Arrival to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Meeting at the airport, transfer to a hotel in the Paratunka settlement. It's needed to arrive with an early flight (or one day before) to adapt better to a get lag before starting the trip.

You will devote your first day in Kamchatka to relaxing, resting in hot springs, acclimatizing to a local nature. While dinner you'll have a briefing about all the details of our trip and will have chance to ask all your questions to your tour leader. It is important not fall to sleep before evening this day to have easier get lag.

You are going to explore a unique black volcanic sand beach of Pacific Ocean, called Khalaktyrskiy, while horse riding excursion on this day. The beach stretches for 33 kilometers along wild part of eastern coast of Kamchatka - there are no tourist infrastructure, cafes or shops. There are only ocean, tones of black sand and silhouettes of mighty volcanoes at the horizon.

Horse riding walk is going to be easy and slow so that even a beginner will enjoy it.

During second part of the day everybody will have an option to practice surfing*, even beginners may try it for the first time with a professional coach. If you call to you memory a fact that 4000 kilometers directly far from you there is a world-famous surfing mecca of Hawaii – this kind of activity will become especially attractive.

Another one option for second part of the day is going to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy to have a walk around the city, visiting a super-market to buy any necessary things before you go to remote uncivilized places of Kamchatka. In the evening bathing in hot springs is provided as well.

*rental surfing equipment and coach accompaniment are available for extra charge.

Day tour to Mutnovsky volcano (2323m), which is rightfully considered to be one of the most beautiful and intresting in Kamchatka. It has complex, unusual structure. Surrounded by steep rocks, a glacier comes down. Mighty steam jets rush to the surface through its cracks. This area is also attractive due to diverse and intensive manifestation of volcanism: hissing fumaroles in the bright yellow collars of sulfur crystals, clay boilers full of black liquid, astonishing craters.

Summit takes around 3 hours, exclusive of automobile transfer to a piedmont (distance – 6 kilometers, elevation – 800 meters). Overnight at a piedmont.

Goreliy volcano (1829 amsl) is a ridged mountain massif with few volcanic craters, rising up from the bottom of a huge elliptic caldera. Its most recognizable crater called the Blue lake has ungeometrical shape around 500 meters wide surrounded with rocky walls of 200 meters high. There is an incredible lake full of blue icy water and floes on the bottom of crater. Summit takes around 3 hours (distance – 6 kilometers, elevation – 900 meters).

In the evening we are going back to the city, resting and preparing to a sailing part of our trip.

Accommodation on a tourist boat in the early morning. Meeting a crew, briefing. Sailing to Russkaya bay. Observing of different geological monuments, searching and watching of sea-animals on the way. Breakfast, lunch and dinner on a boat.

Looking for killer whales while sailing from bay to bay alosouth-western coast of Kamchatka. We are going to choose a route according to the weather and a factual presence of whales. If circumstances allows (killer whales behavior, no wind and strong waves) – we will try to snorkel with animals right in the ocean.

After lunch we'll continue our searching and go back to Russkaya bay to have a walk onshore and visit abandoned ship. Watch out there a chance to encounter a brown bear. Keep following safety rules and all the instructions given by your tour guides.

After walk our professional Team Trip biologist will conduct an educational lecture as well.

Sailing towards Kekurny Cape where killer whale families often occur. There is a sea-lions rookery nearby the Cape. We'll get close to it to snorkel with these amazing creatures in their wild habitat. Sea lions are huge, playful and very curious, rarely come to you alone but surround you with a whole pack.

Splashed to the top or our bents we will sail to Tihaya bay. There we'll land to explore wild nature of Kamchatka via kayaks through crystal clear lake. We'll make a stop at our special secret place "in the middle of nowhere" to have a short trekking. Don't forget to take your swimming suit with you for having a refreshing swim in a cold lake.

During second part of the day we'll be trying to catch a fish for making dinner, and right before the sunset we'll get back to the sea-lions cape and come close to them with our kayaks, watching the animals wallowing in sunny rays. Usually sea-lions greet visitors loud and pose a lot.

In the evening we'll be warming ourselves in a local fishermen sauna onshore.

In the dusk we are starting moving towards seal rookery. Seals are unbelievably fearful animals, that why it is important to get close to them quietly and carefully. If we reach our destination in a right way seals will surround us, coming up to the surface like bobbers, getting closer each time to view their visitors. The rookery locates in a very picturesque place with few small waterfalls coming down from rocks right in the water.

We'll keep searching of killer whales after breakfast and go back to Russkaya bay after lunch to have trekking along waterfalls to a mountain lake. At the end of the day we'll go to our secret place on a river via rubber motor boat in order to find brown bears that usually hunt fish there. With some luck we'll take a look at these amazing huge but really dapper animals.

This is the last day of our cruise. Bid a farewell to Russkaya bay, which has been our home for previous days and start moving towards Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy sea-port. On a way back we'll visit Zelyony Cape (a base of Far Eastern Orca Project scientists that survey killer whales in Avacha bay), walk through high green grass onshore, take photos of Vilyuchinskiy volcano, meet residents (if they are there by time we come) and listen some excurse about local killer whales.
We'll pass the Starichkov island (sea birds reserve) on the way back as well. Coming back to the city not later than 19:00, accommodation in a hotel.

We have this day as a reserve for case of bad weather. If we are back to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy on time than while this day you may have a walk around the city or take any optional excursion, such as:

• 6-hour helicopter excursion to Kuril lake (3 landings, lunch and bathing in wild hot springs)
  
• 6-hour helicopter excursion to the Valley of Geysers (3 landings, lunch and bathing in wild hot springs)
  
• Avachinskiy volcano summit
  
• Any other available excursion