NILA
Duration:
7 days
Difficulty level:
Moderate, routes from 6 to 14 km a day
Number of people in group:
from 4 people
Escort:
Guide
What to take with you:
Comfortable waterproof clothes and hiking boots for climbing, windproof suit, camera

Join the adventurous tour to Sakhalin and Kunashir Islands. Get ready to see volcanoes and capes, Japanese cranes and eared seals, swim in hot spring located in the wild.

You will board the ferry going from Sakhalin to Kunashir, walk along the ecological path to Stolbchatiy Cape and take mud theraphy baths.

The main attractions of the island

In order to find more about Kunashir Island, you need to get acquinted with its main attractions.

Stolbchatiy Cape. It is impossible to leave the island without visiting this amazing place. Its name bears the meaning that it consists of columns ("stolby" in Russian), which stand close to each other and form vertical walls. The most wonderful thing is that these columns are formed with solidified basaltic lava as a result of volcano eruption.

Caldera of Golovnin volcano. The volcano was named after brave russian traveller, who was digesting the Kuril Islands at the beginning of the XIX century and made 2 trips around the world. His name was Vasiliy Golovnin. The Caldera looks like a cavity with 4 km diameter, which has formed as a result of volcano's collapse at the bottom of the ocean. Two lakes appeared inside the cavity and gas, wet steam and hot water erupt from them.

Fumarole field of Mendeleev volcano. Fumaroles are cracks, through which volcano gases get to the surface with loud pops. They consist of sulfur, which crystallizes and forms yellow lacelike patterns. Incredible and spectaculare view, which is hard to stop looking at!

On request

The price will include:

  • Accommodation at Yuzhno-Kurilsk hotel "Iceberg" 
  • Transfers according to tour itinerary
  • Excursions according to tour itinerary
  • Nutrition according to tour itinerary
  • Insurance during the tour period

Additional payments:

  • Flight ticket Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk - Yuzhno-Kurilsk
  • Ferry ticket from Kunashir Island to Sakhalin Island
  • If it's necessary, single accommodation in Yuzhno-Kurilsk
  • Nutrition, not included in tour itinerary

24 - 30 July 2021;

15 - 21 September 2021

Tour Program

Day 1

Gathering at Victory Square

Transfer to airport. Flight to Kunashir island

Arrival at Yuzhno-Kurilsk. Transfer to hotel

14:00 Check –in

Acquaintance with Yuzhno-Kurilsk

Dinner at hotel

Day 2

Breakfast

Excursion to Caldera of Golovnin Volcano

Arrival at the beginning of the tracking route (there and back – 14 km)

Walking to viewing platform of Caldera. Photo-stop.

Descent to Caldera of Golovnin Volcano. View Goryachee (Hot) lake and Kipyashchee (Boiling) lake.

Lunch – picnic.

Return to car. Transfer to hotel

19:00 Dinner at hotel

Day 3

Breakfast

Excursion to fumarole field of Mendeleev volcano

Arrival at the beginning of the tracking route (there and back – 7 km)

Walk to fumarole field through underbrush of bamboo which height can be up to 1.2-1.5 m.

Arrival at fumarole field of Mendeleev volcano. If desired guests can take bath in wild nature hot springs.

Lunch – picnic.

Return to car. Transfer to hotel

19:00 Dinner at hotel

Day 4

Breakfast

Excursion through Stolbovskaya ecological path

Arrival at the beginning of the tracking route (there and back – 8 km)

Acquaintance with flora of Kunashir island.

On the way if desired guests can take bath in wild nature hot springs and mud pool.

Lunch – picnic

Walk along-shore of Okhotsk sea. Photo –stop near rocks named as “White Monks”. Return to car. Transfer to hotel

19:00 Dinner at hotel

Day 5

Breakfast

Excursion to Stolbchatiy cape

Arrival at the shore of Okhotsk sea – the beginning of the route (7 km)

Walking to Stolbchatiy cape, arrival to the destination

Lunch – picnic

Return to car. Transfer to hotel

19:00 Dinner at hotel

Day 6

Breakfast

Check-out

Excursion to kekur Chertov palets (Devil’s finger)

Lunch- picnic

Return to car

Dinner

Transfer to port.

20:00 Get on the boat

22:00 Departure to Iturup island

Day 7

Breakfast, lunch and dinner on the boat are not included in tour price

20:00 Arrival in Korsakov port

Transfer to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, at Victory square