The necklace of the Southern Urals. Sightseeing tour

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One of the most complete tours of the Southern Urals, including all the main attractions and mysteries of the region.

We invite you to the high-altitude protected areas, where you will get acquainted with the secrets of the Kapova Cave and the Muradymovsky gorge, learn how to collect honey, touch the secrets of Arkaim, walk in the oak groves of the Bashkiria National Park and in the lime forests of the Urals, visit the pearl lakes of the Urals.

Location

Ufa

Sightseeing tours

from

US$ 985

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Weekends: 8am - 7pm (GMT +3)

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Tour highlights

National flavor

We will take pictures in national costumes and try delicious local dishes

The ancient city of Arkaim

Let's visit a natural place of power, the age of which is older than the Egyptian pyramids!

Holy Springs

We will visit the healing springs in Krasnousolsky, and those who wish can swim in the fonts

Itinerary

Day 1 - Excursion to the village of Kaga, the museum "House of a factory peasant of the 19th century"
10:00 Meeting of the group in Ufa at the central entrance of the UFA Department Store (October Avenue, 31).
Be sure to inform the tour operator in advance of the information upon arrival at the start point of the tour: transport, arrival time, mobile phone for emergency communication!
Bus trip from the flat part of Bashkiria through the highlands to the mountainous and forested areas of the Southern Urals to the ancient Russian village of Kaga (300 km).
Along the way, landscapes change from the Ural steppes to the majestic Ural mountains.
Part of the route passes through the territory of the South Ural State Nature Reserve.
In good weather, you can enjoy a view of the highest peak of the Southern Urals – Bolshoy Yaman-Tau.
Lunch.
Accommodation at the campsite.
Acquaintance with the history of the area and inspection of the architectural monument – St. Nicholas Church.
Excursion "The history of the village of Kaga and the Ural ironworks".
Visit to the museum "House of a factory peasant of the 19th century": immersion in the life of mining peasants, memorable photos in folk costumes.
Possible replacement: a master class "modeling dumplings", a visit to a private open-air museum of minerals.
Supper.
Car travel per day is 300 km.
The price includes: meals – lunch, dinner; excursions – in the village of Kaga.

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Day 2 - Shulgan-Tash Nature Reserve, a master class on playing the kurai
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.

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Day 3 - Bashkir State Reserve, Lake Bannoye
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.

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Day 4 - Transfer to the Bashkir Trans-Urals
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, 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.

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Day 5 - Arkaim Nature Reserve
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.

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Day 6 - Sibai Museum of Local History, transfer to the Nugush reservoir
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.
Day 7 - A walk along the ecotrope in the Bashkiria National Park, a rest at the Nugush reservoir
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.

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Day 8 - Muradymov gorge, rest on the Nugush reservoir
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.

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Day 9 - Voskresenskaya Art Gallery, Shikhany Mountains, Krasnousolsky springs
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.

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Day 10 - Ukly-Kaya Rock, photo shoot in national costumes, koumiss tasting
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.

Difficulty

For any person

Tour organizer's comments

The tour is designed for untrained tourists and does not require physical training from participants, but involves hiking and walking along unequipped mountain trails.

Accommodation

Camp Site

2 nights
Hotel

3 nights
or

Camp Site, Hotel

3 nights
or

Hotel, Camp Site

1 night

Comfort

Midscale
Upscale

The tour provides accommodation in hotels and camp sites.

Standard 2-bed rooms with amenities in the room or in the cottage (one bathroom for 2-3 rooms).

The cost of the tour for 1 person, depending on the date of arrival, RUB.:

Price validity period	Cost
Arrivals from 28.04 to 25.06 and from 20.08 to 24.09	86 800
Arrivals from 02.07 to 13.08	94 700

The surcharge for single occupancy is 22,500 rubles/person.

It is possible to replace the placement options with similar ones.

Tengri camp site: a tourist complex in which buildings built at the end of the 19th century (the estate of the mining hospital) and modern domed houses harmoniously coexist.

The complex is located at an altitude of 800 m above sea level, from here you can enjoy a panorama of rocks and mountain ranges, pine forests, and two mountain rivers merging into a single stream.

On the territory there is a detached kitchen-dining building, a camp site administrator's house, baths, guest houses for guests, a parking place for vehicles.

There is Wi-Fi. Standard 2-bed accommodation in a room, amenities in a room or in a cottage (one bathroom for 3 rooms).

Room facilities: single/double beds with orthopedic mattresses, cabinets / shelves for storing things. Heating/water supply/ sewerage - centralized.

Tour conditions

Group

up to 20 tourists

Minimum age

8 years old

Duration

10 days 9 nights

Group meets at

Ufa

Included in price

transportation services along the route (vehicles depending on the size of the group);
hotel accommodation;
meals (according to the program);
the work of the maintainer (coordinator);
excursion program (according to the program: services of guides or guides, entrance tickets);
vehicle entry passes to recreational areas;
eco-fees;
accident insurance in the amount of 50,000 rubles.

Paid extra

air and railway tickets to Ufa and back;
meals not specified in the tour program;
additional services in hotels;
alcoholic beverages;
luggage tray;
additional excursions (including activities, baths);
souvenirs.

It's important to know

What to take with you: backpack/bag, sneakers (sneakers), tracksuit, sweater, jacket (raincoat), headdress (warm cap and panama hat), bathing suit, woolen and cotton socks; for mountain walks - dirt-resistant and waterproof clothing, sports shoes for walking in the forest and on mountain trails (sneakers or closed sandals that hold well on the foot

Do not forget: washing supplies (toothpaste, brush, soap, washcloth, shampoo, comb, camping towel), personal first aid kit, toilet paper, knife, insect bites and sunburn remedies, sunglasses, lantern, raincoat/umbrella, photo/video equipment (in a waterproof case), chargers devices for the equipment.

In order not to spoil the impression of a holiday, we advise you to carefully consider the choice of shoes, since along the route to explore some natural objects it is supposed to move along forest trails.

It is necessary to have personal documents with you, as well as a compulsory medical insurance policy.

The tourist independently provides luggage for loading into vehicles.

Baggage standards: 80-100 liters. Weight – 20 kg.

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