Active tourism

Our land is rich with wonderfully beautiful places. You need to step aside just a little from cities and highways and you can find yourself forever captivated with decent and tender charm of Belarus. Heady air of pine and secular oak woods, cold springs hidden in shaggy fur-trees shadows and exuberant meadow grass on endless fields that are open for a warm sun, thousands of quick rivers and clear lakes. Intact nature of Belarus may as well be the Eights Wonder of the World.

You just need to find some time to get out of concrete jungles in order to renovate connection with the living world and feel a part of nature, to see the nature awake and sunset, hear the birds’ singing and a quiet splash of a lake wake, breathe the heady grass aroma and put your face into the fresh wind blasts. Active tourism is popular in Belarus because this kind of tourism is the easiest way to a good health. Only a few hours’ way and an easy outfit keep us not only from a living beauty but also from harmony and peacefulness acquisition.

Many interesting routs are suggested to those citizens and guests of Belarus who prefer active rest. One can go on a horse and biking tours across picturesque places of the country. It will be interesting to run wonderful belarusian rivers on canoes and floats for those who prefer active rest on water. And air extreme sports amateurs can go on a helicopter flight and feel all the joy of advanced aerobatics on board the plane or jump from a plane with a parachute.

The most popular and the most accessible tourism type is the pedestrian one. Complex and bulky outfit, which is used in other tourism types, is not required here. No wonder that a pedestrian figure with a rucksack pick-a-back has become a common tourism symbol throughout the world. Specially prepared tourist routes are organized at reservations and national parks of Belarus with the minimum human impact on nature. Special flooring is built for tourists to walk through in order not to disturb the integrity of bogs and woods.

Tourism in reservations may be limited by specially built paths and some zones of national parks are on the whole excluded from tourist routes, such zones can be shone to you only from a distance. The most popular pedestrian route in the national park “Narochanskiy” is the wildlife sanctuary “Blue lakes”. It is an acquaintance with one of the most interesting and the most peculiar parts of nature of the belarusian Poozerje. A sight from a scenic viewpoint onto two sapphire lakes – Glublya and Glubelka – will leave no one indifferent. A pedestrian excursion “A pearl of Belarus” introduces sightseers with the resort zone and sanatoriums which are located on shore of Naroch.

During a pedestrian excursion at the national park “Braslav lakes” you can get acquainted with the most interesting natural and historic objects, admire the wonderful picture of lake landscape from the “Mayak” mountain and taste the healthful water from forest springs.

An ecological path is organized in the Berezinskiy reservation, there you have an opportunity to get acquainted with different types of natural forests and bogs that are typical for the south taiga zone and with reserve inhabitants that can be found in demonstration cages. National park “Belovezhskaya puscha” has different pedestrian routes where one can get acquainted with natural forest reserve systems in their natural condition and see wild animals in cages. Trips across the territory on horses and by bikes are also very interesting, you can visit a museum of Nature and the residence of Ded Moroz.

Today water activities are one of the most popular types of tourism in Belarus. Canoes and floats trips comply with I-III international difficulty category, i.e. they are not difficult technically and will suit newcomers. While running rivers and lakes you will get pleased with the change of shore landscapes and will see a lot of main sights of the country. Water routes run from east to west and from north to south.

Especially beautiful is considered the nature of the national park “Narochanskiy”. Mirror-like surface of the biggest lake in the republic, Naroch, (80 sq.km.) tempts water trips amateurs. An interesting and fascinating canoe route begins from its shores down the Naroch and Viliya rivers.

The traditional region for water activities is Braslav lakes. The national park provides its visitors with miscellaneous tourist routes for one or several days. Water routes across Braslav lakes differ.