In the footsteps of Robinson Crusoe. Sightseeing tour to Sakhalin, Shikotan and Iturup

07:30 Transfer to Novikovo bucket port by comfortable transport with escort. If breakfast is held later at your hotel, we will book breakfast for you in advance at the hotel, and upon arrival at Port Ladle you can have breakfast and drink hot coffee.

Arrival at the Novikovo bucket port. Preparation for going to sea, briefing.

A boat trip to the most famous and unique Aniva lighthouse on boats or ribas.

Before the trip, we will give you raincoats for a comfortable trip to the sea (the duration of the boat trip is 3.5 – 4 hours).

Return to the Novikovo bucket port.

Tea and a light snack after a sea trip.

Transfer to Busse Lagoon.

Gastro tour on the coast of Busse lagoon (duration 4.5 – 5 hours).

A master class on opening oysters.

PHOTOSESSION.

Lunch of freshly caught seafood and wild oysters. You will have an exciting journey to a unique seafood "restaurant" with a tasting of wild oysters, completely unique in their taste qualities, which you can taste only on Sakhalin.

Departure to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

The tour ends in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Return to the hotel.

Please note! While on board a swimming vessel, you must adhere to generally accepted norms of behavior, not create dangerous or threatening situations. Be sure to wear a life jacket, if you get motion sickness, you need to take a medication for motion sickness. During excursions, take care of cultural and historical monuments, as well as take care of nature.

Important! The boat trip depends entirely on the mercy of the sea. In case of bad weather conditions and the inability to go to sea, the boat trip will be canceled or postponed to another day, or a car tour will be replaced.

Recommendations: Aniva Lighthouse — on this route, on the way by boat across the sea, do not forget to take a raincoat, hat, and cotton gloves.

Lunch with oysters: take your favorite wine with you. Dry white wine, prosecco and brut go well with oysters.

Iturup means "big salmon" in the Ainu language. The largest island in the archipelago of the Kuril island range.

Majestic volcanoes, 12 of which are active, are the "authors" of the created relief and the real attractions of the island: frozen rivers of lava flows, numerous lakes, including hot ones, volcanoes with craters filled with water, fumarole fields, beautiful rocks, waterfalls, mud cauldrons, thermal swamps and springs! We have collected some of them on this trip to explore the island!

Breakfast in the hotel restaurant.

Transfer hotel – airport by comfortable bus with escort.

Check-in for the flight.

Departure from Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Arrival in Kurilsk.

Meeting.

Departure to Kurilsk.

Accommodation in a guest house.

Departure to Baransky volcano by car (duration 5 hours).

Baransky Volcano (1132 meters high) is one of the most accessible active volcanoes on Iturup Island with hot lakes of unusual turquoise color, fumaroles, mineral streams and healing springs.

We will enjoy the beauty and relaxation in the thermal baths, taste eggs with caviar boiled directly in volcanic water.

Visit to the observation deck "Trinoga".

Departure to the complex with thermal springs.

Arrival at the thermal complex.

Walk along the ecological trail to the turquoise lakes.

We cook eggs in a thermal stream.

Tasting of boiled eggs with red caviar and champagne.

A light snack.

Return to the thermal complex.

Bathing in thermal springs.

Departure to Kurilsk.

Return to the city.

Dinner at a cafe in the city.

Transfer to the guest house after dinner.

Attention! The exact time of departure to Iturup depends on the date of the tour. In case of significant differences in the timing of the program with the actual flight schedule, the program may be changed, while the volume and content of excursions will remain unchanged.

Attention! In the area of turquoise lakes, precautions must be taken – if you step outside the path, you can get chemical burns. You can only swim in springs with a certain water temperature.

Recommendations: on this route, you need to have bathing accessories, rubber slippers, your own towel or sheet. For an additional fee, bed sheets can be rented at the reception of the guest house (250 rubles).

09:00 Breakfast in the cafe of the city near the guest house.

09:30 Departure for a jeep tour towards the Pacific Ocean (duration 5 hours).

Kasatka Bay.

The first stop is at the "mirrored" beach, which looks like an endless sea mirror.

A stranded fishing vessel is the most popular photo object among the island's guests.

We will definitely drive to the Chertovka rock. At one time, the Japanese pierced tunnels in it for through passage for military purposes, which have survived to this day.

You will walk (somewhere you will crawl) through the battlefields, you will see the site of the former "hospital", the so-called laboratory where the Japanese worked on the development of bacteriological weapons.

In good weather, those who wish to swim in the Pacific Ocean.

Camping lunch on the shore of the Pacific Ocean.

Relaxing on the shore.

Departure for a jeep tour along the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk to the beach with White cliffs (duration 4 hours).

The length of the cliffs is about 28 km. They consist of porous volcanic glass and pumice, frozen as a result of a colossal eruption of a red-hot gas cloud.

The beach sand consists of white quartz and black titanium-magnetite sand. Due to the mixture of these two sands, an extremely beautiful gray-graphite sandy beach is formed.

Stop at the beach with White cliffs.

A walk through the canyon.

Departure to the Black Stones.

Arrival at the Black Stones.

Walk.

Vacation on the coast of the Sea of Okhotsk.

Those who wish can swim.

Departure to Kurilsk.

Return to the guest house.

Dinner at a cafe in the city.

Attention! If it is impossible to spend lunch in nature due to weather conditions, lunch will be provided in a cafe.

09:00 Breakfast in the cafe of the city near the guest house.

09:30 Jeep tour to the foot of the Bogdan Khmelnitsky volcano in Yankito (duration 1 hour), which is a plateau of frozen lava flows of bizarre shape.

Beautiful landscapes that open from any viewpoint. Bright, spectacular photos, unique impressions!

Transfer to the port.

11:00 Boarding the ship.

13:00 Departure from Iturup Island (Igor Farkhutdinov train station). Travel time is ~ 28 hours.

Important information:

1. Meals on the ship are paid additionally.
2. Stock up on drinking water and snacks for the trip. Drinks can be purchased on the ship, but they are much more expensive.
3. Card payments are accepted on the ship, but communication may be "suspended", so always have cash with you.

17:00 Approach to Shikotan island. Disembarkation.

Transfer to the motel.

17:30 Check-in at the motel.

18:00 Departure to Khromova Bay.

Dinner on the shore of the Sea of Okhotsk.

Locals call the bay False. Either because Soviet fishermen, sometimes not very sober, mistakenly "steered" into Khromov Bay instead of Malokurilskaya Bay in the fog. Either because several false defensive dummies were installed in the bay: tank turrets with cannons without armored tank hulls, to create the appearance of a defensive line from the alleged enemy advancing from the sea into Malokurilskaya Bay through Khromova Bay.

After visiting the bay, you will see the remains of tank turrets, rusted by time, but still attractive as an entourage to create spectacular photos! Birdsong, quiet sea surf, beautiful multicolored sunset are the most preferable end of the day after a long road trip!

The accompanying guide will share all the secrets and secrets of the bay!

After dinner, return to the hotel.

Attention! When approaching Shikotan Island, prepare documents in advance for disembarkation from the ship: a passport and documents allowing you to stay in the border area (a pass or a contract).

Attention! If the weather conditions make it impossible to have dinner outdoors, dinner will be provided at the motel.

09:00 Breakfast at the motel cafe.

10:00 Departure to Snezhkova Bay (duration 8-9 hours). Shikotan Island is an ideal place for lovers of hiking tours.

Snezhkova Bay is located far from highways. To see the beauty of the bay, you need to walk for about two hours in one direction. But the path leading to the sea is also beautiful with its views.

A low-growing stone-birch forest with bizarrely curved tree branches. An open hilly landscape that looks plush because of the green and yellow stunted bamboo.

There are islands of juniper thickets, and you just want to lie down in the very middle and breathe in plenty of healthy aromas! So unnoticed, we will reach the top of the hill, from which a breathtaking panorama will open, covering the entire southeastern coast of the island.

You can't do without an escort: you won't turn off the path, and you'll find out that that shrub in the form of a Christmas tree is a juniper tree (not every city dweller knows this), and it will tell you which hill a miracle awaits us.

Camping lunch (lunch box) in the bay.

Return to the village.

Dinner at the motel cafe.

Important information! The route starts from the village of Krabozavodskoye. It is difficult because of the hilly terrain. The distance there and back is ~20 km. Travel time there is ~2 – 2.40 hours, return time is up to 3 hours. It will be much easier to walk along the trail with trekking poles.

Recommendations: On this route, it is advisable to have comfortable sneakers or trekking shoes, mosquito repellent, in case of adverse weather conditions, do not forget to take a raincoat and raincoats for shoes or rubber boots.

09:00 Breakfast at the motel cafe.

10:00 Departure to Cape Edge of the world (duration 8-9 hours).

Perhaps the most popular place on the island of Shikotan. It is a rocky outcrop extending far into the sea and ending in 40-meter walls. When you get here, the meaning of the name immediately becomes clear. From above, you can enjoy a breathtaking view of the vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean, and you can't help but think that you are really on the edge of the earth!

At a distance of just over 1 km to the southeast of the legendary Cape Edge of the World is Cape Crab, which got its name because of its external similarity to the arthropod of the same name. In September 1943, the Spanberg Lighthouse was built on this cape, named after the captain who discovered more than three dozen Kuril islands in the 18th century, including Shikotan. It became the last lighthouse built by the Japanese on the Kuril Islands.

Camping lunch (lunch box) in the bay.

Not far from cape "Edge of the World" there is an Unnamed bay. According to many eyewitnesses, this bay is the most beautiful natural place on the island due to the scattering of islands located inside the bay. It was there that the film "The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe" starring Leonid Kuravlev was shot in 1972.

In the bay you will see the famous log that Robinson Crusoe chopped. Our escorts will show you the most successful angles for creating photos.

Return to the village.

19:00 Dinner at the motel cafe.

The distance of about 24 km there and back is covered by transport, the passage between the bays up to 4 km is planned on foot.

Recommendations: on this route, it is advisable to have comfortable sneakers or trekking shoes, those who use trekking poles, mosquito repellent, in case of adverse weather conditions, do not forget to take a raincoat, wear waterproof shoes.

09:00 Breakfast at the motel cafe.

Check-in of rooms before departure for the tour.

10:00 Guided tour of Mount Shikotan (duration 4 hours).

The highest mountain on the island of Shikotan is 412 meters. It is located near the village of Malokurilskoye. At the time of Karafuto, a Japanese sea observation post was located on the mountain, and later, during the Soviet era, military locators, which are currently abandoned.

Most of the island is visible from the mountain. The rift is clearly visible at the foot of the mountain. In clear weather, the islands of Kunashir and Iturup are visible.

Camping lunch (lunchbox).

Departure to Dimitrov Bay. Airfield bay (duration 3-4 hours).

Dimitrov Bay is the largest bay on the Pacific side of Shikotan. It is also uniquely beautiful, like all the shores of the island. But it has its own story! During the Japanese occupation of Shikotan Island, the bay was called "Inemosiri". It housed a farm of three Japanese fishing families engaged in fishing and drying cod.

To this day, a Japanese cemetery has been preserved — a trace of the Japanese living in the bay. In Soviet times, in the 60-80-ies, the bay was closed to our fellow citizens and a border zone was organized, where Japanese schooners could enter without passing through customs formalities during storms for raid or minor repairs of the vessel.

The border checkpoint was equipped with a stable, dogs, and all-terrain vehicles to protect the borders from unauthorized crossing.

From Dimitrov Bay, you can walk along the path towards the neighboring bay – Aerodromnaya, which is also picturesque.

Return to the village.

19:00 Dinner at the motel cafe.

19:30 Transfer to the port.

Boarding the ship.

22:00 Departure to Sakhalin Island (t/x Admiral Nevelskoy or t/x Pavel Leonov). Travel time is ~ 22 hours.

Important information: the tour day takes place by car. Access to the pedestrian crossings upon arrival at the sightseeing locations.

Recommendations: on this route, it is advisable to have comfortable sneakers or trekking shoes, those who use trekking poles, mosquito repellent, in case of adverse weather conditions, do not forget to take a raincoat, wear waterproof shoes.

Important information:

1. Meals on the ship are paid additionally.
2. Stock up on drinks and snacks for the trip. Drinks can be purchased on the ship, but they are much more expensive.
3. Card payments are accepted on the ship, but communication may be "suspended", so always have cash with you.

20:00 Arrival at the seaport of Korsakov.

20:30 Meeting of the group in the arrival area.

21:00 Transfer to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

22:00 Arrival in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Accommodation in hotels.

Breakfast in the hotel restaurant.

Free day.

Independent visit to the seafood market and souvenir shops.

Optionally, it is possible to book an optional jeep tour to Cape Bird and Cape Giant.

08:00 Departure for the Cape Bird and Cape Giant jeep tour (duration 8-9 hours).

10:30 Arrival at the capes, we go on a walking tour. You will see a lot of rocks created by Mother Nature. You will come out to the most important remnant, which got its name the Giant.

Cape Velikan is one of the most beautiful and amazing sea coasts of Sakhalin. Near the shore there are many remains in the form of arches and stone pillars, on which bird colonies are located.

Terraces, grottos and small caves are hidden in the coastal cliffs, and seals are often found on the beaches of Cape Giant. The bizarre giant surface superstructures impress with their outlines, and their names match – Giant, Fighter!

Screaming seagulls scurry on the tops of rocks and arches, cormorants sit proudly and swifts scurry. Spruce and fir forests stretch along a narrow strip of sandy beach on the sea terrace, where the fir trees diligently hide from the cold sea wind, turning their backs to the Sea of Okhotsk.

It's a remote place, but you can't always call it secluded. There are too many people who want to admire the local beauties! And even off-road driving doesn't scare anyone.

The coast on the cape is steep and ends in a forest of almost mast pines. And then there are mountains covered with dense dark coniferous forests with a predominance of fir. For those who have never been to the sea and were born in a flat area, it will seem very unusual. Some consider Cape Giant to be a "place of power."

Camping in nature.

Relaxing by the sea.

Departure to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Arrival at the hotel.

Recommendations: on this route, it is advisable to have comfortable sneakers or trekking shoes, rubber slippers for walking on a rocky bottom in the water, mosquito repellent, for those who want to swim — bathing accessories, a towel, in case of adverse weather conditions, do not forget to take a raincoat and rubber boots.

Breakfast in the hotel restaurant.

Check-in rooms.

10:00 – 13:00 Organized transfer to the airport by comfortable bus. If desired, you can book an individual transfer with a visit to the market.

Individual jeep with arrival at the market (duration – 2 hours) – 4,000 rubles.

Attention! Check-in time is until 12:00 (late check-out is possible with a 50% surcharge/room/day).