Belovezhskaya pushcha

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The National park "Belovezhskaya Pushcha" lies in the south-west of the Republic of Belarus, 340 km from the city of Minsk. Its total are is about 90 thousand hectares. It was established in 1939, based on the historically formed protected territory. December 14, 1992, UNESCO entered the Park to the list of World Heritage, and in 1993 it was granted the status of a Biosphere Reserve.

Belovezhskaya Pushcha is a unique and the largest primeval island of ancient forests typical for the Mid European plains. Here, remnants of ancient forest tracks survived which in XII century spread from the Baltic Sea to the Bug River, and from the Oder to Dnieper River.

Mixed and broad-leaved woods (more than 1,000 oak trees from 300 to 700 years-old, 450-old ash, 220-old pines and 150-old junipers are registered in the Pushcha), meadows and water systems are preserved here in their natural state. Flora and fauna of the Belovezhskaya Pushcha are represented by great numbers of rare species of plants, such as silver fir, various species of oak, spruce, pine, hornbeam, ash, and animals - the wolf, European bison, noble deer, wild boar, and a wealth of diversity of fish and birds. A substantial number of species inhabiting the Belovezhskaya are exposed in the Museum of Nature. It is located at the central quarters of National Park, in an urban village of Kamenyuki.

Close to the hotel, there are pens where a visitor may see animals typical for the Belovezhskaya Pushcha (bison, deer, wild boar, etc.) in their natural surroundings. Guests of the National Park may visit historical and cultural sites: Tyshkcvich's farmstead, ancient czar road, Viskuli Complex, as well as a number of others, which are located in close vicinity (for example, Old Tower "Belaya Vezha", a rare church ensemble and so on). The National Park have elaborated and offer to its visitors different routes (on-foot, horse-back, car-riding), for one day and many days. There are 3 hotels (altogether 176 beds), 4 comfortable guest houses situated in scenic "cosy nooks" of the nature (26 beds); a restaurant where you can taste national dishes of game meat.

Not far from the hotel there is, also, a craftsmen shop: one may buy souvenirs to remind you of the days spent in Pushcha. The administrative building houses an assembly hall for symposiums, conferences, etc. On a preliminary request, guests may be brought from Minsk or Brest by cars of the Nature Reserve. Also, there is a parking site for those who come by their own cars.

In the Hunting Enterprise "Shereshovskoe", there is a possibility to organize hunting on a commercial basis

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