On the edge of the earth. Background.

Klyuchevskaya Sopka at the elevation 4835 m, the highest active volcano in Eurasia and the highest peak of Russia beyond the Caucasus

Kamchatka I have long been a blank spot on the map. For a long time and Chukotka, and Yakutia, and Magadan almost like the neighbour's garden for apples run hither, and the Peninsula of volcanoes and bears remained terra incognita. In the end, he was the last region in our country where I never got. And so when I had the chance to fly to any airport of the world, I without hesitation chose Yelizovo – the air gate to Kamchatka.

The airfield is located directly at the foot of two active volcanoes — Koryak and Avachinskaya hills

How and why this happened is a separate story. Airlines, too, are the sudden generosity in the form of promotions when the tickets for the flight dreams hand out just like everyone.
It looked like this...

This time, to obtain the coveted ticket from S7 just had the power of thought to bring the virtual plane to the desired destination. With one attempt.

Virtual aircraft

At this time, the head connected to that type of scanner, cityvillage electrical impulses of the brain, and allows you to move the image of the plane on the background of the globe as a cursor on the computer screen from the mouse. Really is absolutely real of advanced medical technology designed to rehabilitate people after a stroke or for social adaptation of autistic people, but now it is just used for promotional purposes. It turned out not all.

Frankly, before the experiment I was talking with the chief engineer of the project and therefore quite a clear idea of what are the characteristics of the control plane the power of the mind. In practice, I also have all happened – and I happily rushed to call friends with the words: drop everything, fly to Kamchatka, there are tickets handed out!

Follow me, I know a short cut!

However, the result was not what I was hoping for: someone to reply urgently advised to quit Smoking, someone recommended a better hangover, and someone sad said that flunked important but free work.

Something like this...

In General, this violent was quite small, and fly to Kamchatka gathered only Natasha nch. Since this all started. Tickets are tickets, but still had the right to fill the time between arrival and departure! Still on the Kamchatka Peninsula I have no friends, so come up with the concept of travel to work routes and bridges had from scratch.

It is this way. The Shiveluch volcano, the most active of the volcanoes of Kamchatka at the moment.

Oddly enough, the information search was not an easy task. General information and calls "travel with us!" in the network was enough, but we wanted to travel without them, and therefore required very specific information. And they were not a lot. And other circumstances before the trip didn't seem much she favored – from torn ligaments in the foot to a complete financial collapse in all directions. But we still rested, came and went. In spite of. Moreover, gradually, during the preparation of the route was formed and new virtual acquaintances, which later evolved into real.

As always, had to negotiate with the spirits of the local mountains and forests

The idea of traveling was as simple as: since we nothing about the region do not know, except that there is sometimes volcanoes erupt, bears more than people, and in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskij midnight, it is necessary to take the car and sharing your experience for two weeks to drive around the Peninsula along across and diagonally. As far as is possible road conditions.

Central valley — the warmest place on the entire Peninsula.

With this method there is common understanding of geographical areas, there are unexpected discoveries, tied Dating, there are specific ideas and objectives for future travel. In the end, did so, Nakata on the Kamchatka Peninsula some 3,000 km away.

A little behind

Due to the fact that spring is late there somewhere for a month, and somewhere in all three, we drove not everywhere wanted. In some places the way was blocked by a swollen river, in others deep heavy snow. Standard Surf on bald summer tires heroically coped with obstacles, admiring the magnificent for a car of this level of throughput, but limits were had.

Up the parched bed of the stream

And yet we've been on the edge of the earth, up to the border of the snow on the volcanoes, reached the point where for the first time on the Peninsula landed Vitus Bering. We saw bears at a distance of ten meters, watching the seals that make a water Park, and the Fox took drying almost with it.

Lisa was delicious

We bathed in the hot springs in the valley between snow-capped mountains, mixing the boiling water underground key, and the cold water current near the river using a makeshift dam out of boulders. We were drinking coffee, lying in a sleeping bag on the shore of the Pacific ocean and encountering the first dawn in the country.

...lying on the Pacific ocean...

And now we know a bit Kamchatka.

The Bay Is A Big Camp

To be continued.