Route: Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk — village Ogonki — Nevelsk — village Shebunino — Cape Vindis — Cape Kuznetsova — Cape Krillon.
Breakfast at the hotel.
07:00 Departure from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk by jeep.
08:30 Arrival in Nevelsk. A small sanitary stop. Departure to the village. Shebunino.
09:30 Arrival in the village. Shebunino. A short rest before setting off on a difficult stretch of road. The driver prepares the car for driving on the sand.
11:00 Arrival at Cape Vindis (Mount Kovrizhka). Stop for a photo shoot at Cape Windis.
11:30 Departure to Cape Kuznetsova. We move along the sandy seashore to Cape Kuznetsov.
Seascapes, kekurs, rivers flowing into the sea, wild horses on the coast and the feeling that you are at the edge of the world.
12:00 Arrival at Cape Kuznetsova. Visit to the lighthouse at Cape Kuznetsova, hiking in the surrounding area.
13:00 Hiking lunch with seafood. Rest on the shore.
14:00 Departure to Cape Krillon, the southernmost cape of Sakhalin Island.
On the way, we make photo stops near places where there are traces of the Japanese period on Sakhalin (furnaces for the production of fish products, washbasins for staff) and near places with military equipment of the Soviet period.
For a long time, the territory of the Krillon Peninsula was an isthmus between Sakhalin and Hokkaido, part of the vast Sakhalin-Hokkaido Peninsula.
As a result of repeated warming, cooling and climate changes caused by the ice age, it changed its shape more than once, until 12 thousand years ago it finally separated from Hokkaido.
16:00 Arrival at Cape Crillon. Photo shoot at the cape.
The cape was named after the French military commander Louis-Balbes de Crillon by the great French navigator Jean-Francois de La Perouse in 1896.
From the north, the cape is connected by a narrow but high steep isthmus with the Krillon Peninsula, in the west it is washed by the Sea of Japan, in the east by the Bay of Aniva of the Sea of Okhotsk, from the south by the Laperouse Strait separating the islands of Sakhalin and Hokkaido.
It is only 43 km from Sakhalin to Japan and in good weather it is perfectly visible.
On the territory of the cape we can find the remains of the Soviet fortified area (pillboxes, a network of underground passages designed to defend the southern borders of the island), an active lighthouse of the Pacific Fleet (1896), an old Russian signal cannon has been preserved, buildings made of red Japanese brick were built by the tsar, there is also an active military and border units.
Moving to Cape Krillon passes through the pass on a very difficult road, tune in to overcome obstacles.
17:30 Departure to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.
23:00 Arrival in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. The end of the tour.
Dinner (on your own).
Recommendations. On this route, it is desirable to have:
- comfortable sneakers or trekking shoes;
- windproof hiking / sweatpants and hooded jacket;
- rubber slippers for walking on a rocky bottom in water;
- mosquito repellent;
- for those who want to swim — bathing accessories, a towel;
- rubber boots or raincoats for shoes;
- a change of clothes.
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