Types of tourism

1. Water tourism
Rivers
There is no better way to get to know nature of the Okrug than to travel along water arteries of the Chukotka inner territory, which is very rich in rivers. Doing down the rivers on canoes or rubber boats is possible only during high water season (July-August) - during the rest of the year the rivers are either frozen or shallow and therefore impassable.
The most popular routes are:

1. along the Amguema River, from source to 168th km of the Egvekinot-Yioultin Road (310 km);
2. along the Chantalveergyn River (150 km);
3. along the Pegtymel River (there you can see rocks with petroglyphs);
4. along the Ekittyki River and lake (94 km);
5. along the Anadyr River, from Markovo Village to the river mouth (300 km).

Length of the routes and direction may be varied at tourists’ request. You can rent motor boats in Anadyr and in the settlements of Markovo, Ust-Belaya (the Anadyr River), Amguema (the Amguema River) and Egvekinot (the Cross Bay).

Sea
Coasts of the Chukchi Sea and Providence Bay every year see cruise ships with American, Canadian and Russian tourists. Such tours are arranged by both American and British tourist companies (“Circumpolar Expeditions”, “Supernova Expedition LTD”), and Kamchatka travel agencies (“Pacific Network”).
These tours ordinarily include visiting unique natural, historical and cultural sights of the region: the Whale Alley on Yttygran Island, Lorinski hot springs, ethnographic museums on Nunyamo and Dezhnev Capes, numerous folk villages.
Sea cruises along the Anadyr and Bering Districts shores gain more and more popularity. Tourists coming to the district center Anadyr in summer can go on a motor boat excursion into the Onemen Bay, to the Kanchalan and Anadyr estuaries and to the mouths of the Anadyr and Velikaya Rivers.

2. Hunting and fishing
Hunting
The Okrug is rich in game-preserves inhabited with many hunting species, among which are:

1. elk,
2. wild reindeer,
3. brown bear,
4. sable,
5. lynx,
6. wolf,
7. glutton,
8. ermine,
9. fox,
10. polar fox,
11. mink,
12. otter,
13. squirrel,
14. lepus,
15. musk-rat,
16. wild goose,
17. wood grouse,
18. willow and tundra grouse,
19. 10 species of duck.

It is prohibited to hunt for polar bear, snow ram, weasel, black-capper marmot, swan, white goose, emperor goose, brent-goose, eider-ducks of all species, mallard, killer whale, shoveler, harlequin duck, teal, sand hill crane, seagulls of all species, cormorant, day birds of prey, owl, woodpecker, cuckoo, song-birds and other birds of use.

Fishing
About 40 species of fish inhabit fresh-water basins of the Chukotka Peninsular, half of these fishes are suitable for commercial fishery. These are first of all salmon fishes: Siberian salmon, red salmon, humpback salmon, silver salmon and quinnat salmon. Siberian salmon from the Anadyr estuary rivers and red salmon from the Mainypylgin Lake and river system are main fishes of salmon fishery.
The Chukotka Okrug has got large fresh-water fish resources, especially it is rich in whitefishes: broad whitefish, vendace, round whitefish, peled (in the Kolyma River basin). Apart from whitefish, marketable are grayling, rainbow herring, pike, burbot, bull-trout and loach.
Every year in April on the ice of the Anadyr estuary ice-fishing competition takes place, it is called the “Korfest” - “Smelt Festival” (last Sunday in April)

3. Scientific tourism
The Chukotka Peninsular is often visited by scientists, both Russian and foreign, working in different spheres of science. The Okrug is a popular place for research expeditions and conferences devoted to issues of constant and stable development of the territory.
Reindeer-breeders’ camps in the Schmidt and Yioultin Districts where traditional way of life is preserved and coastal settlements of sea-hunters always attract ethnographers and linguists studying people of the Extreme North.
Most of more than 500 archeological sights of the Okrug are still very little studied.
Ornithologists often come to Chukotka, as more than 220 bird species live here. Routine research work is performed by ichthyologist and other researchers of biological resources of the sea.

4. Extreme tourism
The Chukotka Peninsular is mainly a mountainous area with low and medium mountain relief. So in summer it suits for hitchhiking and bicycle mountaineering of different degrees of complexity. In winter on its bold peak slopes Alpine-skiing and snowboarding tracks can be routed.
Severe climate conditions, landscape variety and detachment from civilization are perfect requisites for such kinds of tourism, as:

1. rafting, kayaking and suchlike activities
2. Jeep-tours
3. tundra-roaming with reindeer-breeders
4. participation in a sea hunt
5. traditional forms of nomadic roaming – in dogs and deer ledges
6. walking tours
7. bicycle tours

Devoted extreme travelers consider Chukotka to be one of the most difficult and interesting regions on the planet.