In the morning, you and I will go to visit the home volcanoes. Domestic volcanoes in Kamchatka are called giants surrounding the city, which can be viewed from almost anywhere in it.
And we will end the day with an exciting gastronomic dinner in a modern ethno-community, where representatives of the Koryak people really live, continuing the traditions of their ancestors.
Breakfast at the hotel.
An off-road trip through the Vilyuchinsky pass, the plateau of the Gorely volcano, to the area of the Mutnovsky volcano. The purpose of our trip today will be the Summer springs — an active geo-thermal plateau.
Easy trekking with small ascents and descents to the valley of Summer springs (about 2 km in one direction). A walk among various thermal phenomena that will be practically under our feet in maximum proximity — boiling boilers, hot springs, large and small steam-gas jets, small waterfalls.
Red-hot steam roars straight out of the ground, enveloping the yellow-red stones and green slopes of the valley. Everything is hissing, whistling, bubbling. There are also bubbling gray puddles with viscous boiling water, fountains of hot springs, tunnels.
Country springs are called the Small Valley of Geysers, but there are no real geysers here — not boiling water, but hot gas, which heats the water on the surface, simulating a geyser, comes out of the ground.
Let's go to the new active zone, which appeared in 2024, creating a new landscape.
Return to the car, in a quiet place in the valley of the stream, we will make a picnic lunch: lunch box, hot tea.
On the way back, we will stop and walk (about 500-700 m) to another picturesque location — a 16-meter waterfall on the Calm Stream, which is called the "Snow Leopard" waterfall.
Approximately by 3 p.m. we will return to the hotels to change clothes if necessary and go for dinner to the ethnic camp of the indigenous inhabitants of Kamchatka.
Eyvet is the ancestral community of the Pritchin family, in which the traditional way of life of the Koryak people is closely intertwined with modern life.
The family contains 80 sled dogs and their world is an extreme marathon sled dog race "Beringia", "Avacha", the purpose of which is to preserve the unique performance characteristics of Kamchatka sled dogs.
Here, traditions are not a word from a history textbook, but a part of everyday life.
The owners of the community will share their experience, history and taste of cooking delicious dishes of the Koryak ethnic group.
Let's get acquainted with the main business of Avet's life — modern sled dogs. Do they know how to think? Why use archaic wooden sleds and harnesses in sledding? How can a racer and dogs "not end" when the figure of 3000 km is in the training plan for the season? What is more important in the race — victory or the health of the dogs?
Then we will visit the spawning ground of the chum salmon, on the shore of which the community lives, find out where the salmon in the rivers comes from, and why not all fish can be eaten.
Next, we will have a real gastronomic adventure with immersion in the ethnic culture of the Kamchatka indigenous peoples — a food tour in the Eyvet "Myths about Yukol".
With a preface to the main course, guests are served: yukola, without which you can not survive the winter - the only way in the absence of salt and refrigerators to save tons of fish until the next season; snacks from wild plants (wild cherry, horsetail, young shoots of ivanchai); snacks from sea cabbage; Aramaki - how a recipe for the most delicate fish appeared in Koryak cuisine 100 years ago; seal lard - why no traveler went on the road without a decent piece of seal fat; nettle bread; vegetable snacks; berry juice, honeysuckle tincture.
The story and tasting are accompanied by the aromas of cooking the main dish of fish on an open fire, which is served on the table on a birch board immediately from the hearth.
We will enjoy berry cookies and herbal tea at the national museum, where they will tell us about everyday life, what a canopy is and why it is not cold in it when it is -50 outside the wall.
Return to the hotel in the evening.
Important! Comfortable shoes with thick fluted soles are necessary for country springs. Wild springs are not equipped — bathing is not provided by the program.
Snowfields may persist during the summer. It can be slippery after the rain.
Trekking poles, if necessary, will be provided by the guide.
Meals:
- Sputnik / Sputnik-Kamchatka — breakfast included, lunch on the tour (lunch box), dinner at the Avet + dinner at the hotel (buffet);
- other hotels — breakfast included, lunch on the tour (lunch box), dinner at the Avet;
- without accommodation — included lunch on the tour (lunch box), dinner at the Avet.
Overnight stay: P. Paratunka: spa hotel / recreation center, depending on the chosen accommodation.
Distances and duration: road: 70 km, 2-3 hours (one way); walking distance: 4 km + 1.5 km (both ways); transfer to Euvet: 15-20 min.; total program time: from 07:00 to 19:00.
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