VISIT
TO POLE OF COLD "VERKHOYANSK"
Period of activity: November, 01 - April, 15
Duration: 6 days
Group size: 2-8 PAX max
Cost from 46700 RUR PP
Cost includes: full board according to program, all transfers, ESG services, double accommodation in standard room in "Polar Star" Hotel****, airtickets Yakutsk-Batagay (Verkhoyansk)-Yakutsk, all excursions.
Note:Cost is for double accommodation.
Cost does not include: alcoholic beverages, additional expenses due to bad weather, airtickets from/to Moscow, medical insurance.
Cost may change if gasoline price rise and air company will rise the fee for airtickets.
Cost is given in Russian roubles (RUR).
There are people with a spirit of adventure and taste for discovery who always dream of challenging the North Pole, the South Pole, Everest, etc. These
people are true travelers but are there a lot of people who visit the Pole of Cold, the place with a record negative temperature?
What does the place with such a cosmic temperature look like? How do people and animals survive? What happens with equipment and machinery? Why does the river still run if it is -54°C.
It is worth seeing the place and being there to get all the answers. It is time to discover this natural phenomenon.
What is extreme cold? How is it possible to survive such cold? To understand this one should visit
the Pole of Cold. It is something to do at least once in a life-time. One of the points of absolute cold of the Northern Hemisphere is situated
in Verkhoyansk, Yakutia. There, mid January temperature is --50,0°C. Sometime it drops down to -68°C.
PROGRAMM
Day 1 Meeting at the airport Yakutsk . Transfer to hotel "Tygyn Darkhan". Accomodation in double
room . Dinner in hotel's restaurant. Rest.
Day 2 Breakfast in hotel. City observing excursion with JSG. Visit to Regional Museum of Nature and
Culture. Lunch in local restaurant "Fregat". Visit to Museum of Mammoth. Visit to "Treasures of Yakutia" Exibition. Dinner in
Chinese restaurant "Golden Dragon"
Day 3 Departure to Verkhoyansk by flight YP 213 at 9:05 am, arriving time 11:55 am. Transfer to
Verkhoyansk by car (1,5 hrs driving, about 60 km) Stay in hotel or home stay. Lunch in family. Visit to local museum. Dinner in family.
Day 4 Programm in Verkhoyansk - Folk concert, ice fishing, visit to cow and horse farms. Receiving of
Sertificate "Visitors of Pole of Cold " from Major. Lunch and dinner in families.
Day 5 Departure to Yakutsk by flight YP 214 at 0:55 pm, arriving in Yakutsk at 1:45 pm Transfer to hotel
"Tygyn Darkhan". Rest and free time. Dinner in hotel's restaurant.
Day 6 Programm in Yakutsk. Visit to Institute of Permafroust. Visit to complex "Diamond Park" (6 km
from city) . Lunch in hunting restaurant on the territory of complex. Dog sledding, Reindeer sledding, snow mobile driving, visit to Even House, Yakut
House. Returning in city. Shopping in Market, souvenir stores. Dinner in Italian restaurant "Margarita"
Day 7 Departure to airport
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