m) and also you can see Tolbachik Volcano. The route will be mainly throughout the tundra, where there are plenty of marmots, ground squirrels, foxes, and bird life, and there should be multiple possibilities to see bears.

16 DAY ITINERARY

Day 1. Arriving in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Transfer by bus from the airport to Petropavlovsk Hotel. Preparing for the trip. Welcome dinner in a city restaurant.
Day 2. Early morning travel by 6WD bus to Milkovo settlement (approx. 300km from your hotel), visiting the local museum and old Cossack architecture. Stay overnight at Moose Range, a rural wilderness lodge built on the banks of the mighty Kamchatka River, complete with tepees or cosy log cabins - all built in the taiga woodsman's way. You will have a chance to try the Banya (Russian sauna).
Day 3. Travel by 6WD bus to the Vodopadnaya Waterfall Base located near active Tolbachik Volcano. Set up base camp.
Day 4. Day trip by MTB to the dikes (up to 7 hours both ways). Return to the base camp.
Day 5. MTB day trip to the lava flows (up to 7 hours both way). Return to the base camp.
Day 6. (3 hours) By MTB to Lunakhodchikov base. This place reminiscent of the Moon is famous as the first testing ground for the first Soviet "Lunar Roving Vehicle". Visiting Alaid and Claw craters on the way. Our 6WD truck will follow with your equipment and tents. Overnight in tents.
Day 7. Ride to the Northern vent cones of Tolbachik Volcano (erupted violently in 1975) and the 'Dead forest' (4 hours). Set up base camp for next 2 nights.
Day 8. Day trip by cycles to the lava caves (up to 7 hours).
Day 9. Travel by 6WD bus to the thermal hot springs at Kluchy. Accommodation in cabins. Bathe in thermal hot water. Rest.
Day 10. Travel back to PKC. Accommodation in the Paratunka Resort Hotel.
Day 11. By MTB to Verkhne-Paratunskiye thermal hot springs (4 hours). Lunch and soaking in the springs. Travel to Mutnovsky Volcano plateau. Make base camp.
Day 12. Ascend active Mutnovsky Volcano (2323m) - day trip. Mutnovsky Volcano's nest of merged craters is perhaps the most beautiful volcanic phenomenon in Kamchatka. The view from its summit is magnificent: steep walls surround the vast and deep crater lake, (previously a glacier until a violent eruption in 1999) framed by hissing mofettes vents, jets of superheated water and rocketing plumes of sulphur smoke. Everywhere there is the deafening roar of volcanic madness, and exhilarating rumbles underfoot. Return to the camp.
Day 13. Travel to the Viluchinskye thermal hot springs at the foot of the imposing cone of Viluchinsky Volcano.
Day 14. Rest day at Viluchinskye thermal hot springs (or reserve day in case of bad weather).
Day 15. Return to PKC. Accommodate in Petropavlovsk Hotel.
Day 16. City tour. Departure.

Cost EUR 1875 per person.

Price includes:

• Full board
• Double accommodation in hotels and tents
• English-speaking rep at the arrival and departure in PKC airport 
• Transfers by coach and 6WD bus
• City tour and museum entrances
• Guide, interpreter and cook services
• Visa invitation and visa registration
• Permits

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