- Biking and rafting in the Altai Mountains -
The bike will take you through the spectacular mountains of Altai for an encounter with dense taiga, snow-covered peaks, blue mountain lakes, and whitewater rivers. You will live a challenging biking adventure and then relax and get a sea of impressions rafting down the largest Altaian river.
Tour type: multi-adventure (mountain biking, rafting)
Duration: 10 days / 7 nights
Group size: max 12 persons
Length: 250 km biking, 50 km rafting, 820 km auto
Category: rafting (rafts for 10-12 pers) up to the 3d category; on biking part vehicle support is provided
Special requirements: basic biking skills, own outfit and protection plates
Day 1
Early morning arrival in Barnaul from Moscow by a night flight, meeting, breakfast in a cafй. Transfer by mini-bus to the starting point of the biking tour – the Biika River, towards the mountain peaks and Altai taiga forests (6 hrs). Lunch on the way. Setting the tent camp on the river shore. Dinner cooked over campfire, evening of acquaintance. Overnight in tents
Day distance auto: 410 km, 6 hrs
Day 2
Breakfast. Time at leisure and safety briefing. Lunch. Start your mountain biking tour up the stream of the Katun River (referred to by the local in a respectful and loving way The Beauty or The Hostess of Altai) to the Akkai tract. On the way - visit to the grotto of a stone age man, magnificent views of Katun River valley. Setting the tent camp on the shore of Koskol River. Dinner cooked over campfire, overnight in tents
Day biking distance: 20 km, 3 hrs
Day 3
Breakfast. Continue biking along the meandering trail next to the water edge and through the hills. Lunch on the shore of Katun River. Continue biking uphill to the mountains of Seminsky ridge and along the Apshuyakhta River valley with its grottoes and larches. Setting the tent camp on the river bank. Dinner cooked over campfire, overnight in tents
Day biking distance: 20 km, 4 hrs
Day 4
Continue biking tour along the legendary Chuysky Trakt – the traditional road linking Russia and Mongolia. Enjoying the ride down the hill past local settlements
Breakfast, lunch on the way, dinner cooked over campfire (BLD). Overnight in tents
Day biking distance: 50 km, 3-4 hrs, paved road
Day 5
Continue biking on the paved road along Chemalsky Trakt through the area with softer climate and fresh air, considered a resort by locals BLD. Overnight in tents on the shore of Katun river
Day biking distance: 50 km, paved road
Day 6
Breakfast. The last day of our biking trip. BLD. Overnight in tents
Day biking distance: 40 km, paved road and dirt road
Day 7
Safety briefing, outfitting for rafting. Introduction to raft management and team work on the water (6 km of calm water), further relaxing rafting down Katun river through rapids Biika, Elandinsky, Chemal Pipe. After lunch visit to the Patmos Island.
BLD. Overnight in tents on Katun river shore
Day 8
Breakfast. A more intense rafting day - get through the rapids Iradash, Seminsky, Munskoy. Lunch as a snack and visit to the Kamyshlinsky waterfall. Return to the main camp, Russian banya. Dinner and farewell over camp fire. Overnight
Day 9
Breakfast. Depart for Barnaul (410 km, 6 hrs) with a stop on the way to buy a snack of your choice. Arrive in the city, check-in at the hotel and overnight
Day 10
Breakfast, transfer to the airport and morning departure by flight to Moscow
