Description
AMUR TIGER TRACKING
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1. Theme |
NATURE & WILDLIFE ACTIVITIES ADVENTURES |
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2. Region, city, itinerary |
Khabarovsk Region |
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3. Seasonality |
Year-round |
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4. The complexity, style of the tour |
Trekking Wildlife watching Comfortable adventure / soft extreme |
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5. Accommodation |
Hunters’ & fishermen’s wooden lodges |
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6. Number of days |
3-15 days |
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7. Number of people |
Up to 10 pax in group |
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8. Booking conditions |
3-5 weeks ahead of the tour |
The Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica) or the Ussuri tiger, the largest and most magnificent representative of the cat family in the world. A rare subspecies that has survived only in Russia and is currently in danger of extinction. The tour “Following the Amur Tiger Trail” is held on the territory of a forest hunting enterprise, which is the permanent habitat of several individuals - females with cubs and males. The farm has a well-maintained central manor, where up to 10 tourists can simultaneously live, two or three people in each of the wooden houses. The houses are built in a style of winter hunter’s huts, equipped with everything necessary for a normal lifestyle in the forest and have an individual interior.
Excursions to the taiga are organized using off-road vehicles and snowmobiles. The farm constantly monitors tigers in their tracks and with the help of photo traps installed at the main passages of animals, near their shelters and marking objects.
The tour program includes acquaintance with the environmental program for the protection of the Amur tiger, visits to winter huts and meetings with hunters, daily trips to the taiga accompanied by guides and tracking the life of tigers: study of their hunting methods, methods for marking the territory,installation and verification of photo traps.
Each tourist is guaranteed videos / photographs from the photo traps and images of tigers that they tracked down.
Activities offered during the stay in taiga lodges, depending on the season, are the following:
● Acquaintance with the flora and fauna of the Ussuri taiga.
● In summer there is an opportunity to see brown / Himalayan bears.
● Visit to tree houses, visiting salt licks (the opportunity to see Manchurian deer, roe deer).
● Visiting an apiary in the taiga, tasting honey.
● Fishing on the river (grayling, lenok).
● Overnight in the hunter's hut / visit to a hut.
● Bonfire night picnic.
● Picking berries, mushrooms, wild plants, nuts (seasonally) and preparing meals from them.
● Shooting sports.
● Tracking tigers, checking camera traps.
Safety measures are provided by the management and the huntsman service, which conduct mandatory training for tourists on safety procedures for living in the forest and dealing with tigers. When traveling through the forest and tracing predatory animals, tourists are accompanied by experienced huntsmen and specialists who are well aware of the terrain and habits of wild animals.
Meals during the stay in taiga lodges: Russian homemade dishes (breakfast and dinner in the lodge, lunch depending on hte program either a kind of picnic-lunch in taiga or in the lodge.
The best seasons for tours are the winter season from November 15 to March 15 and the summer and autumn season from August 1 to November 15. The spring thaw (from late March to June) is undesirable to organize tours.
All our clients were full of impressions and happy about their trips, though mostly they did not see the tiger with their own eyes, but many heard them roaring and all of them saw it through cameratraps. Only several groups saw tigers with their eyes during last their trips. In Russia there are no parks, tigers inhabit isolated areas far from the villages, etc. and they are wild animals. Tigers avoid meeting people, so chances to see a tiger with your eyes are low, but they have certain routes that they repeat each 7 - 10 days and with the help of phototraps you are sure to get video and photos of the tiger that you are tracking. We are the only forest reserve in Russia that guarantees all the clients video/photo of the tigers that they were tracking. Guides will bring you to fresh tracks every day and tell a lot "reading the tracks" - it's also very interesting.
Standard itinerary for a 7d/6n trip (with 6 days / 5 nights stay at the reserve) and 4 full days of tigertracking is as follows:
1st day - arrival to Khabarovsk, Khabarovsk city sightseeing including main museum in Khabarovsk for getting acquainted with the territory and the natural resources.
After lunch of far-eastern dishes transfer to the reserve, dinner, accommodation in taiga lodges.
2 - 5th days - 4 full days at the base with daily tigertracking by fresh tracks using car or snow machine. Putting / checking phototraps. Following fresh tiger trail by foot or skies (not for long distances, no special physical shape is necessary). Fishing for grayling and lenok (Siberian trout) is possible (if there is wish). Some clients ask to arrange night picnic in the woods, or visiting professional trapper’s cabin, etc. (program is made individually according to the client’s wish and interest). Full board - breakfast and dinner at the base, lunch - at the base or on the road. (Russian dishes, wild animals meat, fish, vegetable, fruit). Daily sauna in the evening.
6th day – Breakfast Transfer to the hotel in Khabarovsk, overnight at hotel in Khabarovsk.
7th day Breakfast at hotel. Transfer to the airport. Departure.
Tour price per pax in USD
in group 2 pax - $2284 p/p
in group 3 pax - $2055 p/p
in group 4 pax - $1810 p/p
in group 5 pax - $1717 p/p
in group 6 pax - $1650 p/p
Tour price includes:
- Visa support;
- Meeting / seeing off at the airport of Khabarovsk,
- 6 days / 5 nights at the reserve with 4 full days of tigertracking or other activities at the client's choice (accommodation in cottages, daily trips, guide service, full board meals, sauna, snow machines/car, fuel)
- Video and photos from the phototraps.
- Interpreter escort although the trip
- 1 night at a hotel in Khabarovsk (TWB), city sightseeing and lunch in Khabarovsk.
THE ABOVE IS THE SAMPLE ITINERARY WHICH IS THE SUBJECT TO CHANGE ACCORDING YOUR DEMAND.
