More than 4 thousand people visited the protected routes of Kunashir this year

The press service of the Kurilsky Nature Reserve reported that by the end of September, more than 4.2 thousand people had visited the protected routes on Kunashir. This is more than the total number of tourists for the whole of last year.

The most visited route is the route "Golovnin Volcano Caldera". Almost all tourists and guests of the island who come to Kunashir for the first time want to visit the caldera and Cape Columnar, which are located in the southern, relatively accessible part of the island.

Another popular destination is the Mendeleev Volcano. More prepared and more hardy travelers visit the protected "Tyatya Volcano" in the northern part of Kunashir.

In the reserve, work has begun on the arrangement of a new route – the Sandy Lake. So far, this direction is not well known, and getting there is a little more difficult than on other routes of the southern part of the island.

This year, the geography of Russian tourists continues to increase. People travel to Kunashir from Moscow and the Moscow region, St. Petersburg and Murmansk, Yamal and Arkhangelsk, Tula, Volgograd, Astrakhan, Sochi, Krasnodar, Kazan, Yekaterinburg, Ulan-Ude, Khabarovsk and other cities.

In addition, the number of organized groups is increasing. More and more tour operators and tour clubs are starting to cooperate with the reserve.

Employees of the reserve remind that on tourist routes it is necessary to observe a number of rules in order not to harm nature: do not arrange bonfires and parking in unsuitable places, do not leave garbage, do not use low thickets of shrubs as a litter for a tent.

In addition, the reserve reminded that it is not necessary to use old and incorrect maps downloaded from the Internet when traveling around the island. They indicate trails and roads of the beginning and middle of the last century. Currently, most of them simply do not exist.