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| Day 1. The city of Abakan, "Shushenskoe Village" museum |
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Meeting in the morning at the airport, breakfast in the cafe (national Khakass cuisine or traditional). At the request of the participants: a walk around the city of Abakan or a visit to the museum of local lore (the second is more interesting). In the museum you can get acquainted with the nature of Khakassia, history, and also see the unique statues of Okunev culture (III thousand years BC).
After lunch, transfer to the village of Shushenskoye and visit one of the best ethographic museums in Russia — Shushenskoye. This is a Russian village of the late 19th century, which has not changed to the present day. In this village at the beginning of the 20th century, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was in exile. There are old houses, an administration, a bar, a shop, a prison. Excursion around Shushensky. On request: Russian folk song ensemble.
Rally: 79 km by car. Meals in cafes, accommodation in the hotel.
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| Day 2. The first meeting with Ergaki Mountains |
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After breakfast, transfer to the visitor-center of the Ergaki Mountain Park. Trekking to Lake Raduzhnoe, setting up a camp (if the group wants trekking), recreation, walks. Beautiful sunset over the mountain «Sleeping Sayan». This mountain looks like a sleeping person. Above the mountain lies a huge «Hanging Stone». According to the ancient Siberian legend, when the Hanging Stone falls, the Sleeping Sayan wakes up.
Rally: 149 km by car. Trekking: 6-12 km. Meals in cafe, accommodation in a tourist camp or in guest houses.
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| Day 3 (option). Ergaki Mountains, Hanging Stone |
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Walk along the mountain trail to the Hanging Stone, which lies on the edge of the abyss. It seems he does not hold, but it’s not at all. Beautiful views of the Sayan Mountains are guaranteed! We go through the Pass of Artists to the foot of the Parabola Mountain and set up a tent camp.
Trekking: 10 km. Accommodation in a tent camp (there are no guest houses in these places).
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| Day 4 (option). Ergaki Mountains, Parabola Rock |
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We meet dawn on the Lake of Artists, where you can see the view of the Parabola Rock. This is one of the most beautiful and unusual places in Siberia! Wildest and clean places. An unforgettable experience of a lifetime! Then we return to the visit-center of Erkagi Mountain Park. Russian Sauna, rest.
Trekking: 16 km. Accommodation in guest houses.
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| Day 5. Tyva, The Center of Asia |
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Morning transfer to the city of Kyzyl, where is the geogaphic center of Asia. A short city tour and a visit to the National Museum, where a unique collection of gold jewelery of the Scythian kings is stored. Kyzyl is a young Siberian city where the ancient Asian style of life and the communist USSR blended. The statue of Lenin and the Tibetan mantras here are neighbors. At the request of the participants, an evening meeting with a tyvian shaman.
Rally: 190 km by car. Meals in cafe, accommodation in a hotel.
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| Day 6 (option). Siberian Old Believers |
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Old Believers in Russia call the Russian people who fled to Siberia from the reforms of Peter
1 and Patriarch Nikon in the 17th century. These people live isolated to this day, preserving all the traditions (old beliefs) of those times. These people almost do not depend on modern civilization and try to keep as little contact with people from cities as possible in order to preserve their lifestyle. Nevertheless, you can visit them, they are very kind people and get acquainted with their life, which many city residents have forgotten. Rally: 150 km by car. Meals in cafe, accommodation in guest houses.
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| Day 7 (option). A distant Siberian village. No civilization |
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Uzhep is the most distant village of Old Believers on the Yenisei River. Next only small families live and monasteries stand. There’s no road, we’ll get here on the boat. Walk around this village, see another world, other people. In this place you can forget that somewhere far away there are huge megacities, crises, a lot of news. Time stopped here in the 17th century. After lunch, you can walk along the banks of the Yenisei River, visit the Russian sauna, try the real taiga cuisine.
Rally: 30 km by boat. Accommodation in guest houses. |
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| Day 8. Aldyn Bulak Yurts, Center of nomadic culture |
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Early in the morning we leave the taiga to the steppe, to the land of Asian nomads. On the bank of the Yenisei River, a little further from Kyzyl there are yurts, it is Aldyn Bulak — the Center of nomadic culture of the Republic of Tuva. In this beautiful place there used to be the residence of the Tyvin khan. Excursion, in the evening an unforgettable concert of throat singing. At the request of the participants, shamanistic mystery.
Rally: 190 km by car. Meals in cafe, accommodation in yurts. |
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| Day 9. Camping Sai-Honash in the Sayan Mountains |
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Camping Sai-Honash is famous for the traditions of Tyvin throat singing, one of the best in the world (in one row with Mongolia). On the way to the campsite, we stop at the walls of an ancient Buddhist monastery and near the statue of a Turkic warrior, the times of the Türkic Kaganate. We drive all day in the mountains and steppes of Tyva. The Republic of Tuva joined the USSR only in 1944, it is one of the most authentic and isolated regions of the country to this day.
Rally: 300 km by car. Meals in cafe, accommodation in yurts. |
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| Day 10. Sayan Highlands |
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Today we return along the mountain road through the pass to Khakassia. Rise to an altitude of 2214 meters, around the beautiful mountain views of Siberia! This is an ancient caravan way, used by the warriors of Genghis Khan during the war with the Kirghiz Khaganate (modern Khakassia). From the pass we descend to the Siberian taiga, we stop in a tourist camping "Snow Leopard". In the evening, you can go to a real taiga Russian bath.
Rally: 120 km by car. Meals in cafe, accommodation in guest houses.
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| Day 13. Okkult Khakassia Land |
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The steppes of Khakassia, which are located in the mountain ridges of the endless Siberian taiga, is a very ancient land. Many peoples and civilizations were here before it became the territory of modern Russia. Menghiri, shaman stones, ancient rock carvings (petroglypes), burial mounds — all these things are the natural landscape of Khakassia. The place of Power, so people say about Khakassia. We go to the Kazanovka Museum, the center of culture and traditions of Khakassia. It is in this place that we are awaited by a deep immersion in the ancient occult world of Siberia.
Rally: 250 km by car. Meals in cafe, accommodation in guest houses.
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