The Sayan Ring
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| Day 1: 04.05. 21. Abakan – Minusinsk – Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP – Shushenskoye (350 km) | Arrival in the city of Abakan, the capital of Khakassia. At 09:00 meeting at Abakan airport, after that a meeting at the railway station is possible. Sightseeing tour of Abakan. In the Khakass National Museum of Local Lore you will see a unique collection of stone sculptures – echoes of ancient cults and beliefs. It is believed that many of these sculptures have not lost their power. After lunch, the group goes to the ancient Siberian city of Minusinsk. You will take a walk through the city center, see ancient merchant mansions, go to the market, where you can buy the famous Minusin tomatoes. Due to the climate in Minusinsk a real fruit and vegetable paradise. The largest tomato weighing almost 2 kg was grown by a local resident in 2010. Visit to the Decembrist Museum. External inspection of the Sayano-Shushenskaya HPP, the most powerful in Russia. Visit the trout farm, where you will be able to buy fresh or smoked fish. Arrival in the village of Shushenskoye. This night you will spend in the architectural and ethnographic complex of the Shushenskoye Museum-Reserve, it has preserved the customs and traditions of the Siberian village of the late XIX century. Guest houses are recreated according to samples of peasant estates that actually existed in the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and in the Angara region. The realities of peasant life are successfully combined here with modern comfort of living. Dinner with traditional dishes of Russian cuisine. In the evening, a visit to the bath is possible for an additional fee. |
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| Day 2:05.05. 21. Shushenskoye - Kyzyl (350 km) | After breakfast, you will have a tour of the state ethnographic museum-reserve “Shushenskoe”. The history of the museum is inextricably linked with the name of V.I. Lenin, who lived in Shushenskoye in exile in 1897-1900. You will visit a real Siberian village of the turn of the XIX-XX centuries. This corner of antiquity is located on the bank of the Shusha River, not far from its confluence in the Yenisei. Numerous monuments of rural architecture are located on an area of 7 hectares: peasant houses, a trading shop, a prison, a tavern, a total of about 200 wooden buildings. This is an amazing place in the atmosphere, which is breathtaking even among hardened skeptics. You will visit the inn, visit a real merchant shop and get acquainted with the skill of artisans. After lunch, you will travel through the mountains of the Western Sayan, watching the fascinating scenery. You will meet the owner of these places – Sleeping Sayan. He, if you look closely, can be seen in the outlines of the mountains: he lies on his back, folded his hands on his chest. The road to Tuva runs along the famous natural park "Ergaki". In the evening, the group arrives in Tuva. Surprisingly, as soon as the bus crosses the border, even the landscape changes dramatically. You seem to be on another planet at another time. In most of the territory of Tuva there are almost no signs of modern civilization, steppes stretch for hundreds of kilometers, interrupted by the collapse of mountains with sharp crests. The group is housed in the new Chalam hotel in the center of Kyzyl. |
| Day 3:06.05. 21. Kyzyl | On this day you will find a tour of Kyzyl - the capital of Tuva. You will visit the geographical center of Asia, which is symbolically located near the confluence of two rivers - Bi-Hem (Big Yenisei) and Kaa-Hem (Little Yenisei). Then begins the famous, crossing the whole of Siberia from south to north - the Great Yenisei. Visit to a Buddhist monastery. Visit to the National Museum of Tuva (excursion to the exposition "Gold of the Scythians"). The tour is dedicated to the famous mound Arzhaan-2, which was excavated in 2000-2003 by specialists of the Hermitage in cooperation with the German Archaeological Institute. The treasures found in the mound (more than 20 kg of gold items in total) became a real sensation in the archaeological world. Visiting a shamanic society where you can ask questions, learn the secrets of shamanism. Free time in the city, visiting souvenir shops, a mineral spring in the vicinity of Kyzyl. In the evening, guests will get acquainted with the performers of traditional Tuvan throat singing “Khoomei”. Throat singing is a fantastic ability of the Tuvans and some other peoples of Siberia to simultaneously emit two or three musical sounds of different heights and at the same time pull them for 25-30 seconds without taking a breath. If you listen with your eyes closed, you cannot believe that these sounds are made by a person and not by a musical instrument. Dinner with national cuisine. |
| Day 4:07.05. 21. Kyzyl – Ustuu-Khuree Monastery – Sayan Pass – Snow Leopard Tourist Base (Khakassia) (440 km) | On this day, the group crosses Tuva from east to west, passing the road of ancient nomads. Before lunch stop at the breathtaking mountain Khayirakan, one of the most revered places in Tuva. In 1992 it was chosen as an energetically strong place and consecrated by the Dalai Lama XIV. At least once a year, local shamans come here to recharge, strengthen and purify the spirit. Picnic lunch. Walk, rest. On the way you will see the center of Buddhist culture of Tuva - the restored monastery of Ustuu-Huree. The temple became the crown of Buddhist construction in Tuva. There was no such thing not only in Tuva, but also in the territory of the former Union. In 1930, after the adoption of a special decree, Ustuu-Huree was closed, and in 1937 it was destroyed. In 1999, the Russian government, recognizing the historical and architectural value of the unique temple of Ustuu-Huree, decided to restore it. In July 2012, during the celebration of the music festival of the same name, the monastery of Ustuu-Huree was officially opened. On the Sayan Pass, at an altitude of 2214 meters above sea level, Khakassia begins. The next two days you will spend at the tourist base "Snow Leopard" surrounded by mountains and fabulous cedar taiga. After dinner, you will get acquainted with the instructors of the Snow Leopard - amazing people who are in love with nature, the taiga, who know all the surrounding paths, understand the healing properties of herbs. For the rest of the evening, you will find songs and heartfelt conversations until late at night. Accommodation in wooden houses made of cedar with oven heating. |
| Day 5:08.05. 21. Snow Leopard tourist base (4 km on foot) | A day in the taiga will surprise you with the silence that you have long forgotten in the city. After breakfast, walk on the suspension bridge of Love (2 km one way, 2.5 hours). The suspension bridge passes through the high mountain river Big On. The river rapidly, overcoming rapids and rolls, flows among the centuries-old cedar taiga. In autumn it will be possible to collect mushrooms, berries, pine cones and medicinal herbs. Taiga is so generous that you do not have to look for mushrooms and berries, everything grows literally under your feet. The Siberian cedar is a unique tree. Those cedars, surrounded by which you will find yourself, have survived more than one century, fed tens, if not hundreds of generations of taiga inhabitants. Taiga gives a different sense of time and a sense of unity with nature, which you will want to experience more than once. Clean taiga air heals, but the true panacea for all ailments is a Russian bath. In the evening you will find a steam room with brooms of coniferous branches and birches, an ice font in the taiga river and the taste of herbal tea. |
| Day 6: 09.05. 21. Tour base "Snow Leopard" - Kazanovka - Abakan (370 km) | After breakfast, you say goodbye to the Snow Leopard and go to the heart of Khakassia - the village of Kazanovka. The ancient land of Khakassia in terms of concentration of archaeological monuments is ahead of all of Siberia, if not the whole of Russia. Here, right by the road, you can see cave paintings depicting sacred rituals, burial mounds or stone statues, which are still worshiped by local residents. On the way, you will visit the Khurtuyah Tas stele – “stone mother”, as locals like to call it. By lunch, the arrival in the Kyug Valley, translated from Khakass, is a pleasure. In the silence of the Khakass valley, you can truly relax with your soul, and the smell of beautiful irises will give you new strength. Lunch with dishes of Khakassian national cuisine. Excursion to the Khakass State Archaeological Museum-Reserve "Kazanovka". The reserve appeared 15 years ago on the initiative of a historian, archaeologist and simply a caring, sincerely loving Khakassia man Leonid Eremin. Kazanovka is an example of how to treat historical and cultural heritage, it is a brand in demand by scientists and tourists from all over the world. You will be shown cave paintings, which are 3-5 thousand years old, taught to copy them on paper, and these rare souvenirs you can take home. In addition, you will learn the purpose of mysterious vertical stones sticking out of the ground throughout the territory of Khakassia. Departure to Abakan, the capital of Khakassia. |
| Day 7: 10.05. 21. Abakan - Moscow | End of tour, room release before 12:00. Flight morning flight from Abakan to Moscow. |
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