Tour Information
Join for a magnificent journey to Siberia and discover the spectacular environment and cultures of Lake Baikal!
Here East really meets West. Nomadic Buryats from Mongolia have long brought their yurts and colorful traditions to Baikal, and Shengis Khan is thought to have been born on an island in the lake. Cossacks from Moscow settled on the western shores, beginning the infusion of European influences today represented by the universities and thriving intellectual vigor of Irkutsk sity. Graceful onion-domed churches, Buddhist temples, and the continuing presence of Buryat Shamanism speak to the rich diversity of the people of Baikal.
The lake is both gorgeous and staggeringly immense. Four hundred miles long and a mile deep, it contains twenty percent of the Earth’s fresh water, 25 million years old, it is the heart of a remarkable ecosystem dominating eastern Siberia. Plants and animals abound in the lake and along its shores, many species existing nowhere else in the world.
Day 1 (Meeting and transfer)
Meeting in Irkutsk.
City tour. Moving to Listvyanka village. First meeting with Baikal. Hotel accommodation. Lunch. Free time. Dinner.
METHOD OF MOVEMENT: Car
LENGTH 90km
Day 2 (Baikal museum)
Excursion to the Baikal museum
The museum contains a unique collection of flora and fauna of Lake Baikal, special attention focuced on live exhibits – the fish in large aquariums. Nerpinary – here you will see the famous Baikal seal -nerpu. Architectural and Ethnographic Museum “Taltsy” – interesting museum of wooden architecture in the open air. Lunch in a restaurant-national Russian cuisine. Transfer to the city of Baikalsk. Hotel accommodation. Dinner.
METHOD OF MOVEMENT: Car
LENGTH 200km
Day 3 (Baikal Lake Tour)
Water trip on a boat on Lake Baikal
Cape Stolbi. Cape Polovinnij. Picnic with the a fish soup of the Baikal fish. Return to Baikalsk. Dinner.
METHOD OF MOVEMENT: Boat
LENGTH 60km
Day 4 (Baikal Lake Tour)
Hiking to the Hamar – Daban
Hike along the mountain river Solzan. Picnic at the foot of a rocky outcrop Devil’s Finger with aromatic tea from the Baikal herbs. Return to Baikalsk. Dinner.
METHOD OF MOVEMENT: On foot
LENGTH 7+7km
Day 5 (Baikal Lake Tour)
Excursion to warm lakes
An amazing lakes, located at the foot of the Khamar-Daban. Emerald Lake, Lake Skazka and The Dead Lake. Picnic with freshly smoked Baikal fish omul.
Bathing, catamarans. Return to Baikalsk. Dinner. Farewell party.
METHOD OF MOVEMENT: Car+On foot
LENGTH 80+5km
Day 6 (Baikal Lake Tour)
Free time
Lunch. Departure in Slyudyanka sity. Museum of Minerals. Archaeological monument – Shaman’s Cape – the southernmost point of Lake Baikal. Farewell to Baikal. Return to the hotel.
METHOD OF MOVEMENT: Mainly on car
LENGTH 48km
Day 7 (Departure)
Breakfast. Transfer to Irkutsk.
The bus takes tourists from the hotels.
METHOD OF MOVEMENT: Car
LENGTH 162km
The tour price includes:
- Accommodation
- 3 hot meals a day nutrition throughout the tour;
- Transport services;
- Boats for the Baikal lake tour
- Services of a guide-interpreter;
- Services of a guides on the route and divers on the board;
- Services of cooks on the route;
- Use of a hiking gear and inventory;
- Medical insurance.
The price of the summer Baikal Lake Tour does not include:
- Flight to Irkutsk;
- Flights from Irkutsk;
- Alcohol;
- Optional excursions and services;
The route or timetable on the route can be corrected based on the weather conditions, the level of training group, other external factors. The decision to change the route is taken by the guides.
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