So many villages, so many customs

This ethnographical tour takes you through small Karelian villages with the spirit of old Olonets area. There is a legend about a foreigner who was travelling in a wagon through Olonets region. When falling asleep and waking up he would ask: “What is this wonderful view?” and the answer would be the same all the time: “Olonets”. In his road diary the traveller wrote: “Olonets is the greatest city in the world which I ever happened to pass.”  

Just like that traveller, the tour takes you through Megrega, the village of “straw hats”, Jyrgelitsa, the village of jewellers, Kuitezha, the village of hunters and fishermen and other unique villages.

A real pearl of the route is the village of Bolshaya Selga which managed to maintain its original look. Nowadays it is a unique monument of wooden architecture of the Karelians-Livviks with unique houses, banyas (steam houses), fences and wells.

And of course there is no escape from visiting a traditional Karelian house and taste the famous kalitka-pies!      

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