Save Baikal cruise

1 day

Meeting at Irkutsk airport with a guide. Acquaintance, baggage. Transfer by individual minivan / minibus to the center of Irkutsk and breakfast in the restaurant.

After breakfast we go to Baikal! Your way lies on the Small Sea (250 km, 4 hours on the way), where a cruise boat will wait for you. Let's get acquainted with Baikal! The Small Sea is the strait separating Olkhon Island from the mainland.

On this day you will pass along the shores of Olkhon Island, visit the island of Ogoi, where the Buddhist Suburg (stupa of Enlightenment) is located. You will see Cape Burkhan – the “business card” of Baikal. In the evening, the boat stop for the night in one of the sandy bays of Olkhon. At your request, the cook will cook kebabs on the shore. bonfire, night, stars... a great ending to the first day of the cruise!

2 days

Early in the morning, the captain will lead the boat further north - to Zavorotnaya Bay (on the way 10 hours, the boat will arrive approximately at 16:00)

In Zavorotnaya excellent fishing on the Baikal harius! In addition, the bay itself is very picturesque, from Baikal now it is separated by a narrow stony spit, the coast is covered with dense taiga with cedar stlanica.

Zavorutnaya is known for the deposit of microquartzite - a high-strength material for metal mirror grinding, but since 1993, microquartzite mining has not been conducted here. Before the quarry, you can take a walk, which takes about 2 hours.

And in the evening you can go to the Russian bath right on the shore of the lake.

3 days

Early in the morning, the captain will lead the boat further north to Cape Kotelnikovsky (on the way 9 hours, the boat will arrive approximately at 15:00)

Kotelnikovsky is famous for its hot mineral springs (the temperature of water from the ground reaches 81 ° C). In the pools, it is diluted with Baikal water to 35 ° C.

This is a real island of civilization among the untouched nature of Baikal. The mineral composition of the springs allows you to swim without restrictions!

And if you wish, you can walk with a guide along the picturesque gorge of the Kurcula mountain river and go fishing for Shiga and Harius.

4 days

Transition to Cape Ludar (3 hours on the way).

Ludar is a small mountain descending by ledges to Baikal, and this is a real museum of antiquities! The name of the cape translates from Evenki as “cut into”.

There is a cave where fragments of ceramic utensils were found, which were once used by the Kurykans – the people who inhabited the shores of Baikal even before the arrival of the Buryats. Near the cave found a site of the New Stone Age, whose age scientists have determined as 4000 years BC. But the most interesting sight at Cape Ludar is the stone settlements. They are located on top of the cape, and discovered them in 1901. Local legends say that the settlement is the remains of an ancient Mongol fortress. On the rock under the first of these settlements you can see two petroglyphs. One of them was painted with ochre in the Bronze Age, and the second belongs to the Kurykan era.

5 days

Early transition to one of the most beautiful bays of Baikal – Ayaya (translated from Buryat – “beautiful”), which crashes into land for 4 kilometers, and its beaches are filled with beautiful sand (on the way 6 hours, the boat will arrive at the place approximately by 12:00)

From Ayayaya begins a tourist route 8 km long to the mountain lake Froliha, famous for its purity and beauty. This is one of the most protected places in northern Baikal. Frolikha was formed during the Ice Age, and since then there is little that has changed: still surrounded by mountains and virgin taiga. The beauty on Frolich is extraordinary!

You will walk along the trail and ride along the lake on an inflatable catamaran to the waterfall, have lunch on the picturesque shore. In the evening, return to Ayaya, on the boat.

6 days

Transition to Hakusa (30 minutes) - a natural resort on the north-east coast. This powerful thermal spring, beating from a rock in a dense pine forest just a 10-minute walk from the shore of Baikal.

Water is similar in composition to the North Caucasian, hydrocarbonate-sulphate-sodium, water temperature (+42 + 46 ° C). Water is bathed (equipped with a wooden pool), and for drinking it is drawn from a well.

Nature on Hakus is incredibly picturesque - sandy beaches are framed by mountains, stormy rivers flow into the bays, the banks of which are covered with light taiga forests.

In the evening, return to Aaya Bay for the night.

7 days

Early in the morning, the captain will lead the boat further south to the village of Davsha (120 km on the way, the boat will arrive at approximately 16:00). The path along the eastern coast is truly magnificent – from the east of Baikal, the spurs of the highest ridge of the Baikal region and the endless taiga are framed.

Davshe - in Evenki means "meadow", "wide open area". Here is a museum of nature of the national park and the central cordon of the Barguzin State Reserve, organized in 1916, whose initial task was the preservation of the Barguzin sable.

8th day

Early transition to Chivyrkui Bay (6 hours on the way, the boat will arrive at approximately 12:00 )

Chivyrkui is the second largest bay on Baikal and one of the warmest (water warms up to +24 ° C).

The bay is replete with numerous bays, the shores of which are covered with taiga, and at the bottom of the bay there is a carpet of algae. In quiet weather, every blade of grass and shoals of fish grazing among the thickets are visible at the bottom. On the western side of the bay in the bay of Snake out of the ground comes a thermal natural spring, the water temperature in which reaches 40 ° C.

Swimming in the springs and warm bays of the bay, walking with a guide along the coast, fishing from the boat and from the boat to the whitefish, garius, perch, pike.

9 days

Water crossing in the morning to Ushkany Islands (1 hour)

On the Ushkany Islands there is the largest rookery of the Baikal seal, up to several hundred individuals can bask in the sun at a time on coastal stones!

Walk the tourist trail with a guide, watching the seals in their natural habitat

Then the water passage to the Small Sea (90 km, 8 hours). In the evening you will arrive at the start of your cruise and stop in one of the picturesque bays.

In the evening you can walk along the coast with a guide, if desired - go to the Siberian bath or spend time by the fire.

10 days

On this day you get off the boat and return to Irkutsk. On the way, you will make a stop in the ethnographic park, where you will be greeted according to national customs and fed with a hearty lunch from Buryat and Mongolian cuisine. In Irkutsk check-in to a cozy hotel in the city center. And, if desired, a car sightseeing tour of the capital of Eastern Siberia.

11th day

Breakfast at the hotel restaurant.

Transfer to Irkutsk airport.