1 day

Arrival to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

Transfer to the hotel.  Accommodation at the hotel (under contract).

Sightseeing city tour (2-3 hours)

Dinner (meeting with the representative of the tour operator, information about the details of the trip).

Day 2

Breakfast.

Tour: rocky Butte "Frog" (the time of the excursion 09:00 – 14:00).

Rock "Frog" — the only one of nature the age of 70 million years, a very unusual place of power.  The travel time along the ecological path to the foot of the mountain takes approximately 20 minutes.  Then a short but steep climb to the Butte "Frog", which takes 20-30 minutes.  The summit offers amazing scenery and in good weather it is possible to see the Anivsky Bay, lake Tunaycha and Changeable.  Light meal during short stops (Packed Lunches).

Transfer to the airport.

Departure to the Kuril (the departure time will be published in March 2020).

Arrival in Kurilsk (Iturup island).  Transfer to the hotel.  Accommodation at the hotel (under contract).

Dinner at the cafe.

Day 3

Breakfast.

Excursion by car to the "White cliffs" (duration 7-8 hours).

By car we are on the coastline along the "White Cliffs", the thickness of PEMs which makes up the White cliffs that looks homogeneous.  It was formed already in historical time, by a huge eruption of hot gas clouds.  Stone age people could be witnesses or even victims of this event, which pales before the Eruption of Vesuvius covered Pompeii.

Lunch, Hiking (Packed lunch)

Hot springs "Hot water" (1 hour).

Dinner at the cafe

Day 4

Breakfast.

Check out the volcano of Baransky (duration 5-6 hours).

The volcano of Baransky – one of the most accessible volcanoes on Iturup island.  At its foot we can observe a picturesque volcanic landscape: mud pots, fumaroles, hot pools of acid unusual turquoise and hot mineral streams.  12 km from the foot on top of 516 meters and is situated trigonometric sign, so the top of the call Trinoga.  Rise to the top, lingering, gentle.  From the top of a Tripod and a panoramic view: to the West of the Kuril Bay, p. Whale, Kuril'sk; from the North the volcano Bohdan Khmelnytsky; in the East Bay Space, S. RAID, the White cliffs;  in the South the volcanoes Baranski (height 1132км.),  Teben'kova, Ivan, mountain Top.  From the ground beaten healing springs, warm river flows from deep Boiling of the lake.  Descending from the volcano, you can swim in the hot springs and enjoy the magnificent beauty of the volcano!

ATTENTION!  In the area of the fumarole fields are precautions you can sink into the hot mud, mineral springs – get chemical burns.  You can swim only in sources with a certain temperature of water.

Lunch in the camp (dry rations).

Dinner at the cafe.

Day 5

Breakfast.

A visit to the fishery in Kurilsk.

Transfer to the port.

12:00 boarding the ship.

14:00 – departure on the island of Shikotan.

6 день

09:00 – arrival at the port of Malokurilskoe, Shikotan island (ATTENTION!  It is possible to change the arrival time).

Transfer to hotel "Sofia".  Accommodation in rooms with private facilities.

Departure for the Cape "on the Edge" and into the Bay Dimitrov.

Perhaps the most popular place on the island, Cape Edge of the World. Cape End of the World, a rocky ledge extending far into the sea and breaking off down 40-meter walls. When you get here, the meaning of the name immediately becomes clear. From above, a breathtaking view of the vast expanses of the Pacific Ocean opens, and the thought involuntarily comes that you really are on the edge of the earth!

The road to the Bay Dimitrov begins with lapel from highway village Malokurilskoe – POS Krabozavodskoe in the Bay area welcome.  Through 7.6 miles on the road is an old Japanese cemetery.  To reach the observation deck over the Bay in the region of the airfield by car for 30 min. Possible the descent to the ocean, which flows into several rivers.

Lunch in the camp (dry rations).

Dinner at the cafe.

Day 7

Breakfast.

Leaving the Bay "Church," the mountains "Notoro" and "Tomari".

Bay "Church" is impressive in its islets and coves.  Interesting history and nearby objects: in larch forest, the site of the former Japanese settlements, mountains Notoro and Tomari.  In this Bay there is a house built by the inspectors of the reserve.  The origin of the name Bay is not clear.

The route to the Bay starts from the village Krabozavodskoe.  Part of the way (1 hour) may be covered on the jeep, then on foot.  The entire journey takes 4,5 hours

The car stops in front of the pass between the mountains of Tomari, and Notoro, which is to go 50 min. From the pass you can climb on these mountains.  Further, the way lies on the road along the mouth of the Creek after 1.2 h goes to the sea shore in the Cove Church.  From the confluence of the Creek into the sea to the house of a Forester, located in the southern part of the Bay to go still be around 1 hour – the road goes on the beach and in the woods.

Lunch in the camp (dry rations).

Dinner at the cafe.

Day 8

Breakfast.

Leaving the Bay "Church," the mountains "Notoro" and "Tomari".

Bay "Church" is impressive in its islets and coves.  Interesting history and nearby objects: in larch forest, the site of the former Japanese settlements, mountains Notoro and Tomari.  In this Bay there is a house built by the inspectors of the reserve.  The origin of the name Bay is not clear.

The route to the Bay starts from the village Krabozavodskoe.  Part of the way (1 hour) may be covered on the jeep, then on foot.  The entire journey takes 4,5 hours

The car stops in front of the pass between the mountains of Tomari, and Notoro, which is to go 50 min. From the pass you can climb on these mountains.  Further, the way lies on the road along the mouth of the Creek after 1.2 h goes to the sea shore in the Cove Church.  From the confluence of the Creek into the sea to the house of a Forester, located in the southern part of the Bay to go still be around 1 hour – the road goes on the beach and in the woods.

Lunch in the camp (dry rations).

Dinner at the cafe.

Day 9

Breakfast.

Transfer to the port.

11:00 embarkation to the ship.

13:00 – departure to Yuzhno-Kurilsk (Kunashir island)

17:00 – arrival at the port of Yuzhno-Kurilsk, Kunashir island (ATTENTION!  It is possible to change the arrival time).

Transfer to the hotel "iceberg".  Accommodation in rooms with private facilities on the block.

A walk along the coast, exploring the coast: caccuri "devil's finger", "devil's gate".

Dinner at the cafe.

Day 10

Breakfast.

Itinerary of medium difficulty: Caldera of Golovnin volcano, Kipyayushchee lake, Hot lake. (tour duration 8-9 hours).

Check out the route transport to 43 km, then walk 8 km in one direction.

Inspection of the Golovnin volcano Caldera, lakes and Boiling Hot.  Bathing in the Hot lake (Boiling lake swimming is prohibited).

Caldera kotloobraznye depression with steep slopes and a flat bottom, formed as a result of the failure of the summit of the volcano.  Diameter of Caldera at the crest of more than four kilometers.  You can imagine how powerful the blast occurred here during the eruption of the volcano.  Inside the Caldera at an altitude of 130 meters above sea level are situated two lakes and Boiling Hot.  Jet of hydrogen sulphide and sulphur dioxide gases of the Solfatara, the emission of hot water, thick vapor and an ever-changing color of the water create an impressive picture.

Lunch in the camp, (Packed Lunches).

Dinner at the cafe.

Day 11

Breakfast.

Route of medium difficulty: the Cape bar.

Cape "Columnar" - a unique place where the natural pavement, "red square" is replaced by the types of stone pencils, weighing 40 tonnes and deep-water fiords.  Bizarre rocks in which you hear the sound of organ music, a true millennial monuments... in Fact they were the first land that emerged from the depths of the ocean and remained almost intact to our times.

Lunch in the camp (dry rations).

The exit of the nature trail and mud, therapeutic hot springs "Stolbovskie".  (Driving a car, then on foot along the beach 40 min).

Ecological trail.  The flora of the island is rich and includes species distributed from the subtropics to the Northern latitudes.  Along forest trails thick hedges are white and stone birch grey velvet tree trunks, ash, fir Sakhalin with whitish trunks.  Up the slope flashing blue spruce needles Ayan.  The eyes stop on the trunk with red band, conducted by caring human hands.  This is a warning: caution – the Magnolia!  Highly to sunlight raised it the branches with large leaves at the time of flowering, the aroma of its large white flowers spread all around.  (duration 7-8 hours)

Dinner at the cafe.

Day 12

Breakfast.

Transfer to the airport.

13:30 – departure from Yuzhno-Kurilsk.

15:10 – Arrival to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.  Transfer to the hotel.  Accommodation at the hotel (under contract).

Free time.

Breakfast.

Tour: Cape Bird and the Giant (tour time 10:00 – 19:00).

Cape "Giant" - a monument of nature, one of the most beautiful sea coasts of Sakhalin.  Bizarre rocks, the outlines of which someone sees the lion coming up out of the sea, someone mysterious castle, and someone is the head of the hero-giant, dozing at the water's edge, towering along the coast from Cape Bird to Cape Giant.  Amaze by their grandeur of the stone arch, created by the greatest architect of Nature.  On the cliff tops and arches bustle of noisy gulls, proudly scurry cormorants and Swifts.  Along the narrow strip of sandy beach spruce-fir forest on the sea terrace, where Christmas trees are carefully hiding from the cold sea wind, "turning" to the sea of Okhotsk "back".  And here you can observe one of the most amazing phenomena of nature - the spawning run of Pacific salmon, namely pink, if your trip falls on the period from July to August.

Lunch on the shore of the sea of Okhotsk (the kitchen at Sakhalin).

Transfer to the city.

Transfer to the airport