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© Jan-2012

Biking tour description:

Day 1. Saturday: Start from Murmansk, or from Finnish territory or arrive in Kandalaksha by train. Kandalaksha is the most south city behind the Polar Circle. From Kandalaksha we drive by an off-road vehicle to the remote village named Kuzreka on the White Sea shore. Sauna, dinner and overnight in a country wooden house.

Day 2. Sunday: After breakfast we start biking on a forest road along the coast of the White Sea. Wilderness lunch at the sea. After we continue biking via plentiful nature of the north sea. In the evening we have a campfire dinner and overnight in tents close to the mouth of Salnitsa Spring on the sea shore. Biking distance: 51 km of forest road.

Day 3. Monday: After breakfast we bike to Kashkarantsy - one of old Pomor villages. After we take a field road leading along the sea shore and being amazing beautiful. On the shore there is a Chapel of one “Unknown Monk” the story of whom comes from the XIII century. Lunch at the sea. Later we reach Amethyst rock on the Cape Ship – a long cape coming deeply to the sea. It consists of Amethyst rock and we can easily find there, as they say, “Amethyst brushes” – crystals of Amethyst growing on the rock. For overnight we stay in wooden houses in wilderness. Sauna. Campfire dinner. Biking distance: 35 km of forest road.

Day 4. Tuesday: After breakfast we continue our trip and bike on the bottom of the sea along the ebb-tide. Then we will take a shore road and came to the amazing beautiful area of sandy dunes and pine trees. Wilderness lunch in the pine dunes. After lunch we bike on a forest road leading to a gravel road ended in Varzuga village. Varzuga village is the earliest settlement on the Tersky Coast of the White Sea with a famous functioning Orthodox church, build in 1674 without any single iron nail. Sauna, dinner. Overnight in a country wooden house. Biking distance: about 35 km.

Day 5. Wednesday: After breakfast we will visit the oldest wooden church (1674) of the Kola Peninsula. Then we take a hike to watch the village walking among old wooden houses. We will be brought by boat to another side of Varzuga River and walking on wooden pavements between small cosy houses. We will make a hike to a very special place - Magic Springs in a dense forest. After lunch in the country house we follow the main red sand road biking to the wilderness camp on the sea shore. Sauna, campfire dinner. Overnight in the houses. Biking distance: about20 km.

Day 6. Thursday: Breakfast. The off-road vehicle brings us back to Kandalaksha city. From Kandalaksha you can go to Murmansk by bus, taxi or train, to Saint-Petersburg or Moscow by train, or to Finland by bus or using our transport services.
 

Biking tour details

Accommodation:

• 4 nights in wooden houses
• 1 night in tent in wilderness

Level:

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

Group size:

2-11 persons (international participation possible)

Duration:

6 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, mentioned meals, transfer by off-road vehicle from/to Kandalaksha city, luggage transport, experienced local guide and English interpreter, visa invitation, medical rescue insurance including helicopter evacuation in emergency case.

Optional:

• ATB Bikes: EUR 15,-- per day

• Rental of light weight 2-persons tents (2,5 kg) packed in 2 bags: EUR 7,--/day

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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