Arrive in Vladivostok, met and transferred to your accommodation. Vladivostok is the staging city for expeditions into the Russian Far East's tiger taiga.
A harbour-city day in transit to tiger country.
Transfer to Sikhote-Alin National Park. Tracker-led searches for Amur tiger sign in the snow. Taiga wildlife and tiger tracking in the winter forest.
Taiga wildlife and tiger tracking in the winter forest. A full day in the Amur tiger wilderness. Fewer than 600 Amur tigers remain on earth, almost all in the Sikhote-Alin taiga — the rarest of tiger encounters.
A full day in the Amur tiger wilderness. Following tigers and taiga wildlife through the snow.
Following tigers and taiga wildlife through the snow.
Tracker-led searches for Amur tiger sign in the snow.
Transfer to Kamchatka Peninsula. Brown bears on the salmon rivers and a volcano landscape. Helicopter to the geyser valley and bear country.
Helicopter to the geyser valley and bear country. A full day of Kamchatka's volcanoes and wildlife. Kamchatka's salmon rivers, fed by 150 volcanoes, support some of the densest brown-bear populations on earth.
A full day of Kamchatka's volcanoes and wildlife. Bears, eagles and the fire mountains.
Bears, eagles and the fire mountains.
Brown bears on the salmon rivers and a volcano landscape.
Helicopter to the geyser valley and bear country.
Transfer to Commander Islands. Zodiac landings at fur seal and sea lion rookeries. Sea otters, seabird cliffs and whales by vessel.
Sea otters, seabird cliffs and whales by vessel. A full day of Bering Sea wildlife. The Commander Islands, where Bering was wrecked, are a remote wildlife frontier of seabird cities and marine mammals.
A full day of Bering Sea wildlife. Puffins, sea otters and marine mammals in the fog.
Puffins, sea otters and marine mammals in the fog.
Transfer to Lake Baikal. The frozen lake, turquoise ice and Baikal seals. Taiga shore and lake scenery at Listvyanka.
Taiga shore and lake scenery at Listvyanka. A full day on the world's deepest lake. Baikal, the oldest and deepest lake on earth, holds a fifth of the world's fresh water and its own endemic seal.
A full day on the world's deepest lake. Winter ice and the endemic seals.
A final morning in Lake Baikal — a last outing or a slow start as time allows — before the transfer onward and the journey home.
The cold staging season for Amur-tiger expeditions.
A year-round gateway city.
Vladivostok's leading luxury hotel, with harbour views.
A refined lakeshore hotel at Listvyanka, the finest stay on Baikal.
A comfortable modern hotel with a spa, central in the port city.
The most comfortable hotel in Petropavlovsk, the Kamchatka base.
A reliable harbour-side hotel, well placed for the city.
A field camp and research station deep in the Sikhote-Alin taiga, base for tiger tracking.
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