Veps forest

• Veps Forest

Photo-report of the picturesque region deep forests, winding rivers, beautiful lakes, swamps and ancient abandoned villages, located in the Leningrad region ...

In the four districts of the Leningrad region, on the border with the region of Vologda, and very close to the "wooden rings Podporozhie" is the edge of the picturesque deep forests, winding rivers, beautiful lakes, swamps and ancient abandoned villages. From St. Petersburg just some 300 kilometers.

In 1970, the natural park "Vepsian forest" has been organized in these territories. There are seven reserves. Three of them were selected as the most typical of the North-West, four - as absolutely unique.

The park is famous as a place that is not touched by a human hand, but a large amount of timber that occur on the way there, tends to suggest that it is not for long.

In the park there are almost no roads (access roads and those ground), there are no cities.

But preserved old houses with carved architraves, still sounds ancient legends and Veps.

This enigmatic and mysterious edge is called the "Land of Vepssov" or "Vepsskaya Switzerland".

Vepssy - malochislenny Finno-Ugric peoples have traditionally lived on the territory of Karelia, Vologda and Leningrad regions.

This created local museums and cultural centers Veps designed not only to preserve the culture of a small nation, but also to revive traditional arts and crafts. Annually Vepsian folklore festival Festival in June.

have been in place in the near magnificent river Oyat and "metropolis of these places" - the village of Vinnitsa.

to get so far failed in the wilds of the deep forests - it even a few days will not be enough, so all the frames of the reporting I've done in the northern part of the park.

If you believe the words of local ethnographers, the park can be found flying snake and a snowman. They say there have been repeatedly observed and UFOs.

During my several trips, and I've never been lucky enough to see neither the first nor the second, nor the plates. Perhaps this is due to the fact that the area of the park is quite extensive, and I was able to visit until only a small part of it. But found in the woods a cow - it easily :)

The nature here is really impressive for its beauty, virgin and unusual for the Leningrad region height difference (250 meters).

This is a place created for mushroom pickers, lovers of hunting and fishing, and for people who love nature. Popular here rural, ski and water tourism.

To get to the park will not be difficult, in good condition primer, but very tortuous and treacherous, and in the park the road in some places so "good" that will not pass, and prepared the SUV, so every year in these places are organized one of the most difficult dzhiperskih competition - Trophy -reyd "Vepsian forest".

trekking route through the natural park built on the principle of ecological paths. In the "Vepsian forest" of seven.

You can choose a route to the once thriving, but now half empty and deserted villages and admire the wooden architecture, you can walk to the sacred stone Vepssov, you can look at the waterfalls from springs or just take a walk and to feed the mosquitoes in the forest ...