Gains Of The Alta Mountains

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Wonderful, magical, crystal... As long as the high epitets don't reward Altai for his self-evident natural beauty! High mountains, mysterious platoons, full-water northern rivers, crystal lakes, painting forests are all Altai. What can be more attractive for active tourism fans than the virgin-degree, unimaginable human nature?

Do you know that:

In the territory of the Altai province, when the two rivers are merged, Katuni and Bia, the great Oba is the longest river in Russia. Its basin occupies around 70 per cent of the territory of the Altai region;
In the Solones region of the Altai region, the oldest man in Russia has ever been found in the oldest paleolithic era. Its age is 1 million,700,000 years;
Althai ' s hydrological wealth has more than 17,000 rivers and 13,000 lakes;
3 rivers of the Altai region have more than 500 km and 32 more than 100 km;
Some lakes in Alta do not freeze even in the most severe freezes (e.g. the Large Yarovoy);
The water temperature in Lake Kulundin in late July can reach almost 30 degrees Celsius;
More than 1,650 plant species are growing in the Altai region, with only 149 edible;
At the beginning of the nineteenth century, the country occupied the first place in the Russian empire of silver production, the 2nd copper and the 3rd gold;
The mountains occupy a large area of the Altai region, with many mountains up to 3 to 4,000 metres high. The highest point of Alta, the double-headed mountain of the Bellow, has a height of 4,506 m;
There are 1,402 glaciers in Alta, with a total surface area of almost 1,000 square kilometres;
The Federal Belokurich resort, located 65 kilometres from Biyaska, at a height of 240-250 m above sea level, in the valley of the single river, is widely known for its treatment minerals and the unique climate. The local air is twice as high as the famous Swiss Davos.

Impressive? Then we're going ahead with our active tours to Altai and we're going to a meeting with the beautiful.