Tour to Yakutia for the Ysyakh holiday (6 days)

🌄 Day 1 (June 26, 2026). Getting to know Yakutsk

09:00 Meeting with a guide at the airport, departure for the tour. Time difference with Moscow is 6 hours.
Check-in to the hotel from 14:00. If guests arrive on a morning flight, check-in can be done after the excursion program. Luggage can be left at the luggage storage.
10:00-11:00 Conducting the ancient national blessing ceremony “Algys”.
The “Us-Kut” tourist complex, located in the outskirts of Yakutsk, is famous for its good traditions and is built on the hospitality and hard work of the Atlasov family, who put their love for their native land into it. Tourists can get an idea of the ancient culture of the Sakha people: hear the khomus and toyuk, see national rituals — offerings to spirits, purification, greeting the sun. On the territory of the center there are buildings typical of Yakut life.
11:30-12:15 Tour of the underground complex “Kingdom of Permafrost”
The “Kingdom of Permafrost” tourist complex is a complex in a glacier located inside a mountain, with the residence of Yakut Winter, Chyskhaan – Lord of Cold, the room of the Master of the North, Exhibition Halls of the Ice Sculpture Festival, a large paleontological exhibition of mammoth fauna objects, an ice slide, and an Ice Bar.
12:30 – 13:30 Ascent to the observation deck of the sacred mountain “Chochur Muran”, walk on the mountain.
The mountain offers a beautiful view of the Tuymaada Valley, where the city of Yakutsk — the capital of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) — is located. Chochur Muran — the name translates from Yakut as “pointed hill”. The hill is revered as a sacred mountain. According to legends, the first ancestor of the Yakuts on the middle reaches of the Lena River, Elley Botur, first organized Ysyakh (the national summer festival) here.
13:30 – 15:30 Lunch at the Chochur Muran complex restaurant – not included in the price. A short tour of the complex.
Located in a very beautiful place under the Chochur Myraan hill, made as an exact replica of the Yakut Cossack ostrog (fortress). The tourist complex “Expedition 16.32” is named after the founding of Yakutsk. The complex is decorated with authentic, original items and objects from those times from private collections, which are rarely seen even in museums.
16:00-17:00 Tour at the International Khomus Museum (may be replaced with another museum)
The museum features collections by Frederick Crane, an American jaw harp researcher, professor, Gotovtsev Innokenty Nikitich, a national master of the Sakha Republic (Yakutia), and master makers from Yakutia. To date, the museum collection holds 1,613 khomuses (jaw harps, tromps, maul trommels, djus harp, bamboro, etc.) from 52 countries. Overall, the khomus is found among more than 200 nationalities worldwide.
17:00-17:30 Transfer to the hotel.

🌄 Day 2 (June 27, 2026). Ysyakh – Festival of the Sun

08:00 Breakfast at the hotel.

09:00 Transfer along the route “Yakutsk – Us-Khatyn area” (20 km.)
— Visit to the National Festival “Ysyakh”, participation in the celebration.
     Ysyakh is the main national festival of Yakutia, where all the cultural images of the Sakha people are interwoven: rituals and ceremonies, sports competitions and horse races, crafts and traditional Yakut cuisine, large concert and entertainment programs. The festival vividly showcases the entire national color and folklore of the Yakut people, and on this sacred day the line between the world of deities and the world of people disappears!
— Lunch in the food court area (dishes of Yakut national cuisine) — not included in the price.
14:00-17:00 Free time at the festival venue, you can participate in various events:
— Osukhay, the traditional circular dance of the Sakha people;
— games of the ancestors, competitions of the strongest and most agile;
— festival of performers of folklore genres;
— fair of folk crafts, fair of horse attire;
— competition of Yakut national cuisine;
— fair of Yakut traditional artistic crafts and fine arts;
— concerts of national-cultural associations.
17:00 Gathering, transfer to the hotel
19:00 Approximate arrival time at the hotel

🌄 Day 3 (June 28, 2026). Buluus Glacier, Kuruluur and Turuk Khaya

“Buluus” is a unique source of groundwater forming ice fields of clean fresh water that do not melt even on the hottest days. In some years, the ice thickness in July reaches up to 3 meters. The place is quite popular among tourists. The ice kingdom seems like complete fantasy on a hot summer day among green grass and tall coniferous trees. And in winter, even in severe frosts, water outlets appear on the surface of the blue ice, which spreads over the ice surface and freezes. All these permafrost phenomena cause amazement and enjoyment of beauty.

8:00-10:00 Breakfast at the hotel
10:30 Meeting with the guide in the hotel lobby. Departure to the ferry crossing across the Lena River “Darkylaakh” (Yakutsk – Nizhny Bestyakh village) or depending on the day and ferry congestion, the crossing will be done through the village of Mokhsogollokh.
— Then we drive towards the Buluus glacier (95 km from Nizhny Bestyakh)
— Lunch at a cafe or dry ration (can be bought along the way at a store) — not included in the price.
— Departure to “Kuruluur” – this is a small but deep cascade of waterfalls with rapids and rocky banks, located on the Mende River.
— Visit to the sacred mountain “Turuk Khaya” (means steep cliff) – this is one of the holy places of Khangalassky Ulus. A monument created by nature itself (Lena Pillars in miniature). 80m high, over 100m long.
18:00 Departure to Yakutsk.
21:00 Approximate arrival time in Yakutsk. Transfer to the hotel

🌄 Day 4 (June 29, 2026). Lena Pillars

Lena Pillars are a unique natural monument and geological history of the Siberian Platform. They amaze the imagination of a person who finds themselves for the first time on the great Siberian River Lena, which cut its valley into the Prilenskoye Plateau of Central Siberia. They stretch with short breaks for 35 km. However, for another 200 km, solitary cliffs are located isolated against the background of screes or green slopes overgrown with forest. The height of the Lena Pillars is determined by the depth of the Lena River valley incision into the Prilenskoye Plateau and is about 200 m.
Some stops along the way:
— “Kullaty” area (Ancestral estate of the progenitor of the Khangalas Yakuts, Tyghyn Darkhan)
— Tourist cluster Orto-Doydu

8:00 Breakfast at the hotel.
10:00-14:00 Departure to the Lena Pillars Nature Park along the route: Yakutsk – “Tiit Aryy” village by car (175 km) and 30 km on the river by motor boats to the Lena Pillars.
— Lunch at a cafe or dry ration (can be bought along the way at a store)
— Arrival at the Lena Pillars. Self-guided walking along ecological trails (2 km) and climbing to the very top of one of the stone formations, from where stunning panoramic views of the taiga and the great Siberian River Lena open.
— Lunch at a cafe or dry ration (can be bought along the way at a store) — not included in the price.
18:00-23:00 Departure along the route “Labydia area – Tit-Ary village – Yakutsk” (195 km)
23:00 Approximate arrival time in Yakutsk. Transfer to the hotel.

🌄 Day 5 (June 30, 2026). Free day.

Free day in Yakutsk.
Optional — additional excursion program (14:00-18:00): Tour of jewelry and souvenir shops, local product markets, tour of the “Old Town” quarter, visit to the exhibition “Treasure House of Yakutia”, which presents the world of Yakutian minerals and examples of jewelry from local materials, the brilliant wealth of the Yakut land. Visit to the “Mammoth Museum” or the underground laboratory of the Permafrost Institute.

🌄 Day 6 (July 1, 2026). Way home.

— Transfer to the airport.