Questions that may interest you

As practice shows, it is better not to delay making a reservation. We recommend booking at least 6 months in advance of the tour. If you book one month or less in advance, we can no longer guarantee that we will have time to organize the tour.

The price of the tour includes meeting at the airport, travel by boat (or by plane, depending on the weather) from Magadan to the Pyagina Peninsula and the Yamsky Islands, and trips to the sea. Cook services, three meals a day, accommodation on the base, guides for the duration of the tour. A tour of the city and surrounding area is also included in the tour.
The tour does NOT INCLUDE: food and hotel accommodation in Magadan, tickets, souvenirs.

For each trip to sea, we provide group members with life jackets. You must wear them no matter how well you can swim. We also provide lightweight camping sleeping bags and tents for the duration of the hike to the Pyaginskaya Ridge. We will also provide a hunter's kit to several group members for bear protection. We ask you to carefully read the list of required equipment.
In case you forgot something from the list, this equipment can be purchased in Magadan, at the Safari store, at Proletarskaya Street, 84a

Moderate. You have to be on the go. Sometimes you will need to climb 50-200 meters without haste to take photographs. Moderate physical activity can be done if you want to go hiking in one of the Pyaginsky mountains. 15 km in two days with an altitude gain of 900 meters.

You purchase tickets to Magadan yourself after discussing organizational issues and making an advance payment. It is important to follow the organizer's instructions and purchase tickets with arrival by a certain date. You can always arrive in town a little early to explore the area and have a few days left after your trip to pick out souvenirs and delicacies for friends and family.

There is also no need to delay purchasing tickets. Closer to the beginning of the so-called high season, tickets become significantly more expensive.

Also take into account time zone changes. Having departed from Moscow, for example, on July 1, thanks to the magic of changing time zones, you will find yourself in Magadan on July 2.

Prepayment guarantees your participation in the tour and is 30% of the total cost of the tour. The sooner you make an advance payment, the sooner we can guarantee the tour date. We must receive advance payment three months before the tour. It is best to make an advance payment 6 months before the start of the tour.

Cancellation 3 months or more in advance: 100% deposit refund or transfer to other dates.
Cancellation 2 months in advance: 50% refund or transfer.
Cancellation in a month or less. The deposit is non-refundable and we cannot reschedule to other dates. We give a 10% discount on other dates.

On average: 5-7 people. 12 people is the maximum number of participants that can comfortably accommodate at the base. It is possible to organize individual tours. We can accept one or two tourists per tour, but in this case the individual price will increase significantly.

One guide and organizer will go with you to Pyagina from Magadan. These people have been and hunted on the peninsula more than once and can easily navigate the terrain to show you all the most beautiful things in Kolyma nature. A cook, a huntsman and possibly another organizer will be waiting for you at the camp.

Due to the fact that tour participants may be from different parts of the country and even the planet, the organizational meeting will be held immediately before leaving Magadan. Before this, we will create a WhatsApp group where you can meet other tour participants and ask questions that interest you.

In such tours, the companies selected are quite calm, cheerful and ready to help each other. Moreover, in advance you will also be able to communicate a little with other participants and relieve stress from the first day of the tour.

A professional chef will be with you at the base. Please note that if you have allergies or are a vegetarian, this must be reported at the stage of booking the tour.

We purchase our own products, but if you want to bring your favorite treats with you, that would be great.

In Magadan, your nutrition depends on you. We will help you choose restaurants and organize at least one day of excursions and meals in different restaurants in the city.

Most of the time you will travel by boat or motorboat. If you wish, you can climb the Pyaginskaya ridge.

There is always communication at the base. When going to the mountains, guides take walkie-talkies and satellite phones with them. Also, before entering the peninsula, the full composition of the group is taken into account by the local border service.

The rangers and organizers are armed and will accompany you with weapons. There are also two hunting huskies at the camp with 7 years of experience in repelling bears.

To protect against bears, guides always have weapons and flare guns.
There are hunting huskies at the base.

Communication with the outside world is always present at the base. We will have a minimum of two satellite phones and access to WiFi at camp. However, the Internet speed is slow - you won't be able to scroll through Instagram.

For all phones, cameras and other gadgets, we have a 5 KW diesel power plant.

In addition to the general first aid kit that is available at the base, we strongly recommend taking an individual set of supplies that you personally need. The rare medicine you need may not be at hand. By the way, there are no ticks in the Magadan region, so the risk of a bite is zero.

In nature, the body adapts to a completely different mode of operation. People rarely catch a cold. The likelihood of seasickness is high for those who are susceptible. We advise you to take anti-motion sickness remedies.

The base has a toilet, bathhouse, sauna and hot shower every evening.

The tour program depends on weather conditions. We think through everything down to the smallest detail, but no one is immune from force majeure, so changes to the program are made by the organizer as necessary.

Surely you will want to buy souvenirs or traditional delicacies for gifts in Magadan for yourself and your loved ones. No one is safe from bad weather while you are in Magadan. We recommend having extra funds in your accounts just in case.

Of course, we will not take small children on a trip to the peninsula. It's quite risky. Teenagers must be over 16 years old; the manager must be notified about this when booking the tour.

Can. We can even help you with obtaining a visa. The tour organizers lived abroad and are fluent in English. and Spanish.

In the created WhatsApp group, some time after the end of the tour, participants and organizers share all photos and video materials taken during the trip. We recommend creating a folder with photos in cloud storage (Google Drive, Yandex.Disk, etc.) and sharing a link to it. We also reserve the right to publish or repost some of your photos or videos with the obligatory indication of the author.

We are not supporters of excessive drinking of alcohol while staying on the peninsula. But it is not forbidden to drink a little at dinner and we will have good Magadan-made alcoholic drinks with us. Remember that going out to sea occurs early in the morning, any delay in the group will increase travel time, and a mind clouded by alcohol dulls instincts.

Piygina Tours, a subsidiary of Kullu Safaris, has been conducting tours for over 28 years and has vast experience and an excellent reputation among both our compatriots and residents of other countries. However, if you have any wishes and feedback during or after your trip, we are always ready to listen to you, because you always need to develop and become better so that you feel comfortable traveling with us.

Our boat is North Silver Pro 920. Designed for 8 people, including the captain. If the group is up to 6 people, we go on one boat. If the group is 8-12 people, we order a second boat. There is another option for the development of events - sending the personal belongings of tourists or the tourists themselves using an AN-2 or Cessna (Other options are also possible if unavailable: by Eurocopter, Mi-2, Mi-8 or seaplane). Now we are building a field runway at Pyagina, and then airlift will be very likely.

From our side, as a tour operator, it is important to note: we organize delivery to Pyagin and Yamskie Islands and the program there. We will try to make this delivery as picturesque and convenient as possible, but we cannot guarantee whether it will be delivered by air, on our boat or on another boat, since it all depends on the equipment, weather, and what equipment is available at that time. There will definitely be no rusty ships or rubber boats.

From Magadan to our base on Pyagina it takes from 6 (under favorable conditions) to 9 (unfavorable) hours. If one engine breaks down, we will reach it in 14 hours. In any case, we will reach the base in one day. The departure can be very early in the morning at 3-4 o'clock.

There are three scenarios:
First, the weather is normal, but the sea is stormy. In this case, we can fly to Pyagin and wait for the boat to arrive under its own power. While we are waiting, access to the Pyaginskaya ridge and trips on motor boats to the capes around Kekurnaya Bay are possible.

Second, the weather is normal, the sea is stormy and the sky is closed (Pyagina is closed for aviation or there are no planes). In this case, we will organize a tourist program around Magadan and the surrounding area of the city (see Point 6). Let's go to the highway, presumably to the village of Karamken. There are several options for hikes, for example to the Karamken Crown (fields of Mars, a unique attraction). Boat trips to the Staritsky Peninsula are possible (a beautiful peninsula 20 km long, with large rocks).
The third option, the weather is bad everywhere, rain, fog, storm. Our only plan of action is excursions to the museum, Magadan restaurants and short trips outside the city. In this situation, we will exhaust the "tourist resource" of the city of Magadan quite quickly and tourists will have to stay in hotels most of the day until the weather clears.

There is always communication at the base. When going to the mountains, guides take walkie-talkies and satellite phones with them. Also, before entering the peninsula, the full composition of the group is taken into account by the local border service.