Tastes of Karelia. Autumn gastronomic tour

In the morning, a Karelian-style breakfast will be served for you.

Next, you will embark on a motorized boat route along the Ladoga skerries (about 4 hours) with an ascent to the panoramic points of the Ladoga skerries.

Ladoga Skerries is a picturesque archipelago in the north of Lake Ladoga, consisting of many small rocky islands separated by straits. 

One of the striking features of the Ladoga skerries is the so—called "reef mountains". Reef mountains are called mountains that break off into the lake with sheer cliffs, the height of which can reach 80 meters.

A hot picnic lunch will be organized on the route with a master class on cooking fish on a log and a tasting of sbitnya and more.

After the tour, you will have the opportunity to relax. You can play board games in the large dome, sit by the fireplace or stroll around the glamping area.

Next, you will have a master class in gravlax: as part of this master class, you will dive "under water" and get acquainted with the inhabitants of rivers and lakes. 

You will learn the ancient features of cooking fish that have survived to the present day! And, of course, you will participate in the process of preparing and salting rainbow trout!

In the evening, you will have a gala dinner in the panoramic lounge area with a view of Ladoga. 

You will taste dishes of northern and Karelian cuisine: Finnish egg salad with red caviar, trout cutlets, Karelian traditional rye pie with white fish (immersive serving from chef Ivan), Karelian pie with berries.

After breakfast, a master class on Karelian pastries will be organized for you: the gate is the main symbol and brand of the Republic of Karelia. 

During the master class, you will learn about the oldest ways of baking traditional gates, get acquainted with the gastronomic customs of ritual baking and create your own unique gate!

Chef Ivan will give you a tasting of trout gravlax, which you prepared yourself at the master class.

Lunch at glamping and departure by motorboat to the pier and transfer to the Ruskeala Mountain Park (1 hour on the way). Here, the guide will take you on a land tour of the mountain park.

Ruskeala marble quarry is a monument of cultural heritage of Russia. Development here began in 1765. The walls of the famous St. Isaac's Cathedral, Ladozhskaya and Primorskaya metro stations in St. Petersburg are decorated with Ruskeal marble.

After a land tour of the mountain park, you will head back to Sortavala on the unique Ruskeala Express. 

This is a retro tourist train powered by steam locomotives, plying the route of the overland road that transported Ruskeala marble to Lake Ladoga.

The interior of the train is decorated in the style of the interior of the carriage on which Auguste Montferrand, the chief architect of St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, came to Ruskeala.

You will have an evening walk with a guide, a story about Sortavala. Visit the souvenir shop and drive home.

Return tickets must be purchased for train No. 160A departing from Sortavala at 20:37 on the final day of the tour.