Tours and Time
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Tour for amusing
and entertainment (ecological tourism)
1)Summer. From the 10th of May till the 1st of September we offer summer
ecological routs four 310 days. Guests arrive to the village in the evening,
spend night in the inn after arrival and before departure. Travelling
by boats or hiking along picturesque rivers and lakes is unforgivable.
The night rest is suggested in tents or wooden huts.
2) From the 1st of September till the 25th of April. The length of tour
can vary according to the wishes of the guests. It is recommended to arrive
in a group of 4 to 10 persons.
Autumn entertainment in September and October. These are motor-boating
for 1 to 3 hours, trout fishing in streams running to the river Svir.
You can stroll about the forest for 3 ... 6 hours and have a rest. Bread
and butter and tea boiled in campfire are served. A guide will tell about
the local nature, wild, animals living in the forest, will show beavers
huts and badgers holes during the excursion. It's not impossible to meet
wild birds (wood grouse, black cock and others) and to see traces of bears
and elks. Certainly harvesting of mushroom is available. It'll take 58
hours to go in a cart or to drive to hunter's winter hut, to taste a dinner
prepared in campfire and to listen to stories about game with visiting
black cock display ground.
You can also ride accompanied by a groom or trip along the forest road
in carriage or in cart in a group up to 5 persons.
Shooting to plates or targets is available.
You can visit some village cottages while hiking, know about places of
interest, which were built and are being built now and have a hot tea.
At the poultry house visitors can see quails, pheasants, ducks and geese,
know about their life from hatching of eggs to a growing birds adapted
to wild life. The information about game birds of surrounding forest is
available too.
It is possibly to visit one of the two Russian elk nurseries and to know
about the causes of declining of elk population in Russia for the recent
20 years. A guide will tell about the wonderful properties of elk milk
and the nursery's tasks.
It takes 5 to 8 hours to get by car or by cart to a hunter winter hut,
to test a dinner cooked on a campfire, to visit black cock display ground
and to hear a guide's story about game.
Winter. The entertaining programme changes when the winter comes and snow
covers the earth. Routs to the forest are offered along the smooth ski-trace.
Instead of boating you can drive a snowcar and horse-sledge and instead
of trout fishing from a stew you will be offered to fish perchs from under
the ice if the weather is fine.
Spring. In March and in April the programme is similar to the winter programme,
but the weather is more nice and sunny. The temperature varies from -5C
to -15C and sometimes increases up to +5C.
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Fishing tours.
Groups from 2 to 6 persons are desirable. In case of shootingan extra
pay for lending rifles amunitions and trophies is taren.
1) Trout, pike, perch
and zander fishing near by the inn at Verhnije Mandrogi.
The season is from the 20th of August till the 15th of October and
in May from the 10th till the 30th.
If the weather is suitable we ensure successfull pike and perch fishing
not more than 2 ... 5 km from the inn. When being lucky you can fish a
zander with spinning-rod. Trophies weighing 1 ... 3 kg are common. Bream
fishing is successful before the middle of August. But there is not plenty
of fish and 2 ... 3 good size fishes are not a bad result for a night
or morning fishing. If you are keen to catch an exotic fish and hard fishing
is of no importance it is offered to make a trip with a guide along small
rivers running to the Svir. It is in the beautiful river Mandroga with
many rapids and in the Sara stream winding among steep banks you can fish
trout and grayling. The average weight of a fish caught at 2 ... 3 km
from the mouth of the river and the stream is about 200 g but some specimen
weigh as much as 1 or 2 kg. The fishing by whipping is most successful
in the place. Up the Mandroga river at the distance about 6 km it becomes
stagnant with water lilies growing on its surface. A lot of pikes can
be caught there in the beginning of June, in August and September. Hunting
for ducks and hazel-hens from the 20th of August till the middle of September
is also possible on the trip.
2) Trip to Ivinsky flood in two boats with two huntsmen.
The season is from the 1st of August till the 1st of October and
from the 10th of May till the 5th of June.
The rout takes 4 - 6 days with two nights in the inn and 2 - 4 days spent
in tent or in a wooden hut. Trip in motorboat from the inn to the first
camp near the flood lasts for 5 ... 7 hours, its length is about 80 km.
The place is famous for its large supply of fish, especially pikes, which
are sometimes weight up to 5 - 8 kg, large perch, roach, and bream. The
river Ivina is running to the flood, and grayling, trout and salmon swallow
the bait at the season there. If you wish it is possible to shoot ducks
while trooping, to stroll about vast cranberry marshes, to see traces
of bear, boar or elk or even to meet these animals. The tour foresees
to stay at the camp on the bank for 2 ... 4 days and to trip in motorboat
along the flood and the river, to walk for 3 ... 5 hours along the bank
across marshes and woods. The tourists certainly will see migrating duck
and geese from the end of September till the beginning of October. The
birds are resting on the flood and shooting is very successful.
The shooting is banned after the 10th of May at the area but you can fish
with rod and spinning-rod. You are supposed to see flocks of migrating
birds staying for a rest here until the 20th.of May
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3)Floating along
the river Vazina.
Time is from the 1st of August till the 10th of October and
from the 10th of May till the 5th of June.
The floating is carried out in two rubber motor boats. The rout is more
difficult so the participants are supposed to make efforts overcoming
small rapids and shallow water especially during dry season. Tourists
are delivered by cars from the inn in Verhnije Mandrogi to the village
Verhnevazinsk at a distance 190 km. The length of the rout is 100 km along
the river Vazina and thenabout yet 15 km along the river Svir to the inn.
The rout takes 3 ... 5 days for travelling and 2 ... 3 days for a rest
in the inn, including days of arrival and leaving. The first 80 km stretch
among lonely wonderful landscape. Trout and grayling can be caught at
bars. They occur up to 5 ... 8 kg but average weight of a fish is 300
g. Pikes and peaches are common at reachs, flocks of ducks are here and
there and you can see traces of elk and bear on the banks. The following
20 km of the rout along the Vazina is between banks with viiages on them.
In the first of them named Soginitsy you can sleep in peasant's house
and wash in Russian bath. The beautiful ancient church made of wood, which
was built as far back as in 1696 is raising over the place attracting
the numerous tourists. At a distance of 12 km you can see the greater
village Kupetskoje at the mouth of the river Vazina. The wooden church
built in the 18th century is situated at the village. Further floating
along the majestic Svir for 1 ... 1,5 hour takes you to the inn again
where you can fish if you want.
Contact
information:
Alexy Bystrov
Tel./fax (812) 164-63-31
Tel.: 476-08-30, (81265) 2-37-18, (81265) 2-24-76
E-mail: mandrogi@rbcmail.ru