The tour presents various bounds of the Urals: sacred places of Christianity and Islam, Living Water (saint springs) and Dead Water (stalactites and stalagmites) – impressive mixture of the past and the present.
Mountains and taiga; lime and pine forests; unique berry patches and hazel groves. Water in the local rivers is crystal clear and fish scales are iridescent!

Programme:

Day 1	12.00: Leaving Ufa. (Meeting near the Bashkortostan Hotel) 15.00: Krasnousolsk Settlement (central bus station). Meeting the group. Dinner. General excursion in Krasnousolsk: the most ancient glass factory, saint springs (mineral and medicinal water). Transfer to Tolparovo Settlement (the starting point of the rafting tour). Supper. Accommodating in the tourist shelter. Banya.
Day 2 – Day 6	Rafting down the Zilim River. En route tourists will see the Rimovskaya Cave, the Tikata Spring, the Plakuchaya Cliff. The final point of the tour is in Imendyashevo Settlement.
Day 7	Visiting the Pobeda Cave (stalactites and stalagmites). Bus excursion to the historic and ethnographical complex Said-Baba (the largest Bashkir settlement in the world). Dinner. Bus excursion to the Tabynskaya Chapel, the story of the icon of the Kazan God’s Mother. Supper. Departing for Ufa.

The prices are available on request.

Age of tourists: from 13 years old.

Accommodation: on route – tents for 1,2,3 persons.

Meals: 3 times a day. Meals are cooked on fire. En route tourists cook meals themselves. On the first and on the last day of the tour tourists are fed at the places they visit.

Gear and equipment provided: Group: Tents, sleeping bags, tourist mats, kitchenware, fire set. Specific: catamarans (for 2 or for 4 persons), rafts (for 6 persons), lifejackets (if required).

Guides and instructors: to provide group’s safety and comfort two guides accompany each group (up to 12-16 persons) en route.

The package includes: 3 meals a day, accommodation at the tourist shelter and in tourist camps, gear and equipment, guides and instructors, excursions to the Tabynskaya Chapel, to the Pobeda Cave and to the historic and ethnographical complex Said-Baba, banya, transport en route, transfer Ufa-Krsnousolsk-Ufa.

Discounts of 30% are provided for children under 10 year old traveling with their parents.