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Far Frontiers Travel specialises in tailor-making bespoke travel to Central Asia, China and Mongolia, the Far East, Indian Subcontinent and the Himalayas, Indochina, Middle East, North Africa and Europe, Russia and South America.
Sea of Okhotsk | 19 days
Journeying from Sakhalin to Petropavlovsk, this voyage visits the Sea of Okhotsk or the ‘Sea of Hunters’, yet despite the hunting that has gone on over the years, this sea remains one of the richest in the world. Little, however, is known about it – the freshwaters of the Amur River flow into the vast, naturally-sheltered sea and freeze into ice-floes that make it impassable for much of the year. To our knowledge, this is only the second expedition of its kind to visit the region.
A centre for 19th century whalers, whale populations are now recovering and we hope to see a number, including a rare western populationof grey whale, as well as bowhead whales. Ribbon seals and tufted puffins are also on our list as well as wolves, Arctic fox and the Kamchatka brown bear.
Ship: The Spirit of Enderby
When: 6 – 24 June 2012
Guide price:£6,990 per person based on twin cabin (shared facilities)
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