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Cycling tour description:

Day 1. Saturday: Arrival in lumberjack guesthouse "Yolki-Palki" located in a small village close to Kirovsk city. Dinner, sauna. Overnight in two person rooms.
 

Day 2. Sunday: After breakfast we start our cycling route going via a gravel road. We cycle through dense forests, cross very small left villages and pass many lakes and rivers with beautiful views. The lunch is on the route. After 48 km we reach an old small village where our traditional Lappish Sot house (Vezha) is located. We enjoy the banya (Russian sauna) and taste the freshest fish and reindeer’s or elk’s meat fried on charcoals in Vehza. Overnight in Vezha on reindeer fur. Cycling distance: 48 km unpaved road.
 

Day 3. Monday: After breakfast we start our cycling route to a forest lake through the picturesque forest landscape. Lunch on the lake shore. Everybody can try luck in fishing. In the evening we come back. Dinner, sauna. Overnight in Vezha. Cycling distance: 30 km unpaved road.

Day 4. Tuesday: After breakfast we cycle back to base "Yolki-Palki". Lunch on the way. Dinner and sauna upon arrival. Overnight in the base. Cycling distance: 48 km unpaved road.

Day 5. Wednesday: Breakfast. Today our way is to a left area where the rest of a Stalinist camp is located. The old forest road is going trough picturesque landscape, through flower glades on places of ex-villages. We will see ruins of old railway built by camp prisoners, rest of houses and fences of barbed wire. Lunch on a way. Coming back in evening. Dinner, overnight. Cycling distance: 40 km unpaved road.

Day 6. Thursday: Breakfast. We are waited by the highest mountains of Kola. These are Khibiny Mountains.  After 35 km of asphalt we take a 25 km mountain road. We will see impressionable rocks, crystal waterfall and mystic mountain lake – we even can partly drive through its water! Lunch on the lake shore. Coming back by our Army bus. Dinner, sauna, overnight.

Cycling distance: 60 km (asphalt: 35 km and unpaved road: 25 km)

Possibility for go-setters to cycle back! (Cycling distance: asphalt: 70 km and unpaved road: 50 km).

Day 7. Friday: Breakfast. Departure.

Cycling tour details

Accommodation:

• 4 nights in double rooms in a guesthouse

• 2 nights in Lappish Vezha

Level:

The participant must have experience in long distances cycling in hilly and stony areas and must have a good condition. Knowledge about repairing bicycle on the route is preferable.

Group size:

3-11 persons (international participation possible)

Duration:

7 days

Dates:

On request from 15th of June to 15th of September. Click here for asking start dates!.

Price:

Prices on request. Click here for an offer!

Price includes:

Accommodation, sauna, dinner at Day 1, breakfast at Day 7, Days 2-6 – food three times per day, luggage transport and service vehicle, service from experienced guide and interpreter, visa invitation, rescue insurance incl. helicopter evacuation in emergency case.

Optional:

• ATB Bikes: EUR 15,-- per day

• Excursions in cities of Kola Peninsula

Documents:

• Passport must be valid at least 6 months after date of return. A visa is required. We handle the tourist invitation.

Insurance:

• The participant must possess medical insurance that at very least covers the European part of the Russian Federation.

Program Overview Cycling tours:

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KTBI01

On request from 15th of June to 15th of September. Click here for asking start dates!.

KTBI02

On request from 15th of June to 15th of September. Click here for asking start dates!.

KTBI03