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Siberia Sled 2006

Go along the Trans-Siberian Railway as far as Irkutsk via Romanov Triangle or a customized route and then get off the train! This year only you can witness - or take part in - the Siberia longest husky sledding, a truly challenging opportunity for all nature lovers!

Siberian Husky has already become a legend. A thousand years ago, the Chukchi carved their villages out of northern Siberia's stark, inhospitable terrain. Starvation and freezing to death were always possibilities; hunters left the villages to travel to the Arctic Coast, searching for seals for meat, skins, and blubber to fuel their life-saving fires. They needed tough, resilient, and swift dogs to pull the kills back to the village, no matter the weather, and so developed the progenitor of today's Siberian Husky. Today's well-bred Husky maintains the personality, the stamina, and the courage of his ancestors, but he is more playmate than guardian and is not a watchdog.

The program takes place in the national park of Ziuratkul in the Ural mountains. The place itself is already a reason to go - but there's also a two hundred kilometer safari on! If you are not prepared for a strenuous journey, you can as well go for a LITE program and enjoy husky training courses with the Siberia's champions 2006!

DESTINATION
Ziuratkul is by far one of the most beautiful nature parks in Russia. About 40 animal species inhabit the park's forested areas, mountain plateaus and low-lying marshy lands. Zyuratkul's wildlife includes bears and elks (as the largest animals), fur-bearing animals such as hares and squirrels, as well as minks, martens, and red-furred foxes and there are almost 150 different kinds of birds winging the skies above. Ziuratkul lake is certainly the pearl of the region, a unique nature object. It is certainly not only Russia's, but the world ecological highlight. On the lake shore there have been discovered more than 10 sites once inhabited by cavemen. Among many wonders of nature in winter you can see a strange sculpture made from blue ice - the ice fountain. A thin jet of ice water soars upwards almost to a height of 10 meters but in winter a column of pure(clean) blue ice 14 meters high freezes on the fountain.
ROUTE
The national park Ziuratkul in Ural mountains and Western SIBERIA. The Urals extend 2,500 km from the Kazakh steppes along the northern border of Kazakhstan to the coast of the Arctic ocean. The island of Novaya Zemlya forms a further continuation of the chain. Geographically this range marks the northern part of the (arbitrary) border between Asian and European sections of the Eurasian continent and is among the world's oldest mountain ranges.
TEAM
Musher: Sergey Shevkunov
Husky team: champions of Siberia 2006
LITE program includes:
stay in the national park of Ziuratkul, pathfinding, flora and fauna excursions, horse sleighing, husky sledding training, short husky expeditions and much more.
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