Siberian adventures: from Arshan to Lake Baikal

After breakfast, you will visit the Buddhist datsan. The small complex traditionally includes a datsan building, prayer cylinders and stupas-suburgans.

Lunch at your own expense at a local cafe.

We recommend you to try traditional Buryat meat dishes – buuz and buchler – it's really very tasty!

You have free time after lunch.

You can visit the village of Zhemchug, which has pools and baths with therapeutic thermal water, as well as a salt shower.

Dinner – on your own in one of the cafes of the village or at the base.

For those who wish, there is a sauna with birch brooms (for an additional fee).

Meals included: breakfast.

Early breakfast.

Departure from Arshan to the city of Slyudyanka.

In Slyudyanka, you will board the Circum–Baikal Express, an excursion train that follows the Circum-Baikal Railway.

Along the way, you will stop at the most interesting places, inspect tunnels, bridges and retaining arches, the guide will tell you the history of the construction of the KBZHD and interesting information about Lake Baikal.

In the evening, the train arrives at the Port of Baikal, from where we take a ferry across the mouth of the Angara River to the village of Listvyanka. 

Transfer to the hotel.

Accommodation, dinner.

Meals included: breakfast, lunch and dinner.

After breakfast, we go on a sightseeing tour of Listvyanka.

First, we will visit the open-air architectural and ethnographic museum – Taltsy.

This unique place contains monuments of history, architecture and ethnography of the XVII—XX centuries.

After lunch, we will go to the Baikal Museum, where we will get acquainted with the inhabitants of Lake Baikal, who live in the aquarium.

Then we will take the cable car up to the Chersky stone, which offers wonderful panoramas of Lake Baikal and the surrounding area.

At the souvenir market in Listvyanka village, you will be able to buy souvenirs from Siberian craftsmen made of stone, wood, birch bark and glass, as well as taste Baikal fish – omul, grayling, whitefish, cold and hot smoked.

Lunch and dinner on your own in the cafes and restaurants of Listvyanka.

Meals included: breakfast.

Breakfast.

Boarding a minibus and transfer to Olkhon Island.

On the way, lunch at a roadside cafe (at your own expense).

We cross the Olkhonsky Gate Strait by ferry and get to the island.

Arrival in the village. Khuzhir, accommodation at a tourist base.

Supper.

Walking tour to one of the main attractions of Olkhon island – Cape Burkhan.

This cape is also called Shamanka Rock, because the place has been considered sacred since ancient times. 

Meals included: breakfast and dinner.

We begin our acquaintance with Olkhon and today we will go to the north of the island.

Real Baikal expanses and breathtaking views!

Today we will walk on Cape Three Brothers and Hoboy, have lunch in nature and, of course, take a lot of beautiful photos.

Sandy beaches, cozy coves, picturesque cliffs and cliffs – Olkhon is able to surprise with its beauty and energy.

After lunch, we will visit Cape of Love and hear the legends and legends associated with this place.

Let's look into the Usura Falls, where we can go down to the shore, relax and swim.

You can also ride a horse here (paid separately).

In the evening (at 17-18h.) we return to the hotel, have dinner.

Meals included: breakfast, picnic lunch, dinner.

After breakfast, we set off on a trip to the southeastern part of the island.

Thanks to this trip, you will have a complete picture of Olkhon.

We promise you will be amazed at how many surprises the seemingly monotonous steppe hides.

The day's program includes secluded bays, a turquoise lagoon and even one lake "Heart".

On hot July and August days, bring swimsuits with you.

This day will not do without bizarre rock complexes.

A stone castle, a trident – what you will not see on this day.

Return to the base.

Supper.

Meals included: breakfast, picnic lunch, dinner.

Free day, plan it at your discretion (paid separately).

To master horseback riding, kayak, try SAP board, go fishing or just swim and sunbathe - the choice is yours.

And you can also go on a boat trip to the island of Ogoy or on a short boat trip to the islands of the Small Sea.

Meals included: breakfast and dinner.

Final breakfast.

Transfer to Irkutsk.

The journey will take about 6 hours.

Lunch at a roadside cafe at your own expense. 

Arrival in Irkutsk (Kirov Square) approximately from 16 to 19:00.

On the way: about 6 hours.
Meals included: breakfast.