Umba and the White Sea. Alloy

The weather on the Kola Peninsula is severe, the water temperature in the river usually does not warm up above +15°C.

The warmest time is from mid—July to mid-August.

During the day, the temperature can be from +10°C to +20°C, at night from +5°C to +12°C.

On rafting on the Umba River, we will go under the motor along the White Sea, so we recommend taking a lot of warm clothes.

The Umba is a beautiful northern river that flows from the mountain lake of the same name, the Umbozer, sandwiched between the Khibiny Mountains. Mountain ranges, hills and hills will be visible on the horizon.

On the route we will see the unique nature of the north: rocks, forests, clean water.

The underwater world of the White Sea is rich and peculiar.

The surface of the rocks is covered with soft corals and sea anemones, starfish and ophiura crawl between the stones.

The White Sea is rich in marine life: beluga whales, gray seal, Greenland seal, ringed seal, lakhtak seal (sea hare) - very often they swim close to the shore.

Dwarf birch is found along the shores and in the forests.

It is a polar day in June and July.

It is only by the end of August that the nights turn dark.

The most popular fish of the White Sea is cod, which is often caught in places where the coast abruptly breaks off on the rocks and goes into the depths of the bays.

Also in the White Sea there are catfish, flounder, whitefish, pink salmon, navaga, etc.

Successful fishing can only be done from a catamaran or raft, fishing from the shore is out of the question.

They catch sea fish using bottom gear (on—board spinning rods or donks), the bait is sea worms, which can be dug up on the shore at low tide.

The cod also bites well on various jigs with silicone fish. Using the technique of "shelling" the fishing area with long-range casts, you can achieve very good results.

The water in the Umba River and on the White Sea is the purest and, accordingly, transparent, visible for tens of meters — this is a paradise for underwater fish hunters.

If you have spearfishing equipment, feel free to take it.

Perhaps you will get lucky on the Umba River.

In July, the first mushrooms appear, and cloudberries, blueberries, blueberries and lingonberries ripen in early August.

There are quite a lot of mosquitoes and midges on the route, but their number depends on the weather, the time of year and the parking place.

We recommend taking non-biting clothes and insect sprays.

Insects do not bother on the water.

There are no ticks or venomous snakes on the route.

Cell phones catch a couple of days at the beginning of the route and 2-3 days at the end of the route, so most of the time there is a connection.

It is best to take Megafon and MTS.

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.

Also, before the tour, you can arrange travel insurance yourself.

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

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 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 does not play a mediocre role on this rafting facility), 8 participants can be put in the raft, while the main responsibility for
the exact passage of the threshold lies with the instructor.

There are a lot of fish in the river, most often pike, perch, trout, grayling. 

Fishing in the Umba River is prohibited.