| Fly from Anchorage to Petropavlovsk,
Kamchatka for our 8 day birding and Russian cultural experience.
You will be accompanied by your host Sharon Allred. She
has birded 
in Russia many times in 14 years.
Tour 1:The first day we will fly from Anchorage to Petropavlovsk,
Russia. After our arrival we will fly in helicopters to a
nature park where we will spend six days birding. The park
has cabins and natural hot springs. We will leave daily on
our outings accompanied by our Russian Scientist and guide.
Our small group will have a Russian interpreter with us as
well as Sharon Allred. On the sixth day we will helicopter
from our wilderness location back to our hotel in town. On
our last day we will tour the town seeing points of interest.
Our Russian ornithologist, Edward Malinovsky is known in
Kamchatka as the author of many scientific publications
including books about the Commander Islands. We will get
to view his photo archives of Kamchatka’s birds with more
than 160 species.
Two guides for eight people is a great ratio. Ouzel Expeditions
always has favored groups with a maximum of 8.
Tour 2: If you
like to go birding all day and sleep in a hotel at night
this is a comfortable tour. We fly to Petropavlovsk the first
day of our tour, check in to our hotel and meet our Russian
Scientist. He will show us his photos of birds this evening.
Every morning after we will go birding ino our own private
bus. Edward Malinovsky knows all the great birding areas
around Kamchatka. We will also see many nests and learn about
bird behavior. He is a wealth of knowledge!
Brief History: In 1740 Vitus Bering sailed
into Avacha Bay. He named the spot after his two ships, St.
Peter and St. Paul, hence the name Petropavlovsk. Bering also
discovered the Aleutians and Commander Islands on the same
voyage. Petopavlovsk is surrounded by beauty having two volcanoes,
Avachinsky and Koryaksky to the north and Avacha Bay to the
south. There are 29 Active volcanoes on the Kamchatka peninsula.
Please call, write or email for a complete
itinerary.
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