ENG РУС
TOURIST INFORMATION CENTER OF KARELIA

Karelia, Petrozavodsk, Kuibysheva Street, 5

(814-2) 76-48-35

tic@ticrk.ru

advanced search  
Kizhi Island
TODAY IS
09 february 2012 11:59
Winter holidays in Karelia for you:
  Ethnographic tours
  Excursions
  Just rest
  Active tours (snowmobiling, skiing, dog sledding)
Home   > News  > Boating and walking tours is a new offer for Valaam tourists
 

News

14 june 2007
 

This tourist season Valaam guests are offered several-day-long boating and walking tours. Travelling by Corsar motor boats, tourists will get acquainted with architectural monuments of the Valaam Transfiguration of the Saviour monastery, and unique natural complexes of northern Ladoga lakeside.

During excursion over northwest part of Valaam, tourists will see the largest internal lake Sisjдarvi, Konevsky lakes, Shishkin's pine, Vladimir bridge, All Saints and Smolensk sketes; to the southeast from Valaam there are Oboronny island where constructions of the Mannerheim Line remained: two-story underground casemates, cannon positions, artillery tower, and the cut through the rock thickness secret descent to Ladoga lake.

This year's novelty is a jeep tour within the scope of which it is possible to visit one of the most famous natural sights of Karelia Kivach flat falls, crater of ancient Girvas palaeovolcano, unique Ruskeala Mountain park, and Valaam itself, Adrenalinetour.ru informs. Jeep tours are extremely popular in Karelia, as they allow to combine interesting excursions and visiting of remote natural sights with which this land is so rich.


http://www.travel.ru