Where in Russia can you admire bears and beauties at the same time?

The place in Russia that has both bears and beauties is Kamchatka!

For many of us, Kamchatka is not well-known, and most people have never even heard of this place. This is no wonder, because Kamchatka itself is a very remote and cold frontier place.

Kamchatka covers an area of ??more than 370,000 square kilometers and is the second largest peninsula in Russia. It has an extremely long coastline and numerous volcanoes. Its main economic income comes from seafood fishing. This area was previously sealed off as a military restricted area for 74 years. It was not until 1989 that Russian residents were allowed to move in after the blockade was lifted. In 1991, it was officially opened to the outside world and foreign tourists were allowed to visit. Kamchatka is most famous for its brown bears. There is a saying that there are more bears than people in Kamchatka. Of course, at least we are not talking about now, because Kamchatka now has a permanent population of 320,000.

Nevertheless, the side also reflects the large number of brown bears in Kamchatka. There are currently more than 20,000 brown bears living on this peninsula. It is said that some trails in the wild are even made by bears instead of people. The credibility of this statement is very high. Due to the considerable number of bears in Kamchatka, the local Wildlife Management Bureau issues 500 brown bear hunting licenses every year. Each license requires a fee of US$10,000, so tourists with good luck and connections can experience the excitement of bear hunting. Bear meat is considered a traditional delicacy in Kamchatka, so when traveling to Kamchatka, you can admire Russian beauties and drink alcoholic vodka with bear meat on the side, which you cannot enjoy elsewhere.

Of course, for most tourists, going to Kamchatka is not to eat bear meat, but just to watch bears prey on salmon. More than 2 million migratory salmon arrive in Lake Sakhalin every year. August is the time when there are the most salmon. There are often hundreds of bears hunting salmon in the water, which is quite a spectacular scene. Of course, you need to take safety precautions when coming into close contact with such beasts as wild brown bears, because they don’t just eat salmon. In the past, a Japanese photographer met with misfortune while photographing bears. The cemetery is on the edge of Lake Sakhalin, and now it has become part of the scenery.

When traveling in Kamchatka, you will never experience the prosperity of big cities, but only the original wild beauty. This is what people living in the concrete forest now yearn for.