In the recent years exactly the water touring has been most intensely gaining popularity in Altay among the admirers of sporting holidays. The number of those anxious to raft down a mountain stream grows every year. Altay with its variety of rivers makes for tours of every degree of difficulty (max. - 6). There are over 20 000 streams and brooks in Altay, their joint length exceeding 62 000 km. Most of these are rough and impetuous. Streams in Altay are an inescapable scenery feature, they 'persecute' the wayfarers relentlessly. But whatever stream you may choose for your rafting trip, thunderstruck with the glory of the surroundings you are sure to be in any case.

        This tour of a relatively short duration you are dead certain to find impressive to the utmost. The rafting takes place in the middle length of the chief waterway of the mountainous Altay - the Katun. This section of the river has concentrated most of the earnest obstacles such as the rapids Ilgumen, the Kadrinsky 'tube', the Shabash, the Teldekpen among others.
        Mighty rapids, constantly changing view, pungency of perceptions - this is what you are to experience while travelling this route. Here you'll try out a field 'blackwise' bath, taste appetizing fish dishes from the Altaic species taimen and grayling (salmon family, Salmonidae). 

• Duration - 8 days. Rafting - 5 days.
• Rafting degree of difficulty - 3 to 4, sometimes 5.
• Day's marches - 3 to 6 hours.
• Rafting skills would not be out of place.
• Children with parents are admitted from the age of 14; general admittance age - 18.
• Number of persons in a group - 5 at the least, 12 at the most.
• The group is escorted by 3 to 4 guides and a cook.
• Prices and schedule of the arrival days are named in the price-list.

        Rafting the two most popular and yet so unlike rivers of the Altay - the Chuya and the Katun - is an opportunity to try one's strength. The Chuya (the right tributary of the Katun) is a winding mountain stream with rapids named 'Storm petrel', 'Hippopotamus', 'turbine', 'Horizon', which are hard to go through in terms of technique and which are of the degrees of difficulty 4 and 5. The Chuya is a site of regular Russian Cup aquatic all-round competitions. The Katun - the prime waterway of the mountainous Altay - will get you dumbfounded with its magnificence and power of rapids of difficulty classes 3 and 4.
        Having set out to this route you'll be overwhelmed with emotions and flooded by adrenaline. All along the way you'll be backed by highly skilled guides who'll see to your safety, making your holidays unforgettable and eventful. You are to find out what a field 'blackwise' bath is, to taste delicious Altaic fishes - taimen and grayling (salmon family, Salmonidae) and, with a bit of luck, native Altaic lamb dishes. 

• Duration - 11 days. Rafting - 8 days. 
• Rafting difficulty class - 4, sometimes 5.
• Day's marches - 3 to 6 hours.
• Rafting skills would not be superfluous.
• Admittance age - 18.
• Number of persons in a group - 5 at the minimum, 12 at the maximum.
• The rafts are convoyed by a stand-by catamaran.
• A group is serviced by 3 to 4 guides and a cook.
• Prices and schedule of arrival days are named in the price-list.

        This tour is an overall view of the splendor and incomparability of the Altay mountains. For it drags in Lake Teletskoye, rivers the Biya, the Chulyshman, the Bashkaus, the Chuya, the Katun, the waterfalls the Korbu and the Chulchinsky (160 m high). The alpinist camp Ak-Tru (2150 m above sea-level, the epicenter of the apprehensible earthquake 2003), the Denis caverns, relics of most ancient civilizations that inhabited the land of Altai will not be left out either. Passes the Ulagansky, the Katuyaryk, the Yabogan, the Chike-Taman (1700 m) are to be overcome on the way as well. But the very stunning places are not to be accessed that effortlessly. Lack of passable roads, overflows of streams, nature whims, to name only few of the hindrances for the travelers to pay heed to.
        All in all, having embarked on this adventurous tour you'll be unavoidably swept along with the avalanche of impressions. And - throughout the route you'll have to keep your camcorders busy. 

• Duration - 10 days. 
• Day's drives - 3 to 6 hours. 
• Length: car stretch - 980 km, launch outing - 80 km; tracking (hiking mountain paths - a bright stroke to the full picture).
• Group strength: 5 tourers at the least, 12 at the most. 
•  A group is attended to by one or two drivers, a guide and a cook.

        Our 'standard' routes can be pooled together. Virtually every sort of tourism is welcome into the joint trip. There are some such 'pools' in the price-list. Individually tailored programs can also be made up. To that end a written request is to be put in beforehand. Desired dates are to be specified in the application.

Before you set out travelling with us and in order that you don't get disappointed with the tour please read this:

• The price of any tour includes: servicing within the program, meals, insurance, hire of equipment, services of instructors and cooks, recreation dues, transport within the route, conveyance from Barnaul-city to the base camp and back.
• Staying at a hotel in Novosibirsk or Barnaul is paid for extra.
• Services offered at base camps that are not included into the program are paid for extra.
• Musts in every tourer's belongings are: warm clothes, headwear, two pairs of field boots/shoes, slippers or plimsolls, two sport suits, sunglasses, weatherproof suit/jacket, rain shielding (umbrella), hygiene kit, pocket torch with an extra battery set. A camera or camcorder are not musts, but are worth taking anyway: the sights to be seen here deserve filming.
• Weather conditions in the traveling areas vary very much. In summer the air temperatures may rise from +14 to + 30 degrees centigrade in the shade. Rain is to reckon with. Snow lies high in the mountains.
• There are three meals a day all tour long, except for the first (only lunch and supper) and the last (breakfast, lunch) days. The cooking is done on a campfire; the tourers do what they can to help the cook. The menu on the 'active' part of the tour is to match the field conditions: canned food, cereals, noodles/macaroni, tea, coffee, oil/butter, confectionery. During 'lunges' on the active part of the tour there can sometimes be only 'dry ration', that is no warm food.
• On the route the tourers live in field tents for two-three-four persons; besides, they are provided with sleeping bags, rugs, special tackle.
• Camp arrangement - rigging up tents, making firewood, building fire - is done by the tourers under instructor guidance.
• For medical aid there is first-aid set; besides, every tourer is insured by the insurance company 'Ingosstrakh-Altay" against an accident plus tick-borne (vernal) encephalitis. Persons in need of constant medical supervision should rather stay away from active tours.
• Program of any tour can be slightly changed for objective reasons.
• Every tourer must keep to the accident prevention rules and follow the instructor's orders.
• The routes go through thinly populated and unpopulated areas devoid of modern comforts and conveniences, so the tourer must have the due morale, not fearing field reality or foul weather.
• If you don't speak or understand Russian, there is an interpreter for agreed extra pay.

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