Weekly magazine “Argumenty I Fakty” No. 23. Gifts of fields, gardens and vegetable gardens 09/06/2021
A barefoot trail has opened in Elk Island National Park.
The first route in Russia, created for walking barefoot, was supposed to be launched in the last season, but the opening was postponed due to the pandemic. And here is a 3 km long path finally ready. What “obstacles” are offered to force without shoes, massaging the feet? On the trail there is sand and pine bark, sea pebbles and expanded clay, boulders and cones, and you will still have to walk on logs, ladders and cross the stream.
“We are developing a network of ecological trails, adding fashion trends,” explains Rustam Yakubov, director of the Losiny Ostrov National Park. Specially protected natural areas are becoming more popular, and more and more people choose active recreation.
Off with your shoes and on through the wood chips, rocks, sand, and bumps. Photo: Ministry of Natural Resources of the Russian Federation