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SAFARI TOURS

HUNTING (soon) - Hunting season: April - May & August - March. During these period the hunting for bird (wild ducks, snipes, geese, blackcock and small birds, altogether about 70 types of birds), wild boar, moose, wolf, brown bear is opened. It is possible to combine hunting with fishing (pike, perch). Hunting takes place on the territory of Karelia & Leningrad region.
(Prices available by request)

FISHING (soon) - Vast water areas covering virtually big territory of Karelia and Leningrad region always attracted lovers of fishing. There are more than 60 fish species including those of valuable sorts: salmon, salmon trout, lake trout, lake herring, sturgeon, orfe, grayling, vendace, carp.
(Prices available by request)

YACHTING
- walk on the Gulf of Finland by comfortable marine yach;.
- walk to Kronshtatd. Founded in 1704 by Peter The Great as outpost of Russian fleet it remained closed for visiting till 1996 as the Base of Military Marine Fleet was situated there.
(Prices available by request)

THE PERL OF LADOGA TOUR:
Moscow - St. Petersburg/ Petrozavodsk - Valaam Island- St. Petersburg/ Petrozavodsk - Moscow (soon)

Valaam- Valaam archipelago consists of fifty islands. Valaam nature is wonderful: sheer rocks raising high from the depths, little islands, capes, bays... Straits, lakes and sullen granite rocks reflect everything in their azure, and tall coniferous trees complete the marvelous, magnificent picture. The history of this northern archipelago goes back to the ancient times. The legends ascribe the first Slavic settlements on the Valaam to the 9th - 10th centuries. Every stone of Valaam constructions is bound up with history and Russian monarchs. Practically all Russian tsars participated in Valaam reconstruction. By energies of Peter I and Empress Elizabeth the church of Assumption, the five-domed cathedral of Transfiguration, and the church of Christmas was reconstructed and consecrated. This place was visited by emperors Alexander I and Alexander II together with his family. Nowadays Valaam attracts by its intact nature, the spirit of the past time and Our Savior Transfiguration Monastery, which active again, rising high over the waters and surrounded by primeval forest.
(Prices available by request.)

Duration of THE PERL OF LADOGA TOUR - 3-7 days.

KIZHI ISLAND TOUR by helicopter:
Moscow/ St. Petersburg - Petrozavodsk -Kizhi Island- Petrozavodsk - St. Petersburg / Moscow

Kizhi island is situated in a wonderful country of blue lakes, waterfalls, hillocks and barren rock of Karelia, on the picturesque Onega Lake. Kizhi island is famous for its 14th century wooden architecture. The Kizhi open-air museum has 70 monuments among of which there are chapels, peasant houses, windmills, barns, blacksmith's shops, roadside crosses. Some of them have been preserved on their original sites, some were moved to the museum from other parts of Karelia.

The Church of the Transfiguration- dating back to the 17th century, the amazing creation of unknown masters of the past built without single nail astounds with its height and the 22 beautiful domes.
( Prices available by request.)

Duration of KIZHI ISLAND TOUR - 3-7 days.

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