Be sure to travel with a reputable company (if you do not want to end up with a broken arm or stranded on the side of the road – even so, there are no guarantees). Some of my first picks would be:
Explore Kamchatka
Contact: Martha Madsen
explorekamchatka.com
[email protected]
Phone: +7 (415-31) 2-66-01
Kamchatka Adventures
Contact: Gennady Volynets
kamchatkadventures.com
Phone: +7 (415-22) 9-18-75
Pacific Network
Contact: Marina Anishchenko
siberianadventures.com
Phone: +7 (415-2) 11-22-54
national parks
While most people travel with a tour company, which takes care of park permits and other arrangements, you can also get visitor information directly from the parks:
Nalychevo Nature Park The park offers wonderful natural hotsprings, hiking trails, snowmobiling, and bear viewing – all with comfortable accommodations in cabins in a wild setting not far from Petropavlovsk.
Website: park.kamchatka.ru
Telephone: (7-415-2) 411-710
Email: [email protected]
Bystrinsky Nature Park The park offers hiking, rafting, wildlife viewing, fishing, and interaction with native cultures. Accommodations in bed and breakfasts in Esso.
Telephone: (7-415-42) 21-461
Kronotsky Nature Reserve offers day trips to the Valley of the Geysers and Uzon Caldera, with geysers, volcanoes and bears, as well as bear viewing trips to Kuril Lake.
Telephone: (7-415-2) 11-16-74
Websites with information and photos:
Kamchatka’s Tourism and Visitor’s Guide kamchatkatourism.com
UNDP Biodiversity Conservation Project unkam.ru
Wild Russia wild-russia.org
Igor Shpilenok Russian Nature Photography shpilenok.com
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