CHUKOTKA

Dates: April 5 – 12, 2021

Duration: 8 days / 7 nights

Number of participants: 3 – 6

EXPEDITION COMPLETED




TRAVEL PROGRAM: TOUR TO CHUKOTKA

Day 1. April 5, 2021
Arrival in Anadyr at 12:40 pm (UTair flight 533 from Moscow).
Meeting at the airport, transfer to the city
Check-in at the Hotel
City tour around Anadyr and its environs (monuments to Grinevetsky, Rytkheu, Mandrikov, St. Nicholas)
Acquaintance with guides, discussion of the route, inspection of equipment, briefing.
Overnight at the hotel.

Day 2
Departure on TrEkol to the village of Kanchalan (70 km, 2 - 3 hours)
Story about local rituals and traditions. Rite of feeding the spirits.
Inspection of the village, lunch at a boarding school, communication with children and management
Return to school
Overnight at school (beds)

Day 3
Early breakfast.
Transfer by TrEkol to the reindeer breeding team (100 - 120 km, 5 - 6 hours).
Meeting with reindeer herders, gift exchange
Tea ceremony in yaranga, tundra life stories.
Lasso throwing workshop
Dinner - food for reindeer herders, a master class on cooking venison dishes
Overnight in Yaranga (your sleeping bags)

Day 4
Participation in the life of a reindeer herder - visiting a herd, photographing animals.
Tour around the area.
If the reindeer herders decide to migrate, then we can observe the process of dismantling yarangas and fur tents, moving to a new place and installing nomadic dwellings.
Acquaintance with rituals. Lecture on Chukotka and Chukchi.
Overnight in Yaranga (your sleeping bags)
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").

Day 5
In the morning, staying in the camp and participating in the daily life of reindeer herders: chopping wood, melting water, dealing with the herd.
Separately, you can order a ritual slaughtering of a reindeer.
Return by TrEkol to Kanchalan (100 - 120 km, 5 - 6 hours).
Overnight at school (beds)

Day 6
Early breakfast in Kanchalan.
Departure to the river for ice fishing on smelt and grayling
Return be TrEkol to Anadyr (70 km, 2 - 3 hours)
Russian banya (steam bath)
Overnight at the hotel

Day 7
Reserve day in Anadyr in case of bad weather
Trekking to the Chukotka Heritage Museum
Farewell dinner in a restaurant
Folk group performance: dancing or throat singing
Overnight at the hotel

Day 8. April 12, 2021
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 3:40 pm (flight UT534).

* The operator reserves the right to change the order of execution of the program subject to keeping of all activities.

Cost includes:

• transport service according to the program (transfers, taxis, ferries, boats, all-terrain vehicles, snowmobiles)
• Accommodation in hotels in Anadyr, on the basis of a double room,
• accommodation in yaranga in a nomads camp and in a boarding school in Kanchalan
• three meals a day along the whole route
• registration of passes to enter the border zone
• tickets to museums
• English speaking and Russian speaking local guide,
• lectures of the ethnologist about Chukotka
• fees for guides, local guides, financial support for local communities
• photo and video shooting

To be additionally (personally) paid:

• flight to Anadyr and back
• medical insurance
• Russian visa (if necessary)
• alcohol drinks and souvenirs
• additional activities not included into the program

To take with:

- very warm winter feather coat with windstopper
- wear sets up to the weather (warm wool socks, cotton socks, wool sweater, thermal underwear, warm winter jacket)
- warm boots, warm and waterproof high boots
- buff / balaclava
- sleeping bag for -5/-10 degrees Celsius comfort temperature (can be freezing in the morning in yaranga)
- inflating tourist mattress
- personal hygiene products (incl. towel, hygiene 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)
- thermos
- gifts to locals
- sunglasses (alpine skiing glasses)
- sun and wind protection
- head torch
- cameras, spare batteries, tripod
- Gifts for the locals