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   Wildlife Activities Places Getting to and around Tours
These long approaches, being awkward and tiring, in fact help greatly to preserve the patches of true wilderness from being flooded by tourist traffic. The latter has already happened to the comfortably accessible to RVs parts of Alaska. "Awkward" approaches mean saved wilderness. When thinking about a trip to some Russian faraway place please keep in mind one sure thing: long and dusty drives will be forgotten, but the pristine wild nature will stay in your memory for years. You can get to Altai (to the town of Barnaul) from Moscow by plane, and continue by bus via Biysk to Gorno-Altaisk and from there to the villages of Tyungur, Ust-Koksa or Kosh-Agach. These land transfers from Gorno-Altaisk to the mountains take several hours and about an hour by helicopter. From Tyungur it takes you two days to walk to Akkem Lake at the foot of famous Belukha peak. From Kazakhstan, you fly from Almaty to the town of Ust-Kamengorsk, following by bus or truck and finally take a walk to the base camp on the southern side of Belukha. This approach takes a couple of days but the climb is much easier from here from the Akkem valley on the northern side. Helicopter is also available.  |
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Altai is much closer to Europe than Kamchatka and easier to reach. However it shares two features with Kamchatka: the backwardness of tourist infrastructure and rather long land approaches, to which the only alternative is a helicopter. So, even getting from the town of Gorno-Altaisk to base camp in the mountains offers a taste of adventure.
