Kamchatka

Duration

10 days / 9 nights

Upcoming departures

7–16 August 2027

Arrival and thermal pools

Yelizovo – Laguna spa hotel

You are met at Yelizovo airport near Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky and driven to the Laguna spa hotel in Paratunka, set among birch woods and thermal lakes. After the long flight, you can head straight to the aqua centre and its thermal pools. In the evening there is a welcome dinner, a chance to meet the group and a short talk on how the expedition works.

Gorely volcano

The first ascent

The trip's first ascent takes you up the active Gorely volcano to craters filled with turquoise lakes. This day shows both you and the team how you feel in the mountains before the main climb of the week. If the weather will not let you up, Opasny Canyon and the Dachnye hot springs take the volcano's place.

The road north

By 4x4 through the taiga to Tolbachik

A long day on the road: a convoy of 4x4s heads to the north of the peninsula on gravel tracks and through the taiga. On the way there is a stop for Kamchatka's legendary pies and lunch at a canteen deep in the taiga. By evening you reach Tolbachik Camp, the expedition base at the foot of the volcano: here you sleep in large tents, and this is where the wild part of the route begins.

Tolbachinsky Dol

Lava fields and hardened flows

A day among the lava fields of the 2012 eruption: hardened lava flows, warm ground underfoot and a landscape often compared to the Moon. It is an active but easy-going day before the main climb. In the evening, a chef cooks dinner right at camp.

Climbing Tolbachik

The main summit or an alternative route

The group splits up: those who are ready head up Tolbachik, while the others go to the eruption vents, the Dead Forest and the cinder cones. Both routes start from the same base, so in the evening everyone is back together at camp. Of the whole trip, this is the day people go on talking about for longest.

Back to comfort

Tolbachik – Sputnik hotel

The expedition part is over: the 4x4s take the group back south to the Sputnik hotel in Paratunka. In the evening: a comfortable room, a hot shower, thermal pools and a relaxed dinner. After several days in camp, it feels like a reward in its own right.

Floating down the Bystraya River

Fishing and fish soup over the fire

A calm day on the water: a float down the Bystraya River with stops to fish and lunch on the bank. Ukha, a traditional fish soup, is cooked over the fire from whatever has been caught. No one can promise a catch, or a bear sighting, but the chances are real. In the evening you return to the hotel.

Free day

An experience of your choice

This day is deliberately left free, to suit the weather and whatever the group feels like doing. You can rest at the hotel or choose an extra experience at additional cost: a helicopter flight to the Valley of Geysers (weather permitting), a trip to the Mutnovsky volcanoes, quad biking or other activities. And if a day has had to be moved, this spare day keeps the main programme intact.

The Pacific Ocean

A boat trip and Khalaktyrsky Beach

In the morning, a boat takes you out into the ocean: the Three Brothers rocks, seabird colonies and, with luck, whales and orcas. Then on to the black volcanic sand of Khalaktyrsky Beach, where the group spends the night at Shiksha glamping, right by the water. The final evening brings a traditional Russian sauna with a steam master to the sound of the surf, followed by a farewell dinner.

Heading home

Khalaktyrsky Beach – airport

A last morning by the Pacific. If your flight is later in the day, you can take a surfing lesson, as long as the waves allow. Then it is time for the airport transfer, and on the way anyone who wishes can stop at the fish market for some red caviar.

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