the town lies on the banks of the mistah river and it's perfect for a more direct route assuming you can find the right transportation tolbert to where larry and the boys are experienced rafters and the mistah river has some of the best whitewater in europe in russia. everything seems pretty gentle but i was warned not to get too comfortable. don't be lulled by the quiet waters this is just the cam before the storm. it's much tougher in spring when the water rises as high as the top slabs of the bank meant. that point the water is to be metres higher than what it is right now with the. the mistah used to be a vital supply route and a few hundred years ago the river would have been jammed with ships making their way to st petersburg. apparently back in seventeen eighty five the british ambassador wants to fight the express command of the czarina catherine the great and rode the rapids here and i could hear them in the distance. things are just starting to speed up a little bit. now the last time i did this it was winter and about twenty five degrees celsius out a little bit different

the mistah used to be a vital supply route and a few hundred years ago the river would have been jammed with ships making their way to some peaches but. apparently back in seventeen eighty five the british ambassador wants to fight the express command of the czarina catherine the great and rode the rapids here and i could hear them in the distance. things are just starting to speed up a little bit. now the last time i did this it was. and about twenty five degrees celsius out a little bit different today. five degrees in the water. but there are two things it's worth getting out of the wrong people. i'm doing a little extreme sightseeing on this trip as well because just over here at. this place me one of the largest caves. you know of european russia and it's also got one of the longest underground streams as well going fourteen hundred meters back. and along the river banks you can find fossils buried in the rock face. go rafting here and you're combining a white knuckle ronnie's with a trip back in time. so we made it illumines does round the corner. but not a great little sightseein