Rafting on the Uksa River. Extreme tour

The food is cooked over a campfire. Water is taken from lakes, streams, rivers and springs. Tourists participate in cooking under the strict guidance of an instructor.

The menu includes various soups, porridges, pasta, potatoes, seasonal vegetables, sausage, cheese, meat (stew), mayonnaise, ketchup, tea, coffee, condensed milk, butter, sugar, dried fruits, gingerbread, cookies, dried fruits, sweets, bread, mineral water.

Alcoholic beverages and snacks are not provided. Amateurs usually worry about this in advance.

Air and railway tickets are not included in the price of the tour. You can purchase them yourself or contact us for help.

The weather on the Uksa River is practically the same as the weather in St. Petersburg and Moscow. During the May holidays, the weather varies from +15-20 degrees of heat to snow. On average, it is +10-12 during the day, +3-5 at night, the water is +5 degrees. During the summer, the temperature of the water and air rises significantly.

The Uksa River is beautiful in its own way, its main argument is powerful rapids that you can admire for hours. The trees on the river turn green in late May/early June. During the May holidays, snow is often still lying on the banks.

The water in the river is dark, if you scoop it up with a cup, it looks like weakly brewed tea. In fact, the water is clean, and the peat bogs surrounding the river give the brown color. We will prepare our entire trip on this water.

The maximum water level in the Uksa River is the first days of May, when the river is just opening from the ice. This attracts extreme tourists to the route - the rapids are the most interesting in terms of sports and cause maximum adrenaline and pleasure. In dry weather, the water level drops significantly every day and reaches a critical point for rafting by mid-July or earlier.

There are few fish in the river, or we don't catch them there, because everyone is not going for fish, and all their free time is spent riding in the rapids.

We go to the Uksa River until the middle of July at the most, and mushrooms and berries begin to appear by the end of July.

There are no insects during the May holidays and almost all of May. In June and July, mosquitoes and midges on Vinegar are present in the usual number for Karelia. Insects do not bother on the water.

Attention! There are ticks and venomous snakes on the route. Ticks are active in May and June, it is advisable to get vaccinated against enciphalitis in advance, take out an anti-tick insurance policy and take special insect repellents. Snakes on the Uksa River are vipers that are venomous, but the venom is not fatal. More often vipers can be found on the thresholds of the "Mill" and "Khramina". Be sure to look at your feet when inspecting porges and walking through the forest!

Megafon and MTS are the best, there are interruptions, but you can catch a connection every day.

Our main task is to have a safe vacation. Professional instructors know the route perfectly, all the obstacles on the rafting, the level of difficulty of the thresholds at different water levels, as well as all possible emergency exits from the route. For each rafting trip, we register a tourist group with the Ministry of Emergency Situations, which gives an additional guarantee of assistance in emergency situations. Before the tour, you can arrange your own travel insurance.

You need to get to Petrozavodsk (1050 km from Moscow, 450 km from St. Petersburg) or to the village. Uuksu — the end point of the route (990 km from Moscow, 400 km from St. Petersburg).

If you arrive at the route by car in Petrozavodsk, you can leave your car in the free parking lot at 15A Kommunalnaya Street.

Attention! The number of free parking spaces is limited, please arrive in advance!

If you decide to go to the village. Uuksu, the car can be left on the territory of the Three Elements campsite (paid Parking). 

Next, you need to get to the starting point of rafting on the Uksa River — this is the bridge over the Uksa (45 km), the estimated cost of a taxi is 1500-2000 rubles., you must arrive by 12:00-12:30 (the cost of parking and taxi can be clarified with the administrator of the camp site).

To get by train for rafting on the Uksa River, you need to buy tickets to Petrozavodsk with arrival in the morning at 07:50 (day of arrival). Return tickets should be taken from Petrozavodsk in the evening at 20:00-23:00 or overnight (train 091A departs at 21:00, 017A departs at 22:00).

Additional medical insurance is not included in the price of the tour. If desired, you can apply for it on the website of a Large Country without commission directly from insurance companies.

• The raft is much less maneuverable than a catamaran, so the raft may simply not fit into difficult narrow rapids with many turns. The catamaran, thanks to its "agility", can skip all impassable areas.
• The catamaran usually passes shallow rivers, rivers with difficult rapids (3-4 k.s.), where there are no long stretches (areas of calm water). In Karelia, these are the rivers: Umba, Pista, Tumcha, Keret, Tokhma, Kiten, Uksa, Loimala.
• In the raft, the participants sit half-sideways on the balloon (their legs remain inside the raft). On a catamaran, the landing is knee—deep - tourists sit on balloons "on horseback", on special inflatable "seats", while their legs are fixed in special stirrups.
• The catamaran is designed only for an even number of 2-4-6 rowers (teamwork plays a direct role on this float), 8 participants can be put in the raft, while the main responsibility for accurately passing the threshold lies with the instructor.