VLADIVOSTOK AND KAMCHATKA

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VLADIVOSTOK AND KAMCHATKA

Day 1

Afternoon arrival to Vladivostok by plane
Meeting the guide and transfer to the hotel
Accommodation at hotel 3*-4* (standard check-in at 14:00)
4 hours City tour around Vladivostok.

During the city tour you’ll visit the main attractions of the city:
View point at Egersheld, Railway station and Marine station, Central Square with the Monument to Fighters, Historical Center of Vladivostok, Svetlanskaya Street, Nikolai Triumph Arch, Korabelnaya Nabereznaya, Nabereznaya of Tsesarevicha, Funicular and View point “Orlinoe Gnezdo"

During the city tour you’ll visit C-56 submarine museum.

Welcome dinner at the local restaurant
(Folklore show can be arranged as an option)
Back to hotel and overnight

Meals: Dinner

Day 2

Breakfast at the hotel’s restaurant
Meeting the guide
09:00 – 15:00 Russky Island tour

Your excursion begins with crossing two modern cable-stayed bridges: Bridge across Zolotoy Rog Bay and Russky Bridge constructed in 2012. Russky Island was finally established only by the mid-20th century. In Soviet time, Russky was a military and forbidden island. The new life of Russky Island started after holding the APEC Summit on its territory in autumn 2012. Unique seaside nature, azure sea, a lot of picturesque coves, majestic coastal cliffs, excellent beaches and a scattering of unique fortifications - all this is Russian island, the largest in the Gulf of Peter the Great and the closest to the mainland Vladivostok. Now you have the possibility to see the large international business center, where summit's and forum’s main activities take place, Far Eastern University's campus, which has united Vladivostok's four largest universities (university buildings occupy an area of 200 ha). During the tour you’ll visit Voroshilovskaya Battery - the military sight of the Russky Island OR Primorsky Aquarium – the first Aquarium in Russia included into the Russian Academy of Sciences (for your choice).

Lunch at the local café
Transfer to the hotel
Free time and overnight

Meals: B, L

Day 3

Breakfast at the hotel’s restaurant
Meeting the guide and transfer to the airport for the flight to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky
Arrive in Arrive in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Transfer to city or Paratunka hotel. Check in. Rest and unwind from travel. City tour with a visit to the Museum of Local Lore and some historical monuments.

Meals: B, Dinner – independent.

Day 4

Breakfast at the hotel.
Transfer to the foot of the Avacha volcano along the Sukhaya river (river that was formed by flows of melting snow). Accommodation in the tourist camp on the altitude of 950 m. Acclimatization walk on the slopes of Koryaksky volcano and to the Verblud (Camel) mountain. The mountain appeared after the eruption of Avacha volcano, during which hot lava was flowing out of the giant crack in the earth-crust and formed the mountain. There you will see a lot of marmots (locals usually call them “tarbagans”), which often come to the camp. Overnight in Priyut camp.

Meals: B, L, D

Day 5

Breakfast.

Today we ascend to the top of active Avacha volcano (since 1737 it has erupted 16 times). The last eruption was recorded in 1992 when the lava flows reached nearly the foothill of Avacha volcano. The ascent will take 6 to 8 hours, but it also depends upon your fitness. From the top of the volcano you will observe beautiful panorama of Nalychevo Valley, Koryaksky, Mutnovsky, Gorely and Vilyuchinsky volcanoes, Elizovo city and the capital of our peninsula – Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Dinner.
Drive back to hotel.
Overnight in city or Paratunka hotel.

Meals: B, L, D

Day 6

Breakfast.
Transfer to boat terminal for marine excursion (5 - 6 hrs., join-in) around the Avachinskaya bay to the Pacific Ocean and the Starichkov island including a boat ride around Starichkov Island for seabirds and mammals watching. Lunch is served on a board. After boat trip – souvenir shopping & fish market.
Overnight in city or Paratunka hotel.

Meals: B, L - as a part of excursion, Dinner – independent.

Day 7