The necklace of the Southern Urals. Sightseeing tour

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.

For an additional fee: tasting of onboard honey.

Breakfast. 

Car transfer to the Bashkir State Reserve (30 km) – the very first 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 nature features of the reserve and the Southern Urals, and will end with a walk along the eco-trail 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; excursions – in the Bashkir State Reserve.

For an additional fee: entrance to the lake beach. A bathhouse.

Breakfast. 

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

On the way: 

1. Stop at the jasper exits: you can find and take away a souvenir – natural jasper from the depths of the Ural Mountains.
2. Lunch.
3. 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. 
4. 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, convenient and comfortable for swimming. From the east, the forested western slope of the Irendyk ridge descends to the lake. 

Accommodation at the Sibai hotel. 

Independent dinner in Sibai city. 

Car travel per day is 190 km.

The price includes: meals – breakfast, lunch; excursions – in 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. 

Transfer to the Nugush reservoir (310 km). 

The road will pass through the southern part of the republic, where you will pass by various settlements and experience the authentic atmosphere of Bashkir settlements. 

And most importantly, you will be surrounded by beautiful Ural nature throughout the entire route. 

Accommodation in a hotel complex. 

Supper. 

Car travel per day is 310 km.

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

Breakfast. 

A walk along the ecotrope in the Bashkiria National Park, located on the western spurs of the Southern Urals in the interfluve of the Nugush and Belaya rivers. 

Rest on the Nugush reservoir.

Lunch. 

The Nugush reservoir and the nearby national Park are the favorite vacation spots in Bashkiria. 

The reservoir, often referred to as the "sea" or "lake", is surrounded by picturesque ridges. 

In the immediate vicinity of the mountains, surrounded by forests, amazing natural monuments of the Southern Urals. 

Next to the Nugush reservoir (on the Nugush River) is the Yumaguzinsky reservoir (on the Belaya River). 

At the request of the group, a sightseeing boat tour of the Nugush reservoir is possible (for an additional fee). 

Return to the campsite. 

Supper. 

Car travel per day is 25 km.

The price includes: meals – breakfast, lunch, dinner; excursions – entrance ticket to the territory of the national park.

For an additional fee: boat trip.

Breakfast. 

Transfer to Muradimov gorge (85 km). 

Recreation in the Muradymov Gorge Nature Park. Overview of mountain ranges. 

This corner of nature is a unique natural monument by the nature of the relief, geological structure, richness of flora and fauna: the cliffs that drop steeply over the Bolshoy Ik River, the abundance of caves in this area attract travelers. 

It has the largest concentration of caves in the Southern Urals.

Lunch. 

Transfer to the Nugush reservoir.

Relaxing on the water. 

Supper. 

Car travel per day is 170 km.

The price includes: meals – breakfast, lunch, dinner; excursions – entrance ticket to the territory of the natural park.

For an additional fee. Payment: excursion to the caves.

Early breakfast. 

Transfer to the village of Voskresenskoye (45 km). 

Excursion to the Voskresenskaya Art Gallery. 

The art gallery of the village of Voskresenskoye was opened on November 6, 1971. 

The founders of the gallery are famous artists – pupils of the Moscow Secondary Art School, who survived the war in the evacuation in the village of Voskresenskoye. 

Transfer to Shikhanov (80 km). 

Lunch. 

A walk at the foot of Shihan. 

The Shihans are unique natural monuments – the remains of ancient coral reefs formed in the warm sea of the Devonian period. 

Until now, corals, sponges, echinoderms and algae, which are about 300 million years old, can be found in clusters of fossils there. 

Transfer to Gafuri district (50 km). 

Sightseeing tour of the Krasnousolsky resort, including the Tabyn Chapel, the place of the appearance of the holy icon of the Tabyn Mother of God; holy springs (mineral and healing water). 

The uniqueness of the Krasnousolsky resort is that here, on an area of only 15 hectares, about 250 springs of mineral waters are knocked out of the bowels of the earth.

Each of them differs in a set of specific trace elements and has a unique effect on the human body. 

Those who wish can swim in the fonts. 

Transfer to the village of Imendyashevo (60 km). 

Accommodation at the campsite (2-bed room with amenities). 

Dinner with elements of Bashkir culture. 

Car travel per day is 235 km.

The price includes: meals – breakfast, lunch, dinner; excursions – Voskresenskaya Art Gallery, Krasnousolsky resort.

Breakfast. 

Radial walking in the vicinity of the village Imendyashevo with a visit to the Ukly-Kaya rock (180 m above the level of the Zilim). 

Translated from Bashkir, Ukly-Kai means "Strelnaya Gora". 

According to legend, young Bashkirs shot at the rock before their marriage. If the arrow reached the mountain, it was believed that the young man had become a man. To confirm the legend, arrowheads were often found on the slopes of the cliff. 

Instead of walking, those who wish can supplement their rest with horse riding (for an additional fee). 

Acquaintance with Bashkir culture: a story about national Bashkir costumes, a photo shoot in national costumes. 

Koumiss tasting. 

Lunch. 

Bus trip (140 km) to Ufa. 

On the way there is the birthplace of the Bashkir poet Mazhit Gafuri and the geographical center of Bashkortostan. 

Arrival in Ufa at 18:00 (local time) to the starting point of the route. 

Car travel per day is 140 km.

The price includes: meals – breakfast, lunch; koumiss.