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After landing a staff member of the reserve will meet you. He'll give you all the instructions. From the helipad are laid wooden decks, which connect the observation platforms with views of the main attractions. For safety, you can only move around the valley through them. Some areas overgrown with bright green grass, there can be puddles with boiling water. Places where wormwood grows, on the contrary are safe — the plant takes root only on strong soil. You can go from the wooden path only with the permission of the guide.

Here you can see all the known forms of hydrothermal activity: geysers, thermal springs, mud lakes, boilers and volcanoes. Each geyser in the valley has its own pillar height and periodicity of functioning:

The landslide of 2013 was one of the largest in Russia for the whole history of observations. Approximately this amount of concrete was spent on the construction of the Dam Three Gorges in China — the largest in the world. Despite this, the Valley ecosystem has recovered. Even new geysers and thermal springs have appeared.

For a walk, the reserve allocates two hours. The walk does not require any physical training and special equipment. Often visitors can see bears walking on the slope among the soaring geysers. During the year, the valley is visited by no more than two thousand people.

The caldera of the Uzon volcano is one of the largest in Kamchatka. The area is comparable with the area of Paris. Previously, there was a volcano, but after a powerful eruption, it collapsed, the earth sank under it and formed a caldera. The repeated eruption left a funnel with a diameter of one and a half kilometers. Now it is Dalnee Lake.

Caldera is located on the territory of the Kronotsky Reserve, 180 km from the capital of the peninsula. Since 1996 it has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. There are about a hundred hot springs and almost five hundred other hydrothermal manifestations: steam-gas jets, thermal lakes, acid rivers, mud boilers and volcanoes.

Scientists tend to get here because of the bright hydrothermal activity. The water sources contain not only rare minerals and chemical elements, but also bacteria that have adapted to life at a temperature of 98 °C.

Here, the output of the youngest oil on the planet is discovered and the mineral that nowhere else meets the Uzonite.

In the Uzon Caldera there is a lake with a double bottom — Bannoye. At a depth of 28 m there is a crust, breaking through which, scientists have discovered a tank of molten sulfur. The water temperature in the lake is 40 °C and you can swim there. Women note a beneficial effect on the skin, and men increase potency. Another attraction of the caldera is the mud pot Sculptor. Every four seconds it "sculpts" mud 3D-drawings in the form of roses. In 2008, a new geyser was formed in the caldera — Mutniy, with a water column of six meters high.

The nature of the caldera is aggressive: poisonous vapors, hot water everywhere, mud and bears. During the visit, the group will be accompanied by a reserve officer with a rifle. Just as in the Valley of Geysers, there are wooden decks.

Zhupanova is the only river in Kamchatka, rented for the organization of sport fishing. Its length is almost 250 km, it flows into the Pacific Ocean and there are no settlements on its coast. You can get to the river only by boat or helicopter. You can get to the river only by boat or helicopter.

There are seven species of Pacific salmon: sockeye, chinook, pink salmon, chum salmon, coho salmon, mikizha (rainbow trout), kunja. Mikizha (rainbow trout) is the main object of fishing, the weight of some fish can be 6–8 kg and length — 70–80 cm.

From the Fishing Base Kedrovaya you can move by water-jet boats and upstream and down to the Pacific Ocean. 

The water area of the river is diverse: rifts, whirlpools, chutes, reaches and streams. There is a wide space with calm water and the narrowing in the swift current. You can catch salmon fly fishing and with spinning. We provide all the necessary fishing tackle. The export of fish from the river is prohibited, fishing on the principle of “caught-released”. But for the fish soup and sandwiches with caviar, you can take. This is one of the few places where 100 % of the catch is guaranteed.

During the fishing, the guests are accompanied by instructors and an armed huntsman. A large number of fish attracts not only fishermen, but also brown bears.

Kurilskoye Lake is the second largest freshwater lake in Kamchatka after Kronotskoe. Bears are the main feature of this place. They eat sockeye salmon in the Kurilskoye Lake in the middle of summer, when about six million fish go to spawn. This is the largest spawning migration in Eurasia. From the middle of July, the fish begin to ascend from the Sea of Okhotsk along the Ozernaya River, the only one flowing from the Kurilskoye Lake. At the source of the river, there is a hospital of the research institute of fisheries and oceanography.

Spawning lasts almost six months, because of this, in the summer up to 250 brown bears come to the lake. Because of the big amount of fish bears are indifferent to people. You can take pictures of them from 20–30 meters.

From the shore of the Kurilskoye Lake a panorama of the snow-covered cone of the Ilyinsky Volcano opens. As a result of the eruption, lava islands formed on the lake: Chayachiy, Niskiy, Serdtse Adelaida and Samang archipelago. Here lives one of the largest colonies of the Pacific gull in fifteen hundred pairs. There are coastal exits of hot springs with a water temperature of up to 45 °C. Four kilometers from the source of the Ozernaya River, there is another attraction of Kamchatka — Kutkhini Baty.

Visiting tourists to the Kurilskoye Lake is limited by the quotas allocated by the reserve. The visit must be agreed in advance.

Ksudach is a volcano, in the caldera of which there are three lakes: Klyuchevoye, Nizhnee and Shtyubelya. Along the edge of the shore of the Lake Klyuchevoye, there are hot springs which form a hot beach. With the help of hands and shovels, you can build a small pool in the sand. The thermal spring water mixes with the cold water of the lake and cools to a comfortable 35 °C. After that you can swim.

The last eruption of Ksudach occurred in 1907. As a result, a hole formed, which filled with water, forming the Lake Shtyubelya. It was named after a German volcanologist, who had never been in Kamchatka. After bathing in hot baths you can watch the panorama from the air on two lakes of the caldera.

Kutkhini Baty is a canyon with white pumice rocks in the form of vertically standing canoe. Kukht for local people is a god in the form of the raven and bat is a fishing boat. Literally, Kutkhini Baty is the boat of the god Kutkha.

A hundred-meter-high rocks are formed as a result of a volcanic eruption. Lava mass due to the high content of gases foamed and froze in a porous state. Then, under the influence of wind and water flows, the rocks turned to the forms that can be observed today. Especially impressive pumice canyon looks from the helicopter.

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