Tour to Irkutsk and Baikal in one day!
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Are you on a business trip and have only one free day? Do not know what to choose: a tour of Irkutsk or Baikal?
You don't have to choose! You can arrange a one-day dive into the history of Irkutsk and get acquainted with Baikal and his daughter Angara. During a sightseeing tour of the city, you will see that Irkutsk is not just a transshipment point on a trip to Baikal, but the capital of Eastern Siberia. Have you ever seen an architectural monument in the style of "Siberian Baroque"? Are you surprised to see multicolored tiles, triumphal arches and a Moorish castle in Eastern Siberia? How is Irkutsk involved in the rock opera "Juno and Avos"? You will learn about this and many other things while walking around Irkutsk.
Next, we will go to the 47th km of the Baikal Road to the architectural and ethnographic museum "Taltsy". You will see the only surviving wooden church in Eastern Siberia of the 17th century. You will find out what the prisons looked like, what was the situation in the Buryat yurt. This immersion into the past is carried out in the fresh air on the banks of the Angara. Then we will get acquainted with the unique source of the Angara River and the Baikal Museum, where you will say hello to the Baikal seal - seal, learn to distinguish the Baikal omul from whitefish, under a microscope see the tiny inhabitants of Baikal, without which the lake would not be so clean, and also learn many interesting facts about the origin, structure, properties of the water of the Baikal Sea.
After that, we will visit the market of fish and souvenirs, the wooden St. Nicholas Church with interesting architecture, walk along the coast of Baikal. And then happy and full of impressions we will return to Irkutsk.
The cost depends on the number of people in the group and the duration of the tour. The approximate duration of the program is 9 - 11 hours.