From March 30 to April 3, 2021, students of the “Silk Road” International University of Tourism took an active part in the Youth Tourism Festival. More than 20 participants of the club “Hikingly” under the guidance of the 2nd year student Mirzayev Amirbek, as well as the teacher of the Chinese language Baykobilov Kamoliddin took an active part, both at the training stages and at the competitions.
The first day of the festival (March 30). The students went to Zarafshan National Park to participate in an individual competition in the discipline “Orientation on the terrain using a topographic map”. Each participant covered a distance of 3 km and identified all the checkpoints.
The second day (March 31). The Federation of Extreme and Mountain Tourism of Uzbekistan organized a training session, during which our students got acquainted with the discipline of RTD (Rise-Travers-Descent) and learned how to use the climbing system to climb to the top at an angle of 90 degrees.
The third day (April 1). The participants received theoretical training in the knowledge of topographic signs, tying tourist knots, as well as determining the azimuth vector using a compass.
The fourth day (April 2). Students took part in competitions in Sports tourism, which included 4 disciplines:
1. Passing the RTD route using a climbing system;
2. Tests on topographic signs;
3. Test for tying tourist knots;
4. Azimuthal course. Pass the route and search for checkpoints using the compass.
The fifth and final day of the festival (April 3). Awarding of the winners of the festival.
It is worth noting that the competitions were held at the national level, in which extreme athletes from 6 regions of the republic took part. Despite the fact that for the students of the “Silk Road” University, participation in such an event was their first experience, one of the teams (“Hot Potatoes”) of the university took the honorable 3rd place in the team competition.
