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11 days
12 nights
from 5 people in a group
14+
Distance
680km
200km
jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec
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8 days
7 nights
from 4 people in a group
14+
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390km
100km
54km
15km
jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec
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8 days
9 nights
from 5 people in a group
8+
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390km
78km
66km
jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec
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10 days
11 nights
from 5 people in a group
14+
Distance
1380km
78km
72km
jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec
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14 days
15 nights
from 4 people in a group
18+
Distance
52km
77km
jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec
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10 days
11 nights
from 4 people in a group
8+
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930km
500km
26km
40km
jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec
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12 days
13 nights
5-24 people in a group
18+
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1390km
15km
jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec
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13 days
14 nights
from 4 people in a group
14+
Distance
600km
195km
20km
jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec
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Persons
Age
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9 days
10 nights
from 14 people in a group
Distance
680km
200km
jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec
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Length
Persons
Age
Styles
9 days
10 nights
from 5 people in a group
14+
Distance
488km
45km
20km
jan feb mar apr may jun jul aug sep oct nov dec
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Altai Mountains adventure by Travel-Altai Company

Explore Altai

Lower Katun and Chemal. Middle Katun

The Katun, a Great River of Siberia

Teletskoe Lake

A pearl of Siberia

Belukha

Altai mountains Mt Belukha

Chulyshman

Recess of Altai

Chuya River Valley

A trail of nomads

Ukok

Explore UKOK Martian landscapes

Reference about Altai

  • there are more than 17 thousand Rivers and more than 13 thousand Lakes in the Altai Mountains territory;
  • Belukha Mountain is equidistant from three oceans - the Pacific, the Atlantic and the Indian. It is the central peak of the giant continent of Eurasia. Belukha Mountain height is 4506 m. Mountain Belukha is a powerful mountain range, with 169 glaciers on its slopes. Its total area is 150 square km;
  • archaeologists have found the remains of a previously unknown type of ancient man, in Denisova Cave, which is located in the Altai Mountains;
  • Ukok princess is one of the most world famous mummies founded in burial mound of Ukok Plateau in 1993.
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Tourism in Altai

Tourism in the Altai Mountains is as diverse as Altai. Any kind of tourism is available in the Altai Mountains: auto trips, horse riding, rafting, climbing, mountain hiking, bicycle trips, fishing and hunting, photo tours, caving, esoteric tours, ethnographic tours. Everyone, who visited the Altai Mountains once, returns again and again to enjoy the unique areas of wilderness, clean mountain air and plunge into the unknown world of pristine.

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Climate of Altai

Altai climate depends on three main factors: amount of solar radiation, air mass circulation and type of the underlying surface. Air masses have the greatest influence on climate in Altai, the reason it has different properties, as encountering and interacting air masses set unstable, rapidly changing weather. Continental air masses have pronounced hot and dry properties in summer. Stable cold weather characterizes winter months. Arctic continental air masses come from the North. Continental tropical air masses can reach from Central Asia and bring early warm spring and hot, dry summer.

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Culture and history of Altai

According to the conservative estimates, people were first appeared in Altai about 600 thousand years ago. Natural resources provided basis for development of the culture of ancient Altai people. That's why Altai was always inhabited by various tribal groups during all periods of the Altai history, beginning from the Stone Age. Waves of new foreigners invaded the Altai Mountains one after another. Some of them left mountains and steppes, while others settled creating a unique cultural values.

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Religion of Altai

The history of spiritual culture of Altai people is represented as diversity of kinds and forms of traditional beliefs and customs, world religions, and new religious organizations and spiritual movements and cults at the present. It confidently asserts that the territory of the Altai Mountains was religious and cultural diversity influenced on its location.

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Shamanism of Altai

Shamanism was a traditional philosophical and religious system in Central Asia during the Scythian epoch, and Hun-Sarmatian time. It finally emerged among the peoples of the Hsiung-nu / Gunnu and ancient Turks, originated from the earliest forms of beliefs (animism, totemism, animalism, idolatry. Pantheon system of spirits, cosmological ideas (three folding world), as well as the identity and function of a shaman (doctoring, control of the weather, exorcism, culture heritage, etc.) evolved gradually for thousands of years.

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