Baikal Great + Arshan

Day 1

Meeting in the city of Irkutsk at 8.00-9.00 (local time, difference from Moscow + 5 hours) at the railway station, extreme right or 3rd entrance, at suburban ticket offices, inside the station. From the airport to the railway station can be reached by taxi (15 minutes, 200 rubles).
Sightseeing tour of the city.
Architectural and ethnographic museum "Taltsy" is a museum of wooden architecture in the open air.
Lunch in the inn (national Russian cuisine).
Moving to Listvyanka.
Excursion to the Museum of Baikal SB RAS, where a unique collection of flora and fauna of Baikal is collected, live exhibits - fish in huge aquariums deserve special attention.
Nerpinarium (for an additional fee - 300 rubles) - here you will see the famous Baikal seal-nerpa.
Transfer to Baikalsk.
Accommodation in the hotel "Comfort" or "White Sable".
Dinner.
Auto: 265 km.
Meals: lunch, dinner.

Cities: Irkutsk, Listvyanka, Baikalsk

Attractions: Architectural and ethnographic museum "Taltsy", Baikal Museum, Nerpinary in Listvyanka, Spasskaya Church, Znamensky Monastery, Monument to Alexander III, Lower Embankment of Angara

 

Day 2

Breakfast.
Water trip on a boat on Baikal on KBZD. Cape Pillars. Cape Polovinny (the longest tunnel KBZD). Picnic in nature (ear of Baikal fish!). Return to Baikalsk.
Dinner.
Boat: 60 km, on foot: 2 km.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Cities: Baikalsk

Attractions: Circum-Baikal Railway (KBZhD)

 

Day 3.

Breakfast.
Hike to Hamar Daban along the Solzan Mountain River. Picnic at the foot of the rocky remains of the Devil’s Finger (tea on the stake with the addition of Baikal herbs!). Return to Baikalsk.
Dinner.
On foot: 7+7 km.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Cities: Baikalsk

Attractions: Mount Hamar-Daban

 

4th day

Breakfast.
Excursion to the Warm Lakes - amazing in beauty at the foot of the Hamar-Daban ridge. Lake Emerald, Lake Fairy Tale, Dead Lake. Picnic in nature (freshly cooked hot-smoked fish!). Bathing, catamarans. Return to Baikalsk.
Dinner.
Auto: 40+40 km, on foot: 5 km.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Cities: Baikalsk

Attractions: Mount Hamar-Daban

Ponds: Warm Lakes - Lake Fairy Tale, Warm Lakes - Dead Lake, Warm Lakes - Lake Emerald

 

5th day

Breakfast.
Free time.
Lunch.
Departure to Slyudyanka. Mineral Museum. Shaman Cape (archaeological monument - the southernmost point of Lake Baikal). Farewell to Baikal. Back to the hotel.
Dinner.
Auto: 48 km.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Cities: Baikalsk, Slyudyanka

Attractions: Cape Shamansky, Museum of Minerals "Gems of Baikal"

 

Day 6

Breakfast.
Bus tour to the resort of Arshan (Republic of Buryatia, Tunkinsky National Park): hot and cold mineral springs, waterfalls on the Kyngarga River.
Lunch.
Visiting the Buddhist-shaman complex, meeting with the lama. Return to Baikalsk.
Dinner.
Auto: 200 km, on foot: 1 km.
Meals: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

Cities: Baikalsk, Arshan

Attractions: waterfalls on the Kyngarga River, Tunkinsky National Park, Buddhist datsan "Bodhidharma"

 

Day 7.

Breakfast.
Independent travel to Irkutsk (route taxi takes tourists from the hotel, payment on the spot 300 rubles.) Or an independent departure to the railway station in Baikalsk (when leaving on the railway).
Auto: 162 km.
Meals: Breakfast.

Cities: Baikalsk, Irkutsk