Kamchatka highlights

Highlights of Kamchatka:

Valley of Geysers
Uzon Caldera
Kronotsky State Biosphere Reservation
Gorely Volcano
Mutnovsky Volcano
Volcanoes: Avacha, Tolbachick, Ksudatsch
Avacha Bay
Thermal hot springs

In Detail:

The magnificent Valley of Geysers located in the Kronotsky State Biosphere Reservation
Uzon Caldera. The caldera (term specifying a ringlike hollow) developed 40,000 years ago on the site of a huge volcano, which was destroyed by a set of bursting eruptions. Today the Uzon Caldera is about 10 km in diameter and it contains a complete "museum" collection of everything that Kamchatka is famous for: hot springs and cold rivers, poisonous mud cauldrons and pure lakes full of fish, a berry tundra and a birch forest, mountains and bogs, animals and birds. The Uzon Caldera is also a part of the Kronotsky State Biosphere Reservation.
Kronotsky State Biosphere Reservation, which is one of the oldest nature reservations in Russia (created in 1882 as a preserve for hunting sable). In the 1980’s, the Kronotsky Reservation acquired the status of a Biosphere Reservation and was included in the international network of the world's biosphere reservations. In 1996 it was included in the UNESCO World Heritage List. The flora and fauna of the Reservation area (11,421 km) is unique: 763 species of vascular plants, and 232 bird species, many of which are endemic. The Kronotsky Reservation houses the world's largest population of the Steller's Sea Eagle and Aleutian sea swallow.
Gorely Volcano, which is a chain of 11th craters in a row, with lakes, fumaroles and slag cones with lava torrents. This massive volcano is 1830m high.
Mutnovsky Volcano, which is a compound volcanic complex about 45,000 years old (summit of 2,323 m). It has numerous and various fumarolic fields where one can see a variety of forms of modern gas hydrothermal activity with magnificent structures of volcanic sulfur. River Vulkannaya, which flows down from the crater of this volcano, forms a 80 meter high waterfall and a deep canyon. All these specific features make Mutnovski volcano unique and allow it to be compared with the most outstanding thermal fields of the world. Mutnovsky is the one of the most active volcanoes of Kamchatka.
Other volcanoes - Avacha (2.751m), Tolbachick (3.682m), Ksudatsch (1000m).
Avacha Bay - one of the most beautiful harbors in the world. Its indisputable highlights are the fabulous sheer rocks at the entrance of the bay, called the "Three Brothers".
Various thermal hot springs suitable for bathing and swimming

Other Info:

In 1996, five territories on Kamchatka were included by UNESCO in the World Heritage List, incorporated under the general name “Volcanoes of Kamchatka”.