Moscow – Baikal Railway tour "Baikal Fairy Tale"

For tourists, the time difference is + 2 hours.

Breakfast on the train.

13:14 Arrival of the tourist train at the station Perm.

Meeting with guides on the platform, organized passage to buses.

Lunch at a cafe in the city.

Sightseeing tour of the city of Perm.

Sightseeing tour of the central streets of the city —we will see the monument "Permyak — salty ears", the embankment of the Kama River and the art object "Happiness is just around the corner", the historical Sibirskaya Street, the Theater Square and the Opera and Ballet Theater, Cathedral Square.

Visit to the Art Gallery, one of the largest regional art museums in Russia.

Today, the gallery's collection includes about 60,000 items.

The Perm Art Gallery is a Hermitage–type museum that allows you to show fine and decorative arts of various genres, schools and trends, countries and eras.

Almost a century of collecting and research work by several generations of researchers has resulted in unique museum collections of Russian, European, and oriental art from antiquity to the 21st century, from classics to postmodernism.

The gallery has been recognized by the international community as the owner of undoubted artistic rarities — collections of Perm wooden temple sculptures, works of art from Stroganov patrimony (icon painting, gold embroidery), collections of Russian art of the XVIII-XX centuries.

Dinner at a cafe in the city.

Free time in the city center.

Transfer to the railway station.

23:30 Train departure.

For tourists, the time difference is + 2 hours.

Breakfast on the train.

06:57 Arrival of the tourist train at Yekaterinburg station.

07:00 Meeting with guides on the platform, organized passage to buses.

A visit to the Europe-Asia border, where guests will have a glass of champagne and a "certificate of border violators".

Transfer to Ganina Yama, a unique Orthodox complex built in the style of ancient Russian architecture.

During the tour, you will get acquainted with the family history of the last Russian emperor Nikolai Romanov.

Lunch at a cafe in the city.

Sightseeing bus and walking tour of the city with a tour of the main attractions.

You will see the dam of the city pond on the river. Iseti, which gave birth to the Yekaterinburg Plant in the XVIII century, a monument to the founders of the city, V.N. Tatishchev and V.I. de Gennin, and the patroness of the city, the Chapel of St. Peter the Great. St. Catherine's Cathedral, merchant mansions, the central squares of the capital of the Urals, Voznesenskaya Hill, decorated with the palace of merchants Rastorguyev-Kharitonov and, of course, the Church–on-the-Blood in the Name of All Saints who Shone Forth in the Russian Land – the legendary place where the Romanov dynasty was interrupted.

14:45 Transfer to the railway station.

15:25 Train departure.

For tourists, the time difference is +4 hours.

Breakfast on the train.

15:19 Arrival of the tourist train at the station Novosibirsk.

Meeting with guides on the platform, organized passage to buses.

Sightseeing tour of Novosibirsk.

During the tour, you will walk through the old streets, squares and squares.

You will see the main city buildings, the opera House, the Commercial Building, wooden and merchant houses.

You will find out why Novosibirsk is compared to St. Petersburg, how the fate of the city developed, and how it lives today.

Walking through the center of Novosibirsk, you will hear the history of the appearance of modern symbols of the city and get acquainted with the creations of Siberian constructivist architects.

Dinner at a cafe in the city.

Transfer to the railway station.

20:00 Departure of the tourist train.

For tourists, the time difference is +4 hours.

Breakfast on the train.

08:02 Arrival of the tourist train at the station Krasnoyarsk.

Meeting with guides on the platform, organized passage to buses.

Sightseeing bus and walking tour of the city, during which you will visit the Bobrovy Log Park, the observation deck of the Stolby National Park with a cable car ride, the observation deck of Karaulnaya Gora, see the place where the Kacha flows into the Yenisei, the chapel of St. Nicholas. Paraskevy and Kommunalny bridge.

Visit to the Tsar-Fish observation deck.

Lunch at a cafe in the city.

Transfer to the railway station.

16:00 Departure of the tourist train.

For tourists, the time difference is +5 hours.

Breakfast on the train.

13:40 Arrival of the tourist train at the station Irkutsk.

Meeting with guides on the platform, organized passage to buses.

Sightseeing bus and walking tour of Irkutsk with a visit to the Museum of the Decembrists (Volkonsky House Museum).

The tour will introduce you to the main monuments of the Siberian city of the Earth.

You will not find such wooden architecture as in Irkutsk in any corner of the world.

During the guided tour of the memorable and historical sites, you will learn the history of the Irkutsk prison and the central part of the city, architecture and wooden architecture, about prominent figures of the history and culture of Russia, whose activities were inextricably linked with Irkutsk.

Lunch at a cafe in the city.

Continuation of the city sightseeing tour.

Dinner at a cafe in the city.

Transfer to the railway station.

21:45 Departure of the tourist train.

For tourists, the time difference is +5 hours.

From Irkutsk to Slyudyanka, the train runs east without stopping.

00:30-06:30 Parking at Slyudyanka station.

During the parking, those who wish will be able to get off the train and admire the world's only station building, built entirely of white and pink marble.

During the parking, the traction will be changed, you will be able to see the work of the locomotive crew when the locomotive is hooked up and take vivid photos against the background of the L-series locomotive built in the last century.

06:30 Departure of the tourist train in the western direction to the famous Circum-Baikal railway.

Further to the Port of Baikal, our train will travel under the control of a steam locomotive, and you will have the opportunity to experience the emotions of a person at the beginning of the 20th century and feel the regularity of that time.

Traveling along the Circum—Baikal Railway, the "golden buckle of the Russian steel belt" running along the shore of Lake Baikal, is a great way to see southern Baikal and explore the architectural sights in one day.

The Circum—Baikal Railway has 38 tunnels with a total length of 9,063 m (the longest of them is the tunnel through Cape Polovinny with a length of 777.5 m), 15 stone galleries with a total length of 295 m (only 5 of them are currently in use) and 3 reinforced concrete galleries with holes, 248 bridges and viaducts, 268 retaining walls.

Our train will make stops in the most iconic and beautiful places of the Circum-Baikal Railway: Kultuk, Staraya Angasolka, Kirkirei, Polovinnaya, Italian Wall.

Breakfast on the train.

13:07 Arrival of the train at the Baikal Port station.

Water transfer from Baikal Port station to Listvyanka village.

Lunch at a cafe in Listvyanka village.

Transfer to the Taltsy Architectural and Ethnographic Museum.

Visit the Taltsy Museum of Wooden Architecture, located in a picturesque place on the banks of the Angara River.

This unique museum will tell you about the daily life of people in this region in the past.

Return to Listvyanka.

Ascent /descent by cable car to the Kamen Chersky observation deck.

Sightseeing tour of Listvyanka village, visit to the fish and souvenir market.

Dinner at the restaurant.

22:00 Water transfer from Listvyanka village to art. Baikal port.

Boarding the train and overnight on the train.

The time difference is + 5 hours.

Breakfast on the train.

06:15 Departure from the train with your luggage.

Meeting with guides on the platform.

Water transfer from Baikal Port station to Listvyanka village.

Boarding buses and departure to Olkhon Island.

Arrival at the ferry and transfer to Olkhon Island by ferry.

Boarding the UAZ and transfer to the village of Khuzhir.

Arrival at the Baikal View restaurant for lunch.

Lunch at a cafe in the village of Khuzhir.

Olkhon island tour, visit to Cape Burkhan, rocks.

Boarding the UAZ and transfer from Khuzhir to the ferry crossing.

Ferry ride back from the island to the mainland.

Boarding buses and departing back to Irkutsk.

At about 22:40 arrival in Irkutsk city center, completion of the program.

The time in the program is indicated approximately.

Since the capacity of the rolling stock of the Baikal Fairy Tale tourist train exceeds the capacity of the Komet railway (about 100 seats), after filling the ship, tourists will be offered an alternative – a bus transfer.