Where swans spend winter?

Where swans spend winter?

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...
An incredible encounter

An incredible encounter

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...
How argali met Kaichitravel

How argali met Kaichitravel

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...
Stray swan has found new home in wildlife in Altai

Stray swan has found new home in wildlife in Altai

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...
Watching one of the biggest and rarest birds of prey

Watching one of the biggest and rarest birds of prey

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...