Kungur city - Kungur ice cave - Red Yasyl

Route: Yekaterinburg - Kungur city - Kungur ice cave - Red Yasyl - Yekaterinburg
Duration: 16 h
This excursion gives you the opportunity to admire the nature of the Urals in all it’s splendor and acquaints you with the history of settlements in the region - fascinating stories about the Great Siberian road (also called the Moscow road) and the populated areas nearby. On the way to Kungur it is possible to stop near the obelisk “Border of Europe-Asia”. Our tour will start early morning  and after 3.5 h we will arrival to one of the oldest towns of the Urals - Kungur - will be presented to you. In Kungur you will take a tour around the town  whereyou will visit some old churches and temples – architectural masterpieces all displaying the magnificent skills of craftsmen from a bygone era. After we will walk to the ice cave, which will reveal to you its 20 marvellous grottos: the Diamond and the Polar grottos with their glaring snow crystals; the Meteor grotto, reposing in pitch-darkness; the Ethereal grotto with its all-the-year-round dripping and “organ-pipes” - well-like holes which water drops formed in the rock mass. You will see magnificent underground lakes, amazing stalactites and stalagmites and so much more. Archeological finds show that this ice cave possibly served as sanctum during the winter for troops of Ermak, who had been moving eastward for the subjugation of Siberia.  Our next stop will be at small village  Red Yasyl. There you will have an opportunity to visit a unique stone carving workshop where items are manufactured from selenite (stringy gypsum), anhydrite and talc-chlorite from Kungur and the village Krasnyy Yasyl and visit the Stone carving Museum. Here the entire history of the development of selenite, anhydrite and talc-chlorite carving is presented. After we will back to Yekaterinburg.
Price: per person