There are lot of interesting places in Krasnoyarsk region, where one can spend his winter vocation or just have a rest with his friends or family. One of such places is a tourist camp "Snow Leopard", which is located in the pictorial surrounding of West Sayan mountains, just in the heart of the Siberian taiga, on a bank of a clear mountain stream, 1250 meters above the sea level. Far from the civilization, in broad silence of primeval nature, wonderful cedar houses seem to be materialized out of these fabulous places. Here you just dissolve in the world of miraculous comfort and amazingly beautiful nature. Curative air of the cedar forests, pure water, the spirit of tourists' brotherhood and sincere relationships excite the feeling of fullness of life, help you to store up fresh energy in your body and soul. Unwittingly you plunge into the atmosphere and everyday life of old-believers, where everything is penetrated with the spirit of traditional Siberian life and love for nature.
Each of these ten houses has a hot oven, wooden furniture, a room for washing and a bio toilet. The houses are built in the Russian style, there are dry firewood, homespun carpets, curtains with traditional Russian ornament on the windows in the hall. In the separate house with the fireplace hall, bar, billiards and karaoke you can spend a very nice evening, gathering all together at the fireplace. The duet "Sayan Ring" sings Russian folk songs and plays the guitar for you, they will fill your soul with warm memories. You will be offered various dishes by the best traditions of Russian cuisine in a cozy dining room. The dishes are cooked of taiga's gifts: fern, salted sorrel, salted and pickled mushrooms jam made of taiga berries - honey suckle, cowberry, strawberry. There are also special dishes of hazel hen, maral, hare. Of course, "Snow Leopard" can't be imagined without Russian banya, bathing in an ice-hall, diving into snowdrifts in winter and lying on the silk grass carpet in summer. There are a volleyball area and a football field for lovers of healthy mode of life and sport, as well as sanitary procedures - phyto sauna, massage, cosmetic procedures.
It is very convenient to go by car, bus or train to "Snow Leopard" from Krasnoyarsk, Abakan, Kyzyl. The way to the camp stretches through the beautiful mountain road Abakan - Ak-Dovurak. We should notice that during these 300 kilometers (from Abakan to the camp) you will see the change of 5 climate zones: steppes, forest-steppe, pre-taiga, taiga and mountain taiga. The nature here tried to hasten the change from plain space to snow mountain peaks, in other places such a change takes several hundreds of kilometers. Here, in this corner of the Western Sayan, you can meet hares, marals, wild mountain goat, squirrels, nanny-goat, wood-grouse because of the far distance.
"Snow Leopard" is ideal for family rest, there are special discounts for the children under 10 years old. There is nothing better than spending your vocations with your family at the tourist camp "Snow Leopard" after endless stresses and a hard working week, changing the conditions for lots of impressions and fresh energy for the future week.
During summer school vocations there is a special entertainment program for children, they learn the bump of locality, become aquatinted with the everyday life of hunters, play different games and take part in competitions.
Businessmen and entrepreneurs, wishing to combine rest and work, are offered organized seminars, training or just an official meeting. A distinctive feature of the camp is conducting special individual entertainment programs. For example, there is an exclusive offer for newly married couple: "Honey Moon in Sayan". Young couples are offered to take part in the rite of ethnic wedding ceremony with the wedding certificates and rings, with a walk to the "Love Bridge" and a romantic evening at the fireplace etc. There are also special discounts for them. Family couples with the record of family life are offered a thematic program, for example they can celebrate one of their anniversaries at the camp.
There's a unique tour held in the beginning of May - "Wood Knocking Grouse", when one has an opportunity to hear the wood grouse's knocking during the marriage season.
Summer season is very reach with programs, everybody can chose an entertainment in his own taste. Taiga gifts - berry (cowberry, strawberry, blueberry, blackberry), mushrooms, cones - these are integral attributes of the camp.
Those who prefer extreme entertainment will be able to have a summer rafting tour (June -August) on the river Ona; those who like walking and hiking can enjoy the unusual landscapes, watch the outskirts of the camp, visit mountain lakes; in the evening there's a bonfire and then - overnight in a tent.
Women, who prefer sober and wholesome manner of life, can have an opportunity to have fitness, shaping or aerobics in the open air near one of the lakes. The choice is great and the main thing is to listen to the voice of your heart and to determine your own position.
Rest does not mean do nothing. Friendly staff will provide you with the valuable rest and entertainment programs for every day. Unique nature and clear mountain air will recover your health, add you energy and vivacity.