Moscow & Altai: Chuisky tract, Teletskoye Lake and nomadic glamping

Arrival to Moscow (flight TBA). Meeting by driver or guide with the name plate, transfer to the hotel. 14:00 check-in. Day free. Overnight at the hotel. Read more

Breakfast at the hotel. 10:00 meeting with the guide. Panoramic city tour with stops at the most famous sights: the MSU observation deck, the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Red Square, St Basil's Cathedral (outside) and the GUM department store. Visit to the Kremlin and the cathedrals. The Moscow Kremlin is a fortified complex in the centre of the city overlooking the Moskva River, and the best known of the citadels. Return to the hotel. Overnight at the hotel. Read more

Breakfast at the hotel, check out. 11:00 start with VDNH Park, the All-Russian Exhibition Centre: a historical and architectural complex with no analogues in the world, more than 500 permanent structures and about 49 cultural heritage objects. Conceived in 1935, today it covers over 300 hectares with fountains, cafes and 80 exhibition pavilions. Moscow Maket, a model of the city at a scale of 1:400, remarkable for its detail and relief: every building is detached and has four carefully recreated fronts. Ride on the Ferris wheel "Sun of Moscow" (optional, not included in the package). Transfer to the Izmailovo flea market, a colourful souvenir and antique market on the grounds of the Izmailovo Kremlin. One of the city's largest markets for Soviet antiques, folk crafts, paintings and unique souvenirs. 19:00 transfer to the airport for the overnight flight. 22:20 or 00:10 flight to Gorno-Altaysk by S7 Siberia airlines or Aeroflot (not included). Overnight on the plane. Read more

07:10 or 08:35 arrival to Gorno-Altaysk airport, meeting by the driver. Transfer Gorno-Altaysk - Srostki, 65 km. Meeting with the guide and the group in the village of Srostki takes place between 11:30 and 13:00. Srostki is a quiet village on the legendary Chuisky tract, which gave the world Vasily Makarovich Shukshin: actor, director and writer. An excursion to one of the expositions of the Shukshin museum (entrance ticket for an additional charge). Transfer Srostki - Manzherok, 100 km, and getting to know the resort. This is not just a village and a resort of the same name, but an amazing natural space. The "SUN" version: ascent to Mountain Sinyukha by cableway (optional, for an additional charge). Moving over the mountainside you can admire undulating mountains, the winding ribbon of the Katun and the lake. Transfer Manzherok - Biryuzovaya Katun, 20 km. Accommodation in the ethno-glamping "Altai Nomad", where cozy yurts are spread among the expanses of Altai and the morning begins with the chirping of birds and the scent of flowering herbs. Local dinner. The ritual "Altai bedtime story: your predictions" is conducted around the campfire, with a fire-feeding ritual in the style of the Altai tradition "choy-choy". Read more

Accommodation: ethno-glamping "Altai Nomad". On foot 3 km, by car 340 km.

Breakfast at the glamping. The "SUN" version: a trip along the Chemalsky tract to the Che-Chkysh, 90 km, where the Altaians prayed to their gods in ancient times. The rocky canyon with a waterfall and petroglyphs is a place with the strongest energy; you will observe a stream of health and the waterfall, find petroglyphs on the rocks and hike to an observation deck. Patmos Island, 30 km, one of the most beautiful places in the Altai Mountains. The only way to the island is a rope bridge. The temple in honour of John the Bogoslov and the monastic cell of St Macarius of Altai have been restored there. Transfer Chemal - Barangol, 50 km, with a photo stop on the left bank of the Katun at the place called "Dragon's Teeth". The "RAIN" version: an excursion to the museum and gallery of G.I. Choros-Gurkin and a trip to Askat, the "village of craftsmen", 10 km. Transfer Askat - Barangol, 25 km. Optional: rafting on the Katun (for an additional charge) and a visit to the Kamyshlinsky waterfall, two cascades 12 metres high. Transfer Barangol - Turquoise Katun, 30 km. Local dinner. The evening programme is a story about the customs and traditions of the Altaians with a degustation of local cuisine. Read more

Accommodation: ethno-glamping "Altai Nomad". On foot 6 km, by car 160 km.

Breakfast. Transfer to Lake Teletskoye, 210 km. It is the largest lake in Altai and one of the largest in Russia: about 330 metres deep, 78.6 km long and 2.89 km wide on average. Many rivers flow into it and only the Biya flows out. The day starts with a Lake Teletskoye voyage past the wild nature of the Golden Lake, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. You will visit the Altai State Biosphere Reserve and the famous 12.5-metre Korbu waterfall. On the way back there is a viewing point above the Kishte waterfall at the cape Ayran. Transfer, 210 km. Local dinner. Evening with a folklore programme: kaichi throat singing, national epics and ballads, and the national instruments komus and topshuur, where you become a listener and possibly a participant in an improvised Altai orchestra. Read more

Accommodation: ethno-glamping "Altai Nomad". On foot 4 km, by car 420 km.

Breakfast, check out. Excursion to the apiary, where you can taste and buy Altai honey, propolis, mead, honeycomb, perga and royal jelly. The impression of the day is a relaxing wellness sleep on the hives, with the vibration of the swarm and the smell of honey. The "SUN" version: an excursion in the Biryuzovaya Katun area with a visit to the Tavdinsky caves (entrance ticket for an additional charge). These vaults, grottos and arches form a large interconnected system; during excavations, pottery and other finds from the Iron and Bronze Ages were found there. A walk to the viewing platform with the monument to Nicholas Roerich, overlooking the Katun and the ancient Ichthyander's grotto carved in the rock nearby. Transfer Turquoise Katun - Gorno-Altaysk, 60 km. Excursion to the National Museum of the Altai Republic named after A.V. Anokhin (entrance ticket for an additional charge), with ethnographic collections of the indigenous peoples and the mummy of Princess Ukoka. A walk along the capital of the Altai Republic, "Ulala - Oirot-Tura - Gorno-Altaysk: transfiguration". Transfer Gorno-Altaysk - Novotyryshkino, 120 km, through the picturesque expanses of Siberia. Local dinner. Read more

Accommodation: park-hotel "Altai Green". On foot 5 km, by car 190 km.

Breakfast. Transfer Novotyryshkino - Gornaya Belokurikha, 20 km. Gornaya Belokurikha is a neighbouring developing resort with a winding modern road of 12 serpentine circles over 8 kilometres, with unusual art objects along the way. The "SUN" version: a walk to the "Ambarchiky", rocky granite complexes and unique geological objects with an excellent panorama. Visit to the chocolate museum, one of the sweetest attractions of the resort. Visit to the Andreevskaya Sloboda manor-museum, an example of a peasant farmstead of the 19th century (entrance ticket for an additional fee). Transfer Gornaya Belokurikha - Altayskoye, 70 km. Visit to the arboretum "Altai Kholmogorye" (entrance ticket not included, pay on spot), filled with exotic herbs, shrubs and medicinal plants. Optional: the gastro-botanical lunch "New Altai cuisine" (not included, pay on spot), where traditional dishes with wild plants and medicinal herbs acquire new flavours. Transfer Altayskoye - Novotyryshkino, 70 km. Local dinner. Read more

Accommodation: park-hotel "Altai Green". On foot 6 km, by car 160 km.

Breakfast. Transfer to Belokurikha, 25 km. Sightseeing of the resort, whose main assets are the healing air and thermal water, along with terrencures and springs. Free time to visit souvenir shops or walk around the terrencures. Optional: chairlift to Tserkovka Mountain (not included, pay on spot). The place where the great plain and the mighty mountains meet, with an endless panorama of Western Siberia. Transfer, 25 km. Local dinner. Read more

Accommodation: park-hotel "Altai Green". On foot 6 km, by car 50 km.

Breakfast, check out. Transfer Belokurikha - Biysk - Barnaul, 230 km. Biysk is a city built by the decree of Peter the Great; today it has the status of a Science City and is known for its inventions and for the merchant business of the 18th and 19th centuries. You will see the Uspensky Cathedral in the Russian-Byzantine style and an atmospheric street with merchant architecture. Walking tour "Barnaul, step by step": a mountain city that has no mountains, the world's progressive inventions and the Europeans whom Barnaul made Russians, with the legends hidden in the historic streets. At the end of the tour, a visit to the museum "Gornaya Apteka" and the most effective ways of herbal treatment in the 18th to 21st centuries. The programme finishes at 20:00 local time at the Gornaya Apteka in the historical centre of Barnaul. Transfer to the hotel in Barnaul. Read more

Accommodation: Central Hotel Barnaul. On foot 3 km, by car 230 km.

07:00 check out, meeting with the driver in the hotel lobby. Transfer to Barnaul airport. Flight departure (air tickets not included in the package). Suggested departure by Aeroflot to Moscow, SU 1431, 09:55 - 10:20. Meeting by the driver, transfer to the Moscow hotel. Check-in and free time to enjoy the city at leisure. Overnight at the hotel. Read more

Breakfast at the hotel. 12:00 check out, luggage stored at the hotel. Free time at leisure. Meeting by the driver with the name plate, transfer to the airport, flight TBA. End of services. Read more