Tent camp on Lake Ladoga. Camping in the Leningrad region close to nature

Active recreation camp "KILPOLA"

Tent summer base holidays in Karelia in the North of Ladoga

Tent camp for active recreation "KILPOLA" is a summer recreation center in the most beautiful island in the skerries. Kilpola Island is the second largest, after Fr. Valaam is an island of Lake Ladoga, its size is 8 km from north to south, 8.5 km from west to east, the western part is connected to the shore by a road bridge (near the village of Tiurula), in the east the rocky shores of Kilpoly are washed by Ladoga, in the south the skerries of Ulankalselka and Lekhmalahti .
The northern part of the island faces Naismeri Bay (translated from Finnish as the Indian Sea), with a group of islands: Korpisaari, Lapinsalo, Vahvasensaari and many other small islands; behind them stretches more than 12 km of Kurkijeki Bay. From the side of open Ladoga, Sukmylahti Bay cuts 5 km into the island. The name of the island comes from the ancient Kilpo family, the particle -la indicates its clan affiliation. The island and surrounding areas have very
ancient history

, in the area of ​​​​the village of Tiurulu, sites of Stone Age people from the 4th-5th millennium AD were discovered, on the island there are many old ruins, farmsteads and ancient monuments of stone architecture - all this has not yet been fully studied and you can discover or find something yourself something new.
You have the opportunity to spend a weekend or vacation on Lake Ladoga, in one of the most picturesque corners of Karelia - by renting a boat or kayak, taking a boat ride through the skerries or sailing, going on foot or by bike to explore the island, and fishing on Ladoga the dream of every fisherman... We won’t even talk about mushrooms and berries - you just have to see it.
The camp has picnic areas with barbecues and fireplaces, you can take a smokehouse to cook freshly caught fish, and even rain is not a hindrance - 5 minutes and you are under an awning on which drops drum and you are dry and comfortable. The camp has a permanent tent with tables and benches, and a covered fire pit and kitchen. Problems with drinking water no - we have the largest reservoir in Europe with the purest
fresh water- Ladoga.
Bathhouse on a pontoon
Stationary toilets are equipped.

!!! Calculation for boat rental services, kayak and bicycle rental, car parking, etc. on calendar days ( Estimated time 9-00).
The rental point for tents, boats and kayaks is located at the Burevestnik camp site, before departure to camping You need to decide on the necessary equipment and rent it.

You can hold corporate events or seminars with us - interesting program and hiking comfort are guaranteed.
The most interesting individual and planned trips of any duration along the Ladoga skerries and islands on kayaks, boats or under sails.
Excursions around the islands - routes for water travel, cycling and walking.

Rules for living and resting in a tent camp site:

1. Vacationers at the campsite should not interfere with the rest of others with their inappropriate behavior, hooligan acts, or excessive noise. After 23.00, it is undesirable to hold collective events and parties.
2. On the territory of the camp, in the village of Berezovo, in the waters of Lake Ladoga and on the islands, we kindly ask you not to litter or make fires in places not equipped for this.
3. Every thing has an owner - if you need something or want to take something, ask the person on duty about it in advance.
4. The shared kitchen can only be used for cooking. Do not leave behind dirty dishes, stoves and other kitchen utensils.
5. When renting watercraft, do not forget to take life-saving equipment - life jackets, a bailer. Remember - you must wear a life jacket in the boat. Do not leave the boats unattended; upon returning to the base, take personal belongings, oars, and other items from the boat.
6. Residents must maintain proper cleanliness and order in the tents and surrounding areas. When handing over the tent, clean up and take out the trash, sweep the tent, ventilate and dry the sleeping bags - otherwise you will be charged a final cleaning cost of 100 rubles.
7. Do not use the forest or the area adjacent to the camp as a toilet.
8. The use of portable gas stoves (primus stoves) without the knowledge of the base administration is not permitted.
If you have any questions, problems or conflicts, feel free to contact the camp duty officer.

Nutrition:
Tourists prepare their own food. The fire pits are equipped with fire stoves; there is enough brushwood and dead wood in the surrounding area. It is better to bring your own coal for the barbecue.
Catering for groups of 15 people or more is possible upon prior reservation.
It is possible to order products and deliver them to the camp from the mainland.
!!! There are no shops or cafes on the camp grounds or in the immediate surroundings!!!

Safety:
The camp has the necessary fire extinguishing equipment, a first aid kit and first aid from the camping duty officer around the clock; if the rules of residence in the KILPOLA camp are violated, the culprits will be denied stay by the security staff.
Children under 14 years of age are allowed on holiday only when accompanied by adults.

What to take with you:
a backpack without a machine or a travel bag;
comfortable hiking clothes: trousers and a light jacket with a hood (anorak), a long-sleeved shirt, 2 pairs of woolen socks, 2 - 3 pairs of plain socks, a swimsuit, T-shirts, cotton gloves, a hat with a visor, a warm jacket, woolen hat, sweater, rain cape, change of underwear.
footwear: hiking boots or sneakers, spare shoes, rubber boots;
personal items: sunglasses, bowl, mug, spoon, knife, flashlight with a set of spare batteries, sunscreen and after-sun cream, small polyurethane seat mat, personal hygiene products, personal first aid kit;
documents in sealed packaging: passport, medical insurance policy.
Utensils: cooking pots, cups, spoons, mugs.
The necessary supply of food for the duration of your holiday in a tent camp.

How to get there:
By car along the Priozerskoe highway to Priozersk, then along the road to Sortavala to the village of Berezovo (153 km), the first turn to the right 50 m after the sign "BEREZOVO" and then straight 300 m to two wooden towers with a cannon ("Streletsky prison") , in front of the fort, turn left to the gate of the camp site 30 m.
By train to the station. Kuznechnoye from Finlyandsky station, then by taxi to Berezovo village, Burevestnik base.
Further along Lake Ladoga, delivery to the camp is carried out by boat or motor boat (see delivery cost). You can get to the campsite on Kilpola Island on your own by renting a boat or kayak at the camp site.

Making plans for a summer vacation? Why not go on holiday with your own car, motorcycle or even bicycles? In the campsites of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region you will find everything you need for comfortable rest Outdoors!

Campings in the Leningrad region

First of all, a few words about this format of summer vacation. Camping is most often a summer camp, equipped for tourists traveling by car and staying in tents or trailers. As a rule, it has the necessary amenities for a comfortable stay - a toilet, parking lots equipped with electricity, showers. Sometimes such campsites may have light houses equipped for living. Although a campsite may have its own service infrastructure - shops, cafes, car washes, etc. - its functioning is mainly based on self-service.

Among the campsites in the Leningrad region, it is especially worth noting those that are located in places that are unique in their natural environment and have a rich entertainment infrastructure. We tried to compile our TOP of such campsites.

Tent camping "Park Ladoga" located near the city of Priozersk, on the shores of Lake Ladoga. Accommodation prices here range from 200 rubles/day (with your own tent) to 750 rubles/day per person (for accommodation in a comfortable tree house).

A little to the north, near the village of Berezovo, there is someone - an excellent choice for a holiday with children. because there is an animator there and a rich entertainment. The cost of living in the camp starts from 150 rubles per day per person, when staying in your own tent. Three meals a day will cost 450 rubles per day.

In the vast expanses of Vuoksa and Lake Sukhodolskoye it is located , distinguished by perhaps the richest infrastructure and choice of entertainment. On its territory, in addition to cottages, there are 3-bed yurts, the rental of which on weekdays will cost 1000 rubles per day, and camping houses for 2 people from 2500 rubles. per day. Rafting, paintball, a crossbow shooting range, a rope park, cycling routes and many other entertainments await vacationers here.

It is located in Karelia on the shores of Ladoga. There are no camping services here, but the cost of parking a car is 150 rubles per day. You can rent a boat for 700-800 rubles per day and go live in tents on the islands, completely forgetting about urban civilization for several days.

Another option for tent camping is located on picturesque Vuoksa, near the village. Baryshevo. Accommodation in your own tent on the territory of the base will cost 200 rubles per day.

Campings in St. Petersburg

Summer season is the best best time not only for going out into nature, but also for excursion holiday. Museums, parks, and architectural ensembles of the Northern capital open their special world to tourists from all over the world, which are best enjoyed in the summer, especially during the white nights. Those who prefer to travel by car and stay in campsites receive a number of advantages over ordinary tourists. First of all, it is a more economical way to travel, giving you more freedom to plan your route and move around. In addition, it allows you not to be separated from your pets.

In St. Petersburg today there are several equipped campsites where car travelers can place their motorhomes, trailers or campers. In the city center, a similar service is provided, on the territory of which a guarded parking lot for caravans is equipped, there are recreation areas and a sanitary block.

The other two are located on the outskirts of the metropolis closer to the fountains of Peterhof. This "BALTIC PARKING" located in a park area coastline Gulf of Finland in the village of Strelna next to the Konstantinovsky Palace, and CampTom-Shuvalovka, located near the central park of Petrodvorets. The uniqueness of the last campsite lies not only in its location, but also in the fact that it is a whole country complex recreation.

CampTom-Shuvalovka is a reconstructed Russian village with buildings characteristic of its style, including a real blacksmith shop and a pottery workshop. For recreation, there are playgrounds and sports grounds, bicycle paths, a mini-zoo and much more, so that travelers have something to have fun in their free time from excursions. In addition to the owners of campers and caravans, any tourists traveling with a tent, whether by car, motorcycle or bicycle, can use the camping services. Prices here start from 1000 rubles/day per person.

On the coast of the Gulf of Finland, in the village. Aleksandrovskaya, located on the territory of which there is the possibility of parking a camper and tent accommodation. The cost is 800 rubles/day for tent accommodation and from 400 to 1500 rubles/day for camper parking, depending on the rental duration.

At your service, located in the Leningrad region and Karelia.

Tourists from all over Russia love holidays on the outskirts of St. Petersburg for the opportunity to enjoy beautiful scenery and swim in local reservoirs. Therefore, campsites in the Leningrad region are already full of cheerful companies and families with children in the spring. Tent cities are valued by tourists for their low cost and excellent location.

While relaxing in the campsites of the Leningrad region, you can retire to nature, have a great time in the company of friends, with your family, or with your loved one. In a specially designated place, you can light a fire and cook aromatic dishes, and after a hearty dinner, sing songs with a guitar by the fire and admire the starry sky, which in the metropolis we so often simply do not notice. Well, late in the evening, when everyone has gone to their tents, you can once again swim in the cool river water, enjoying its smooth surface and contemplating the millions of stars in the sky.

Types of tourism in the Leningrad region:
family (cottages, parks and recreation centers, fishing, farms)
entertainment (resorts, campsites, zoos, nightclubs, restaurants)
educational (museums, historical monuments, nature reserves, temples)
active (children's health and sports camps, paintball clubs, swimming pools)
extreme (quad bike riding, jumping, parachute jumping)

A large number of people prefer to travel by car because it is convenient and affordable today, which is why camping in Russia is gaining more and more fans every day. Tent camping is modern look camps for tourists by car, relevant in the warm season. In the recreation areas there are places for setting up tents, there are small rest houses and, of course, there is an equipped parking lot. As a rule, campsites are located near major cities and attractions.

Outdoor recreation is becoming one of the most popular today. Residents of megacities tend to go out of town for the weekend to be closer to nature and take a break from the mundane, hectic workdays. Far from the city, a person feels incredible lightness and freedom, enjoying beautiful scenery and fresh air.

Holidays in the Leningrad region are leisure outdoors, relaxation on the lakes of the Leningrad region, sightseeing. In the summer you can have a great rest on the White and Baltic Seas. Forest air has healing properties and has a positive effect on humans. Or maybe you prefer to relax with a gun or a fishing rod, then this is definitely the place for you.

The Leningrad region is replete with interesting sights that every tourist should see. Medieval fortresses and castles, monuments of ancient Russian architecture, estates of Russian princes with beautiful palace ensembles, the appearance of which clearly reflected the development of Russian history and culture. More than 700 structures related to the historical past of Rus' have been preserved on the territory of the Leningrad region. In 1990, the list World Heritage UNESCO has included a number of historical and cultural monuments of the region. These are forts on the shores of the Gulf of Finland “Gray Horse” and “Red Hill”, the Oreshek fortress, the historical part of the city of Shlisselburg, the war memorial in Sologubovka-Lezier, as well as palace and park ensembles in Ropsha, Taitsy, Gostilitsy, Gatchina.

Natural attractions of the Leningrad region are not only individual objects - geological, water, botanical, but also integral areas of nature - territories, water areas. It is impossible to imagine a holiday in the Leningrad region without visiting at least one of the 16 natural monuments, the core of which are lakes with crystal clear clean water. There is not a single settlement on their banks, so their pollution is, in principle, impossible.

Tourism in the Leningrad region provides the opportunity to relax on one of the 1,800 lakes, the largest of which is Ladoga, and there are too many small reservoirs lost somewhere in the depths of the forest. It is possible to rent a boat and ride it on the spacious surface of the water. Nature lovers can visit the Nizhnesvirsky Nature Reserve or one of the many nature reserves that operate in the region.

What to see in the Leningrad region

Shlisselburg

Located on the shores of Lake Ladoga. Currently, a museum is organized in the Shlisselburg Fortress. The fortress is a unique historical and architectural monument. Here the buildings of the Old and New Prisons have been restored and turned into a museum, the Sovereign, Royal and Golovin towers, sections of the fortress wall, and the Sovereign Bastion have been restored.

Staraya Ladoga

One of ancient cities Rus'. The founding date of Ladoga is considered to be the middle of the 8th century. This fortress city, the surrounding hills, and the gray-haired Volkhov itself keep the secrets of long-gone eras. Today, a historical, architectural and archaeological museum-reserve operates in Staraya Ladoga.

Novaya Ladoga

One of the ancient Russian cities with an interesting and fascinating history. St. Nicholas Cathedral and the Church of St. John the Evangelist, preserved buildings from the complex of the previously existing St. Nicholas Monastery, stand out against the backdrop of city attractions. In the very center of the city there is a building of the former club of officers of the Suzdal regiment.

Lodeynoye Pole

Located on the banks of the Svir, 239 kilometers from St. Petersburg. The main attraction of the city is the Holy Trinity Alesandro-Svirsky Monastery, located 26 kilometers from the city. The monastery was founded in 1484. It consists of two side by side standing monastery– Preobrazhensky and Troitsky.

Volkhov

Located on the river of the same name. TO historical monuments include later buildings: the Church of the Archangel Michael (first mentioned in 1500, restored in 1994), Zelenetsky (Trinity) Monastery, Trinity Cathedral, Annunciation Church. One of the main attractions of the city is the Volkhov hydroelectric power station - the first hydroelectric power station in Russia.

Vsevolozhsk

Located in the north-west of the Leningrad region, 7 kilometers from St. Petersburg. A monument to the founder, Prince Vsevolod Vsevolozhsky, was erected in the city. There are several museums. The Priyutino estate has survived to this day. The largest memorial, which took a place on the city’s coat of arms, is called Rumbolovskaya Mountain, opened in 1967.

Vyborg

Located on the shores of the Vyborg Bay, located in the northeastern part of the Gulf of Finland. Old City Vyborg, crowded architectural ensembles different eras, is rightfully considered one of the most beautiful cities Russia. The main attraction and symbol of the city is Vyborg Castle- the only surviving monument of Western European military architecture in Russia.

Gatchina

Located in the southwestern part of the region. The main attraction of Gatchina is a unique palace and park complex, the pearl of which is the Great Gatchina Palace, built in 1766-1781. Another original palace in the complex is the Priory Palace, built in 1799. The complex of Gatchina parks is a very original creation of park-building art.

Ivangorod

Located on the right bank of the Narva River. Ivangorod was founded as a fortress in 1492 by Moscow Prince Ivan III Vasilyevich and named in his honor. This is one of the most amazing cities in the Leningrad region: the famous stone Ivangorod fortress, picturesque Parusinka, stunning Narva waterfalls and active medieval churches.

Kamennogorsk

Situated on picturesque coast the Vuoksa River and stretches from north to south for a distance of about 10 kilometers. The main attractions of Kamennogorsk are concentrated in the Antrea Memorial Park: buildings from the late 19th century, a Finnish cemetery, the ruins of a Lutheran church. On the Ryabinovy ​​Peninsula there are the remains of a stone embankment and Mannerheim's dacha.

Kingisepp

Founded in 1384, at this time the Yam fortress was founded here by boyar Ivan Fedorovich. At the beginning of the 19th century, the fortress was almost completely destroyed; only some of the foundations of the towers and stone walls and a pond remained on the site. Sights of Kingisepp are also memorial complexes and architectural monuments in honor of the fallen heroes of the civil and patriotic wars.

Kirishi

Located on the coast of the Volkhov River, 78 km from St. Petersburg. The city has several monuments and memorials: Echoes of War, First Builders, Defenders of the Kirishi Land, Lost Villages, the stele of the Front Line of Defense of Kirishi, a monument in honor of the Decembrists Bestuzhevs.

Kirovsk

Located on the left bank of the Neva River. To the sights and interesting places urban settlements include: Lenin monument on central square in front of the administration building, the symbol of the Kirov region is the elk calf Kiryusha. In front of the House of Culture there is a monument to Kirov, a leader of the Communist Party, and the sculpture “Janitor”.

Meadows

Located on the Luga River. Luga is one of the cities in Russia that have managed to preserve unique historical monuments and Russian heritage for many centuries. The historical city is also notable for the nearby lakes Cheremenetskoye and Vrevo, around which numerous noble estates of past centuries are still preserved.

Nikolskoye

Stretched along the Tosna River. The city received its name in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, whose icon was brought here by the first settlers. The attractions of Nikolskoye include the Church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, a memorial to the soldiers who died in the Second World War, and the Poklonny Stone on the banks of Tosna in honor of the victims of the Great Patriotic War and prisoners of war.

Otradnoe

Located on the Left Bank of the Neva. The main attraction is the postal station. Two buildings have survived to this day - the post office and the stables, which are historical and architectural monuments. Other attractions: Ivanovo rapids, Ivanovo patch, memorial on the Tosna River, Church of St. John the Merciful.

Podporozhye

Located in the northeast of the Leningrad region. Among the attractions are the Fraternal Cemetery, where the remains of soldiers of the Great Patriotic War who died in a local hospital are buried, the Annunciation Church, the Alley of Heroes, as well as the Verkhnesvirskaya Hydroelectric Power Station complex, which is a very beautiful, impressive sight.

Primorsk

Located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. Among the city's attractions, the stone pier built by the Finns attracts attention; surviving fragments of the country mansion of Mannerheim's close friend, a Finnish statesman; Lutheran Church of St. Mary Magdalene and sandy picturesque beaches.

Priozersk

Located near the confluence of the Vuoksa River into Lake Ladoga. The main attractions of Priozersk are the monuments that are located on the territory of Detinets, including a gate tower of the 17th century. Of considerable interest are the gates lined with captured Swedish armor that lead to the Old Fortress.

Pinery

Located on the coast of the Gulf of Finland. The main pride of Sosnovoborsk residents is the Andersengrad children's play complex opened in 1980. It is stylized to resemble the architecture of the Danish Middle Ages and is dedicated to the 175th anniversary of the great storyteller Hans Christian Andersen.

Tikhvin

Refers to small towns in Russia. It is located in the Leningrad region, is a historical city Russian Federation. The city is unique because the ancient ensemble of the Tikhvin Mother of God Monastery has been preserved here. Tikhvin is a museum city under open air, his surviving architectural masterpieces are so beautiful.

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Hi all!
This week my two children (a boy 3.10 and a girl 1.8) took a trip around Lake Ladoga. Five days in the car and in interesting places, four nights in a tent, more than 1000 kilometers and a million stories and adventures. I’m sharing a summary of all this - short stories, marks on the map and routes, some photos and impressions.

Entire route

First day

Start from home 8:00

Stop in Sukhodolye - drive through the Gromovo platform immediately to the right along the tracks and turn into the field to the lake - awesome beach, sand, clean entry, you can fish (pike), put the tent almost by the water. But there are a lot of people.

Sukhodolye

Stop in Priozersk. Entering the fortress. Entrance fee (about 10 rubles). You can swim nearby, although there are signs that it is prohibited. In Priozersk there is a monument to Mowgli and Bagheera. We had a snack that we bought in the store, but it was better to have lunch nearby at the Gazprom gas station (they have great sandwiches, coffee, and sausages).

Priozersk

It took a long time to find an overnight stay, although we were prepared (we printed out maps and came up with several parking spots). We tried three or four variants of races: before Mikli, in Mikli and after them. Everywhere there were houses or a very rocky coast, we came across a couple of camp sites (but wanted wild places with a tent), cow pastures and just steep rocky slopes. I advise everyone looking for parking to go much further beyond Sortovala or spend the night closer to Priozersk for the first time.

Sheaves along the road in search of an overnight stay

I'll say it again. We passed Lochdenpolya and began to look for a place in the Miynala area. Mikli, before Mikli and beyond Miinal. Well, be scared, these are all our names, not Finnish ones;)))

Here there was nowhere to stay - either cows, or boats, or recreation centers, and simply couldn’t find a site for a tent

And here in Rautolahti we found a place for our first night

We found a place in Rautolahti on a lake inside a village. Between the houses and the camp site. Turn according to the tourist center sign. A rocky slope (plateau), on it a pine tree (standing alone), a boat ramp. Often those who go to Lake Ladoga (and the village is located on it) go out on kayaks. We met the guys after a five-day hike, for example (and saw others in the evening). You can swim, but the descent is not very pleasant (rocks, silt). The tent stands above the water on the rocks. There is plenty of space for several tents. The disadvantages for us are that it is difficult for children to get into the water and that we are not standing in the forest or on the shore, but in the village. But it's not scary at all. You can go out by boat. We fished, but didn't catch anything. The owners of the geese offered cucumbers in the morning;) the children dined on potatoes, tomatoes and stewed meat. Everyone had porridge for breakfast.

The first place to spend the night is under a pine tree on the slope. And our miracle tent from Decathlon for 6000. Two rooms, in the vestibule you can stand up to your full height. Double, warm, very easy to assemble.

The first camp dinner and a mega-miracle pot, which we will later lose

A jar for observing insects, which we will also lose later, but which really occupied the kids

Second day

Let's go to Sortovala. The Internet caught normally only there (3G). We found a normal post office and grocery store there. We moved to the waterfall in Rytty. The approach to the waterfall is fenced - a small hydroelectric power station has been built. You need to get to the gate of the power station, and then, to see the waterfall, we follow the path to the left along the stones. A very beautiful waterfall, but the approach itself is quite dangerous - over rocks. It’s scary, but in an ergo-backpack holding the hand of the youngest and the elder is ideal. We walked around the waterfall.

Road to the waterfall in Rytty (first run after 16 km, turn left)

Waterfall

Descent to the water

Children by the car

Boulders cut by roots

We moved to Ruskeala. We found a few more along the way beautiful waterfalls right along the highway. There are recreation areas with gazebos and water balloons. There is a cafe and a shooting range. They say you can swim there.

Ruskeala great place where you can spend a whole day or half a day. There are paths around the marble quarry, you can swim along it by boat (hour = 400 rubles) - the quarry is filled with water to about half the depth, eat hamburgers (100-200 rubles) and sausages, fly on a tightrope and ride a tightrope (how is it right I don’t know what it’s called, but it costs 1000 rubles). There is a nearby rope park. And in Ruskeala, I highly recommend finding and photographing a map of the area - where else you can go. It was with this map that we found a place for our next overnight stay - the shore of an uninhabited lake, among hunting grounds. The road to it: we leave the park back onto the highway, turn left and move 500-1000 meters to the exit. We pass a small lake on the left (we don’t stop there, they say it’s a solid swamp), then on the left there will also be a drive over stones (a large block). There we found an ideal and God-forsaken place - a separate place for a tent, for a car, an equipped place for cooking, a descent to the water over stones and the descent into the water itself - stone plateau. Cool! And no one around. There are a lot of fish on the lake (we ate fish soup), and there lives an otter (fishing in the evenings). At night in the forest, someone was shooting and howling (independently of each other at different times). The children had fun swimming off the rocks; dad caught 6 crucian carp from a funny inflatable boat. But we slept worse than on the first day. It was colder, our little one woke up more often and personally I caught every sound nearby (the birds almost didn’t sing and any rustle instilled fear).

More waterfalls on the road to Ruskeala (you can see it directly from the highway)

Ruskeala. Mountain Park Plan

Kinds

Failure

Italian quarry

Where to stay

A brilliant plan for where to pitch your tent. We used the highest wild parking lot. In general, in this part of Ladoga there are many special parking places and it is very difficult not to notice them.

Our parking lot. Perfect.

Ascent to the food site and tent

For fish

Everyone's eating their ear

Sunset

The third day

We started the third day by sailing on the lake by boat, but in the morning we didn’t catch anything. We got ready and drove through Sortavala (Internet, maps, provisions for the next days) to the White Bridges waterfall. Our path ran through a mountain with a cave (one name from the cave, nothing interesting) and a panoramic view (but that costs a lot). In the city of Lyaskelya we go down to Lake Ladoga and as soon as we enter locality(in my opinion, Handenselga on the Janisyarvi River) we are looking for any path leading up the mountain - at the very top there is both a view and a cave. The cave turns out to be just a drop down, but the view is worth everything.

Panoramic platform.

From here we brought a birch sapling to our plot. I think it's priceless

White Bridges Waterfall is not difficult to find. You must first get to the car area along the A121 road (Sortavala road) (after turning to Pitkyaranta we look for a left turn - it’s more difficult to write than to find))). And on the dirt road, always follow the yellow signs. When you get the hang of it, walk 2-3 kilometers to the waterfall (if your car allows it, you can drive there). The waterfall itself, despite the name, turns out to be black, not white, but beautiful;) you can stay overnight on the lake next to it, but we drove further along the A121 to Lake Säksjärvi with sandy beaches. In front of him on the road there will be two lakes, where you can also stop for the night, and the entire lake Säksjärvi is full of races with places right on the beach and on the rocks. But there (on the beaches) it’s very dirty (and smells bad))) We found a remote place on the rocks with space for a kitchen, laundry, tent, cooking and what not. The downside is that it’s still not on the beach, but on the rocks (but flatter than last night), and quite close to the road (we can hear it). But few people drive (not traffic-traffic). And not wild jungle. Let's move on.

Road to the waterfall

Waterfall

Third stop site

The parking lot itself

Day four

I didn’t want to leave the lake at all, but there was a long way to go. On the way to Pitkäranta we came across many monuments and the very beautiful Cross of Sorrow. The forests nearby are pine, like in a fairy tale. There is Lukoil in Pitkäranta (we were scared to fill the car with diesel at strange gas stations, we were looking for something familiar), the city is very beautiful sandy beaches. We found almost a bay - shallow, sandy, clean, although they said that yesterday there was still seaweed. In principle, you can park there too. It’s also dirty, though, and there are a lot of people. But there is a place.

Pitkäranta

Then we moved along the Kola highway towards Olanets. The road is terrible. The average speed is 70 km and cannot be overtaken. But there are almost no cars. In Olanets we drove through the fields, along the river and on a side road we went back to the Kola highway (shorter in kilometers). We reached Lodeynoye Pole, where we went shopping in the Svir River. The entrance was found in the city center through the stadium (on foot). The approach is rocky (from a construction site), but children have plenty of freedom since there is a beach.

On the way to

Svir

We left and moved a little further - on the advice of local guys who helped us get out, we found a place at the edge of the island - we need to go along the dam and we come up against the division of the Svir. Very beautiful but not as equipped as previous sites. Fishing trip. But a gentle slope with sand. We see dry cargo ships and motor ships, but not going in front of us, but in a branching channel.

The fifth day began with an early rise, because it was cold to sleep in the tent. Because we did not place it facing the sunrise and the first rays of the sun did not warm it, and the dew, on the contrary, concentrated on our house. In an hour we woke up, cooked, ate, and got ready (usually we needed from 1.5). We moved towards the lighthouse in Storozhno. The turn to the lighthouse was from Pasha. Behind Pasha there are 25 km of road to Storozhno. 10 km have been paved (they were paved with us), and then there is a hole, then a ditch, but passable by any car. Just 15 km takes about an hour's drive. Storozhno is wonderful, quiet, no phone reception, beautiful views, boats, bridges, a temple (being restored) and a huge red and white lighthouse. We were not allowed into the lighthouse (we read online reports from guys who managed to negotiate with the keeper), they said that we could get permission at Petrokrepost. The lighthouse is 75 m high. An ideal place for photo sessions.

Road to the lighthouse

Be careful. I'm in love

Lighthouse

Still Careful

Well, then they flew to our region. It’s about 200 km to St. Petersburg, we managed to see Novaya Ladoga, Staraya Ladoga(and go into the fortress there) and Volkhov. It was an amazing trip. We could have added Kobona and Shlisselburg to it, but our animals were already bored and I remembered that we had turned off all the electricity in the house, including the refrigerator and freezer;))

Staraya Ladoga

Data
1254.5 km covered
Purchased 120 liters of diesel fuel
Eaten:
- 1.5 bags of potatoes
- A pack of pasta
- Eaten 10 tomatoes and the same number of cucumbers
- 2 cans of stewed meat and one condensed milk (cooked!!)
Caught 6 + 2 fish
6 of them were eaten
We went on the boat 6 times
Spent the night in four different places
The tent is folded and set up 8 times
Swimmed numerous times in any puddle and from any shore
I didn't want to go home;)

Route with points of interest. Roman numerals indicate parking places.

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