Altayturcenter has prepared a selection of the most "tourist" apiaries in the Altai Territory. For guests hereconduct excursions,pour tea with fragrant honey and laysleep on the hive... Going to Altai,be sure to visit the apiaries. According to experts,Altai honey has no equalin terms of the content of highly valuable natural ingredients, it is the most complex in composition and has a number of unique properties.

Turquoise Katun:Apiary of Glory Mead

To Vyacheslav Kolesnikov, the owner of the apiary atthe largest tourist complex in the Altai region, every now and then drop infilm crews of all-Russian TV channels... His bees are of a special breed - they don't bite! And the prey is collected from three hundred flowering plants in the surrounding foothills with an impeccable ecological reputation. The apiary owners use this expanse to createblends for herbal teas- there are 24 types of them in the local shop. Walking through the territory where there are hives of almost 400 bee colonies, tourists cantake a nap in apidomyto the buzzing of the inhabitants of the apiary. And then have some tea, tastingnine varieties of honeyand the master's mead. You can make stocks of "liquid gold" and other useful goods with bee products at Slava Meadovukha all year round through your accountsmedom.v.uhoin social networks.

Altai district: apiary of the Sokol estate

The tourist complex in the Ust-Uba tract received the National Russian Event Awards three years ago asthe best venue for tourist events... One of the advantages of this place is its own apiary. This summer she became a shooting range.travel series "Five on Vacation"... The apiary is separated from the guest houses by a green alley: a stone's throw and safe. For the entire existence of the apiarynot a single guest was bitten, emphasize in the estate. Honey is served here in cafes and canteens, and even in the bathhouse it is always available. It keeps its tastearomas of wild honey plantsgrowing at the foot of the Cherginsky ridge. At the backyard apiary, you can spy on the bustle of tireless workers inside the hive,sleep on the bees, listen to the stories of an experienced beekeeper and taste herbal teas with honey. Bee health frommountain herbsThe Sokol estate delivers all over the country. Orders are accepted on social networksusadba_sokoland on the website tk-sokol.su.

Krasnoshchekovsky district:Medvedev Med

The Medvedev family apiary is set up opposite the damat the bend of the Maralikha river... Here you can stay in summer houses for tourists, have some tea in the gazebo for tastings, take a steam bath, swim in the river and sunbathe on the sandy beach. At the apiary itself, they are ready to introduce those who wish to the work of the beekeeper and put them to sleep in the hives.Multicolored honeys, among which there is even a green (!) Medvedev bees are hunted not only in the vicinity of the village of Ust-Kozlukha. The apiary has branches, including in the Charysh floodplainnear the Chinetinsky reservewhere nature has been preserved in its original state. From the Medvedev's apiary, you can go on horseback riding, rafting on the Ina and Charysh, on a hike through the territory of the reserve orTigirek reserve, visitexcursions in caves, order hunting or fishing trips. How can you profit from the Medvedev's apiary, if there is no time to go to visit, the site will tellmedvedevmed.ruand pages of medvedtur in social networks.

Belokurikha: Medovaya manor

At the "resort"apiary Evgeny Yeltsovtourists can stay all year round. From May to August - to strengthen the immune system, entering into resonance with bee microvibrations during a two-hour “sleep on the hives”. The guests of the manor guest house willmassage, steam in the bath, will warm in the sauna, bathe in the pool. Honey tastings from our own apiary are accompanied by the beekeeper's stories about the nature of bees and the valuable properties of everything they produce.Apiary toursThe Yeltsovs were remembered by the participants of the youth management forum "ATR-2014" and many other guests of the Altai Territory.

Rest in the estate "Medovaya" is not limited to beautiful panoramas of the surroundings and evenings by the barbecue. Guests can organize hiking andhorse rides(even accompanied by a professional photographer), ATV trips, snowmobile trips in winter, excursionson the "places of power" of Belokurikhaand Mountain Altai. So that guests can receive the energy of Altai gifts at any distance, it is open for themonline store of bee productsand other natural Altai productsbelokuriha-med.ru... And in honor of the Honey Savior-2020, Evgeny Yeltsov makes20% discount on all honey until August 16.

Smolensk District: Friendly Beehive

BeekeeperAlexander Potapovset up an apiary in the middle of the fields two and a half kilometers from Belokurikha 15 years ago, after a thorough study of honey plants. He explained to the organizers of the Golden Ring of Siberia tour:variety of meadows and grasses, as in Altai, you will not find even in the Alps. At specialized exhibitions in Novosibirsk, among hundreds of honeys from all over the country, the products of the "Friendly Hive" were recognizedbest five years in a row... Since 2014, the Potapovs began to receive tourists at their family apiary. For a two-hour excursion, guests get acquainted with the life of bees and the beekeeper's craft, drinktea with fragrant honeyfeasting on pollen. When planning a trip to Ponomarev Log to the Potapovs, you needguess with the weather: there is a dirt road leading to the apiary, it is difficult to drive through it in the slush. If tourists do not have their own car, but want to visit the apiary, the owners will help you get there. You can contact them and ask the price for the Honey Bee honey on Instagram -privetlivyuley.

Other verifieddirections of the "honey route"in Altai choose inthe listprepared by the specialists of the Regional Office for the Development of Tourism and Resort Activities.

reference

Altai honey is one of the brands in the region, registered by Rospatent in 2015. In a study of thousands of regional travel brands organized by the Otdykh v Rossii magazine in 2017, Altai honey took 2nd place in the top 25 gastronomic brands in Russia and 22nd in the top 100 travel brands.

The information was prepared by Elena Mikhova.