Every day you will enjoy beautiful panoramas. You will have to go through different mountain passes, cross many cold creaks and rapid rivers, spending nights in the alpine tundra and forest areas, volcano calderas. You will drink from clean mountain rivers and have bath in thermal hot rivers and lakes.

Every day you will make 15-20 km, but no roads and paths. Total trekking is 250-290 km.

The trekking is not very difficult, but it is an every day walking with backpacks!

The highlights of the tour are: visit ancient Ksudach volcano, visit Hot Hodutka river, visit Verhne-Opalinskiye nature hot springs, climb active volcanoes Mutnovskiy (go inside of the crater), Goreliy volcano with acid colorful lakes inside the craters.

The trekking takes 16 days plus one reserved day in case of bad weather. During the whole trekking the group will have 2 rest days. You will travel on foot through wild and virgin nature, and in 16-17 days you will hardly meet a person from the different group.

You arrive at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski airport on the first day of the tour; spend a night in a city hotel, next morning drive to the heli spot, fly to the Ksudach volcano and from this spot your trekking will start. While flying you will see the active and extinct volcanoes, many beautiful lakes, rivers and sometimes even the bears. On the way during the flight we make two food depots, so you will have to carry food only for 3-5 days. The helicopter will land on the shore of the Kluchevoye lake, which is inside of the Ksudach caldera. The lake is fresh with wild salmon in it, but on the coastal line of the lake there are bubbling hot springs. The panorama is amazing especially in the morning, when the lake is like breathing. You can have a swim in the lake; the water is hot near the shore and cold further. On the other side of the lake the swans live and you can enjoy the swans evening and morning concerts.

As soon as you are at the start point, you will spend the next day inside of the Ksudach caldera, make a small excursion round the lake and return to the base camp. On the day 4 you will start your trekking. Every day will bring you new panorama views and new feelings. On the way of next days you will visit Hot Hodutka river, where you can swim, wash yourself and relax after couple days of walking. You will go through many passes, rivers, swamps and enjoy wild nature. Then in couple days you will be at Verhne-Opalinskiye Hot springs, they are wild and located in the forest area. Near that place there is Opala river, full of salmon. So, a lot of bears are concentrated near this river. Every group that had done this tour saw more than 10 bears in their wildlife. So take with you cameras and many films for different kind of weathers.

Join us for having a touch to wildlife!

Requirements: have practice in trekking, be well fit.

Itinerary.

Day 1. Arrival in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatski airport. Meet at the airport, get acquainted with the guide and interpreter. Transfer to the city hotel. Dinner. Safety instructions meeting.

Day 2. Transfer to the heli point. Flight to the Ksudach volcano. Overnight in tents.

Day 3. Excursions round the lake Kluchevoye. Visit the bear hybernation place. Visit Shtyabel crater. Return to the base camp. Overnight in tents.

Day 4. Start trekking to the Hot Hodutka river through the slag fields. Lunch near the river. Overnight in tents.

Day 5. Trek to the Hot Hodutka river. Lunch near the creek. Overnight in tents near the rapid river.

Day 6. Trek though the bushes, tundra and high grass. Arrival at Hot Hodutka river, the first food depot. Relax in the hot river, swimming, washing and enjoying the views. Overnight in tents.

Day 7. Rest day near the Hot Hodutka river. Overnight in tents.

Day 8. Trek to the Asacha river (river with salmon and many bears). Short day of trekking. Overnight in tents near the cold springs.

Day 9. Trek to the Animals pass. Long day. Overnight in tents near the creek.

Day 10. Trek through the Animals pass. Possibly watching many bears. Long day. . Overnight in tents near the creek.

Day 11. Trek to Verhne-Opalinskiye hot springs (wild pool in the forest area). Short day. Arrival to the 2nd food depot. Overnight in tents near the creek and hot spring, where you can enjoy thermal water, bathing and rest there.

Day 12. Rest day at Verhne-Opalinskiye hot springs. Excursions round the place, possible bear watching (they fish and teach their cubs to fish) at Opala river. Overnight in tents.

Day 13. Trek to the high mountains area, to Visokaya hill, spend a night at the foot of this beautiful hill. Long day. Overnight in tents.

Day 14. Trek through volcanic area. Base camp at foot of Goreliy volcano (1829m) and Mutnovskiy volcano (2323 m, very active volcano). Overnight in tents. Long day.

Day 15. Climbing early morning Goreliy volcano (4-6 hours to the top), lunch on the top of the volcano. Return to the base camp. Overnight in tents.

Day 16. . Climbing early morning Mutnovskiy volcano (6-7 hours to the top), lunch inside the active crater if the weather is fine. Return to the base camp. Overnight in tents.

Day 17. Reserved day in case of bad weather and can be used in any day program due to the group request or guide decision.

Day 18. Trek to the truck point (the place where the truck will arrive and pick the group up). Back to the city by truck (3-4 hours drive). Night in the hotel. Dinner.

Day 19. Guided city tour, visit the local museum, fish market (red caviar, salmon), and souvenirs shops. Fare well dinner. Night in the city hotel.

Day 20. Transfer to the airport. Departure.