For the most of people Siberia remains a mysterious and inaccessible land. The main reason is a lack of information. Travel on the Great Sayan Ring will raise the veil of the mystery, and everything you see will remain in your memory for a long time. You will learn how Siberians lived in past centuries as well as present day. You will feel the hospitality of local people and realize the richness of this nation's cultural traditions. Moreover you will touch the origins of religions - from the Orthodox Church to Shamanism.
- Upon tourist’s arrival to Krasnoyarsk they transfer to the hotel, with a rest and lunch. A sightseeing tour with a visit to a symbol of Krasnoyarsk - a Paraskovya Pyatnitsa chapel*, Blagovetchensky Cathedral, and Regional Museum considered to be one of the best historical and ethnographical museums in Siberia. The Museum in particular will provide an excellent prelude to your travel and your first impression of the Great Sayan Ring tour.
In the evening the tour agency “Sayan Ring” will host the welcoming dinner.
Accommodation in hotel***. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

T he group will travel to the South through the city of Divnogorsk*. They will cross the river Yenisey along one of the biggest dams in the world – the Krasnoyarsk Hydro Power Station*.
Lunch is in the open air. In 258 km far from Krasnoyarsk picnic will take place among the ancient monuments of Scythian culture of VIII-VII century BC. After lunch those who wish to enjoy the stunning view of the Krasnoyarsk Sea may climb the nearest hill.
Accommodation is in the “Zharki”** tourist complex on Gladenkaya Ski Resort. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

A fter breakfast a stop in the historical village Shushenskoe*, a show-excursion to the State Ethnographical Museum-reserve “Shushenskoe”. A visit to a real tavern will bring everybody another surprise, then our tourists will take part in the traditional evening meetings – “vecherka”, national rites, games and dances. On parting they will be served a cup of tea and bird cherry pie in real Siberian izba.
A visit to the village Tanzibei. The guests are greeted with bread and salt, pies and vodka. You will go to the residents’ houses, get familiar with their traditions and taste herb tea, home jam and pastry. Lunch at local family’s house.
After lunch a group moves on to Tuva across the West Sayan mountains. On the way tourists meet the host of the region – the Sleeping Sayan. One can seen it in the contour of the mountains: he is lying on his back, his arms folded. Why? – The guide tells everything.
Closer to the evening group comes to Tuva. It’s amazing but as soon as the bus crosses the border between Krasnoyarsk edge and comes to Tuva even the scenery changes. It seemes like you are coming to another planet and another age. There are almost no signs of civilisation on the most part of Tuva territory, steppes and sharp mountains are over the hundreds kilometres.
On the way visiting “Arjaan II”* – excavations of famous mound.
The group makes a stop 22 km from the city Kizil, on the bank of the Biy-Khem river (in Tuvan – Big Yenisey), in the yurts’ complex*. Accommodation in the real thick felt yurts built by tuvians specially for the tourists.
After dinner – the performance with the traditional throat singing – “khoomei”. The throat singing - a fantastical capability of the Tuva people (and some other Siberian nationalities) to emit simultaneously two or three sounds of different tone and to sustain the same sound for 25-30 seconds without taking a breath. If you close your eyes it is hard to believe that the sounds are emitted by a person and not by a musical instrument.
Accommodation is in the yurts’ complex “Biy-Khem”. Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

In the big city bustle, in the intensity of the endless workaday routine, the most of us can not find a minute to be tete-a-tete to ourselves. We forgot what is the silence, the rustling of the grass at the daybreak, what colour is the sunset, and how do the rivers murmur. Do you believe that a stone and a tree, the wind and the clouds in the sky - all that you see is alive and you can talk to them? We stop and listen and feel as part of the nature. The greatness of the Tuvan Steppes, the silence of the Sayan Mountains, the sky lying on your shoulders and warm scent of the Siberian pine taiga will inspire you with the feeling of belonging to the "creation mystery".
E xcursion to Kizyl*, the capital of Tuva, visiting the Geographical Centre of Asia which is not far from the joining of the rivers Biy-Khem (Big Yenisey) and Ka-Khem (Small Yenisey). Right in this place Yenisey starts. Then a visit to the Buddhist temple where the tourists will hear sermon of lama. Visit to the Shaman clinic.
Lunch in the restaurant. Then a visit to the National Museum of Tuva, the souvenir shop, post office, mineral springs in the suburbs of Kyzyl. On the way back the group visits the cattle-breeder’s yurt, gets familiar with traditions of tuvian family, what impresses very much.
Dinner with traditional dishes of Tuvan cuisine.
In the evening camp – a bewitching show: a shamans’ kamlaniye. This is a talk to spirits, real magic rite at bonfire. It is rare occasion when several shamans take part in one ritual all together. In this purification ritual you can plunge into the meditation or you can think a wish and it will happen.
Accommodation in the yurts’ complex “Biy-Khem”. Breakfast, lunch, dinner

T his day the group crosses Tuva from the East to the West, following the road of the ancient nomads. Before lunch there is a stop at the Khayrakan mountain one of the most respected places in Tuva. In 1992 it was chosen like energetically powerful place and consecrated by Dalay Lama XIV. Once a year minimum local shamans come here to get energy. Why not to use such a possibility?
Lunch on the grass, in the company of "Seven Sisters" - century old larch trees, growing from one root. Then visiting the monument of the great warrior - a stone human statue. People call it "Chinggis-Khaan". The high of it about 1,2m. It stays absolutely alone in the steppe, but nobody moves it. Why – you will know from the guide’s story.
On the Sayan pass, at a height of 2206 metres, Khakassia begins. Here the mountains are surrounded with the fabulous cedar taiga. The next two days in the taiga camp "Snow Leopard" (1250m high) in the wooden houses with oven heating. After dinner you will get familiar with instructors of “Snow Leopard” – very interesting people, who love nature and taiga, and who know all local paths and herbs. The group will stay with them the rest of the day: songs with guitar, talks till the late night.
From this time the route becomes circle-like, what means that in fact the group goes back. But it is not the ending.
Accommodation in the camp "Snow Leopard". Breakfast, lunch, dinner

A fter breakfast a short stroll in the taiga to the Mayak mountain or hunter’s house or bridge of love.
After lunch free time. Those who wish can experience a "Phytosauna" – very pleasant sanitary procedure. During the berry and mushroom season the tourists collect taiga gifts which you don't even need to look for - they are just under your feet.
And in the evening the hosts of the “Snow Leopard” offer their guests real Siberian banya.
After dinner evening at the fireplace. Cedar Taiga*, starry sky and the silence that we forget about in the city surround you and only the crackle of the blazing fire…
Accommodation in the camp "Snow Leopard". Breakfast, lunch, dinner

The ancient earth of Khakassia takes the lead over Siberia and even Russia for the abundance of its archeological relics. Here right by the road you can see the rock drawings, every twenty metres - a burial mound or a stone figure, which is still serving as a cult place for the local people.
Feel the energy and power of the Khakassian land. This unearthly peace of mind and inner cleanliness, ease and lucidity will accompany you. Suddenly you will recognize yourself and no. This world is full of mysteries. And you are a part of these mysteries, you should only let yourself become free. Khakassia is a centre of the favorable emotions, diluted by amazement before the fantastical proximity of eternity.
I n the morning tourists get familiar with the taiga and mountain medicinal herbs. The guides will tell them how one can render first aid to recover without contemporary medicines.
After lunch - bid farewell to "Snow Leopard" and taiga.
On the route the group makes a stop at a khakasian village where there is a monument Khurtuyakh tas, where native women bring there gifts if they wish to have a baby.
By the evening arrival to the Kug valley (in Khakassian kug means "delight") in 137 km from Abakan. Accommodation again in yurts, this time it will be wooden khakassian yurts also built specially for tourists. After dinner - a performance of the khakassian national folklore group.
Accommodation in the yurt complex "Kug"*. Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

E xcursion to the State museum-reserve of Khakassia "Kasanovka". It is hard to believe but you really will see petroglyphs 3-5 thousand years old. Moreover you will be shown how archaeologists make copies from it for study, this pictures you can take with you like rare souvenir. Besides, you’ll know the role of vertical stones which stay all around Khakassia and see real archaeological excavations.
After lunch - the sequel of the archaeological excursion: the sacred signs of the ancient shamans and a cult obelisk Akhtas, which possesses a strong healing energetic field.
Accommodation in the yurt complex "Kug". Breakfast, lunch, dinner.

D eparture from the complex and in a couple of hours arrival in Abakan, the capital of Khakassia. A visit to the Republican Regional Museum, where unique collection of stone statues is kept. Some of them are considered to be still powerful.
From Abakan the group goes to "The Valley of Tsars", there are about 30 burial mounds aged from the IV-III century B.C. The culmination of the trip will be the Great Salbyk Mound which was built on the noble family’s grave and excavated by archaeologists in 1954-56. It measured 0,5km in perimeter and 11,5 m high, the weight of stones is up to 60 tonnes. Lunch close to the Great Salbyk Mound with a view to the Valley of the Tsars, then back way to Krasnoyarsk.
Accommodation in the Hotel****. Breakfast, lunch, dinner (in the hotel).

Breakfast. Transfer to the airport.