Treking in Mari El.

6+
Mari El
Treking in Mari El.
Location
Mari El
Duration
3 days
Difficulty level
Age
6+
Length
50 км
Group structure
8-12 человек

Description

Yoshkar-Ola – Pugachov’s oak tree – Mushyl (Sea Eye) lake – Abdayevo (Karman-Kuryk) – Yoshkar-Ola – Kozmodemyansk – Usoly – Alamner hill – Kozmodemyansk

During our trip through the Upper Volga’s Mari El Republic we will experience the natural beauty of this region, learn about its magnificent past and about today’s everyday lives of the Mari, a Finno-Ugric ethnic group, whose ancestors and related ethnicities inhabited a thousand years ago the territories of today’s Moscow, Vladimir, Yaroslavl.

Our trip will lead us to the legendary Pugachov’s oak tree, we shall see the karst lake called Sea Eye (Mushyl) lake and get up on top of the Karman-Kuryk, which can be an ancient site or an anomalous hill structure. We shall discover the beauty of uncelebrated Russia in Yoshkar-Ola, Mari El’s capital, enjoy the views over the Volga from the top of the old fortress on the Alamner hill and stroll through the streets of Kozmodemyansk which is supposed to have had been the prototype of the famous Vasyuki town from the satirical novel The Twelve Chairs: its protagonist Ostap Bender posing as a chess grandmaster participated in a chess tournament there…

Duration: 5 days

Lenth: 80 km

Initial meeting place: city of  Yoshkar-Ola

Group consists of 6-10 people

Price per person: 19500 RUB

Minors (under 18 years of age) get a 15% discount only if they take the trip with a parent.

Club discount - 7%

Gigt the hike to your Friend

* Trek program can be changed due the weather conditions, physical conditions of participants, other reasons

Price includes:

  • all transfers on the route
  • food
  • instructor’s service
  • rent of common equipment (tents, cooking equipment, GPS, etc.)
  • staying in Yoshkar Ola

Additional expenses:

  • travel expenses to and from initial meeting place 
  • rent of personal equipment
  • cafes and restaurant expenses
  • personal expenses
Do You want to go to this trek individually or with your family or friends only? We can find convinient dates for you and we will help you to buy tickets to the meeting point. Just call or write us!

Have any questions? Call +7 916 1765430 or send email on  info@wolfin.ru 

Route

Йошкар-Ола Национальный парк "Марий Чодра" Дуб Пугачева озеро Морской Глаз река Илеть гора Карман-Курык Йошкар-Ола

Event program

Day 5
Day 5

Departing from Mari El’s capital, Yoshkar-Ola, we shall ride to Mariy Chodra National Park where we shall hike on the nature trail past Pugachov’s oak tree heading for the Kugu-Yer lake.

Day 2
Day 2

We shall get to one of Russia’s nature wonders—karst lake Mushy (Sea Eye) and continue from there to the sandy shores of Ilet river.

Day 3
Day 3

Close to Abdayevo village one of Mari El’s anomalous sites: Karman-Kuryk, a hill with a perfect rectangular shape. Is this a natural object or a human creation?

Day 4
Day 4

Reaching Kozmodemyansk, we shall take the route along the Volga. We shall hike to Alamner hill where at various times a Cheremis and a Russian fortress stood. We shall set up camp on the shore of the Volga.

Day 5
Day 5

Returning to Kozmodemyansk we shall take a sightseeing rout around the city. It is assumed to be the prototype for Vasyuki, the place of an episode in The Twelve Chairs satirical novel by Ilf and Petrov. 

What you need to do

Equipment

List of required equipment you can find here

Insurance

You need active sport insurance

Tickets

Initial meeting point — city of Yoshkar-Ola

Included in the price

  • Guide's service
  • Transfers in program
  • Camp food
  • Group equipment incl tents
  • Visits of national parks
  • Group medical kit

Not included in the price

  • Tickets to initial point
  • Personal expenses
  • Rent of personal equipment
  • Medical insurance
  • Visits of cafes and restaurants
  • Souvenirs