Budget trips
Getting out to the remotest, most traditional Nenets encampments takes a long time and is expensive. To reach the Seyakha Nenets you need to use a helicopter then a snowmobile. To reach the Yar-Sale Nenets you need an all-terrain vehicle then a snowmobile. These transport options, in a remote region where petrol is expensive and spare parts need to be ordered from thousands of miles away, is what forms a large part of the expense of these trips.
To reduce trip cost, you need to visit Nenets that are accessible without such expensive transport. We offer such trips to Nenets encampments within maximum one day of travel from Salekhard town. This area is not on the Yamal Peninsula, but it is part of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region. For people with limited time and budget this can be a good option. All nomads in this area still wear traditional dress every day and live in reindeer fur chums. If you just want a brief introduction to Nenets life, or a few photos of traditionally dressed people, this may be the option for you.
A few advantages of this trip type are:
- Low cost
- Less travel time
- Still get to spend time with traditionally dressed Nenets living their traditional way of life
Some disadvantages are:
- Herd sizes are usually in the hundreds, whereas among the Yar-Sale Nenets that we work with they are in the thousands.
- You are less likely to partake in a migration, as Nenets closer to Salekhard migrate less often than the Yar-Sale Nenets
- You are less likely to see certain items of traditional clothing, like the gus or the woman’s hat, than you would among the Yar-Sale or Seyakha Nenets.
- You are less likely to see sacred sites, idols, sacred sledges or sacred chum poles than you would if you visited the Yar-Sale Nenets.
- You are less likely to see the Northern Lights than if you went further north.
- The trip feels like a bit less of an adventure as you are still fairly close to the town.
- You will be in the forest tundra. If you go up onto the Yamal Peninsula, you will be in the barren, treeless Arctic tundra, which feels much more like “the edge of the world.”
Please see our budget itinerary to Nenets camped within one day’s travel of Salekhard below.
Getting out to the remotest, most traditional Nenets encampments takes a long time and is expensive. To reach the Seyakha Nenets you need to use a helicopter then a snowmobile. To reach the Yar-Sale Nenets you need an all-terrain vehicle then a snowmobile. These transport options, in a remote region where petrol is expensive and spare parts need to be ordered from thousands of miles away, is what forms a large part of the expense of these trips.
To reduce trip cost, you need to visit Nenets that are accessible without such expensive transport. We offer such trips to Nenets encampments within maximum one day of travel from Salekhard town. This area is not on the Yamal Peninsula, but it is part of the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Region. For people with limited time and budget this can be a good option. All nomads in this area still wear traditional dress every day and live in reindeer fur chums. If you just want a brief introduction to Nenets life, or a few photos of traditionally dressed people, this may be the option for you.
A few advantages of this trip type are:
- Low cost
- Less travel time
- Still get to spend time with traditionally dressed Nenets living their traditional way of life
Some disadvantages are:
- Herd sizes are usually in the hundreds, whereas among the Yar-Sale Nenets that we work with they are in the thousands.
- You are less likely to partake in a migration, as Nenets closer to Salekhard migrate less often than the Yar-Sale Nenets
- You are less likely to see certain items of traditional clothing, like the gus or the woman’s hat, than you would among the Yar-Sale or Seyakha Nenets.
- You are less likely to see sacred sites, idols, sacred sledges or sacred chum poles than you would if you visited the Yar-Sale Nenets.
- You are less likely to see the Northern Lights than if you went further north.
- The trip feels like a bit less of an adventure as you are still fairly close to the town.
- You will be in the forest tundra. If you go up onto the Yamal Peninsula, you will be in the barren, treeless Arctic tundra, which feels much more like “the edge of the world.”
Please see our budget itinerary to Nenets camped within one day’s travel of Salekhard below.
