The Siberian wilderness

Program in Dudinka

• Ethnocultural complex under the open sky “Taimyr Mow”. Acquaintance with everyday life, ethnic cuisine, traditions, culture and customs of ethnic groups inhabiting Taimyr.
• Visiting Taimyr Museum of local history
• Folk art exhibition (paintings).

PLATO PUTORANA (by helicopters with 1 landing) duration around 8 hours (WEATHER PERMITTING)
“Putorana” in the Evenki language means "lakes with steep banks." The area of the Putorana Plateau is comparable with the area of Great Britain and reaches 2.5 million hectares. This is the second largest basalt plateau in the world, after the Indian plateau Deccan. The Putorana Nature Reserve is recognized as a World Heritage Site and is protected by UNESCO. You will be brought by helicopter to watch a unique phenomenon. You will visit the unreachable places where no one has been before.

15:00 Arrival to Igarka
Bus tour to the Museum of Permafrost, where visitors, down the small stairs, find themselves in the eternal ice zone. The museum is located in permafrost soil at a depth of 7-10 m, here you can see a unique phenomenon about 50,000 years old - "Ice Mountain"

The arrival of the ship around 01:30 am Breakfast on board the ship 08: 00-09: 00 09:00 Disembarkation (Disembarkation ashore by rigid inflatable boat “RIB”)

• Visiting the Museum Building 503 dedicated to the Gulag
• Visit to the Zapolyarye station with an exhibition of items from the Building 503

After a kilometer hike through the real Siberian forest, you’ll see the remains of the northernmost railway. The grand construction which claimed the lives of more than 300,000 people, also called as the “Dead Road”. The whole history of the Stalinist repressions silently froze in fragments of the rut.

• Organization of fishing - OPTIONALLY
• Walking tour with a gamekeeper to the territory of the "Depot" with an inspection of two locomotives (about 8 km on the way) - OPTIONALLY

• Visit to the Ket camping-ground, artisan shops
• Tea party
• Fishing

Breakfast and lunch onboard

A village that you will not find on Google Maps, people who are not on Facebook, a place photos of which do not exist on the Internet*. Get ready to get back in time. The Old Believers live in the village of Yartsevo - people who have honored traditions and their religious way of life for centuries. Old believers are effectively closed from the outside world: there are no TVs, computers, the Internet and mobile phones in their homes. It took incredible efforts to persuade local residents to show you at least fragments of their archaic life and unique culture, they will even show you how to extract cedar oil from cones in the old fashioned way.
* Please respect the local culture: any photo and video shooting in the village is prohibited.

• Souvenirs fair ashore by locals
• Walking tour of the village
• Visit to the yard of old believers ' families

Arrival at Yeniseisk at 11:30
Departure for the city tour:
Merchant houses, monasteries, narrow streets and the spirit of an ancient city with four hundred years of history, which has retained its original appearance to this day *. There are many magnificent museums in Yeniseisk, for example, the local “Planer Museum” is listed in the Guinness Book of Records! You will learn what kind of object it is and how to use it while viewing the largest collection of planers in the world.
* The historical part of the city of Yeniseisk is included in the preliminary list of the UNESCO World Cultural and Natural Heritage.

• Yenisei Regional Museum. A.I. Kytmanova "(one of the oldest museums in Siberia)
• Museum-Estate “Photo-izba” (a unique collection of antiquities is presented, reflecting the life of Yenisei people: furniture, utensils, keys, locks, school supplies)
• Wood Plane Museum (a unique collection of carpentry tools, the exhibition is listed in the Guinness Book of Records (it has more than 1,500 copies)
• Stagecoach driver habitation (exposition, the possibility of organizing tours in a horse-drawn carriage)

Arrival at Galanino
In the real Russian huts you will get acquainted with the everyday life of the Cossacks. You will be welcomed in the best traditions of Siberian hospitality, treated with local liquors and tea from a samovar with crusty pies. They will tell you about the features of their way of life and hold a master class on birch bark. You will hear old Cossack songs that have sounded over the Yenisei for centuries.

• Folklore-interactive program "Siberian Cossacks"
• Fair of birch bark souvenirs
• Visits to the houses of local residents, tasting liqueurs, pickles, tea, honey, homemade cakes
• Participation in master classes (work with birch bark, basket weaving, embroidery, etc.)

Arrival at Krasnoyarsk at 07:00
Lunch onboard
Departure for the sightseeing tour
A city of incredible blends: the central part with ancient merchant houses, the largest factories and plants, wildlife and world-class ski resorts - all this harmoniously adjoins each other and emphasizes the special, unique character of Krasnoyarsk. Enjoy stunning north bridges, a huge number of fountains and stroll along one of the longest streets in the world.

• Surikov’s Estate (as an example of the architecture and lifestyle in Russia in the XIX century)
• Auto tour to the Stolby reserve (4 hours, about 3 km by foot)
• Picturesque viewpoint with the monument "Tsar-Fish"
• Krasnoyarsk Hydrostation (external view)
• Lunch at the local restaurant with national food "Master of Taiga".