On the way to Arkaim. Sightseeing tour to the South Urals

Breakfast. 

Transfer to the Shulgan-Tash Nature Reserve (100 km). 

Visit to the museum and demonstration complex of the Shulgan-Tash Nature Reserve. 

The basis for the creation of the reserve was the habitation in this region of the core of the purebred aboriginal population of the honey bee – the Burzyansk honey bee ("burzyanki") in the conditions of bee–keeping - Bashkir folk craft. 

This reserve turned out to be the world's first zone protecting native wild bees. 

Tourists will have the opportunity to taste on-board honey (for an additional fee in season). 

Acquaintance with the object of natural and cultural heritage included in the UNESCO World Heritage tentative list: a unique monument of the Paleolithic era – the cave "Shulgan-Tash" (Kapova cave). 

Thousands of years ago, primitive people lived in it and left their drawings on the walls – images of animals. 

Such ancient drawings, before their discovery in this cave, were known only in the caves of Spain and France. 

Regardless of the time of year, the cave has a constant temperature of +7 Celsius. Therefore, it is necessary to have warm clothes with you. 

Lunch with elements of Bashkir cuisine. 

A master class on playing the kurai. 

Return to the campsite (100 km). 

Supper. 

Car travel per day is 200 km.

The price includes: meals – breakfast, lunch, dinner; excursions – in the Shulgan-Tash nature reserve, master class.

For an additional fee: tasting of onboard honey.

Breakfast. 

Car transfer to the Bashkir State Reserve formed in the Southern Urals. 

The reserve lies in the part of the Urals where its main ranges Kraka and Ural Tau lose their meridional direction and break up into a network of very complexly constructed hills. 

The acquaintance with the museum and excursion complex of the reserve will begin with the history and peculiarities of the nature of the reserve and the Southern Urals, and will end with a walk along the ecotrope to the observation tower. 

You can watch them at the deer enclosure, learn interesting facts about their horns and take memorable photos.

Lunch. 

Transfer to Lake Bannoe (140 km).

Check-in at the campsite. 

Walking tour to the Bannoye shopping center. 

You will get acquainted with the features of the ski resort, by cable car in comfortable cabins you will climb to a height of 942 m, from where you can enjoy a wonderful view of the valley with many lakes (in good weather you can see up to 12). 

Supper. 

Car travel per day is 200 km.

The price includes: meals – breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Breakfast.

Bus transfer to Bashkir Trans-Urals (190 km). 

On the way:

• stop at the jasper exits – you can find and take away a souvenir – natural jasper from the depths of the Ural Mountains;
• lunch;
• acquaintance with the first capital of Bashkiria (Bashkir ASSR) – the village of Temyasovo, a visit to the Historical and Cultural Center "Temyasovo", where an ethnographic collection characterizing the ethnoculture of the Bashkir people is presented. The numismatic collection, weapons from the Civil War, and objects from archaeological excavations are worthy of attention;
• Lake Talkas. The water in the lake is sodium-magnesium-calcium. The southern and southeastern shores of the lake are flat, rocky with a sandy bottom. They are convenient and comfortable for swimming. From the east, the forested western slope of the Irendyk ridge descends to the lake. 

Accommodation in the Sibai hotel (2 beds. room with amenities).

Independent dinner in Sibai city.

Car travel per day is 190 km.

The price includes: meals – breakfast, lunch; excursions – at the historical and cultural center "Temyasovo". 

For an additional fee: dinner.

Breakfast. 

Transfer to the Arkaim State Historical and Cultural Reserve (85 km). 

On the way, we cross the Ural River, the water border between Europe and Asia. 

In the reserve, tourists are offered various excursion programs, which tourists choose on the spot at their own request for an additional fee. 

For some, Arkaim is a fortified settlement of the Middle Bronze Age of the turn of the III–II thousand BC, belonging to the "Land of Cities". 

Scientists believe that this is an ancient city, whose age is estimated at about four thousand years, i.e. the age of Arkaim is older than the age of the Egyptian pyramids. 

For others, Arkaim is a natural place of power, located on the site of a natural tectonic fracture of the earth's crust, in the mouth of an extinct volcano millions of years ago. 

Independent lunch on the territory of the Arkaim Nature Reserve. 

Return to the European part of Russia, to the city of Sibai, which is unofficially the capital of the Bashkir Trans-Urals. 

Independent dinner in Sibai city. 

Car travel per day is 180 km.

The price includes: meals – breakfast. 

For an additional fee: lunch, dinner, excursions in Arkaim.

Breakfast. 

Acquaintance with the copper capital of Bashkiria: a visit to the Sibai Museum of Local Lore. 

Visit to the stone-cutting workshop: acquaintance with the works of masters of stone-cutting art, inspection of products made of jasper, granite, lapis lazuli and other ornamental stones. 

Lunch. 

Group transfer to Sibai railway station. 

Transfers to Ufa or Magnitogorsk for an additional fee:

• group transfer to Ufa (420 km, about 6.5 hours on the way), place of arrival: Ufa Department Store (October Avenue, 31) – 2500 rubles/person. 
• group transfer to Magnitogorsk (81 km, 1.5 hours on the way), place of arrival: railway station – 1000 rubles /person.  

Approximate arrival in Ufa at 20:00-21:00.

Approximate arrival at Magnitogorsk railway station at 15:00-16:00.

The price includes: meals – breakfast, lunch; excursions – museum (Sibai), stone-cutting workshop.