Expedition dates:
March 3 - March 12, 2000.
Seal rookery observation site:
Arkhangelsk region, village of Verkhnyaya Zolotitsa, estuary of the
White Sea.
Participants of the expedition:
1 to 4 groups, each one includes 12 participants + 1 tour-leader.
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Our expedition's main purpose is to visit a seal rookery and watch the seal
cubs. The expedition timing has been decided upon on the basis of many
years of experience gives maximum guarantee that the expedition
participants can watch the seals successfully.
At our customers' request and in cases when a full group is to be
completed, we can shift the scheduled starting date of the expedition to
another date within the period from February 27 to March 5. However, this
will increase the risk that the seals' breeding ground will be situated farther
away from the location at which the participants of the expedition are
expected to stay overnight.
Besides our primary objective, i.e. visiting the location at which the seals
deliver their cubs, we shall visit St. Petersburg, one of Russia's and
Europe's northern gems; call on the city of Arkhangelsk, the capital of
Russian Pomors (the White Sea coast dwellers); take a look at the outdoor
museum in Maliye Karely in which architectural masterpieces of the
Russian North are collected; visit the renowned Solovetskiy Monastery
known all over the world owing to its amazingly tragic history; and make a
flight to a reindeer breeders' nomadic camp. And, most remarkably, you'll
be able to spend two days in the real Pomor houses, stay with the families
of the Pomors (the White Sea coast dwellers), and get to know their
present-day way of life in which its ancient traditions are still preserved.
So if you like nature and travelling, if you have dreamed of seeing the
North with your own eyes (and not on a TV screen), of experiencing the
severity of life in the North, you won't regret having departed on an
expedition with us.
As it has always been wiht our Arctic programmes, we use Arctic aviation
which has vast experience of flight operations under severe Arctic
conditions. Mi-8 helicopters will be used as a reliable aid in landing our
groups on the ice-frozen surface of the White Sea.
Safety of participants is the basic pre-requisite for all our expeditions, and
our compliance with this provision is ensured by the experience of work
under the North Pole region conditions.
We invite individuals who care for environment and environmental
protection, as well as journalists, correspondents, all those intested in the
projects, and of course, parachutists, to join us in our expedition. If
desired, we shall have a chance to do parachute jumping in a Pomor
village at the White Sea coast.