| Page Views: 3,850 Last Visit to Kamchatskaya Oblast': August, 1995 | Kamchatka, Land of Volcanoes by XenoHumph - last update: Jun 23, 2003 |
One of the last pristine nature area left on Earth | Viljushic (right) and Koryakskiy (left) volcanoes |
If you like complete wilderness, untamed and pristine, if you like volcanoes and geysers, if you like big mountains and huge rivers where bears fish salmon, if you like sub-arctic climates,... well then Kamchatka is made for you!
Kamchatka is on the "ring of fire" around the Pacific ocean, which describes the large amount of active volcanoes from the Andes and NE USA to Japan and Indonesia. |
| Fall in the Gorely region |
|  | I went to Kamchatka in 1995 as part of a geology field trip following a meeting in Vladivostok. Everything was organized for the group, lodging, food and visits of geological features. If you want to go too, the best is probably an organized tour. It is very expensive, however (count several thousand dollars per person)!
I only went in the Southeasternmost part of the peninsula, where most active volcanoes are located. Our trip could be divided in 2 parts: 1) the Mudnovsly-Gorely region (South of Petropavlovsk, the capital of Kamchatka), and 2) Uzon Caldera and geyser valley (North of Petropavlovsk). |
Where is it?? Kamchatka is in the middle of nowhere, at the end of the Earth, you know where the Earth stops and you fall in the void?
Kamchatka is a huge peninsula in the Northern Pacific Ocean. It is a region of Russia. It is located in Eastern Siberia making it closer to Alaska than to Moscow!
Kamchatka was forbidden to tourists up to the early 1990ies because of its strategic position close to Alaska, and its big military base.
Sorry, the map is in french, but you'll figure it out....
See my general tips for a detailed map. | | | Location of the Kamchatka peninsula |
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| Pros: | "Shear wilderness, beauty, big, volcanoes, geysers" | | Cons: | "Expensive, russian disorganization, mosquitoes" | | In A Nutshell: | "As far away as one can go..." |
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himalia11 Fri Oct 23, 2009 20:24 UTC
What a fascinating region! But also pretty dangerous, at it seems! I just saw a film about Kamchatka and was curious if I find some VT pages and was suprised that there really are several! | iandsmith Fri Sep 26, 2008 05:07 UTC
Wow, Kamchatka, I'm so impressed (and envious). It's in my top ten place-I'd-like-to-see-but-I'm-never-going-to-get-there. Thanks for sharing. (If you want to see the opposite end of the geological spectrum, check out my Karijini pages in "State of W.A.") | victorwkf Thu Jun 26, 2008 08:00 UTC
Kamchatka is a place which I always wanted to visit, but somehow did not happen. Thanks a lot for the great insight into this great place! | frenchlondon Wed Jan 23, 2008 14:41 UTC
Not a place i think i will ever visit as it sounds like a total nightmare to get to, but brillant pages about a very exciting and mysterious destination most of us will never visit and had never heard of. Thank you! |
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