Family Traditions or How We Travel Home

Perhaps the best vacation is a vacation with your beloved family. There is a tradition in our family that we never break. This is a small trip to the wonderful places of our country. It is not necessary to go to other countries, because in our country there are beautiful places – mountains, rivers and lakes, steppes and forests. I would like to share my impressions of such places.

I’ll start with the hottest season, when my family and I go on an unforgettable vacation. In July, when it is hot outside, you always want to swim in a clean, cool lake, fry kebabs, or just be in nature, watching the beautiful landscapes of mountains and forests. Therefore, in order to fully plunge into this atmosphere, my family chose a wonderful place of entertainment – these are the Chelyabinsk lakes. For several years now, we have been happy to go to recreation centers in the Chelyabinsk region. Chelyabinsk lakes are famous for their purity. I will tell you about the most popular of them, on which our family rests.

It's Uwilda Lake. If you dream to relax on a clean, sandy beach, spend the night in a cozy house on the shore of the lake, you can safely go here. Some tourists, like us, do not live in houses, but in tents. This is one of my favorite traditions on our journey. You give yourself completely to nature, as if you are sleeping in the open air and this is probably the most unforgettable. In the evenings, I like to admire the azure sunset and the tranquility of the lake. An interesting feature of the lake is the many islands scattered around it. On one of these islands, Dad and his friends go fishing in the morning. Then you get a really good ear. Also, if you are a fan of fishing, in some places there are special bridges for fishing. And of course, if you go there on weekends, you can get to a beach party. The DJ arrives with his team and the dance lasts almost until the morning. We rest there from 3 to 5 days. When we go home, we always remember the fun moments, and there are so many.

But our trips do not end there, in August we go to rest in the city of Sol-Iletsk, rich in its salt lakes. I think it's a great vacation, because we combine the good with the good. For several years in a row, we have been going with benefit to spend our holidays in one of the most unusual resorts, which is considered the main health resort in Russia. The road to the resort lasts almost all day. 1,300 kilometers behind us and we're here. It seemed that only in the morning, at the beginning of our journey, the whole sky was covered with clouds, and it was a wet day, and after a thousand kilometers you get out of the car and the outside temperature is already under +40. One of the most popular resorts in Russia is almost no different resorts on the Black Sea, of course, except for the absence of the sea itself. We family go "savages", rent a comfortable cottage, although in Sol-Iletsk there is a famous throughout the country sanatorium. The resort has a well-developed infrastructure, a lot of entertainment for children, excursions, zoos, water slides. But still the most interesting, attracting more than a million visitors annually is a group of salt lakes. The most popular is water treatment. Feelings after such procedures cannot be conveyed in words. After the skin becomes smooth and tender, but this is not all the wonders of such mud therapy. The composition of dirt includes a variety of gases, sulfurous iron, sodium and potassium, as well as substances with a bactericidal effect. My favorite lake is Lake Damage.

Its bottom is completely covered with salt, so it is impossible to drown in it, this is another plus for those who can not swim. Lying in the lake should be calm, because if water gets into the eyes, it can eat the membrane of the eye. Lakes tone the body, have a regulating effect on the central nervous system, improve metabolism. Impressions after such a holiday are unforgettable, in a few days we recovered for the whole year ahead. And, of course, I look forward to a new meeting with Sol-Iletsk.

This is how our summer holidays go, but in winter we go to the thermal springs of Tyumen. Our family visited three such springs, and the most beloved was the country club "Avan". We spend two days there. Near the pool there is a small hotel. "Avan" is famous for its real thermal source. The water temperature in his pool does not fall below 45 degrees Celsius. When the yard is severe winter frosts, we bask in the open air in the spring. This is an indescribable sensation when you in a swimsuit go out to forty degrees of frost, and rather run into a hot spring, giving the body a powerful charge of nutrients. I don’t even want to get out of that pool.

Also in the country club you can warm up in the Finnish sauna, visit massage treatments, play billiards and even go to the gym. While adults rest in the spring, children can have fun in the playing room. Water thermal spring, has a high level of mineralization. In the water there are sodium chlorides, bromine, iodine. Mineral water has a positive effect on the problems of the support apparatus, on problems with blood vessels and the heart, as well as the nervous system.

I like these traditions, I like to spend time with my family, and also with health benefits. I hope we continue to travel this way because we love it so much. And, of course, we will not stop there, and we will visit many different places of our vast Motherland.

Author of text and photo: Anastasia Yakina