Rafting in Putorana Plateau 

10 Days

Difficulty:4
Where: NORTH CENTER SIBERIA
Starting from: Pricing on request
Next departure: July 2018
Activities: Rafting on rivers and trekking
Itinerary: Along river Kotui
Trip period: July- August
Minimum number: 6 people
Helicopters:Yes

The trip in Putorana with Russia Trekking permits to visit one of the last virgin area of the world located in the north central area of Siberia. The weather in the period we propose the trip, July-August, is quite acceptable with a range of temperatures during the day from 15 to 25 Celsius and in the night from 5 to 15 Celsius. In this period of the year there is alway sun because the latitude.

The starting point of the trip is quite far away from the last inhabited village that is about 2,5 hours of helicopter fly. The trip is the exploration of the area with two special catamarans assisted by two inflatable boats with motor. We will descend the river Kotui for about 300 kms in 8 days. In some places it will be possible to make short walks to see the area and panorama nearby the camp. We will have professional fishing equipment to fish in the rivers and in the lakes we will cross and fresh fish will be in our menus everyday.

The assistance of our team will manage all the duties of the day from navigation to camp preparation and any other need in such situation. The trip is indicated for real explorers in good health conditions that can adapt to the virgin area totally wild and with no human establishment on the way. Not extreme conditions but good capacity to adapt to this kind of trip.

DAY 1: Arrival at the river, setting a camp, dinner, first fishing – grayling, building ships, dinner, and songs around the campfire, time to go to bed is not regulated

DAY 2: 10:00 Breakfast, equipment of the boats to sail, disassembling the camp and at 12: 00 departure – START 15-00 – lunch (lunch box and hot tea) – 1.5 h, fishing 20-00 – Parking for the night, setting camp 21-30 – dinner based on the catch of the day. The sun never goes down int the first part of July

DAY 3.4.5.6 Similar scheduling of day 2 but with some short excursions on land

DAY 7: 9:00 Breakfast, 13:00 hot lunch, 17:00 landing and disassembling of the boats. 21-00 – Farewell campfire, singing, dancing, celebrating the end of the rafting and the last night of the traveling

DAY 8: 8:00 Breakfast, dismantling of the camp, food, packing equipment. 9:30 Arrival of the helicopter for the flight to Toura. Arrival and check in for Krasnoyarsk at 13:30 with Antonov 26. Flight for Moscow at 21:00 and arrival in Moscow at 22:00. Hotel accommodation.

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General Info: The difference in time with Moscow is + 4 hours.

Flight details: Flights: Moscow-Norilsk and Toura-Krasnoyarsk-Moscow

Flight time up to the beginning of rafting by helicopter Mi-8 – ~ 2.5 hours

Itinerary length: The total length of the route is ~300 km on river Kotui that is about 1.400 km long

Tour duration; 8 days

Number of Participants: Number of participants – 7 tourists + 5 (- l+2 guide-assistant+chef+interpreter)

Equipment: 2 special inflatable boats, 2 catamaran + Japanese boat motors