On the banks of the swift mountain river-beauty Katun, in a secluded place, but not far from the actively visited Lake Aya, the Heart of Altai tourist complex awaits tourists and vacationers all year round.
About the area
Here is a perfect combination of the most important and necessary for a quality family vacation and educational sightseeing tourism: exceptionally beautiful nature, clean water, clear mountain air, sufficient amenities. Nearby are two bridges over the Katun, the roads will lead in any direction, and everywhere - a maximum of pleasant impressions. In addition, housing does not require a lot of financial expenses. "Heart of Altai" is preferred by both couples with children and numerous young companies - for every age there is an unforgettable route that remains forever in the memory of a magnificent decoration of life.
From the regional center - Barnaul - the camp site is 277 kilometers away, from Novosibirsk - 443. The amazingly beautiful road runs first through the "Siberian savannah" - the forest-steppe zone, then along the most picturesque foothills. The Chuysky tract is one of the most beautiful roads in the world. Everywhere you can immediately share your impressions with loved ones by contacting any region,since all the main cellular operators are functioning - Megafonm, Beeline, and MTS. "Heart of Altai" certainly will not leave any of its guests without such impressions.
Campaza
The whole range of housing provided is quite diverse, that is, there is a choice for the quantitative composition of visitors, and for any amount of wallet. There are chic comfortable houses, there are semi-comfortable ones, and you can stay in a partially comfortable summer house. In total, the hostel "Heart of Altai" has 79 rooms with a maximum capacity of 204 people, of which 158 are the main residents and 46 additional beds for, for example, children.
Food for vacationers is also well established. There is a cafe-bar with a TV, where seventy people are placed in a closed hall, and forty more on the veranda. You can choose complex meals, that is, breakfast and dinner (in the afternoon, tourists are most often on excursions or walks), it will cost everyone about five hundred rubles. Given that the range of dishes is wide, their quality is almost restaurant-like, then this is not at all expensive.
Infrastructure
Excellent sandy beach and a cafe for a hundred people with a veranda and a fireplace hall, guarded parking, sports grounds, a Russian bath, showers and toilets are well-equipped, sports equipment is available for hire, and in summer - a swimming pool. What else can you wish for in conditions of absolute dissolution in the most beautiful mountain landscapes? "The Heart of Altai" is a camp site that justifies its name. Children here simply rejoice, playing on a specialplayground and swimming in the pool.
While their parents are studying, and then paragliding, riding horses (horse rental is functioning, there is a private stable) or on rented bicycles, playing tennis and billiards, in a word, having fun, there is someone for children look after, "Heart of Altai" - a hostel with prudent staff. In the evening, by the way, you can constantly and free of charge sing karaoke in a cafe, attend entertainment programs and discos. You can participate in rafting, visit many excursions, children are not a hindrance in this and not a burden. Up to seven years, they all live with their parents for free, and up to twelve - free of charge in additional places, while the main ones have a substantial discount.
Residence conditions
Like many other recreation centers in Altai, this complex provides rooms with a variety of amenities. The comfortable wooden cottage has one-room apartments with two main and one extra bed. There is a table, a bathroom with hot water (shower) and beds: single plus one and a half, double or twin.
The semi-comfortable wooden cottage also has two main and one extra bed. There is a toilet room, but without hot water, and vacationers use the shower on the territory. There are no toilets in the unfurnished summer wooden house - they are also on the territory, but there are beds, a table, bedside tables. There are rooms with TV plus full amenities. Naturally, what isaccommodation is a little more expensive. The recreation center in Altai provides a wide choice.
Nature
“The Heart of Altai” is quite a popular camp site because it is geographically very advantageous: there is a relict pine forest around, not far from an amazingly beautiful lake with the purest twenty-degree water, and the turquoise Katun flows nearby. A natural wall carefully encloses the territory of the recreation center from the rest of the village.
Aya Lake Reserve, its purity is protected by the state. The symbol of Altai - Katun is born on mountain glaciers. The water is cold for swimming, but great for adrenaline lovers: rafting on the Katun is a huge success. Here, beginners try their hand at easy routes, and professionals hone their skills, as there are sections of the highest level of difficulty in passing - rapids, sinuosity, swiftness of the current.
Passtime
Methods of recreation for the bulk of tourists are traditional. Hire horses from their own stables, riding lessons attract a huge number of tourists to horseback riding. Almost everyone uses the services of a Russian bath on the territory, and fish caught in the river can be fried right there (braziers and firewood are provided).
It's also great to explore the area with a rental bike. On the sports grounds, vacationers of the Heart of Altai camp site willingly play volleyball, football, and tennis. Rafting on the Katun, paragliding, fishing - all the pleasures for relaxing onfresh air. There are also billiard rooms for those who do not want to walk far or are tired. And, of course, there is a huge demand for interesting excursions.
Fucking Finger
To view the panorama of the Katun River valley, you need to make a small ascent to the platform for such a view. Rock "Devil's finger" is one of such popular places. The rock ledge looks like a lone finger sticking out of the ground with a sharp and long uncut nail. From here, the view opens up simply magnificent, besides, mountain silence is everywhere, broken only by the magical singing of birds. Romantic people very often see off sunsets or meet sunrises here.
Mount "Camel" and others
Also, you can see the panorama of the Katun valley against the background of the northern foothills by climbing one of the two humps of the "Camel" among bizarre rock formations.
And from the mountain "Green Dragon" opens, in addition to the Katunskaya, and the valley of its tributary - the Uba with magnificent landscapes of the foothills. And there are also "Stone Gates", "Bogatyr Bobyrgan" and many other hiking and car routes. Dinners cooked on a fire are especially appetizing.
Is there enough vacation for all this?
Recreation centers in Altai provide a variety of excursions, including educational ones. This is a visit to numerous excellent museums and sightseeing of monuments - local lore, archaeological, historical. Excursions to Chemal and the temple on the island of Patmos are especially impressive for tourists from different parts of our vast country and foreign countries.
The eight-meter Kamyshlinsky waterfall, healing springs, the famous Tavdinsky caves, as well as wildlife - deer, bison, Altai camels, spotted deer and silver foxes - all this is almost impossible to see during one vacation. That is why there are so many regulars in the "Heart of Altai". Gorny Altai collects a huge amount of rave reviews everywhere.
Shukshin's homeland
Right on the Chuisky tract along the banks of the Katun river there is the famous village of Srostki. The tour "Heart of Altai" strongly recommends to plan an excursion here, especially if the rest falls on the second half of July. At this time, the flower of the writer's and artistic life of the country gathers here - his most famous admirers come to the Shukshin annual readings to honor the memory of the famous actor, director and writer.
Here, during the readings, the results of the Shukshin Film Festival and the Shukshin Literary Prize are announced. But even if you get a vacation at a different time, you still need to visit Srostki: climb Vasily Makarovich’s favorite place - Mount Piket, take a walk along the streets of the village where his feet stepped, visit the historical and memorial museum, sit at the monument to Shukshin. "Heart of Altai" provides excursions at any time of the year, as it has its own transport.
Pearl and legends of Gorny Altai
Golden Lake, or Teletskoye, as many call it, to which almost all recreation centers in Altai offer car excursions, is no less famous than Baikal andjust as transparent. Here you will find a trip on foot along the coast to the waterfalls, as well as to the Third River. There is also a boat trip on the lake. This lake is cold, clean and very deep. The shores are incredibly picturesque, you can't take your eyes off. Teletskoye Lake is quite rightly called the pearl of Altai and Altai Switzerland.
Legends just as fully include the passes: Seminsky, Chike-Taman, the confluence of the Katun and Chuya, the Kalbak-Tash tract with its oldest rock paintings, as well as the very history of the creation of the Chuya tract. You can join the revelations of shamanism and the origins of Orthodoxy in the Altai land, as well as the history of ancient cities and villages - Gorno-Altaisk, Biysk, visit native places and the museum of the wonderful artist Choros-Gurkin, writer Bianchi, corners marked by the presence (and paintings in the museum) Roerichs in Altai. You can study in a natural park, where almost no human foot has set foot, many kilometers of land completely untouched by civilization. And also to survey the Turkic burial mounds, petroglyphs and sites of ancient people.
