Northern beauty - River Pistayoki

Pistayoki one of the most interesting in the sport on the rivers in Karelia. River carries its waters to the most beautiful corners of North Karelia. It not only attracts rafting on catamarans, but also excellent fishing on the lakes. Wild nature, clean air, rough water - great ingredients for an active holiday in Karelia!

Region: Republic of Karelia
Type of tour: water (Rafting)
Duration: 9 days/9 nights
Lenth: 98 km
Group: from 8 до 17 people
Feeding route: free meals (prepared instructor, help tourists not forbidden)
Accomodation: 4-person tents

 Itinerary:
Day 1: 3:50 Arriving by train № 16 (Moscow - St. Petersburg - Murmansk) in the village of Louhi. Meeting at the car.
Transfer to Lake Kimasyarvi (130 km). Passage frontier. Breakfast. Prepare equipment to enter the river. Lunch.
Rafting: Lake Kimasyarvi - threshold Zahar (2 ks) - threshold Scala (2 ks) - Snake threshold (2-3 ks) - threshold Salty (3 Rc .) - threshold Padun (3 cc). Dinner and overnight in the field. Length of day rafting - 7 km.
Day 2: Breakfast. Rafting: Lake Shuvanda - threshold Nameless - Lake Manduyarvi - threshold Cunning (3 cc) - Lake Hirvasyarvi - Shiver - Lake Viheltayarvi (16 km). Dinner and overnight in the field.
Day 3: Breakfast. Rafting: Lake Viheltayarvi - thresholds (2 ks) - lake Pistayarvi (14 km).
Dinner and overnight in the field.
Day 4: Day stay. Recreation, fishing, tourist Bath (compact, quickly gathered in the field conditions Tourism Bath - the best way to relieve fatigue in the campaign. "Bathroom Procedures" smooth effect of large doses of epinephrine, relax muscles, relieve tension excellent). Dinner and overnight in the field.
Day 5: Breakfast. Rafting: Lake Pistayarvi - Shiver - threshold Semipovorotny (3-4 ks) - Lake Muasyarvi (12 km). Dinner and overnight in the field.
Dat 6: Breakfast. Rafting: Lake Muasyarvi - threshold Kurki (3 cc) - Shiver - threshold Mane (3 cc) - Lake Vaykulskoe - threshold Furlyalyay (2-3 KS). Dinner and overnight in the field. Length of day rafting - 17 km.
Day 7: Breakfast. Rafting: Furlyalyay threshold - the threshold of IMIS (3-4 ks) - threshold Thalia (2-3 ks) - threshold Hirvi (2-3 ks) - Lake Korpijarvi ( 16 km). Dinner and overnight in the field.
Day 8: Breakfast. Rafting on the river Pistayoki catamarans: Lake Korpijarvi - threshold Unnamed (1-2 ks) - threshold Poalla (4 ks). Dinner and overnight in the field. Length of day rafting - 16 km.
Day 9: Day stay. Breakfast. Riding on the threshold Poalla (4 ks). Travel Bath. Farewell dinner in the field.
Transfer to the station in the city of Kem. Check out at 06:16 by train № 15 (Murmansk - St. Petersburg - Moscow) or in the 8:42 train № 381 (Murmansk - Moscow).

Price includes: transfers, meals, job trainers, insurance, rental of equipment for the alloy: catamarans, oars, helmets, life jacket, sealed packages, rental of equipment for the camp: a camp fire equipment, tents, sleeping bags, insulating mats.
Additional fees: train tickets to the station Louhi and back from the city of Kem, Karelia souvenirs made of stone, bark, tree, national drinks; blanks Karelian mushrooms and berries excursion Solovki.

Equipment for the alloy:
Catamarans - special, undecked inflatable vessels for rafting on rough water. Planting knee.
Paddles, life jacket, spaskontsy, helmets - a proven, easy-to-use equipment.
Equipment for Camp:
Tents - quad. At the tent is given the necessary amount of insulation mats.
Sleeping - temperature regime is optimal for the time of the tour. If you take a personal sleeping bag, sleeping pad or tent should notify the company in advance.
Crockery - personal dishes need to have everyone. Provides pots, trays and other utensils for cooking.
Feeding route:
Three meals a day. Sometimes, on the basis of the conditions of the route, lunch may be replaced by a snack. Prepares food instructor, help tourists is not forbidden. The menu includes fresh vegetables, soups.
Security:
Depending on the level of water danger thresholds change. The instructor has the right to decide on Obnosov dangerous areas, to keep the threshold is not prepared or drunken parties. On the water, participants are always in life jackets, when passing dangerous thresholds - in their helmets.  
Physical activity:
On tour in the river Pistayoki need a fairly high physical training, because passage of lakes, management of the catamaran requires each participant, the thresholds are complex and each takes a lot of physical strength.

                                                                   Photos from the route of travel agencies "Стелла"