Tour to Kunashir Island

Tour to Kunashir Island
  • Duration: 12 days
  • Tour date: June-October

Route program

Join the adventurous tour to Sakhalin and Kunashir Islands. Get ready to see volcanoes and capes, Japanese cranes and eared seals, swim in hot spring located in the wild.

 

You will board the ferry going from Sakhalin to Kunashir, walk along the ecological path to Stolbchatiy Cape and take mud therapy baths.

 

The main attractions of the island

 

In order to find more about Kunashir Island, you need to get acquainted with its main attractions.

 

Stolbchatiy Cape. It is impossible to leave the island without visiting this amazing place. Its name bears the meaning that it consists of columns ("stolby" in Russian), which stand close to each other and form vertical walls. The most wonderful thing is that these columns are formed with solidified basaltic lava as a result of the volcano eruption.

 

The caldera of the Golovnin volcano. The volcano was named after a brave Russian traveler, who was digesting the Kuril Islands at the beginning of the XIX century and made 2 trips around the world. His name was Vasiliy Golovnin. The Caldera looks like a cavity with a 4 km diameter, which has formed as a result of the volcano's collapse at the bottom of the ocean. Two lakes appeared inside the cavity and gas, wet steam and hot water erupt from them.

 

Fumarole field of Mendeleev volcano. Fumaroles are cracks, through which volcano gases get to the surface with loud pops. They consist of sulfur, which crystallizes and forms yellow lacelike patterns. Incredible and spectacular view, which is hard to stop looking at!

 

Day 1

Arrival at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk. Meeting at the airport. Transfer to the hotel.

Free time.

05:00 PM - Transfer to supper.

05:30 PM - 07:00 PM - Welcome supper with Sakhalin delicacies.

07:00 PM - 08:30 PM - Evening sightseeing tour at Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

 

Day 2

Breakfast at the hotel.

Transfer to Korsakov port.

Departure to Kunashir island.

 

Day 3

Arrival at Yuzhno-Kurilsk.

Transfer to the hotel. Checking in.

Your acquaintance with Kunashir island nature would start from the coastline of the Pacific Ocean, where you see the attraction of the island - a rock named Devil's finger.

Supper at the hotel.

 

Day 4

08:00 AM - Breakfast at the hotel.

09:00 AM - 06:00 PM - Excursion to the Caldera of Golovnin volcano, Kipyasheye (Boiling) lake. more

Walking tour 7 km long one way (there and back - 14 km).

Dinner at excursion: sandwiches, vegetables, fruits, tea.

Supper at the hotel.

 

Day 5

08:00 AM - Breakfast at the hotel.

09:00 AM - 06:00 PM - Excursion to Stolbchatiy Cape through Stolbovskaya ecological path.

Bathing in hot springs.

Walking tour 8 km long (it is possible to shorten the walking part of the excursion at the individual request).

Dinner at excursion: sandwiches, vegetables, fruits, tea.

Supper at the hotel.

 

Day 6

08:00 AM - Breakfast at the hotel.

09:00 AM - 04:00 PM - Excursion to Fumarole field of Mendeleev volcano. more

Walking tour 3 km long one way (there and back - 6 km) through 2-meter high bamboo.

Dinner at excursion: sandwiches, seafood, vegetables, fruits, tea.

Supper at the hotel.

 

Day 7

Breakfast at the hotel.

Transfer to the port. Departure to Sakhalin.

 

Day 8

Day at sea.

 

Day 9

Arrival to Sakhalin island at Korsakov port.

Transfer to the hotel.

 

Day 10

08:00 AM - Breakfast at the hotel.

09:00 AM - 06:00 PM - Excursion to Tikhaya Bay.

Dinner at the excursion: fish soup, vegetables, fruits, tea.

Free time.

 

Day 11

09:00 AM - Breakfast at the hotel.

10:00 AM - 02:00 PM - Excursion to Lyagushka (Frog) butte.

 

Day 12

09:00 AM - Breakfast at the hotel.

10:00 AM - Visit to the fish market (at the agreement of the group) before transfer to the airport.

Flight back home.