Siberia hitchhiking. Best Russia tours and holiday packages

Siberia is a multifaceted and very interesting place. It is clear that you can hardly see all these cities on the same trip, but you can travel all your life. The main thing is to have a desire. Siberia is an incredibly vast mountain-taiga geographical region of Russia, admiring far beyond its borders in Russia. Siberia is larger than the territory of the second largest after Russia state of the world - Canada.

Traveling through Siberia, you can see with your own eyes many climatic zones and natural landscapes of the Earth: high mountains covered with glaciers, deep canyons, rugged waterfalls, burned alpine steppes and cedar-larch forests, alpine meadows and even sandy deserts with real "Martian" landscapes. Siberia is rich in forests, rivers, mountains and plains, has an extensive in number and diverse in its composition the world of animals and plants.

It attracts numerous researchers, travelers, adventurers and tourism lovers to its vast lands. Of course, you need to say about the pearl of Siberia - Lake Baikal. This is the deepest lake in the world with a huge supply of fresh water. Baikal is located in the southern part of Eastern Siberia. This is a unique lake, the water in it is so clear that you can see stones at a depth of 40 m. Here are the most beautiful places - Olkhon Island with its wonderful bays and capes, Chivyrkuy Bay is the warmest bay of Baikal with thermal springs, the Ushkany Islands archipelago, which since 2011 is a reserve and where the Baikal seal is found.

The Siberian expedition is saturated to the limit and long in time and route. This is one of the most interesting and Siberian expeditions in Russia. A unique expedition to the south of Siberia, combining the most picturesque, diverse and quite different from each other distinguishing areas: Gorny Altai, Tuva, Krasnoyarsk Territory and Khakassia. This is an expedition that will change you forever.

You can touch the greatest antiquities of Siberia: rock paintings (petroglyphs), ancient Siberian runes, ancient stone warriors, Scythian steles (deer stones), hidden shamanic places, giant kurgans and megaliths, as well as the world's oldest astronomical complex Chest. Most of Siberia is occupied by taiga - "the endless sea of taiga", rich in berries, mushrooms, pine nuts, the rivers are rich in fish.

There is a good hunting and fishing, and indeed a rest from the "civilization". Southern Siberia attracts lovers of active recreation - mountaineering, alpine skiing, caving, equestrian tourism, river rafting and others. In recent years, the ski resorts of Mountain Shoria, Altai, Sayan and PriBaikalye have become increasingly popular.

You can go on a unique journey through the south of Siberia, connecting together the most picturesque, diverse and quite different from each other areas: Gorny Altai, Tyva, Krasnoyarsk Krai and Khakassia. Southern Siberia is a whole mountainous country, which stretches from the plains of Western Siberia to the ridges of the Pacific coast.

This mountainous country includes such mountains as Altai with the highest peak of Southern Siberia - Belukha (4499 m), Salair Ridge, Kuznetsk Alatau, East and West Sayan Mountains, Tannu-Ola, Yablonevy Range, Baikal Ridge, Stanovoye Highland, Vitim Plateau, Patom Highlands, Aldan Highlands, Stanovoy Ridge, Primorsky Ridge. A large number of rivers take their beginning here. In the mountains, they are turbulent and rapid with many rapids and waterfalls.

Despite the prevailing opinion about the harsh Siberian climate, one should not be afraid to go beyond the Urals even in winter. The weather in Siberia is so diverse that each region has its own temperature records and its own favorable time for travel. The best time for hiking in Altai and climbing the most beautiful mountains of Siberia is the second half of spring and early autumn. In summer, the continental climate provides a fairly strong heat. Siberian ski resorts offer outdoor activities by the end of autumn.

In the last days of November, a sufficiently strong snow cover is established on the slopes of Belokurikha, where adrenaline lovers storm the tracks until the end of March. A little longer, the athletes remain on the slopes of Divnogorsk on the left bank of the Yenisei. Comfortable skiing is provided to his fans until mid-April. On excursions to the national parks of Siberia, located in Buryatia, it is best to go in the spring, when migratory birds stop to rest in them. By the way, the wettest season in Buryatia begins in the second half of summer. At this time, cyclones from the Pacific Ocean bring frequent rains and the maximum rainfall falls on the region compared to the rest of the year.

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