Expeditions to the Arctic are tours that are a dream for tourists who have already been everywhere. Due to the high cost of Arctic tours, only a few tens of thousands of people visit this cold land every year. Fans of icy exotics who want to see snow-capped valleys, glaciers, aurora borealis, polar day / night and other wonders should be well-off tourists who, moreover, are not afraid of the cold.
Expeditionary tour to the Arctic
Popular destinations for the so-called simple Arctic expeditions are the Norwegian Spitsbergen (cruises involve disembarking on ice and engaging in such active activities as mountaineering, kayaking, Arctic diving; comfortable accommodation is available in a 5-star hotel in the village of Longyearbyen, where there is a spa center, and a nightclub) and Danish Greenland (the cost of tours starts at $ 2,500; those who wish are offered to join cruises, hiking and helicopter expeditions, within which they will be able to capture glacial fjords and 100-kilometer icebergs in a photo).
It is worth paying attention to the Russian Arctic reserves, where tourists are offered to use routes of varying difficulty (within the framework of some of them, travelers move independently by boat or car).
Are you ready for a 75-day trip that will take you to all the landmarks in the Arctic? At your service is the Kapitan Khlebnikov icebreaker.
As for the difficult Arctic tours, they involve the conquest of turbulent rivers or the performance of individual / group pedestrian crossings for many kilometers. These include both trekking tours in the national parks of the Arctic (Canada, Denmark, USA, Russia), and ski expeditions, once organized by discoverers. So, for example, if you go to the North Pole on skis (crossing 100 km) from the Russian base Barneo (you cannot get here from the Russian Murmansk - such flights are intended exclusively for researchers and camp personnel, so you first have to get to Spitsbergen, from where you can fly to the "AN-74" in 1, 5 hours), crashing on a drifting ice floe, the road will take 5-7 days.
It is worth noting that it is best to go on an Arctic expedition in spring-summer, because at other times piercing winds “attack” the Arctic, and the polar night reigns there.
Arctic reserves
- Great Arctic Reserve: interesting routes have been developed for tourists that allow them to appreciate the beauty of northern nature, see how indigenous peoples live, and go rafting.
- Wrangel Island: This reserve is a popular destination for safari excursions, during which you can see polar bears, Pacific walruses and seabirds.
- Franz Josef Land: in addition to mosses and lichens, the reserve is home to more than 10 animal species. Here you can see the remains of ancient volcanoes and watch cetaceans.
- Reserve "Russian Arctic": moving through the reserve, they will see mosses, polar willows and poppies, guillemots, Atlantic walruses, polar bears, deer.
Tour "5 days in the white deer camp"
The starting point of the trip is the village of Amderma, from where the tourist group, "riding" off-road vehicles, will go to the reindeer herding camp. There you will be able to ride a reindeer sleigh, stay in a tent, visit the ritual slaughter of a reindeer, learn how to sew clothes from reindeer skin, eat reindeer and tea with cloudberry jam.
The 7-day tour is organized for a group of up to 6 people (each of them will cost about 45,000 rubles), accompanied by two gamekeepers in June-September. On the 1st day of the tour, an excursion to the village of Amderma is organized for tourists, after which they will be accommodated for the night in a hotel or guest house. On days 2-5 the travelers will spend in the reindeer herders' camp, on the 6th day they will return to the village, and on the 7th day they will have a flight from Amderma.
