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Russian Arctic itineraries

 

Sea of Okhotsk - 19 days

Sea otter survey in the Kurils - 19 days

Across the top of the world - 17 days

In the wake of Bering - 17 days

Birding in the Russian Far East - 15 days

 

 

 


Russian Far East Kamchatka

Clients’ comments

“This was a wonderful trip. Getting there and back was slightly trying, not because of the airlines (both Transaero and Yakutia were good) but because of the length of the flights, the hassle of boarding, stopping over in Irkutsk on the way back, and of course the time changes (3 hours London/Moscow, nearly 9 hours Moscow/Petropavlovsk, and the reverse on the way back. The voyage itself was splendid. There were some early starts and late finishes, a few rather optimistic ‘dry landings’ from zodiacs (I always wore rubber wellingtons and always needed them) and one optimistic ‘walk’ through a pass between bays which involved ploughing through deep/very deep snow for about a mile while on a slope most of the way. But we took these in our stride. We saw tons of wildlife – literally; at least two dozen whales, more than 5,000 hauled-out walruses, about 50 sea-lions, dozens of seals, and at least 15 brown bears. We were successful in finding the spoon-billed sandpiper, and the scientific element of the trip was both enlightening and exciting.”

Chris Meader, In Bering’s wake, in search of the spoon-billed sandpiper, June/July 2011