Karelian hospitality

1 day

- Meeting of the group at the railway station of Petrozavodsk near the carriage of your train, a guide with a sign "Karelia".

- Breakfast at the café.

- The first pleasant acquaintance with the Republic is a sightseeing tour of the ancient squares of the capital and the Governor's Park.

A memorable photo of its founder - Peter I and a walk along the Onega embankment. This gallery of original compositions from Finland, Sweden, Germany, France is a museum of modern avant-garde sculpture in the open air. We will ask you to fulfill the cherished dream of the Tree of Desire. As promised by Kent Andersen, the author of the monument, it will come true.

- Petrozavodsk Botanical Garden. Then we go to the territory of the oldest volcano - Solomenskoye Nekka. Our road passes through a pontoon bridge, from where a magnificent panorama of Lake Onega and Petrozavodsk itself opens, as well as the Church of the Meeting of the Lord (1775).

This Botanical Garden is one of the northernmost representatives in the European part of Russia. Specialists - botanists among coniferous Karelian forests have created landscapes of woody and shrubbery vegetation, unusual for the northern climate, brought from remote corners of Russia and the world. In the protected area there is an ancient monument of nature - the Devil's chair. Here we learn the ancient legend of an enchanted girl named Pai.

- Moving to Kondopoga (45 km).

- Accommodation in the rooms of the hotel "Karelia" (Kondopoga, Lenin Square 5).

Lunch in the hotel cafe (cover or buffet).

- Walking tour "Acquaintance with Kondopoga". The quiet provincial town is replete with creations of modern architecture: sparkling glass and stone Palaces - Ice and Arts, the Singing Field, musical clock-carillons. Dutch bells play out a leisurely time every hour.

Interactive cognitive and game program "Visiting the shaman".

A wise shaman will meet guests in the Sámi plague by a hot fire on deer skins. Together with the hospitable owner of the house, we will learn about the traditions of the peoples of the North, play fun games, learn to speak Karelian and recharge with positive energy. The shaman will guess on the runes, conduct the ceremony of “obedience to the teacher and cleansing from bad grades”, introduce him to his friends – sled dogs and their small puppies.

In the d / garden of the husky, you can squeeze fluffy lumps and make a cool selfie.

- National master classes in the Karelian Upper. Our craftsmen will teach you the secret methods of rolling and pinching traditional northern cakes - "Kalitka". In the meantime, the dough in the oven is prepared - they will introduce the ancient Finno-Ugric musical instrument "Cantele".

Dinner in the hotel cafe (cover or buffet) and tea with wickets.

Organ concert and excursion in the Palace of Arts of Kondopoga.

Visit the mysterious king of musical instruments - organ and plunge into the world of harmony of sounds.

The cost of the concert is 350 rubles / adult, 300 rubles / child.

Skating in the Ice Palace of Kondopoga (only Saturday-Sunday). The cost of skate rental: 80 rubles. Cost of skiing: 150 rubles / adult, 70 rubles / child.

Visiting the pool. The cost of 150 rubles / 45 minutes / adult, 100 rubles / child. The presence of swimming accessories, caps and replaceable shoes is mandatory. Children up to 4th grade inclusive need a certificate - scraping for enterobiasis.

Water trip under sail on Lake Onega on a ship of Peter's times The cost of the excursion: 600 rubles / person. (from May to October)

Not everyone can boast that he sailed on a ship of Peter’s times.

Welcome aboard the unique sailboat Yakutsk.

This is an exact copy of the ship that participated in the Great Northern Expedition in the Bering Strait in 1728. Dub-sloop was specially built for the filming of the historical film "First", which took place in Karelia.

Today we are pioneers and in our expedition we will learn about selfless patriots and travelers Vitus Bering, Vasily and Tatiana Pronchchiev, Semyon Chelyuskin and the Laptev brothers, learn how to knit sea knots and admire the beauty of the Onega skerries.

Duration: 1.5 hours.

2 days

Attention! On the route of this day there are large gaps between meals.

- 06:30 - early breakfast in the hotel cafe (covering or buffet).

- 07:00 - Departure to the South-West of Karelia, in "Old Finland". No passports or visas (290 km) are required.

On the way stop at the Cross of Sorrow - a monument to the victims of the Soviet-Finnish war 1939-1940. Two mothers grieve for their sons. On the monument are carved the words: Finland and Russia are two mothers, they were embodied in this cross of sorrow. Their heads fused together, their hands intertwined in Hope, that love might triumph.
- Ruskeala's marble quarry.

On the tour we will explore the mountain park from a height. Now it is one of the most beautiful places in Karelia. Artificial white marble rocks picturesquely hang over the emerald water surface of a small lake. It was here that marble was mined for a long time to decorate the cathedrals and palaces of St. Petersburg.

In 2010, the film “The Dark World” was filmed here.

Free time in the park (1 hour) for the purchase of other services (underground route - adult - 1200 rubles, child - 550 rubles, "Trail of Angels" - cost 100 rubles. /person, trolls - the cost of 1200 rubles. /man, etc.).

- Stop for a photo session at Ahvenkoski Falls. This is the famous "Zhenkina river", the filming scene of bathing lumberjacks from the legendary film "And the dawns are quiet ...".

- Old Serdobol (Sortavala). The city is rightly called the “architectural encyclopedia of European architecture”. He gave creative inspiration to Robert Christmas, Bella Akhmadulina and many other poets and composers.

- 15:30 - lunch in the cafe of Sortavala (cover).

- Tour of Sortavala. During the tour, we will visit the Singing Field, climb the observation deck of Kuhavuori Mountain and make a “bird’s eye view selfie”.

- 17:30 - on the already familiar "blue road" return to Kondopoga.

- 22:00 - late dinner in the cafe of the hotel "Karelia" (cover).

3 days

Breakfast in the hotel cafe (cover or buffet).

- Room release.

- We go on an excursion program: Girvas volcano and Kivach waterfall.

Since childhood, dreamed of exotic adventures of Indiana Jones? Are you interested in natural mysteries? You just love a whole new experience? Welcome to Girvas - a unique geological object, the oldest (about 2 billion years) crater of the volcano in Karelia.

Now our way lies to the mighty old man - the giant - the Kivach waterfall!

The famous poet G.R. Derzhavin famously sang it in his ode “Diamond will rain down a mountain from the heights with four rocks ...”. We will get acquainted with the national reserve, nature museum and arboretum. In the arboretum, along with exotic trees, we will see different forms of the mystery tree - the famous Karelian birch. Tree, which nature gave the amazing beauty of wood, reminiscent of its pattern of marble. Even in the twenty-first century, scientists have debated its origin.

Lunch in a cafe (cover or buffet).

- Moving to Petrozavodsk.

- Shungite room. We'll visit the relaxation treatment room. We will learn a lot about the useful properties of healing stone and try tea from shungite purified water. There you can also buy souvenirs from shungite.

- Excursion in the Museum of Geology "Precambria". The museum is listed in the catalog of one hundred best museums in the world. Its expositions are devoted to mining, geological studies of Karelia, the evolution of life, mineralogy, stromatolites.

Gallery Doll House. Cost: adult - 150 rubles, student - 100 rubles.

National Museum of the Republic of Karelia (options of interactive excursions).

Cost: from 150 to 300 rubles / person.

Dinner at a cafe in Petrozavodsk. The cost is 350 rubles. Man.

At 17:30 we will take you to the railway station of Petrozavodsk (groups following from / through St. Petersburg).

At 20:30 (groups coming from/through Moscow).

Dinner in a cafe in Petrozavodsk (cover). The cost is 350 rubles. Man.

We wish you good luck before we meet again in Karelia!