Russian Lapland is an amazing land where two absolutely different culture cross – the one of the Kola Lapps, primeval hunters and deer farmers and the other of the Russian coast-dwellers that came from Novgorod. We offer you a chance to feel the spirit of its land not through museum showcases but through real feelings gained holding a steering wheel of an all-wheel drive car.
In a couple of days you will ride along the main part of a legendary trophy-race called “Arctic Trophy” – go up a kilometer height and down to the sea, make your way through stone scatterings, cross innumerous rivers and streams, ride along old wood tracks, escape to wide beaches of the White Sea, dip into the sand desert and…. go back to civilization.
Route: Revda village – Lovozersky mountain range – 72 km camp – the river Kitsa – Oktyabrsky village – town of Kirovsk – station of the Emergency Control Ministry on Kuel’porr mountain – Risyok waterfall – Umbozero pass – Imandra station – the river Malaya Belaya – town of Apatity – Korabl’ cape – Kuzomen’ village – Varguza village – Umba – town of Kandalaksha.
Day 1
Meeting of the group at Olenegorsk railway station, transfer to Revda village. Going up the mountains, if the weather is fine – going along 2 km peaks of Lovozersky mountain range – Alluayv (1050m) and Kyedyukvyrpakh (1106 m). From the peaks there is a wonderful view of tundra, lakes, the Khibiny, lake Seydozero, and a religious spot of the Kola Lapps (30 km). Going down along a branch, riding along “1000 streams” - a part of “Arctic Trophy” route – 50 km of stony roads that sometimes resemble a stone trial, crossing mountain streams. If the weather is not fine – going up to the edge of clouds, down along a branch and riding along “1000 streams”. Having lunch on the journey. Making a stop for a night in the foothills near a geodesic tower. Dinner. Spending a night in tents.
Day 2
Riding along old wood tracks in the following direction: the tower – 72 km camp – the river Kitsa – Oktyabrsky village – Kirovsk – Kuel’porr station of the Emergency Control Ministry (70 km off road, 45 km asphalt). Having lunch on the journey. Dinner. Sauna. From Kirovsk – moving along a picturesque ravine crossing the Khibiny from north to south. Accommodation at “Kuel’porr” station of the Emergency Control Ministry in a hotel rooms for 4 and 6 persons (rooms for 2 persons are subject to additional fee).
Day 3
Riding in the Khibiny in the following direction – an observation platform on Kuel’porr mountain - Risyok waterfall- Umbozersky pass (30 km). Tracking to the waterfall and Umbozersky pass/Marchenko peak (1032 m) – depending on the weather and group’s experience. Having lunch on the journey. Spending a night at the hotel at the station “Kuel’porr” of the Emergency Control Ministry. Sauna (subject to additional fee).
Day 4
Riding along the roads around the Khibiny: Kuel’porr – wades of lake Goltsoviy – Imandra station- the river Malay Belaya. Old wood tracks in the foothills having rich relief (the part of “Arctic Trophy” race called “Lost World”). 75 km. Having lunch on the journey. Dinner. Spending a night in tents.
Day 5
Moving along the following route: the river Malaya Belaya – Apatity – riding along an asphalt road through Kandalaksha and Umba to Korabl’ cape (260 km asphalt, 70 km earth roads, 20 km old road along the coast of the White Sea). Making a stop near Bezymanny Inok Tersky chapel located at the seacoast. Having lunch on the journey. Making a camp at Korabl’ cape. A walking tour of amethyst veins. Dinner. Spending a night in tents at the seacoast.
Day 6
Riding to Kuzomen’ village situated in sand dunes in the mouth of the river Varzuga – Varzuga village (one of the earliest settlements of the Russian coast-dwellers at Tersky coast, a wooden church (XVIII) built without a nail). 70 km.
From Korabl’ cape to Varzuga village the road runs through sand dunes and tide of the White Sea. A farewell fire, salmon soup.
Day 7
Riding in the following direction: Korabl’ cape – a reconstructed Coast-dwellers’ tonya Tetrino - Umba (120 km earth roads). Umba – visiting a museum of history and lifestyle of the Russian coast dwellers, a handicraft center and a souvenir workshop. Having lunch in a café. Departure to Kandalaksha (110 km asphalt). A visit to a natural history museum. Sauna. Having dinner (subject to additional fee). Transfer to the railway station (train # 15, departure at 11.07. PM).
The program of the route may be a subject to marginal changes due to objective reasons.
