Fishing in Sol-Iletsk - a great holiday for the whole family

In the seventy kilometers of the steppe wasteland from Orenburg, along the capricious, rivulets, a small town of Sol-Iletsk stretches. The journey time from the railway station of the administrative center of the Orenburg region to the resort is no more than one and a half hours by public transport.

How to get there?

Those who are annually attracted by the rich fishing in Sol-Iletsk, will be confirmed: the fixed-route taxis run from Orenburg every thirty to forty minutes. Getting to these parts is not a problem even at night. To the services of the late travelers is a taxi that will take you to the desired destination.

Fishing

In the immediate vicinity of the city there are many rivers and streams, as well as salt lakes. Fishing in Sol-Iletsk is famous for its generous catch. If you are lucky, you will get a pike, perch, carp. Visitors are fishing with a fishing rod, but local people prefer wandering. Fishing in Sol-Iletsk with such a tool is a whole ritual. Take a wide fishing net. It pulls across the bed. After waiting for time, the networks begin to turn to one of the banks. This is where women and children resort to help, they help get the fish and sort the catch.

Salty Lakes

Fishing in Sol-Iletsk is rightly considered a visiting card and the main tourist attraction of the region, which attracts hundreds of tourists and inveterate anglers to all these places of Orenburg region from all corners of Russia and beyond. Welcome to Sol-Iletsk! Forecast of the bite, compiled by a professional, will help to choose the best time and place for fishing.

Contrary to popular belief, the salt lakes of Sol-Iletska are not of natural origin, but of artificial origin. In fact, it is nothing more than the funnels left after the extraction of salt, filled with water. At the service of guests are fresh, hydrosulphuric, salt and even medicinal mud lakes.

Priceless Crystals

Salt in the surroundings of the resort is literally everywhere. It appears on the ground with white crystals intermixed with sand and clay. On the shore of one of the lakes there is a factory that supplies practically whole Russia with refined salt. The reservoirs are so saturated with salt that the density of their water probably exceeds that of the Dead Sea.

In such water it is impossible to swim. Maximum - to sit. After a long swim in the salt water, vacationers move to one of the fresh lakes, after which the turn of mud baths comes. Local mud is poorly washed away. It leaves a specific gray-blue shade on the skin. On the close proximity of hydrogen sulphide lakes can be recognized by a persistent smell, which can not be called pleasant or at least neutral.

Tourist season

With the onset of a warm summer, Sol-Iletsk prefers about thirty thousand travelers every day! And this despite the fact that the population of the resort is only some twenty-five to twenty-nine thousand inhabitants. Because of this at the height of the season on the streets of the city traffic jams are formed. There is no tourist infrastructure as such in Sol-Iletsk.

The town gradually settles down, but still does not keep pace with its popularity. In the most popular among the resting lake contains more than two hundred grams of the purest salt per liter of water. Despite its small size and obvious provinciality, it is possible to compete with Sol-Iletsk with such mastodons of the Russian tourism industry as Anapa and Minvody.