Kamchatka has no ground connection with the mainland. No railways or roads lead to Kamchatka from the rest of Eurasia. The Navy and fishermen mainly use the seaport of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. There are no regular passenger ferries to anywhere from this port. The only possibility to get to Kamchatka or leave it is the air flight.
The airport is located in 20 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky in the village called Elyzovo. So the airport called “Elyzovo” airport. There are daily flights to Moscow, several flights a week to Siberia, Saint Petersburg and Alaska. To book your flight, you can use WayToRussia.Net Airline Tickets reservation service.
How to Get Around:
It is hard to get around Kamchatka by yourself. There are two reasons – permissions required and the lack of public transport.
Most of the area of Kamchatka is the closed and secured area. Some of it
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by the military reasons, some by the ecological ones. So, to move around you need to obtain special permissions. There are just several locations, which can be reached by the independent traveler without permissions. Most of the volcanoes and geysers are in the nature reserves, so you will not be able to get there without the permissions. The tourist agencies provide the permissions for their clients. Usually you just buy the tour and don’t bother with the permissions.
The system of public transport is poor. There are just several regular buses, which operate at the routes from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky to the nearest villages.
The hitchhiking seems to be a hard activity at Kamchatka. There are few cars moving by the few roads of the peninsula.
The cycling and trekking without the guide is hard cause there are lack of proper maps of Kamchatka and dangerous due to the wild animals living in the area.
There are no companies which rent the cars in the city, however there are taxies which can get you to the villages around the city.
The most of the tourists use travel agencies to get around Kamchatka and they book the tours before. The rest come to Kamchatka independently hoping to travel by themselves but in the few days they also buy the tours, as they can’t reach anything by their own.
Proposed Itinerary / Summer:
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Trekking Tour Park Nalychevo
Ecotourism in the nature reserve.
Code: #1g01kt | Operator: Kamchatka Travel Company
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Activities: hiking, trekking, camping, gathering mushrooms and berries, hot springs bathing and more; |
| Destinations: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Nalychevo nature park; |
| Level: Easy; Duration: 10 days; |
| Budget: $999 full price, including all transfers and transportation, accommodation, meals 3 times per day, entrance fees, camping and hiking equipment rental, multilingual guides, visa invitation and registration. |
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Kamchatka Safari
Best volcanoes of Kamchatka.
Code: #1g01kt | Operator: Kamchatka Travel Company
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Activities: hiking, trekking, camping, mountaineering, hot springs bathing and more; |
| Destinations: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Mutnovsky volcano, Viluchinsky volcano, Paratunka, Even nomad camp |
| Level: Moderate; Duration: 11 days; |
| Budget: $1599 full price, including all transfers and transportation, accommodation, meals 3 times per day, entrance fees, camping and hiking equipment rental, multilingual guides, visa invitation and registration. |
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The Land of Volcanoes
The best nature sights just in 10 days.
Code: #1g01kt | Operator: Kamchatka Travel Company
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Activities: hiking, trekking, camping, mountaineering, rafting, fishing, hot springs bathing and more; |
| Destinations: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Mutnovsky volcano, Gorely volcano, Bystraya river, Avacha volcano, Valley of Geysers |
| Level: Moderate; Duration: 10 days; |
| Budget: $994 full price, including all transfers and transportation, accommodation, meals 3 times per day, entrance fees, camping and hiking equipment rental, multilingual guides, visa invitation and registration. |
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The Best of Kamchatka
The all over Kamchatka tour.
Code: #1g01kt | Operator: Kamchatka Travel Company
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Activities: hiking, trekking, camping, mountaineering, rafting, fishing, hot springs bathing and more; |
| Destinations: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Mutnovsky volcano, Gorely volcano, Bystraya river, Avacha volcano, Valley of Geysers, Viluchinsky volcano, Paratunka. |
| Level: Moderate; Duration: 10 days; |
| Budget: $1540 full price, including all transfers and transportation, accommodation, meals 3 times per day, entrance fees, camping and hiking equipment rental, multilingual guides, visa invitation and registration. |
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Budget tours available as well! Contact the operators.
Proposed Itinerary / Winter:
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Winter Safari
Wintertime at Kamchatka.
Code: #1g01kt | Operator: Kamchatka Travel Company
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Activities: snowboarding or skiing, dog sledging, hot springs bathing and more; |
| Destinations: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Moroznaya mountain, Even nomad camp |
| Level: Moderate; Duration: 10 days; |
| Budget: $1599 full price, including all transfers and transportation, accommodation, meals 3 times per day, entrance fees, camping and hiking equipment rental, multilingual guides, visa invitation and registration. |
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Dog Sledge Racing - Berengia 2003
Wintertime at Kamchatka.
Code: #1g01kt | Operator: Kamchatka Travel Company
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Activities: snowboarding or skiing, dog sledging, hot springs bathing and more; |
| Destinations: Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Moroznaya mountain, Sledge dog racing |
| Level: Moderate; Duration: 10 days; |
| Budget: $1590 full price, including all transfers and transportation, accommodation, meals 3 times per day, entrance fees, camping and hiking equipment rental, multilingual guides, permission fees, visa invitation and registration. |
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Practical Advices
Use travel agency – this is a recommendation and a statement of fact – otherwise you will not be able to travel around Kamchatka.
There is a short high season at Kamchatka: from July to September only. This means that thousands of the tourists rush at Kamchatka at this time. During the high season it is hard to get the plane ticket to Kamchatka, find the room in the hotel in the city or package tour available – so, reserve the tour beforehand!
You have to be equipped well to travel round Kamchatka. You should discuss with the travel agency the list of equipment they will provide and bring the rest by yourself.
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