Day 1 (Optional)
Arrive in Moscow. Short sightseeing tour of the city with an English-speaking guide (in case if the flight will arrive early enough). Dinner at the restaurant. Overnight at the three star hotel.

Day 2
Breakfast at the hotel. Sightseeing tour of Moscow, including visiting the Red Square and the Kremlin. Boat cruise along the River Moskva. Lunch at the restaurant in downtown. Transfer to the airport. Take a night flight to Petropavlovsk (9-hrs flight and 9-hrs time difference).

Day 3 (August 6 or 17)
Arrival in Kamchatka in the morning (local time). Bus transfer to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, the capital of Kamchatka (about 30 min.). Short sightseeing tour of the city. Transfer to Paratunka (a resort village not far from Petropavlovsk, famous for its numerous thermal springs), accommodation at the hotel with thermal pool Virginia or Lesnaya (double rooms; each hotel has it own thermal pool; in one hotel, facilities are in the rooms, and in the other on the floor). Dinner at the restaurant. Free afternoon, rest in the thermal pool.

Day 4
Breakfast at the hotel. Transfer by 6WD bus to the caldera between the Mutnovsky and Gorely volcanoes (about 4 hrs). The road passes by the Vilyuchinsky volcano, a favorite place for downhill skiing for Kamchatka dwellers (quite often snow lies there even in July). Lunch en route. Dinner, overnight at the base tented camp.

Day 5
Breakfast. Hike (without backpacks) to the Mutnovsky volcano (about 40 min.). Hike into the crater of the Mutnovsky active volcano through a crack in the volcano's edge. The view is alarming and fantastic: eastward a glacier descends the crater's wall to end in a bluff eaten by fumaroles; opposite it rises a sheer rock, here and there columns of water vapor are curling upward. The appearance of this crater is changeable. The crater contains a lake of bitter whitish water and two groups of powerful fumaroles. One of the fumaroles throw off small drops of melted sulphur, the other — powerful jets of vapours, water and sulfureous. Near the crater, there are vast mud pits. Excursion into the crater takes about 4 hrs.

Mutnovsky active volcano being a nest of merged craters, is perhaps the most beautiful volcanic phenomenon of Kamchatka. The view from its top is magnificent: steep walls surrounding the vast and deep crater cavity, glittering of firm and sparkling glaciers split by cracks, torches of fumaroles oscillating far below and drawing a translucent view over the northern crater, the southern crater under its armour of ice and above all this a column of vapor rising from the Active Funnel crater, surrounded by a cogged crest.

Return to the base camp (40 min.). The total distance of hiking during this day is 18 km. Lunch there. Dinner, overnight in tents.

Day 6
Breakfast. Ascend and hiking excursion to the chain of craters of the Gorely volcano.

Gorely volcano presents the unique collection of craters — a chain, which lies across the top. The chain begins with the West crater, no longer active and surrounded by rather low rocky walls. The crater's bottom is occupied by a glacier. Next is the chain composed by craters of different age. Most of volcano's activity is concentrated in the Central crater. On its walls and bottom, there are permanently active fumaroles; their deposits color the crater's walls. The biggest and the most beautiful crater is the Blue Lake. Its bottom is occupied by a lake of tender-blue water where blocks of ice float. The last in the chain of top craters is the Cup. This crater is on the top of a rather low and perfectly regular cone. On its bottom a shallow lake of violet water is situated.

If the weather if favorable, all the craters can be visited in a single day. The hiking distance is 20 km. Excursion will take about 8 hrs; according to the clients’ wishes it is possible to return to the base camp earlier.
Picnic lunch. Return back to the base camp. Overnight there.

Day 7
Transfer by 6WD bus to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Visit the fish market. Optional (for additional fee) visit to the Museum of local lore, the Museum of the Institute for Volcanology, Salmon Museum, or the museum and visitor center of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve (acquaintance with the especially protected nature areas of Kamchatka — Kronotsky Nature Reserve and South Kamchatka State Nature Sanctuary). Lunch at the café. Transfer to Paratunka, dinner and overnight stay in the hotel.

Day 8
Breakfast at the café. Bus transfer to the area îf the Tolbachik volcano (more than 500 km, about 10 hrs or more with stops in interesting places). On the way, we will make a stop in the Malki thermal springs (taking curative bath in the springs is possible. There are 3 “baths” and a cold spring). Picnic lunch. On the further way, we will have an opportunity to watch just from the bridges salmons migrating to their spawning grounds. Overnight in the tented camp.

Day 9
Hiking excursions at the bottom of the Plosky (“Flat”) Tolbachik volcano. The altitude of this area is 1000 m above the sea level. (*In the Soviet time, the testing of the lunar exploring vehicle took place there).
Picnic lunch. In the afternoon, hiking to the dormant volcano Krasnaya Sopka (Red Knoll) — 3 hrs, about 5 km. It is quite possible to see hares, reindeer and bears there. Overnight accommodation in the tented camp (another option is a wooden hut with rustic facilities).

Day 10
Hiking without backpacks to the area where the “Eruption of the Century” (the Big Cleft Tolbachinskiy eruption) took place. It is considered one of the largest basalt eruptions ever known in the volcano belt of the Kuril Isles and Kamchatka. It lasted for one and a half year (July, 1975 — December, 1976) and was included in a list of six the most powerful cleft eruptions ever happened on Earth. The events were evolving in the mid of a wood 18 km to the south from volcano Plosky Tolbachik. The eruption was accurately forecasted and studied by the scientists of the Institute of Volcanology (P.I.Tokarev). A flaming “candle” reached 2,5 km in height, and the ash cloud was 12 km long. In sequence, new clefts evolved one after another, and as a result four new cones of Tolbachinski volcanoes were formed (from 100 to 330 m high). Eruption turned an enormous territory around volcanoes into a burnt desert, the forests captured by the ash fall dried off to the root. Lakes evaporated and rivers disappeared. Those animals that had survived left the area for the best.

Hiking excursion in the Peplovoe (“Ash”) Plateau (8 hrs, about 18 km). A view to this area is nice and unusual: a row of flat volcanoes, numerous clefts, streams of hot gases coming through them.
Ascend 3 small volcanoes. Visit the “Fairytale” forest (ash-buried forest that dried standing during the eruption). Return back to the hut, overnight there.

Day 11
Hike to the bottom of the Plosky Tolbachik and ascend this volcano (the total hiking distance is 20 km; this route will take us from 1000 m to 3000 m above the sea level). Ascend to this volcano does not require special technical skills. The whole route will take about 9 hrs. A view to the magnificent volcanoes of the Klyuchevskaya group (laying to the opposite side from the Tolbachik volcano) will open from the upper plateau (if we hike across the plateau). There we can see an interesting phenomenon characteristic only for this area: horizontal icicles of snow about 20 cm in length. Lunch en route. Return back to the tented camp (or wooden hut) for dinner and overnight.

Day 12
Reserve day for the case of bad weather. In the afternoon, transfer by 6WD bus to Esso, the national village of the Evens and Koryaks (about 4-5 hrs). Visit the ethnography museum, attend the folk performance. Overnight in the private hotels or in the hotel of local Administration

Day 13
Visit the ethnography museum in Esso. Drive to the village of Anavgai, visit the ethnography complex near-by (there are authentic “chums” — traditional dwellings of indigenous people covered by reindeer skins). Talk to local people living there, taste traditional cuisine and phyto-teas. Performance of the folk ensemble “Nurgeneck” and children folk group “Orjakan”. * For additional payment, visitors can order this day a several-hours horseback riding trip or a helicopter flight to the nomadic camp of the Even reindeer herders). Overnight in the “chum” or private hotel in Esso.

Day 14
Car transfer to the river Essovskaya Bystraya (so-called “47 kilometer”), relax in thermal springs and after that rafting down a very dynamic and picturesque section of Essovskaya Bystraya river. Overnight in the tented camp.

Day 15
Bus transfer back to Paratunka (meant for the whole day). Overnight at the hotel.

Day 16
Transfer by 6WD bus to the bottom of the Avachinsky volcano. Ascend the Avachinsky volcano (its total elevation is 2741 m). Usually tourists start ascending early in the morning. They cross the deep gorge of the Suhaia (“Dry”) river and ascend the volcano along its somma. They stop for a lunch at the attitude of 2000-2200 m and then continue ascending along the new cone of the volcano to the edge of its crater. The ascend usually takes about 6-8 hrs; the steepness of the slope is 30°. During the ascend and from the edge of the crater, wonderful views open. To the south, the cities of PK and Elizovo can be viewed, as well as the Avacha river valley, Avachinskaya bay, volcanoes Vilyuchinsky, Gorely, Mutnovsky and (if weather is fine) a snow-white cone of the Opala volcano. To the west, a massive cone of the Koriaksky volcano is towering. To the north, an impressive view opens to the Nalychevo river valley, Zhupanovsky and Dzendzur volcanoes. Drive back to Paratunka, dinner and overnight in the hotel.

Day 17
Bus transfer to the airport, departure to Moscow. Arrive in Moscow, transfer to the international airport for the flight home.