Expedition with ethnologist to the Dezhnev Cape by dog sleds
CHUKOTKA
April 19 - 29, 2022*
Tour Chukotka, Russia
Tour Chukotka, Russia
winter tour to Chukotka with ethnologist expedition to reindeer herders tour stay in yaranga tundra polar bears photo tour Chukchi sea mammals hunters Dezhnev Cape dog sleds Russian Arctic
Find yourself in the place where day turns into night, where distance from the eastern hemisphere to the western one is only one step, where the cultures of the Chukchi reindeer herders and Inuit sea mammals' hunters survive in the polar tundra.
Feel like a true discoverer: explore Chukotka Peninsula in the role of musher, reach the easternmost part of Eurasia – Cape Dezhnev, and glance from Siberia to America.
This is a very authentic expedition. In addition to winter polar weather and authentic cultures, we will have a great chance to see the northern lights and polar bears.
We will be led by Chukchi mushers, participants and winners of famous Beringia and Nadezhda dog sled races and noted in Guinness Book of world records.
The ethnologist, a big expert in the field of indigenous tribes of Chukotka, travels and lectures with us throughout the expedition.
Feel like a true discoverer: explore Chukotka Peninsula in the role of musher, reach the easternmost part of Eurasia – Cape Dezhnev, and glance from Siberia to America.
This is a very authentic expedition. In addition to winter polar weather and authentic cultures, we will have a great chance to see the northern lights and polar bears.
We will be led by Chukchi mushers, participants and winners of famous Beringia and Nadezhda dog sled races and noted in Guinness Book of world records.
The ethnologist, a big expert in the field of indigenous tribes of Chukotka, travels and lectures with us throughout the expedition.
©️ MZUNGU EXPEDITIONS / Alexey Kolbov, 2021
©️ МЗУНГУ ЭКСПЕДИШЕНС / Алексей Кольбов, 2021
©️ МЗУНГУ ЭКСПЕДИШЕНС / Алексей Кольбов, 2021
SCHEDULE AND COST:
Dates: April 19 to 29, 2022*
* The dates of the expedition can be shifted 1 week back or forward, depending on the spring schedule of ChukotAvia Airlines' domestic flights in Chukotka, as well as depending on the dates of the annual Nadezhda ("Hope") dog sled race (mushers and dogs participating in our expedition, must also participate in the "Hope" race).
The final dates of the expedition will be determined upon receipt of information on the flight schedule and the dates of the "Hope" race, in any case no later than in January 2022.
Duration: 11 days / 10 nights
Number of participants: 4 – 6
Cost per person (based on double accommodation):
- 299 000 Russian rubles subject to 6 participants or
- 319 000 Russian rubles subject to 5 participants or
- 329 000 Russian rubles subject to 4 participants
10% early booking discount (in case you book before November 15, 2021)
Everything is included except for:
- international flight to Anadyr (roundtrip),
- international medical insurance,
- Russian visa (if needed).
Estimated cost of the flight Moscow – Anadyr – Moscow: 50000 rubles (to be purchased on your own).
Single supplement: upon request (single accommodation is provided only in hotels).
TRAVEL PROGRAM: PHOTO TOUR TO CHUKOTKA
Day 1. April 19, 2022 (Tuesday). ANADYR
Arrival in Anadyr at 12:30 pm (UTair flight 533 from Moscow).
Meeting at the airport, transfer to the city.
City tour (monuments to Grinevetsky, Rytkheu, Revolutionary Commissioner of Chukotka, St. Nicolas).
Visit to the Chukotka Heritage Museum.
Performance of the folk group - throat singing or dancing.
Dinner and tasting of salmon, caviar and other local delicacies.
Stories from ethnologist about local rituals and traditions. Ritual of feeding the spirits
Meals: dinner
Accommodation: hotel "Anadyr"
Day 2. April 20, 2022 (Wednesday). ANADYR – LAURENTIUS – INCHOUN
Breakfast, transfer to the airport.
Flight from Anadyr to Laurentius, to the very east of the Chukotka Peninsula. Meeting at the airport with a guide and team-leader (scientist – ethnologist)
Lunch in Laurentius.
Transfer to the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the village of Inchoun (90 km, 3 - 4 hours), photographing the tundra along the way.
Arrival, arrangement in the apartments of the mushers, acquaintance with the locals.
Dinner - home cooking, traditional coastal food.
Meeting with representatives of the Eskimo and Chukchi cultures, discussion on issues of intercultural interaction.
Meals included: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: apartment
Day 3. April 21, 2022 (Thursday). INCHOUN
Breakfast. Walking tour around the village
Master class "musher school" - acquaintance with mushers and their dogs, teaching the basic skills of driving a team.
Test drives. Everyone drives their dog sleds, accompanied by an experienced musher-instructor.
If possible, going out to the ice edge with sea mammals hunters, subject to good weather, observing the seal hunting.
Overnight at the apartment, preparing for the trek.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: apartment
Day 4. April 22, 2022 (Friday). INCHOUN – UELEN
Breakfast. Dog sledding from Inchoun to Uelen (about 30 km) along the coast of the Arctic Ocean. The group is accompanied by the TrEkol all-terrain vehicle and two snowmobiles.
Along the route meeting with animals is quite possible - polar bear, arctic fox, wolverine.
On the way - a picnic, hot tea.
Arrival at Uelen. Accommodation in a hotel or boarding school.
Dinner. Walking tour around the village, meeting the locals.
Overnight at the apartment or hotel.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: hotel or boarding school
Days 5. April 23, 2022 (Saturday). UELEN – CAPE DEZHNEV – UELEN
Breakfast. Departure by dog sleds to Cape Dezhnev, the easternmost point of Eurasia (round trip about 30 km).
The dog sleds remain with the mushers. Trekking to the lighthouse and the monument to Semyon Dezhnev. Visiting of the archaeological site - the Eskimo old settlement of Naukan. The descent takes about an hour, the ascent is about 2 hours, the elevation difference is 400 meters. If icy occurs, the slope can be slippery, then descent will be impossible.
The Eskimo (the Inuit) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, Chukotka and Alaska. The Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo-Aleut family. Inuit are the descendants of what anthropologists call the Thule culture, who emerged from western Alaska around 1000 CE. They had split from the related Aleut group about 4,000 years ago and from northeastern Siberian migrants, possibly related to the Chukchi language group, still earlier, descended from the third major migration from Siberia. They spread eastwards across the Arctic.
Photographing landscapes. With good visibility - observation of the Diomede Islands: Ratmanova (Russia) and Kruzenshtern (USA).
Return to Uelen by dog sleds.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: hotel or boarding school in Uelen
Days 6. April 24, 2022 (Saturday). UELEN – INCHOUN
Breakfast and visit to the bone carving workroom in Uelen.
Back way by dog sledges to Inchoun (about 30 km).
Picnic along the way.
Dinner in Inchoun, accommodation in the mushers' apartments. Exchange of impressions.
Discussion on the topic "Truth and Fiction in the film" The Chief of Chukotka ".
Hunting for the Northern Lights if the weather allows.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: apartment
Days 7. April 25, 2022 (Sunday). INCHOUN – REINDEER HERDERS' CAMP
Breakfast and farewell to mushers and dogs.
Transfer by TRECOL to the reindeer herding brigade (travel time is depending on where the reindeer herders' camp will be located, presumably 4 - 6 hours).
The Chukchi are an indigenous people inhabiting the Chukotka Peninsula and the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean within Russia. They speak the Chukchi language. Chukchi originated from the people living around the Okhotsk Sea. According to most recent genomic research, Chukchi people are the closest cousins of the First Americans in Asia. Chukchi are traditionally divided into the Maritime Chukchi, who had settled homes on the coast and lived primarily from sea mammal hunting, and the Reindeer Chukchi, who lived as nomads in the inland tundra region, migrating seasonally with their herds of reindeer. The Russian name "Chukchi" is derived from the Chukchi word Chauchu ("rich in reindeer"), which was used by the Reindeer Chukchi to distinguish themselves from the Maritime Chukchi, called Anqallyt ("the sea people").
Lunch of reindeer herders' food.
Reindeer cooking master class
Communication with reindeer herders, campfire stories about life in the tundra.
Overnight in yaranga in the reindeer herders' camp.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: yaranga (traditional Chukchi dwelling) or fur tent.
Day 8. April 26, 2022 (Tuesday). REINDEER HERDERS' CAMP - LORINO
Breakfast. Drive to the herd.
A master class in throwing a lasso..
Reindeer ritual slaughtering.
Farewell to hospitable reindeer herders and departure in the direction of Lorino - the capital of the whalers.
Walking tour around the village. Visit to the bone carving workroom, a workshop on bone carving art, ordering souvenirs.
Accommodation in the apartments of sea mammals hunters.
Dinner. Ethnographer's lecture on the history of whaling
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: apartment
Day 9. April 27, 2022 (Wednesday). LORINO – LAURENTIUS – ANADYR
Flight Laurentius – Anadyr.
Crossing the estuary to the city.
Accommodation at the Hotel Anadyr.
Russian banya (steam bath).
Dinner and lectures of the ethnologist on the history of the settlement in Chukotka
Meals included: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Anadyr
Day 10. April 28, 2022 (Thursday). ANADYR
Reserve day in case of bad weather and flight change.
Buying of souvenirs.
Visit to the Chukotka Heritage Museum and performance of a folklore group - throat singing or dancing, possibly on this day
Farewell dinner, exchange of impressions.
Meals included: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Anadyr
Day 11. April 29, 2022 (Friday). ANADYR - GUDYM - RETURN FLIGHT
Breakfast. Crossing the estuary.
Excursion to the abandoned military base Gudym. Gudym, built in late 1950th, served as a nuclear weapon base during the Cold War period and was completely hidden underground. Picnic at the military base with packed army lunchbox.
Transfer to the airport and flight Anadyr - Moscow by UTair airline, departure at 15:15 pm (flight UT534).
Meals included: breakfast, lunch
Accommodation: no
* The operator reserves the right to change the order of execution of the program subject to keeping of all activities.
** The program depends on the local flights schedule and availability of flying weather.
*** In case the nomadic reindeer herders of the Chukotka region are out of reach (more than 7 hours on an all-terrain vehicle), days 7-11 will be completed in accordance with the following alternative program (for the same cost):
7. April 25, 2022 (Sunday). INCHOUN – LORINO
Breakfast and farewell to mushers and dogs.
Transfer by TRECOL to the Lorino - the capital of the whalers.
Walking tour around the village. Visit to the bone carving workroom, a workshop on bone carving art, ordering souvenirs.
Accommodation in the apartments of sea mammals hunters.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: apartment
Day 8. April 26, 2022 (Tuesday). LORINO
Breakfast. Walking tour around the village. Visit to the bone carving workroom, a workshop on bone carving art, ordering souvenirs.
Drive to Lorino hot springs. Picnic, bathing in the springs, returning to the village.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: apartment
Day 9. April 27, 2022 (Wednesday). LORINO – LAURENTIUS – ANADYR - REINDEER HERDERS' CAMP
Breakfast. Farewell to sea mammals hunters and moving to Laurentius to the airport.
Flight Laurentius – Anadyr.
Meeting at the airport
Lunch.
Transfer by TRECOL to the reindeer herding brigade (travel time is depending on where the reindeer herders' camp will be located, presumably 4 - 6 hours).
The Chukchi are an indigenous people inhabiting the Chukotka Peninsula and the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean within Russia. They speak the Chukchi language. Chukchi originated from the people living around the Okhotsk Sea. According to most recent genomic research, Chukchi people are the closest cousins of the First Americans in Asia. Chukchi are traditionally divided into the Maritime Chukchi, who had settled homes on the coast and lived primarily from sea mammal hunting, and the Reindeer Chukchi, who lived as nomads in the inland tundra region, migrating seasonally with their herds of reindeer. The Russian name "Chukchi" is derived from the Chukchi word Chauchu ("rich in reindeer"), which was used by the Reindeer Chukchi to distinguish themselves from the Maritime Chukchi, called Anqallyt ("the sea people").
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: yaranga (traditional Chukchi dwelling) or fur tent.
Day 10. April 28, 2022 (Thursday). REINDEER HERDERS' CAMP - KANCHALAN
Breakfast. Drive to the herd.
A master class in throwing a lasso..
Reindeer ritual slaughtering.
Farewell to hospitable reindeer herders and departure in the direction of Kanchalan (around 50 km, 2-3 hours).
Accommodation in the apartments or boarding school.
Dinner.
Russian banya (steam bath).
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: hotel or boarding school
Day 11. April 29, 2022 (Friday). KANCHALAN - ANADYR AIRPORT - RETURN DEPARTURE
Early breakfast.
Moving by all-terrain vehicle from Kanchalan to Anadyr airport (Coal Mines), 70 km, 2 - 3 hours.
Flight Anadyr - Moscow by UTair (departure at 15:15 by flight UT534).
Meals: breakfast, lunch
Accommodation: no
* The dates of the expedition can be shifted 1 week back or forward, depending on the spring schedule of ChukotAvia Airlines' domestic flights in Chukotka, as well as depending on the dates of the annual Nadezhda ("Hope") dog sled race (mushers and dogs participating in our expedition, must also participate in the "Hope" race).
The final dates of the expedition will be determined upon receipt of information on the flight schedule and the dates of the "Hope" race, in any case no later than in January 2022.
Duration: 11 days / 10 nights
Number of participants: 4 – 6
Cost per person (based on double accommodation):
- 299 000 Russian rubles subject to 6 participants or
- 319 000 Russian rubles subject to 5 participants or
- 329 000 Russian rubles subject to 4 participants
10% early booking discount (in case you book before November 15, 2021)
Everything is included except for:
- international flight to Anadyr (roundtrip),
- international medical insurance,
- Russian visa (if needed).
Estimated cost of the flight Moscow – Anadyr – Moscow: 50000 rubles (to be purchased on your own).
Single supplement: upon request (single accommodation is provided only in hotels).
TRAVEL PROGRAM: PHOTO TOUR TO CHUKOTKA
Day 1. April 19, 2022 (Tuesday). ANADYR
Arrival in Anadyr at 12:30 pm (UTair flight 533 from Moscow).
Meeting at the airport, transfer to the city.
City tour (monuments to Grinevetsky, Rytkheu, Revolutionary Commissioner of Chukotka, St. Nicolas).
Visit to the Chukotka Heritage Museum.
Performance of the folk group - throat singing or dancing.
Dinner and tasting of salmon, caviar and other local delicacies.
Stories from ethnologist about local rituals and traditions. Ritual of feeding the spirits
Meals: dinner
Accommodation: hotel "Anadyr"
Day 2. April 20, 2022 (Wednesday). ANADYR – LAURENTIUS – INCHOUN
Breakfast, transfer to the airport.
Flight from Anadyr to Laurentius, to the very east of the Chukotka Peninsula. Meeting at the airport with a guide and team-leader (scientist – ethnologist)
Lunch in Laurentius.
Transfer to the coast of the Arctic Ocean to the village of Inchoun (90 km, 3 - 4 hours), photographing the tundra along the way.
Arrival, arrangement in the apartments of the mushers, acquaintance with the locals.
Dinner - home cooking, traditional coastal food.
Meeting with representatives of the Eskimo and Chukchi cultures, discussion on issues of intercultural interaction.
Meals included: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: apartment
Day 3. April 21, 2022 (Thursday). INCHOUN
Breakfast. Walking tour around the village
Master class "musher school" - acquaintance with mushers and their dogs, teaching the basic skills of driving a team.
Test drives. Everyone drives their dog sleds, accompanied by an experienced musher-instructor.
If possible, going out to the ice edge with sea mammals hunters, subject to good weather, observing the seal hunting.
Overnight at the apartment, preparing for the trek.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: apartment
Day 4. April 22, 2022 (Friday). INCHOUN – UELEN
Breakfast. Dog sledding from Inchoun to Uelen (about 30 km) along the coast of the Arctic Ocean. The group is accompanied by the TrEkol all-terrain vehicle and two snowmobiles.
Along the route meeting with animals is quite possible - polar bear, arctic fox, wolverine.
On the way - a picnic, hot tea.
Arrival at Uelen. Accommodation in a hotel or boarding school.
Dinner. Walking tour around the village, meeting the locals.
Overnight at the apartment or hotel.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: hotel or boarding school
Days 5. April 23, 2022 (Saturday). UELEN – CAPE DEZHNEV – UELEN
Breakfast. Departure by dog sleds to Cape Dezhnev, the easternmost point of Eurasia (round trip about 30 km).
The dog sleds remain with the mushers. Trekking to the lighthouse and the monument to Semyon Dezhnev. Visiting of the archaeological site - the Eskimo old settlement of Naukan. The descent takes about an hour, the ascent is about 2 hours, the elevation difference is 400 meters. If icy occurs, the slope can be slippery, then descent will be impossible.
The Eskimo (the Inuit) are a group of culturally similar indigenous peoples inhabiting the Arctic regions of Greenland, Canada, Chukotka and Alaska. The Inuit languages are part of the Eskimo-Aleut family. Inuit are the descendants of what anthropologists call the Thule culture, who emerged from western Alaska around 1000 CE. They had split from the related Aleut group about 4,000 years ago and from northeastern Siberian migrants, possibly related to the Chukchi language group, still earlier, descended from the third major migration from Siberia. They spread eastwards across the Arctic.
Photographing landscapes. With good visibility - observation of the Diomede Islands: Ratmanova (Russia) and Kruzenshtern (USA).
Return to Uelen by dog sleds.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: hotel or boarding school in Uelen
Days 6. April 24, 2022 (Saturday). UELEN – INCHOUN
Breakfast and visit to the bone carving workroom in Uelen.
Back way by dog sledges to Inchoun (about 30 km).
Picnic along the way.
Dinner in Inchoun, accommodation in the mushers' apartments. Exchange of impressions.
Discussion on the topic "Truth and Fiction in the film" The Chief of Chukotka ".
Hunting for the Northern Lights if the weather allows.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: apartment
Days 7. April 25, 2022 (Sunday). INCHOUN – REINDEER HERDERS' CAMP
Breakfast and farewell to mushers and dogs.
Transfer by TRECOL to the reindeer herding brigade (travel time is depending on where the reindeer herders' camp will be located, presumably 4 - 6 hours).
The Chukchi are an indigenous people inhabiting the Chukotka Peninsula and the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean within Russia. They speak the Chukchi language. Chukchi originated from the people living around the Okhotsk Sea. According to most recent genomic research, Chukchi people are the closest cousins of the First Americans in Asia. Chukchi are traditionally divided into the Maritime Chukchi, who had settled homes on the coast and lived primarily from sea mammal hunting, and the Reindeer Chukchi, who lived as nomads in the inland tundra region, migrating seasonally with their herds of reindeer. The Russian name "Chukchi" is derived from the Chukchi word Chauchu ("rich in reindeer"), which was used by the Reindeer Chukchi to distinguish themselves from the Maritime Chukchi, called Anqallyt ("the sea people").
Lunch of reindeer herders' food.
Reindeer cooking master class
Communication with reindeer herders, campfire stories about life in the tundra.
Overnight in yaranga in the reindeer herders' camp.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: yaranga (traditional Chukchi dwelling) or fur tent.
Day 8. April 26, 2022 (Tuesday). REINDEER HERDERS' CAMP - LORINO
Breakfast. Drive to the herd.
A master class in throwing a lasso..
Reindeer ritual slaughtering.
Farewell to hospitable reindeer herders and departure in the direction of Lorino - the capital of the whalers.
Walking tour around the village. Visit to the bone carving workroom, a workshop on bone carving art, ordering souvenirs.
Accommodation in the apartments of sea mammals hunters.
Dinner. Ethnographer's lecture on the history of whaling
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: apartment
Day 9. April 27, 2022 (Wednesday). LORINO – LAURENTIUS – ANADYR
Flight Laurentius – Anadyr.
Crossing the estuary to the city.
Accommodation at the Hotel Anadyr.
Russian banya (steam bath).
Dinner and lectures of the ethnologist on the history of the settlement in Chukotka
Meals included: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Anadyr
Day 10. April 28, 2022 (Thursday). ANADYR
Reserve day in case of bad weather and flight change.
Buying of souvenirs.
Visit to the Chukotka Heritage Museum and performance of a folklore group - throat singing or dancing, possibly on this day
Farewell dinner, exchange of impressions.
Meals included: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: Hotel Anadyr
Day 11. April 29, 2022 (Friday). ANADYR - GUDYM - RETURN FLIGHT
Breakfast. Crossing the estuary.
Excursion to the abandoned military base Gudym. Gudym, built in late 1950th, served as a nuclear weapon base during the Cold War period and was completely hidden underground. Picnic at the military base with packed army lunchbox.
Transfer to the airport and flight Anadyr - Moscow by UTair airline, departure at 15:15 pm (flight UT534).
Meals included: breakfast, lunch
Accommodation: no
* The operator reserves the right to change the order of execution of the program subject to keeping of all activities.
** The program depends on the local flights schedule and availability of flying weather.
*** In case the nomadic reindeer herders of the Chukotka region are out of reach (more than 7 hours on an all-terrain vehicle), days 7-11 will be completed in accordance with the following alternative program (for the same cost):
7. April 25, 2022 (Sunday). INCHOUN – LORINO
Breakfast and farewell to mushers and dogs.
Transfer by TRECOL to the Lorino - the capital of the whalers.
Walking tour around the village. Visit to the bone carving workroom, a workshop on bone carving art, ordering souvenirs.
Accommodation in the apartments of sea mammals hunters.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: apartment
Day 8. April 26, 2022 (Tuesday). LORINO
Breakfast. Walking tour around the village. Visit to the bone carving workroom, a workshop on bone carving art, ordering souvenirs.
Drive to Lorino hot springs. Picnic, bathing in the springs, returning to the village.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: apartment
Day 9. April 27, 2022 (Wednesday). LORINO – LAURENTIUS – ANADYR - REINDEER HERDERS' CAMP
Breakfast. Farewell to sea mammals hunters and moving to Laurentius to the airport.
Flight Laurentius – Anadyr.
Meeting at the airport
Lunch.
Transfer by TRECOL to the reindeer herding brigade (travel time is depending on where the reindeer herders' camp will be located, presumably 4 - 6 hours).
The Chukchi are an indigenous people inhabiting the Chukotka Peninsula and the shores of the Chukchi Sea and the Bering Sea region of the Arctic Ocean within Russia. They speak the Chukchi language. Chukchi originated from the people living around the Okhotsk Sea. According to most recent genomic research, Chukchi people are the closest cousins of the First Americans in Asia. Chukchi are traditionally divided into the Maritime Chukchi, who had settled homes on the coast and lived primarily from sea mammal hunting, and the Reindeer Chukchi, who lived as nomads in the inland tundra region, migrating seasonally with their herds of reindeer. The Russian name "Chukchi" is derived from the Chukchi word Chauchu ("rich in reindeer"), which was used by the Reindeer Chukchi to distinguish themselves from the Maritime Chukchi, called Anqallyt ("the sea people").
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: yaranga (traditional Chukchi dwelling) or fur tent.
Day 10. April 28, 2022 (Thursday). REINDEER HERDERS' CAMP - KANCHALAN
Breakfast. Drive to the herd.
A master class in throwing a lasso..
Reindeer ritual slaughtering.
Farewell to hospitable reindeer herders and departure in the direction of Kanchalan (around 50 km, 2-3 hours).
Accommodation in the apartments or boarding school.
Dinner.
Russian banya (steam bath).
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner
Accommodation: hotel or boarding school
Day 11. April 29, 2022 (Friday). KANCHALAN - ANADYR AIRPORT - RETURN DEPARTURE
Early breakfast.
Moving by all-terrain vehicle from Kanchalan to Anadyr airport (Coal Mines), 70 km, 2 - 3 hours.
Flight Anadyr - Moscow by UTair (departure at 15:15 by flight UT534).
Meals: breakfast, lunch
Accommodation: no
Cost includes:
- domestic flights Anadyr – Laurentius – Anadyr
- transport service according to the program (transfers, taxis, ferries, boats, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles)
- dog teams and sleds (personal dog team and sled for each participant of the expedition) and escort of the TrEkol all-terrain vehicle and two snowmobiles along the entire route from Lorino to Cape Dezhnev and back
- Accommodation in hotels in Anadyr, in double/twin rooms
- Accommodation in apartments in Lorino and Inchoun
- Accommodation in a private house or boarding school in Kanchalan
- Accommodation in local hotel or apartments in Uelen
- accommodation in the yaranga or in the tent at the nomads' camp
- three meals a day throughout the whole program
- registration of passes to enter the border zone
- permit for National park, tickets for National park
- tickets to museums
- all activities and performances according to the program
- English speaking and Russian speaking local guide and team leader (professional ethnologist),
- lectures of the ethnologist about Chukotka
- fees for guides, local guides, financial support for local communities
- photo and video shooting
Cost excludes (to be additionally paid):
- flight to Anadyr and back
- medical insurance.
- Russian visa (if necessary)
- alcohol drinks and souvenirs
- additional activities not included into the program
- single supplement in hotels
To take with:
- very warm winter feather coat with windstopper
- very warm winter hat with windstopper (2 pieces), gloves with windstopper (2 pairs) andwarm winter trousers with windstopper (2 pairs)
- warm boots, warm and waterproof high boots (2 pairs of very warm winter shoes is a must)
- winter wear sets (warm wool socks, cotton socks, wool sweater, warm winter jacket)
- thermal underwear,
- sleeping bag for -5/-10 degrees Celsius comfort temperature (can be freezing in the morning in yaranga)
- inflating tourist mattress
- sunglasses (is a must)
- alpine skiing glasses (up to you)
- buff / balaclava
- thermos
- head torch
- personal hygiene products (incl. towel, hygiene wet tissues, soap)
- minimum set of favorite snacks and drinks (nowhere to buy)
- personal medical kit (analgetic, antiseptic, antibiotic, antiviral, intestinal, multivitamins, rehydron, court plaster, your personal medications)
- sun and wind protection
- cameras, spare batteries, tripod
- Gifts for the locals
- domestic flights Anadyr – Laurentius – Anadyr
- transport service according to the program (transfers, taxis, ferries, boats, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles)
- dog teams and sleds (personal dog team and sled for each participant of the expedition) and escort of the TrEkol all-terrain vehicle and two snowmobiles along the entire route from Lorino to Cape Dezhnev and back
- Accommodation in hotels in Anadyr, in double/twin rooms
- Accommodation in apartments in Lorino and Inchoun
- Accommodation in a private house or boarding school in Kanchalan
- Accommodation in local hotel or apartments in Uelen
- accommodation in the yaranga or in the tent at the nomads' camp
- three meals a day throughout the whole program
- registration of passes to enter the border zone
- permit for National park, tickets for National park
- tickets to museums
- all activities and performances according to the program
- English speaking and Russian speaking local guide and team leader (professional ethnologist),
- lectures of the ethnologist about Chukotka
- fees for guides, local guides, financial support for local communities
- photo and video shooting
Cost excludes (to be additionally paid):
- flight to Anadyr and back
- medical insurance.
- Russian visa (if necessary)
- alcohol drinks and souvenirs
- additional activities not included into the program
- single supplement in hotels
To take with:
- very warm winter feather coat with windstopper
- very warm winter hat with windstopper (2 pieces), gloves with windstopper (2 pairs) andwarm winter trousers with windstopper (2 pairs)
- warm boots, warm and waterproof high boots (2 pairs of very warm winter shoes is a must)
- winter wear sets (warm wool socks, cotton socks, wool sweater, warm winter jacket)
- thermal underwear,
- sleeping bag for -5/-10 degrees Celsius comfort temperature (can be freezing in the morning in yaranga)
- inflating tourist mattress
- sunglasses (is a must)
- alpine skiing glasses (up to you)
- buff / balaclava
- thermos
- head torch
- personal hygiene products (incl. towel, hygiene wet tissues, soap)
- minimum set of favorite snacks and drinks (nowhere to buy)
- personal medical kit (analgetic, antiseptic, antibiotic, antiviral, intestinal, multivitamins, rehydron, court plaster, your personal medications)
- sun and wind protection
- cameras, spare batteries, tripod
- Gifts for the locals
KEY FEATURES:
TOUR TO YAMAL
Chukotka peninsula, Russia
Best season: March - April
Feel like a real musher driving the dog sled team
Reach the easternmost part of Eurasia – Cape Dezhnev on a dog sled team, covering hundreds of kilometers, and see America over the Bering Strait
Get acquainted with the culture of Chukchi reindeer herders and spend the night in yaranga
Learn the culture of the sea mammals hunters in Chukotka, evidence sea mammals hunting
See the extreme eastern and unexplored region of Russia, the real polar tundra
Chase Aurora Borealis
Explore the abandoned Soviet military base Gudym
Get to know the northern cuisine and taste local delicacies
Chukotka peninsula, Russia
Best season: March - April
Feel like a real musher driving the dog sled team
Reach the easternmost part of Eurasia – Cape Dezhnev on a dog sled team, covering hundreds of kilometers, and see America over the Bering Strait
Get acquainted with the culture of Chukchi reindeer herders and spend the night in yaranga
Learn the culture of the sea mammals hunters in Chukotka, evidence sea mammals hunting
See the extreme eastern and unexplored region of Russia, the real polar tundra
Chase Aurora Borealis
Explore the abandoned Soviet military base Gudym
Get to know the northern cuisine and taste local delicacies
Why with MZUNGU EXPEDITIONS?
1
UNIQUENESS
We find the most astonishing places on Earth and speed up to reach them. Our motto is to go ahead of road roller, touch the unique and unknown, before it disappears.
We find the most astonishing places on Earth and speed up to reach them. Our motto is to go ahead of road roller, touch the unique and unknown, before it disappears.
2
ADVENTURISM
Wherever we go, we look for challenging activities and adventures, filling the journey with absolutely different spirit and emotions. That is why people join us over and over again.
Wherever we go, we look for challenging activities and adventures, filling the journey with absolutely different spirit and emotions. That is why people join us over and over again.
3
SAFETY
In our trips we pay special attention to safety. All our travels are based on personal experience, equipped with the best gear, involving proved providers and experienced local guides who perfectly know local features.
In our trips we pay special attention to safety. All our travels are based on personal experience, equipped with the best gear, involving proved providers and experienced local guides who perfectly know local features.
4
EXPERIENCE
We have a unique experience of the most offbeat expeditions and ascents, deep knowledge of countries and peoples, and are ready to share it with you. All the expeditions and climbings are guided by Mzungu himself, guaranteeing exciting traveling and your comfort.
We have a unique experience of the most offbeat expeditions and ascents, deep knowledge of countries and peoples, and are ready to share it with you. All the expeditions and climbings are guided by Mzungu himself, guaranteeing exciting traveling and your comfort.
5
LOW PRICE
All our trips are reach in adventures, with high quality accommodation, transportation and meals included. We do not save on it. Thanks to solid contacts with reliable providers we offer really good prices and high quality.
All our trips are reach in adventures, with high quality accommodation, transportation and meals included. We do not save on it. Thanks to solid contacts with reliable providers we offer really good prices and high quality.
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