The glow of the North

1 day

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

Breakfast in the cafe of Petrozavodsk (cover).

- Acquaintance with the city founded by the highest decree of Peter I, the same age as St. Petersburg, the capital of Karelia. The architectural ensemble of Round Square (18th century), the Governor’s Garden, Theatre Square (4 theaters), the embankment, with the only open-air museum in the world of modern avant-garde sculpture.

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

- Visit to the shungite center. We relax in the treatment room, learn a lot about the properties of the healing stone and try tea from shungite purified water. There you can also buy souvenirs from shungite.

- Moving to Kondopoga (45 km).

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

Lunch at the hotel cafe (buffet).

For new impressions and natural mysteries - welcome to Girvas - a unique geological object, the oldest (about 2 billion years) crater of a volcano in Karelia!!! You will see a section of more than 20 lava flows with a capacity of up to 32 m and fossilized volcanic "bombs", including gas voids. Do not forget the video camera to create proof that you have visited a real volcano.

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

The famous poet and the first governor of our region Gavrila Romanovich Derzhavin talentedly sang one of the most striking sights of Karelia. “A mountain of diamonds falls from the heights with four rocks.”

Under the noise of the bubbling stream, it was time to learn the ancient Karelian legend about the emergence of the largest East European waterfall and get acquainted with the national reserve and the nature museum. You want more riddles? They're very close. In the arboretum grows a grove of Karelian birch. The owner of the most expensive, amazing, “marble” wood in the world, she is a legend for scientists in the XXI century.

- Dinner at the hotel cafe (buffet).

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.

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

- 06:00 - early breakfast in the cafe of the hotel "Karelia".

- Room release.

06:45 - Departure to the former Finnish territories without visas and passports (230 km).

- White Bridge Falls. A tourist's foot rarely sets foot here. You're a pioneer today. Set up for an hour-long walk (one way), prepare your cameras - the pictures will be Unique!

The name of the waterfall came from the Finns, who built a road, and then bridges of white stone across the river. This is the highest sheer waterfall in Karelia, its height is about 17 meters. Located in Pitkärante district, on the river Kulismajoki.

The beautiful river calmly rolls its clean waters along ancient boulders covered with moss, majestic age-old fir trees rise along the left bank.

- Lunch at the café.

- Transfer to the mountain park "Ruskeala" (80 km).

- 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 ...".

- 17:30 - Ground tour in the marble mountain park "Ruskeala" (1.5 hours). With the ease of a talented painter, nature walked through the monument of mining, turning it into one of the most beautiful places in the Republic. It was here that marble was mined for a long time to decorate the cathedrals and palaces of St. Petersburg. The bizarre outlines of sheer marble cliffs, mysterious galleries and grottoes became a natural scenery of the fantasy film “The Dark World”.

- Moving to Sortavala.

- By 20:00 we will take you to the railway station in Sortavala. Train 160A, departure at 20:25.