Activities in Volga Region
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Intourist Delta Volga
Offers a wide range of excursions into the Volga Delta, including bird-watching and fishing.
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Volga-Heritage Ltd
The Volga-Heritage Ltd sells cruises to various destinations along the Volga.
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U-Ra
U-Ra does excursions to Zhiguli that are heavy on all things mystic and esoteric, also city tours and trips to theme parks.
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Cezar
Apart from organising lodge stays in the delta, this company also does trips to the Baskunchak salt lake and Bogdo mountain, sacred to Buddhists.
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Naberezhnaya Kosmonavtov
River views and shady walks are the highlights of the Naberezhnaya Kosmonavtov along the Volga, surveyed by a resolute Yury Gagarin from the river's shore.
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Piligrim Tour
Piligrim Tour sells a three-day return cruise to Astrakhan (with two beach stops on the way back) for R4500. An eight-day, one-way journey to Moscow costs R11,800.
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Alliance Tour
Four-day bicycle tours of the Zhiguli Hills start at R4500. Also available are safaris in UAZ jeeps and caving expeditions in the Zhiguli hills. Pricing for foreigners is dual and arbitrary.
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Samara Intour
Most useful for joining trips, known as zhigulyovskaya krugosvetka, to the Samara Bend. Also organises bicycle and rafting trips, and can help to book a Volga beach resort in the Samara area.
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Volga-Flot Tour
The Volga-Flot Tour office inside the station building sells weekend day trips to the ancient Makaryev monastery (R800 to R900) at the village of Makaryevo, 60km to the east. Book in advance. Hydrofoils to Gorodets leave from their own pier.
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Team Gorky
Canoe and bicycle tours in Nizhny Novgorod region and beyond. Three-day adventure trips start at R5500. Dual pricing alert! Prices for some tours on its English-language site are much higher than those on the Russian one, but it swears that walk-in foreign travellers will not be discriminated against.
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Zhiguli Brewery
Head to the eastern side of the Zhiguli Brewery, built by Austrian aristocrat Alfred von Wakano in 1881, and fill your bottle with fresh local beer .
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