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Nov. 22, 2005

Entertainment


Getting around

Typical Siberian village – Chebula, visiting village houses including

Typical Altai village – Chagan-Uzun, where the dominant population are the Altai people

The biggest city in Siberia - Novosibirsk

Academic Town - the biggest scientific centre in the Asian part of Russia





Museums

Barnaul Museum of Natural History - the oldest museum in Siberia

Geological Museum at the Institute of Geology, Geophysics and Mineralogy, Novosibirsk

Museum at the Institute of Archeology and Ethnography, Novosibirsk
with its famous Altai mummies

Novosibirsk Art Gallery (Siberian icons, Russian paintings of XVIII - XIX century, the biggest collection (60 pictures) of the famous Russian artist Nikolai Roerich etc.)

Petroglyphs of the ancient Altai nomadic culture




Talks on

Russian people in Siberia

Altain peoples in Siberia

Officinal Herbs and Cult Recipes of the Altai Peoples (tasting included)

Traditional Russian Food
(tasting included)





Other

Open-air markets in Barnaul and Novosibirsk and some villages

Banya - Russian sauna with its special procedure and rituals

Swimming in clear lakes, small and big rivers along the whole route of the excursion

... and every night singing and talking around campfire


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