Our first possible destination is Zhupanova River. Many bird species are found near this shallow river, including Steller’s Sea Eagle. We hope to explore the river by zodiacs, whilst hiking close to the banks is excellent for bird lovers and anyone seeking wonderful views.

Commander Islands. The archipelago consists of two main islands (Bering Island and Medny (Copper) Island) and a dozen or so small rocky islets. The archipelago is named after Commander Vitus Bering, Dutch explorer, the first to discover that Asia and Americas are separate continents. It was the great discovery, but the sacrifice for this discovery was no less significant: Bering died of scurvy on his way from Alaska to Kamchatka, along with 28 men of his company. We will visit his grave on Bering Island.
Both islands form Kommandorsky Nature Reserve which, in 2002, was designated a biosphere reserve by UNESCO. The surrounding waters are home to whales, including Sperm, Killer and Humpback. One of the rarest whale species – Stejneger’s Beaked Whale - also inhabits the local Bering Sea waters. There are four large rookeries on the islands with thousands of Northern Fur Seals, as well as Steller's Sea Lions, and Larga (or Spotted) Seals. Sea Otters are frequent here. Huge numbers of sea birds also find home on the Commanders, including Red-faced Cormorants, Glaucous-winged Gulls, Northern Fulmars, Tufted and Horned Puffins and Pigeon Guillemots. We will visit several bays, each of them having their own excellent sites: beautiful waterfall in Gladkovskaya Bay; spectacular rocks in Bobrovaya Bay; numerous nesting sites of Thin-billed and Thick-billed Murres (Guillemots) on the ladder-like rocks in Dikaya Bay. Arctic Foxes are also seen frequently on the islands.
In Nikolskoye settlement we will visit local museum with exhibition of national culture and history.

Ossora Village, Koryak Region. At Ossora we explore the cultural wealth of the Far East peoples. The Koryaks, dressed in traditional clothes of reindeer skin decorated with fur and refined embroidery, welcome us with a typical folk performance.
In the afternoon we leave the peninsula for Karaginsky Island. Its coastal waters are favoured by whales. Here we have a good chance of seeing these huge and attractive animals. If the weather is not against our expedition’s plans we’ll land on the western coast of the island in Lozhnykh Vestey Bay. On the beach there are many whale bones, the legacy of hunts. We might also meet Koryak whale hunters who make their way here from the mainland peninsula. The island is covered with alder trees, mountain ashes, dwarf-pines and herbs.

Depending on sea and weather conditions we’ll choose some of the following places near Olyutorsky Bay for a landing or zodiac cruise:
Yuzhnaya Glubokaya Bay and Cape Groznyi. These picturesque places are Natural Monuments of the Koryak district.
Lavrova Bay and Cape Govena, Tintikum Lagoon are parts of the Koryaksky Nature Reserve, remarkable for its wildlife. On the southern coast of the lagoon are thermal springs, the water having a pungent odor emerging at +37°С.