TO BOOK A TOUR

To purchase a tour, you can contact the office of the tour operator "Sayan Ring" in Krasnoyarsk directly at the address: Uritskogo street, 117, office 201; by phone 8 (391) 2-220-800 or e-mail info@sayanring.com, as well as our representatives. When booking, you must sign a contract and make an advance payment of 30% of the tour cost. The remaining amount must be paid no later than 20 days before the arrival date. If you book a tour within 45 days before the arrival date, you must make full payment at the time of signing the contract. Payment for the tour can be made both in cash and by bank transfer (to the tour operator's bank account).

HOW TO GET TO KYZYL 

The route starts in Kyzyl. The time difference with Moscow is +4 hours.

Air traffic (2025 schedule)

You can fly to Kyzyl from Moscow with IrAero. Schedule: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, departure at 21:55, arrival at 06:55. Return: Tuesday, Thursday, Sunday, departure from Kyzyl at 21:55, arrival at 06:55.

You can fly to Kyzyl from Krasnoyarsk with Krasavia airlines. Schedule: Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, Sunday, departure at 07:30, arrival at 08:55. Return: Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, departure at 09:55, arrival at 11:35.

You can fly to Kyzyl from Novosibirsk with S7 Airlines. Schedule: daily, departure at 06:25, arrival at 08:00. Return also daily, departure from Kyzyl at 08:45, arrival at 10:20.

Railway communication

There is no railway service in Tuva!

The nearest railway station is in Abakan, the capital of the Republic of Khakassia (400 km north of Kyzyl). You can get to Abakan by train from Krasnoyarsk (No. 124 daily) or from Moscow via Yaroslavl, Yekaterinburg, Omsk, Novosibirsk (No. 068). Information on trains: www.rzd.ru and by phone 8 (800) 775-00-00.

From Abakan you will have to use motor transport (see below)

Motor transport

There are 2 federal highways in the republic, connecting Kyzyl and Abakan, Kyzyl-Ak-Dovurak-Abakan, which can be reached by regular buses and taxi from Krasnoyarsk and Abakan. The distance from Abakan to Kyzyl is 400 km.

The road will be through the picturesque passes of the Western Sayan Mountains.

By private taxi, which depart from the railway station from 06:00 to 11:00. When the car is full of passengers, it departs. The waiting time is usually about 3 hours. The journey takes 5-6 hours.  In this case, you can agree with the driver on the meeting place (for example, the airport, railway station or hotel in Abakan).

You can also reach Abakan by private car on the M-54 highway, the distance Abakan-Kyzyl is 400 km.

ORGANIZING A MEETING AND SEEING-OFF

An individual tourist or group of tourists meet at the airport or bus station of Kyzyl (where taxi from Abakan usually arrive) at the appointed time with a sign on which the full name of the tourist or the name of the company is traditionally indicated.

Seeing off is carried out according to the purchased tickets, between 06:00 and 12:00. Tourists are accompanied to the airport 3 hours in advance.

The guide's phone numbers will be given to you 7 days before the tour.

Individual transfers from Abakan can be arranged for an additional fee. Price on request.

PECULIARITIES 

No prior knowledge is required to participate in the training. People with mental illnesses (schizophrenia, epilepsy, etc.) are not allowed to participate in the training.

WEATHER

The climate in Tuva is sharply continental, the summer is dry, the air temperature in summer is up to + 40 degrees. There are almost as many sunny days here as in Crimea. In the steppe, summer lasts from the second half of May to mid-September, in the mountains - from mid-June to the end of August. The hottest month is July (the average daily temperature in the steppe is about 20 C).

• It is very beautiful in May, because the greenery is still very tender and fresh, everything is in bloom, you can see snow in the mountains. It is warm during the day, but cool in the evening.
• In June - everything is also in bloom, and the colors change every week. During this period there is stable warm weather.
• July is the hottest month, but sometimes it can rain for a week. This month usually has stable warm air temperatures at night and during the day. At the end of the month the steppe begins to burn out.
• In August, until the middle of the month, the weather is usually warm, and in the second half it already starts to get cold. The nights become cooler. At the end of August, the colors start to change again, the leaves on the trees turn red and yellow. There are a lot of mushrooms and berries during this period.
• September is rich in various colors. Red-yellow-green tones prevail. Usually, the weather is warm at the beginning of September, but the nights are already cool. In the second half of September, prolonged rains are possible, the air temperature drops to +5 C.

NECESSARY TO TAKE

Clothes for travel should be comfortable. Please take the clothes which you usually wear for hiking and rest.

• a long-sleeved shirt and light trousers in light colours that will protect your legs from the prickly grass in the Tuvan steppes;
• shorts, light-colored T-shirts;
• If you travel in May and September it is necessary to have warm sweater or fleece jacket, thermal underwear, gloves, hat;
• cotton socks 2-3 pairs; wool socks in May, late August and September;
• windproof and waterproof jacket/raincoat;
• 2 pairs of shoes: a pair of light sports shoes (preferably closed type) and a pair of waterproof shoes; 
• a hat or cap to protect your head from the sun;
• sunglasses;
• sunscreen (Tuva has high solar activity);
• swimsuit (you may need it in the sauna);
• a flashlight;
• personal hygiene items;
• contract confirming the purchase of the tour;
• compulsory medical insurance policy;
• tick-borne encephalitis insurance, if available;
• individual medications, in the presence of chronic diseases;
• cash (for souvenirs, receptions with a shaman, shamanic rituals, sweets, alcoholic drinks, other personal expenses);
• а travel bag, a backpack or a suitcase: all options are suitable.

You won’t have to carry your luggage over long distances.

ACCOMMODATION ON TOUR 

HOTEL "CHALAMA" 3*

The hotel is located in the city center in a 3-story building. You can walk to the bus station, and the road to the airport takes 15 minutes. Each room has a wardrobe with a mirror, air conditioning, a refrigerator, a work area, a flat-screen TV, wall lamps, bed linen, carpeting, a bottle of mineral water, glasses. All rooms have standard combined bathrooms equipped with a bath or shower, toilet, hair dryers, a set of three towels, a set of hygiene products. The hotel has a cafe with a cozy terrace and a mini-market. Vacationers have a 24-hour front desk and wi-fi at their disposal.

TENT CAMP

The tent city is set up for the duration of the radial trip along the route in places convenient for tourists. The tents are set up by the accompanying staff. The camp is a tent city with 2- and 3-person tents. For accommodation in the complex, you will be provided with a full set of tourist equipment: mats, sleeping bags. There is no electricity in the complex, so we recommend charging the batteries of cell phones and cameras in advance, as well as taking spare sets of batteries. While staying in tents, tourists will be provided with three hot meals a day, which the cook prepares over a fire. Small picnics are organized along the way.

NUTRUTION

Throughout the tour, you will be provided with three hot meals a day. Hot meals, coffee, and tea will be offered in hotels and at picnics. Alcohol are not included in the price.

During transfers there will be short picnics and dry rations. Tea and water are included in the price. During

stay in tents, tourists will be provided with three hot meals a day, which the cook prepares over a fire. Dry rations are provided during hiking trips. We also take into account the wishes of people on a diet and vegetarians. You need to fill out a questionnaire indicating your wishes and send it to us in advance in order we will be able to prepare an appropriate meal. If you have not indicated special wishes for food, you will be provided with standard European food with elements of national cuisine. Changing menu during the tour is only possible for an additional fee.

Traditional dishes of Russian cuisine include pancakes, fried and baked pies, pelmeni, pickles, vinaigrette, shchi, fruit drinks and much more.

The basis of the Tuvan diet is meat and dairy products. In fact, they eat only meat, everything else is an addition to it. Dishes that are a combination of meat and flour are especially popular. This is soup with meat and noodles (uzken bydaa), steamed pelmeni (boozy) and regular (manchy), belyashi (khuuzhuury), minced meat with dough (tyrtkan), etc. In addition, on the table of the Tuvans you can see milk vodka - araga, which is distilled from sour milk, boorzaki - pieces of dough fried in boiling oil, and flatbreads, which are an independent dish, soktaan dalgan (crushed barley). As well as blood sausage, green tea with milk, to which either salt or butter is added, sometimes both together. The role of dairy products, as well as meat, is very large in the diet of the Tuvans. They have developed various methods of preparing products from milk: cheese (byshtak), butter (sarzhag), cream (oreme), kumys (khymys), kefir (tarak), curdled milk (khoytpak), dried cottage cheese of hard (kurut) and crumbly (aarzhy) consistency, etc.

SAFETY

Each vehicle has a first aid kit. Drivers and guides accompanying the group have completed a course in first aid. For the duration of the holiday, each tourist is provided with accident and tick-borne encephalitis insurance "RESO", the 24-hour service center phone number is +7 (800) 234-57-37.

CELLULAR COMMUNICATION DURING THE ROUTE

On most of the route there is cellular communication of operators MTS, Beeline, Megafon, Tele2. However it which works with interruptions. There will be no connection from the 3rd to the 6th day.

TERMS OF AUTO TRANSPORTATION

Travel is organized by minivans, minibuses, UAZs, jeeps depending on the number of people in the group. All tourist programs of the company are served by comfortable transport with air conditioning (except UAZs). During the trip, stops, rest, walks, picnics are assumed.

Not allowed: smoking on buses, stops in prohibited places, protected areas. Night travel is prohibited due to seasonal grazing of livestock.

GUIDE SERVICES

Throughout the tour, you will be accompanied by highly qualified guides with many years of experience on the route, who have completed a mandatory course in first aid. We believe that thanks to our guides, the tour has become so rich and full of discoveries. Their professionalism, openness and friendliness will help you feel the ancient breath of this land. They say that without a guide, any, even a short trip is just overcoming distances, with a guide, it is already a journey.

MOSQUITOES AND TICKS

There are not many mosquitoes in Tuva, their activity is mostly associated with long rains, which is a very rare phenomenon for Tuva. We recommend to keep your arms and legs covered after dusk, as mosquitoes are most active in the evening. We provide tourists with mosquito repellents.

Ticks are found in the steppes of Tuva. The peak of tick activity is in May, June and the first half of July. At this time, we give tourists tick repellents to take with them. In addition, the tour price includes insurance against tick-borne encephalitis. In any case, we recommend to everyone regularly inspect their clothes, exposed areas of the body, and head. Most often, ticks cling to a person's legs, and then crawl up, sucking on the upper part of the body, above the waist.

SOUVENIRS

In Tuva, there is a wide selection of souvenirs presented in numerous shops in Kyzyl - these are products made from agalmatolite "soapstone", khomuses, Tuvan chess, national dresses, robes, hats, products made of wood, metal, amulets, you can buy CDs and cassettes of throat singing performers.

OTHER INFORMATION

Information with the phone numbers of the meeting guide, as well as the hourly tour program are provided 7 days before the tour start date. You can get your insurance from the guide on the day of the tour start.

OUR GUARANTEES

Information about the tour operator "Sayan Ring" (legal entity "Sayan Ring Center"). Registration number RTO 015694.

Tour operator civil liability insurance contract No. 00737-420001-24 dated 08/28/2024, valid from December 20, 2024 to December 19, 2025 is 500,000 (five hundred thousand) rubles.

The insurance contract is concluded between the Tour Operator and Borovitskoe Insurance Company JSC, 101000, Moscow, Pokrovsky Boulevard, 4/17, bldg. 3, tel. +7 (495) 540 51 10.

We wish you a pleasant journey!