South Kuriles itinerary
Tag 1: Flight to Yuzno-Kurilsk, visit Kurilsky Bay
Transfer to the airport, flight to Iturup. Arrival in Kurilsk. Transfer and accommodation in a hotel. Dinner. Trip to Yankito plateau. Kurilsky bay: reverberating beach is a conglomeration of rocks made of frozen volcanic lava on the seacoast. The alien scenery of mysterious shapes worry the imagination. Visit to the “Vannochki” complex – thermal mineral springs with a view of Kurilsky bay. Dinner in the hotel.
Tag 2: Arrival
Arrival to Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Pick up at the airport, transfer to our hotel. Accommodation in a hotel. Sightseeing tour around the city.
Welcome dinner.
Tag 3: Baranskiy volcano
Full-day excursion to Baranskiy volcano.
Tag 4: Spare day
Excursion to Kasatka Bay. Visit Baranskiy volcano — one of the active volcanoes of Iturup Island.
Tag 5: White cliffs
Excursion to the White cliffs, waterfall wall.
Tag 6: Yuzhno-Kurilsk
Transfer to the port, departure to Yuzhno-Kurilsk on a ferry.
Tag 7: Arrival to Yuzhno-Kurilsk
Arrival in Yuzhno-Kurilsk. Transfer to hotel.
Tag 8: Caldera of the volcano Golovnin, lake Kipyashyee.
Excursion to Caldera of the volcano Golovnin, lake Kipyashyee.
Tag 9: Sea trip to Tyatya volcano
Transfer to the pier. Sea trip to point Rubezhny where Tyatya volcano is located. Make a camp near the crater “Otvazhny”.
Tag 10: Tyatya volcano
Day 10
Ascent of the Tyatya volcano (4 hrs). Descent to the sea. Journey back on boats (if the weather is good; if not – with the quads)
Hotel “Iceberg", dbl
Tag 11: Fumaroles of Mendeleev volcano
Excursion to fumaroles of Mendeleev volcano. Trekking to the Stolbchaty.
Tag 12: Flight to Yuzhny-Sakhalinsk
Flight to Yuzhny-Sakhalinsk.
Tag 13: Departure
Transfer to the airport. Flight back home or own extension.
Anreise:
The tour starts and ends in Petropavlovsk (Kamchatka).
Wichtiger Hinweis
- Returning customers of VolcanoDiscovery will have priority on this expedition.
- Deposit payment modalities: by end of Oct, we will need to ask for a 3000 EUR deposit, as we will then need to pay a deposit for the boat charter. Rest payment is then due by 2 month prior to the trip.
- In case of cancellation from YOUR side, our refund policy on this trip is changed: until 1 Mar 2019: 10%, until 30 April: 50%, after and including 1 May: 90% cancellation fee. If you or we can find another traveler to take your spot then, we can waive the cancellation fee to a service fee of 100 EUR.
- The indicated per person price at 5 (6) participants is based on 480,000 (450,000) RUB at an exchange rate of 76 RUB/EUR. If by 2 months prior to the tour, the RUB/EUR exchange rate has deviated more than 5% from this value, the per person EUR price will be be adjusted accordingly to recalculate the final payment due.
Reiseleitung
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Dr. Tom Pfeiffer diese Reise. Tom Pfeiffer bereist und dokumentiert aktive Vulkanismus seit mehr als 20 Jahren.
Sein wissenschaftlicher Hintergrund ist seine Doktorarbeit über den Vulkanismus der Insel Santorin in Griechenland. Dort hat er auch den verkohlten Olivenbaum in den Bimsschichten der minoischen Vulkaneruption entdeckt, der über die C14-Methode die genaue Datierung der Santorin-Eruption 1627 v.Chr. ermöglichte. In seiner Doktorarbeit bezieht er sich auch auf den Vulkan Vesuv. Er hat schon auf Hawai`i am Vesuv in den Vulkanobservatorien gearbeitet, bevor er 2004 VolcanoDiscovery gründete und als VolcanoAdventures 2014 neu entwickelte. Er spricht Deutsch, Englisch, Französisch, Dänisch, Griechisch und Italienisch.
Der Vulkanologe Dr. Tom Pfeiffer auf Santorini
