Biking tour along the White Sea Coast

Biking tour along the White Sea Coast itinerary:

Day 1. Start from Murmansk, or from Finnish territory or arrive in Kandalaksha by train. Kandalaksha is the most south city behind the Polar Circle. A guide will pick you up and drive by an off-road vehicle to the remote village named Umba on the White Sea shore. Free time to adjust bicycle or look arround or fish in Umba river. In the evening sauna, dinner and overnight in a country wooden house.

Day 2. After breakfast we start biking via asfalt road in direction of Varzuga. After 10 km on a forest road along the coast of the White Sea to an Pomor open air museum. Lunch in open air at museum. After we continue biking via plentiful nature of the White sea. In the evening we have a campfire dinner and overnight in tents close to the mouth of Olenitsa Spring on the sea shore. Biking distance: 10 km asphalt, 60 km of forest road.

Day 3. After breakfast we bike to Kashkarantsy - one of old Pomor villages. After we take a field road leading along the sea shore and being amazing beautiful. On the shore there is a Chapel of the "Unknown Monk" the story of whom comes from the XIII century. Lunch at the sea. Later we reach Amethyst rock on the Cape Ship; a long cape coming deeply to the sea. It consists of Amethyst rock and we can easily find there, as they say, Amethyst brushes; crystals of Amethyst growing on the rock. For overnight we stay in wooden houses in wilderness. Sauna. Campfire dinner. Biking distance: 60 km of forest road.

Day 4. After breakfast we continue our trip and bike on the bottom of the sea along the ebb-tide. Then we will take a shore road and came to the amazing beautiful area of sandy dunes and pine trees. Wilderness lunch in the pine dunes. After lunch we bike on a forest road leading to a gravel road ended in Varzuga village. Varzuga village is the earliest settlement on the Tersky Coast of the White Sea with a famous functioning Orthodox church, build in 1674 without any single iron nail. Sauna, dinner. Overnight in a country wooden house. Biking distance: about 35 km.

Day 5. After breakfast we will visit the oldest wooden church (1674) of the Kola Peninsula. Then we take a hike to watch the village walking among old wooden houses. We will be brought by boat to another side of Varzuga River and walking on wooden pavements between small cosy houses. We will make a hike to a very special place - Magic Springs in a dense forest. After lunch in the country house we follow the main red sand road biking to the wilderness camp on the sea shore. Sauna, campfire dinner. Overnight in the houses. Biking distance: about 20 km.

Day 6. Breakfast. The off-road vehicle brings us back to Kandalaksha city. From Kandalaksha you can go to Murmansk by bus, taxi or train, to Saint-Petersburg or Moscow by train, or to Finland by bus or using our transport services.

Biking tour along the White Sea Coast details

This biking tour along the White Sea Coast can be extended with the following optionals:

• ATB Bikes: EUR 15,-- per day
• Murmansk:
  • Guided excursions in Murmansk.
  • Tickets for museums and museum excursions cost between RUB 25,-- and RUB 400,-- per person.
  • Entrance ticket to Atomic Icebreaker to join an excursion in Russian language: RUR 150 pp. Individual excursion to Atomic Icebreaker with a lecture in English language can be arranged.
  • Trip to Saami settlement.
  • Trip to the Barents sea shore.
  • Trip to Husky Farm.
  • Trip to Lovozero village: price depends on group size
  • Rent a car from Kola Travel and get the best rate, quality and service!
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  • Trip to Lovozero village; Capital of the Saami.
  • See link above for more info.
• Train/plane/bus tickets in or outside Russian Federation.
• Transfers from/to KuusamoIvalo/Rovaniemi and Kirkenes airports.