Murmansk Region

Aquatic tours

Aquatic tours

The greatest number of raft trips can be started from Lovozero. A lot of small streams and rivers flow into it.

Aquatic tours

You can travel upstream on the Afanasy River and, after a short portage, you will reach the source of the Ponoi, the biggest river on the Kola Peninsula.

Aquatic tours

You will see many interesting places along the way:

•the deer herders villages of Kanevka and Krasnoshchelye;

Aquatic tours

•Chalmny Varre, which has well-known petro glyphs;

Aquatic tours

•the abandoned Pomor village of Ponoi, where one of the ancient labyrinths is to be found.

Aquatic tours

If you go upstream along the Ponoi, you can get to the basins of the Varzuga and Strelna Rivers. Sailing on those rivers, you will see place where no tourist has ever set foot.

Aquatic tours

For those who likes white water of the northern rivers, we can suggest a trip through the endless Imandra lake system. Boats and ferries can often be seen there.

Aquatic tours

Sea voyages are possible only in the White Sea. All of the Barents Sea is within the border zone. On its shores are many Northern Fleet bases and other terribly secret stuff.

Aquatic tours

Kandalaksha Bay on the White Sea is picturesque, full of tiny islands and inlets and ideal for day trips in pleasure boats or in the traditional the Pomor vessels called the shnyaka and karbasa.

Put the following words in the box. •Imandra, White, Krasnoshchelye, Afanasy,

Ponoi, Barents, Varzuga, Strelna, Kanevka. Rivers Villages Lake Seas

Put the following words in the box.

Rivers Villages Lakes Seas

Ponoi Kanevka Imandra Barents

Varzuga Krasnoshchelye White

Strelna

Afanasy

Correct the sentences.1. Ponoi is the smallest

river in the Kola Peninsula.

2. Chalmny Varre has not petro glyphs.

3. There are ancient labyrinths near the Pomor city.

4. Sea voyages are possible only the Barents Sea.

5. The traditional Pomor houses called the shnyaka and karbasa.

• Ponoi is the biggest river in the Kola Peninsula.

• Chalmny Varre has petro glyphs.

• There are ancient labyrinths near the Pomor village.

• Sea voyages are possible only the White Sea.

• The traditional Pomor vessels called the shnyaka and karbasa.

Petro glyphs. Find 11 letters. 1. o 2. s 3. Y 4. I 5. c 6. x 7. z 8. q 9. b 10. p 11. d

Labyrinths Find 6 words.

touraftriponoislandstream

Labyrinths Tou

r Raft

Trip

Ponoi

Islands

Stream