Baikal Ice Tour

Route

• Day 1 — Welcome to Baikal!

  Welcome to Siberia!

  The general meeting of the group and departure is scheduled for 10:00, so please purchase tickets for flights arriving in Irkutsk before 9:30 local time. Your Baikal guide will meet you at the airport. Landing in a comfortable minibus and departure to the cherished goal - Lake Baikal.

  Along the way you will see famous spiritual Tazheran steppes.

  For lunch you will try traditional Buryat cuisine: real «buuzy», «buchler» and Buryats tea!  

  After midday you will arrive to Baikal lake. You are waited by the first departure on ice on completely safe all-terrain vehicle – TRECOL (which means “TRansport ECOLogical”)! It is able to move on water, ground and ice, so transfers are completely safe for passengers and ecology and officially allowed which is our exclusive offer in region!

  In addition to its driving characteristics, this transport looks very impressive, and the photos on its background are amazing!

  In the evening you will have free time. You can walk on the ice on foot or go ice-skating. Have a good, memorable and impressive time!

  Meals: lunch and dinner included.

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• Day 2 — Picnic on the ice of Baikal and the Ogoy Island

  Good morning! The endless beauty of Baikal ice and new experiences await you today.

  As the day begins you will visit the Buddhist stupa of Enlightenment on the Ogoy Island.

  On the way there will be stops in the most interesting places for exploring grottoes and splashes, incredible caves with ice stalactites. Picnic right on the ice of Lake Baikal as lunch. Today’s menu is a hot smoked fish, saguday and tincture on cedar nuts, as well as a local delicacy - raskolotka from Baikal fish (cooking class included).

  After lunch you will enjoy lots of ice entertainment: ice caves exploring, ice golf, secret local anti-stress, and dedication to ice travelers!

  Late in the afternoon you will move to the guesthouse. Supper while sharing impressions and speaking tomorrow plans.

  Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included.

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• Day 3 — Baikal landscapes

  You will go South today. The day will be eventful! Your route is from Maloe More to Buguldeika village by sacral Tazherany steppes. You will visit the Shebety mount near Ust Anga settlement, which has fascinating view to Lake Baikal and Primorskiy mountain ridge!

  For outdoor lunch you will taste the venison dumplings.

  In the evening you will arrive to Buguldeika village. Placement in house in the heart of the snow-covered taiga, "Talovskoye" eco-centre.

  Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner included.

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• Day 4 — Visiting remote bays and capes

  Baikal ice travel continues. After breakfast you will see the pure ice of Baikal again. On this day you will have a ride by a hovercraft from Buguldeika village to Listvyanka settlement.

  You will see beautiful and famous places of Baikal - Arch cape, popular but hard-to-get Peschanaya bay. You will also visit the Screeper cliff and the Devil's Bridge. These places are famous for their pristine ice and ice bubbles, you can make some great photo shots there! 

  In the evening you will arrive to Listvyanka.

  Meals: Breakfast, lunch are included. Dinner in the hotel restaurant is not included.

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• Day 5 — Listvyanka sights and ice floating

  After so many active days you will have a little rest. After breakfast you will visit the observation platform of "Cherskiy rock".  A chairlift will bring you up the hill. There you will enjoy a great view of Lake Baikal and the Angara river.

  Then you will get acquainted with all the inhabitants of Lake Baikal in huge aquariums of Baikal Museum. After the Museum there will be meeting with real Siberian riding dogs! Emotion from communication with animals will be an excellent addition to the program of the day.

  After lunch in the restaurant you will go to the Angara river outflow where you will ride a real ice floe!
  Stop, stop, stop! No worries! This is safe and our company has already done it many times over the past 9 years.

  The fact is the thickness of the ice on Lake Baikal reaches 1 meter in February and March. Ice is able to withstand a truck! But there is one place where you can find open water on the Baikal surface - the source of the Angara River. Ice floe with an area of 60-150 square meters will be cut out of the frozen lake by a saw. All the participants embark on the "ship" and rafting begins. There is also a hovercraft as a tugboat and that also transport all the participants to the landing stage when rafting ends.

  The whole activity takes from 1 to 1.5 hours. After this journey you will enjoy a real Siberian sauna (Banya) with fir branches besom and swimming in the ice hole! Some special surprises from the tour operator will be waiting for you!

  After the sauna you will return to hotel.

  Meals: Breakfast, lunch are included

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• Day 6 — Departure

  Breakfast. Transfer to the airport.