This is the land of volcanoes and glaciers, hot springs and boiling geysers, fast-moving rivers, lakes and waterfalls. There are 414 glaciers and 160 volcanoes, 29 of which are active. The peninsula is washed in the west by the Sea of Okhotsk, in the northeast – by the Bering Sea and the Pacific Ocean in the southeast. These seas are cold, stormy, the ice on them holds for 7-8 months a year.
The main types of recreation: adventure tourism, sightseeing tours, water tourism (river rafting, boat trips, diving), ecological tourism, skiing and climbing tours, hunting and fishing, helicopter and snowmobile tours, heli-ski.
How to get there
Regular flights from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Vladivostok, Khabarovsk, Novosibirsk, Krasnoyarsk, Magadan, Irkutsk, Kemerovo, Rostov-on-Don and Krasnodar. The airport is located in the city of Yelizovo (30 km from Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky).
