Along The Ural Mountains


10 day Guided Motorcycle Adventure Tour
on the Border of the European and Asian parts of Russia

We meet at the Airport. After a night flight, we stay in a cozy hotel on the Bank of the Ural river. Rest in the hotel will allow you to recover after a night flight. After lunch, we will visit the city of Orenburg, take a photo with Stella Europe Asia. Take a walk on the pedestrian bridge from Europe to Asia. If you wish, you can take 1-2 hours motorcycle tour around the hotel. During dinner in the hotel, we will hold a briefing where you can ask questions and get answers about our trip.

Our Way along the Ural Range starts in the most southern regional capital of the area - the city of Orenburg. Interestingly, the city stands right on the border of two parts of the continent - Europe and Asia. During our long journey along the Ural Mountains, we will many times travel from Europe to Asia and back. The 2nd day of the journey will be introductory and not difficult - we will move along paved roads to get used to driving motorcycles. One of this roads through the open piedmont valleys will leads us through the village of Black Otrog. This is the place, where the events of the peasant war leaded by Emelyan Pugachev unfolded. Those were also described in the great Russian writer Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin's book "Captain's daughter". And in the village of Saraktash we will be met by the grandiose complex "Resident of Mercy". We will visit a copy of the famous Kazan Cathedral, plunge into the holy spring. Prairie fields surrounded by the southern spurs of the Ural Range. Than we will be moving along small rural paths winding in the endless sea of still low hills. The treeless hills can offer spectacular views. As we move north, the rising mountains will accompany us on our way. At the end of the day we will go to the picturesque natural park of Muradymovskoe gorge.

The new day will begin with a picturesque grader along one of the most beautiful rivers of the Southern Ural - Belaya. We will get to know the most interesting places of this area. One of them being the famous Kapova cave. Famous for its' paintings of primitive man, it will be one of the many sites we see along the way. This day our path will run through the Republic of Bashkiria. This road is called the visiting card of the Bashkir Land: there are almost no cars, the track line either climbs up a hill or descends into a decay. The combination of such descents, climbs, birch or pine forests, mountain expanses that open from the crossings, creates a unique colorful landscape.

On the 4th day our path will go through most mysterious reserve of the Ural - Yuzhnouralsky. Yamantau, the highest mountain of the Southern Ural is located on the territory of this reservation. Its' name can be translated from native tongues as "evil mountain". And the name is not accidental - it is believed, that for many decades, a secret object has been built by the military department in its bowels.

Our day will start in a more pleasant place- in one of the Ural treasures, the Ai River (in translation - Moon River) we will go through the most interesting part of the Ai Valley. For shure there are many places to be surprised by: Rocks, fountain, cave cities ... And not only the sights will impress you.The road itself is winding through mountains and forests, galloping through small streams. On our way we will meet many natural miracles, for example, in the tiny village of Porogi there is a state district power station which age is more than 100 years. And until recently, it was still working! In continuation of man-made miracles;we will spend a night in a castle on an island in the middle of a lake.

Today our path will go along the most beautiful park of the Urals - Taganay, which translates "Stand for the moon". And the main highlight of the day will be the pearl of the Urals, Lake Turgoyak, which is also called the younger brother of Lake Baikal. On the lake, we will go to the famous Vera Islands, where Stone Age structures dating back 3 thousand years BC are standing. those older than the Egyptian pyramids! On this day we will overcome one of the largest Ural ridges of Ureng, and the edges through which we will be moving are along the Ural Venice - due to the abundance of lakes, rivers and canals connecting them into a single system.

This day we will be moving along the banks of the most famous Ural river - the Chusovoy.
Chusovaya originates on the eastern slopes of the Ural Range, in Asia, crosses it and mainly flows along its western slopes, in the European part of Russia. A river with a rich history is the main transport artery of the Gornozavod Ural. Before the constriction of a railway, every spring, along with floods, heavily loaded barges departed from the marinas in the upper Chusova and headed to Perm. To further increase the water level, dams of factory ponds were opened. Floating rafting was very dangerous for heavy wooden ships, many of them sunked quickly hiting against coastal cliffs. The most dangerous rocks were called "fighters", they all have their own names. Now the fighters are the decoration of Chusova. And we will definitely climb them for wonderful views

Today we will continue to move along the legendary Chusovaya river, and then we will penetrate the most mysterious Ural Corner - the Perm Anomalous Zone. This is the area where UFOs and abnormalities are observed. In order to penetrate the place and get caught up in observations - we stay overnight in the anomalous zone.

The key point of today is one of the largest gypsum caves in the world. Not only the largest, but also the most beautiful. From the July heat we will fall into the realm of ice and stone.

Transfer to Perm airport.

It so happened historically that the Ural has always been a place of exile and hard labor for Russia. Due to the harsh climate and difficult living conditions, due to the wealth of the subsoil, as well as its geographical location (in the very center of Russia, where there is simply nowhere to run from), the Ural has become an ideal place for exile and an ideal area for labor camps. During the time of the Russian Empire, there were Demidov iron ore mines and iron mills, where hard labor peasants worked in hellish conditions, during the Soviet era. Therefore, the main point of today's day will be the Perm-36 GULAG museum camp located on the territory of this camp. In 2004, UNESCO experts ranked the museum among the most significant monuments of the world.
The key point of today is the famous Stone Town (Devil's Hillfort) The rock mass of the hillfort is cut by numerous deep cracks (up to 8-12 meters). Thanks to this, the outlines of the rocks and cracks in them are very similar to the houses and streets of the old, abandoned city.

Today we will be following the path along the road that made Russia! This is the Babinovsky tract - a direct road from Solikamsk to Verkhoturye, which in ancient times served as the main postal route to Siberia. According to one version, Artemy Babinov, secretly following a group of Mansi who came from Siberia, used the Mansi path and made it into a road. The tract played a huge historical role in the fate of Russia. It was along it that the development of Siberia and even the Far East started. On it through the Ural Mountains, taiga and rivers, royal decrees, a treasury of money were carried; many ambassadorial delegations, postal carriages and scientific expeditions passed through here. Thousands of Russian peasants who settled in Prikamye went this way in search of free, liveable lands. At the end of the day we will reach the Northern Ural! And we will admire its beauties at the mountains of Polyud and Vetlan which are covered by many legends.

This day of the trip will go through the historical centers of industrialization of the Urals of the city of Usolye and Solikamsk. And we will see for ourselves why the Urals was called and still called the "proponent edge of the state." Of course, it will not do without the natural beauties that our land is so rich of.

On the final day of the trip, we will again plunge into the history of the Urals. This time we will walk through the pristine ancient Ural villages on the picturesque Kama Cape in the Museum-Reserve of Wooden Architecture. And we will say goodbye to the Urals at Cape Arrow, where the legendary Kama and Chusovaya merge. During our fast journey we saw only a small fraction of all the Ural wonders. You will definitely want to come back!

Transfer to Perm airport.