| Cost for one person:
75,00
€
 Vachkazhets located 80 km west of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky |
Volcano Vachkazhets
6 hours
The period of July 15 to September 30
Days for groups of any day of the week
Cost per person: 75 EUR,
Vachkazhets located 80 km west of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. Due to their surroundings battlements southwest circus, Vachkazhets resembles an extinct volcano, and the circus is like a badly damaged in the crater. In fact, Volcano is part of the ridge of South Bystrinskoye, and, moreover, very high — 1565 meters for many millennia, glaciers have reduced its height, had been gnawing slopes circuses and smaller penalties and gave him a wild and scenic views.
In ancient times Vachkazhets was one volcano, but the result of a strong eruption, he blew up that led to its division into three distinct parts: the mountain Letnia Poperechnaya (1417 m above sea level), mountain Vachkazhtsy (1500 m above sea level, and the volcano Vachkazhets (1556 m).
On the slopes of the array is clearly manifested high-altitude zone. Foot of the slopes is forest which gives way to higher thickets of alder and cedar, and they, in turn, give way to alpine tundra. Vertex array is nival zone.
Massif Vachkazhets is a geological monument of nature.
