Frenchmen to live in nomad tents

Frenchman Ludovic Laine and Yakutian Izabella Kopyrina have been chasing a dream of attracting French travelers to Yakutia for one and a half year. Now their dream is coming true. On December 2, the first group is arriving to Yakutsk from Paris.

Ludovic and Izabella have great experience in tourism. To arrange tours throughout Yakutia is not occasional activity, but regular and long-term. Inspired with perspectives, they launched Ayan Voyages Travel Firm. This is the first French-Yakutian joint enterprise with offices in Paris and Yakutsk.

Ludovic Laine is the president of La Paz Group that provides management, development and advisory services for tourism projects showcasing natural, cultural and historical wonders of the world. For her turn, Izabella Kopyrina used to work as a travel expert for the Yakutsk affiliate of ALROSA Hotels. She is pro in arranging tours to the Pole of Cold, Lena Pillars and Samartai.

The first clients intend to spend two weeks in Yakutia. Actually they will make a round trip Moscow – Yakutia (Yakutsk – Nerungri – Iengra) – Severobaikalsk – Irkutsk – Moscow.

In Yakutsk French visitors will attend Yakutsk State University Mammoth Museum, the Museum of Archeology and Ethnography, have leisure time at Ytyk Khaya and Mus Khaya tourist complexes, and see the sight of the city.

From republic’s capital they will make a long trip in order to become acquainted with nomadic life. They will live in real nomad tents near Iengra, the settlement of local Evenks. Afterwards tourists are head ing for legendary Baikal Lake.

“Ayan Voyage is supposed to be an intermediary between Yakutia and international travel operators. The project of this sort is helpful both to people who wish to broad minds by unique travel experience and local inhabitants who need financial support,” says Ludovic Laine.

In near future Ayan Voyage plans to attract tourists to the Pole of Cold Festival (usually arranged annually in March) and Ysyakh National Fest (in June). Apart from, the travel operator is willing to bring ethnographers, artists, musicians, and journalists of respected French mass media, i.e. Le Figaro and National.

// Dec. 1, 2006

Written by Yulia Khodulova.
Translated by YakutiaToday.Com

Resource: GazetaYakutia.Ru