by kaichitravel | Dec 5, 2023 | Fauna, Nature
Where swans spend winter? Lake Svetloe in Altai has become incredibly popular in recent years – after all, more than 1200 whooper swans winter there. People already started to call it the Swan lake. On the Internet, information roams from site to site that in...
by kaichitravel | Jun 18, 2018 | Fauna, Our trips
An incredible encounter An absolutely incredible event took place in our June trip! We met a wild bear, and not a common brown bear but almost a ghost – the Sailugem bear. For no moment we thought it this trip would be different than other trips we do in the park. We...
by kaichitravel | Jan 6, 2018 | Fauna
How argali met Kaichitravel During every trip we make to the Altai mountains, we meet a lot of animals, one species is the argali – a wild mountain sheep with huge horns, sometimes we see them from very close, sometimes from a distance. Of course we always try to get...
by kaichitravel | Dec 27, 2017 | Fauna
Stray swan has found new home in wildlife in Altai Swans are not common birds for the south of Altai, nevertheless this year one bird strayed and left for winter on a lake near Kosh-Agach. Kosh-Agach is one of the coldest places in Altai, and the lake started actively...
by kaichitravel | Dec 2, 2017 | Fauna
Which birds of prey can you meet in Altai? Part 1. Eagles Altai is home to significant populations of birds of prey. Many of them are in the Red List of Russia or endangered globally. White-tailed Eagle, Golden Eagle, Imperial Eagle, Greater Spotted Eagle, Steppe...
by kaichitravel | Sep 17, 2017 | Fauna
Watching one of the biggest and rarest birds of prey This year in our trip “Explore Altai” we were lucky to meet one of the largest and one of the rarest raptors in Europe – the bearded vulture. And we not just saw it flying in the sky but even were camping close to...