Mysterious Russia: where and how much does “mystical tourism” take place?

In Russia, in each region there are places with their own legends about mysterious and mystical places or phenomena. In practice, turning legends into a tourist product is not easy. In order for a group of tourists to travel to other regions, non-standard methods of promotion are needed.

 

According to S. Romashkin, director of the tour operator “Dolphin”: “No one specifically goes for mysticism.” In fact, for tourists, this topic becomes interesting only on the spot. To bring tourists, we use other ideas in promoting these objects: the beauty of nature, the landscape and even a spectacular selfie can encourage tourists to go there.

 

The greatest difficulty in organizing "mystical tours" is that interesting tourists "places of power" can be difficult to access. Passage of buses with tourist groups to them is often limited, and in winter is impossible.

 

“A year-round travel road is a necessary condition for the development of the route,” says V. Lutov, director of the tour operator “Travel Workshop”. The anomalous zone on the border of the Sverdlovsk region and the Perm region attracts ufologists and lovers of mysticism, but we can not give tourists there – neither by bus, nor by car, nor in winter or summer. And to twitch, inventing a monster where you can easily get there, is not at all desirable.”

 

Difficulty of availability affects the price: complex logistics "mystical" tours can be calculated personally for each participant, and other, "rolled" trips are discounted early booking promotions.

 

In what places of power can you book a trip with Russian tour operators?

For example, a trip to the Urals, in the program - the reserve "Sugumak", psychics look into its caves to "charge the energy of the earth." Mystic Karabash - in its reservoirs of yellow and purple water, and the surrounding landscape is completely Martian.

Near Satka "saw" a Bigfoot, and they say that a UFO is coming.

The author’s excursion tour “Anomalous Necklace of the Southern Urals” starts and finishes in the city. chelyabinskThe approximate price is from 13 990 rubles per person (ground part).

 

The trip on foot to the "mystical" places of the Russian North - "Mysteries of the Kola North" will begin and end in Olenegorsk, and can take place only in the summer. In the program: the sacred “lake of mountain spirits” Seydozero, the area around is considered the habitat of the prehistoric “Hyperborean civilization”. There is no scientific confirmation of the assumption – archaeological studies have revealed only interesting megalithic complexes and stone tools. Mount Ninchurt is also covered with legends, for example, that the ancient “city of shamans” is “hidden” inside the mountain. The price of the trip is calculated individually.

 

The area around Lake Baikal and the reservoir itself are considered to be one of the main mystical places in Russia - different peoples, cultures, religions intersected in the region.

 

Tour operators are advised to purchase package tours, which will include comfortable accommodation, transfer and meals, as the local infrastructure often does not meet the expectations of travelers.

 

The best time to travel is summer. Accommodation in 2 and 3-bed rooms will cost about 19 100 rubles per person.

 

Autumn-winter Baikal - nine-day tour "In the ringing snowy distance..." along the route Irkutsk - Listvyanka village - Irkutsk - Olkhon island - Irkutsk - balneological resort Arshan - Irkutsk.

 

The main “place of power” of Altai is Teletskoye Lake, one of the deepest lakes in Russia (maximum depth of 330 meters) with the purest water.

The place is mystical: with the length of the lake in 77.8 km, the air temperature in the south is several degrees higher than in the north, and there is less precipitation.

 

The lake is surrounded by unusual sights - the waterfalls of Korbu and Kishte, you can reach them only by boat in the summer.

 

Tour with accommodation in a double room costs from 67 860 rubles for two (ground part). From July 10 to August 20, prices increase by 20%.

 

The three-day tour “The Legendary Mountain of Vottovaara and Places of Power” will help you to get to know the mystical Karelia. In the program: Mount Vottovaara and Sampo, a trip to the ice-free waterfall Kivach and the volcano Girvas.

 

The journey begins in St. PetersburgThere is a bus transfer, excursion service, accommodation at the tourist base, breakfast and one lunch. Cost on request.

 

The mysterious place “Five Lakes” is located between the Omsk and Novosibirsk regions near the village of Okunevo. Tours to the facilities are sold from local tour operators.

 

Five lakes are a conditional name, since it is customary to talk about 4 lakes - healing Danilino, overgrown Satan-lake with "dead" water, Shchuchye and Linevo.

According to legend, not everyone can see the Fifth, Secret or Nameless Lake: it must appear to a person. In local folklore, it's "perfectly round and bottomless," could it be a flooded exit from an ancient tunnel? There is an unproven opinion that the “Five Lakes” have a meteoric origin.

 

Lake Brosno (Tver region) is known for the fact that it allegedly lives a monster that is similar to the Loch Ness monster: there are eyewitnesses who saw how it “opens its mouth”. In fact, the reservoir “boils” due to hydrogen sulfide bubbles that form in it.

 

According to information: atorus