Hello, Baikal!

Day 1

Arrival in Irkutsk. Meeting at Irkutsk airport at the entrance to the city, inside the airport building from 08.00 to 08.30. Meeting at the railway station Irkutsk - Passenger on the stairs at the entrance to the city, inside the station building from 09.00 to 09.30. "Hello, Baikal" sign.
Attention! Accommodation to the hotel is made after the excursion program.
Welcome, introduction. Breakfast. Sightseeing tour of the city, visiting the 130th quarter.
There are about 700 historical and cultural monuments in Irkutsk.
We will start our tour from the place where in 1661 Yakov Pokhabov founded the Irkutsk Fortress, here we will see the most memorable and ancient shrine of Irkutsk - the Savior Church, the colorful Epiphany Cathedral, the Polish Church, the Eternal Flame, the Moscow Gate, the monument to the Pioneers and much more.
Next, we will go to the Znamensky Monastery, on the territory of which the revered necropolis is located. Here is buried Ekaterina Trubetskaya (1800–1854) – nee Countess Laval, the first of the Decembrists’ wives, who voluntarily followed her exiled husband. Here also preserved the grave of "Russian Columbus", the founder of the Russian-American company, a native of Rylsk Kursk province Grigory Ivanovich Shelikhov. He was the successor of the Russian pioneers who mastered Alaska and the Aleutian Islands. Not far from the holy gates of the monastery is a monument to Admiral Alexander Vasilyevich Kolchak.
Further along Karl Marx Street (the historical name is Bolshoy Prospekt) we will go to Gagarin Boulevard. No less interesting sightseeing objects are located here: a monument to Emperor Alexander III, erected here in honor of the completion of the construction of the Great Trans-Siberian Railway, the only Mauritanian castle in Siberia - the building in which the Irkutsk Museum of Local History is now located, the White House (or Siberian Palace) - a house that belonged first to the merchants Sibiryakov, and then for a long time served as the residence of the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia.
Then we will visit a new tourist center with restored historical buildings - "Irkutsk Sloboda" (or the so-called 130th quarter).
* The order of the tour may change.
Lunch is a traditional Buryat cuisine during the excursion (you will try traditional Buryat soup and famous poses).
After excursions in your free time, you can visit the favorite place for evening walks of Irkutsk residents and guests of the city - the embankment of the Angara River or one of the numerous museums of the city.
Transfer and accommodation in the hotel in double rooms (room facilities).
Free time, dinner on your own.
Note: accommodation on the tour - after the excursion program, early check-in is possible if there is a free room with a surcharge for the hotel.
Meals: breakfast, lunch.
Guide: Yes.

Cities: Irkutsk

Attractions: 130 quarter, Siberian Palace, Znamensky Monastery, Spasskaya Church, monument to Alexander III

Day 2

After breakfast and gatherings we will go to Baikal in Listvyanka.
Just 65 km from Irkutsk, on the shore of the sacred lake Baikal, a five-kilometer strip stretches the village Listvyanka. Today Listvyanka is one of the most visited and popular areas on the shores of the famous lake and the starting point for most travelers from different parts of the world. From here begin both short water walks along the Larch Bay, and multi-day cruises on the lake, trips along the Circum-Baikal Railway, there are hotel complexes, mini-hotels, a private residential complex, various tourist display facilities, restaurants and cafes, fish markets and souvenir shops.
Objects to visit and meet on this day will be the following:
The architectural and ethnographic museum "Taltsy" is a unique collection of historical, architectural and ethnographic monuments of the XVII-XIX centuries The museum is located on the picturesque bank of the Angara River in the Taltsinsky tract, on the 47 kilometer of the Baikal tract. Here, four historical and cultural zones of the Baikal region are retrospectively recreated: Russian, Buryat, Evenki and Tofalar.
Around the museum, masters are united who have the skills of weaving, weaving from a vine, making products from birch bark and clay. Several peasant houses are adapted for workshops, in which craftsmen share the secrets of craftsmanship and demonstrate their products. In Talts there is its own stable, you can ride on a man's stroller, walk on stilts, swing on the Siberian swing, in winter, ride from a slide on cow's skin (for an additional fee).
The source of the Hangar and the observation deck at the Shaman-stone. The source of the Angara River is the widest and largest in the world (863 m). In winter, up to 15 thousand waterfowl live in the polynya with a length of 5 to 15 km. This is the only ice-free winter in North Asia. There is also an observation deck, which overlooks the source of the Angara and the legendary Shaman-Stone. Shaman-Stone is a surface ledge of the Angara Threshold. In good weather, only its top is visible above the water, but under the water at the mouth of the river there is a rocky massif, thanks to which the source of the Angara never freezes in winter. Many beautiful legends and legends are associated with this place, and the stone itself is considered one of the symbols of Baikal, which the locals still endow with miraculous power. Angara is the only river that flows from Lake Baikal.
The functioning St. Nicholas Church. Almost the only ancient architectural monument of Listvyanka in the middle of the XIX century. It is a small wooden building sheathed with a teso, with an octagonal dome and a two-tier bell tower above the porch. In Russia, such a building was called “eight on four”. Today it is an active church, where services are regularly performed. Among the icons of the temple there are very ancient and valuable relics of the middle of the XVIII century.
Baikal Museum. The exposition of the museum, which tells about the origin, life and research of Lake Baikal, began to be created in 1925. Today it is based on Baikal fish, birds and animals, samples of bottom sediments and Baikal minerals, models, various exhibits found during scientific field expeditions. Since June 2004, the museum has a truly unique structure - a limnological aquarium, which provides visitors with the opportunity to look into the underwater world of Lake Baikal and see with their own eyes live omules, grays, breams, sturgeons, film, nalima, carp, catfish, pikes and carp, as well as crustaceans, sponges and mollusks. Today, the Baikal Aquarium is the only one of its kind, because no aquarium in the world has such a low temperature of 4 degrees. Water is pumped four times a day from a depth of 500 meters by a special pumping station built near the museum. All 11 aquariums are designed in such a way that it is possible to carefully consider the underwater inhabitants of Lake Baikal, including seals, for which almost ideal conditions are created - two communicating rooms with an artificial ice, through a hole in which seals can escape to the air.
The local market. At the local market, located in the very center of Listvyanka near the central pier, you can buy souvenirs for yourself and as a gift to loved ones: Baikal stones with the image of the seal - the symbol of Baikal, beads and other products made of semi-precious stones, birch and wooden products, souvenirs of ceramics, soft toys, badges, magnets, etc. Here you can buy and taste the famous Baikal delicacies.
Accommodation in Listvyanka in a hotel (or at a tourist base) with room amenities. Dinner by yourself.
Meals: breakfast, lunch.
Guide: Yes.

Cities: Listvianka

Attractions: Architectural and ethnographic museum "Taltsy", Shaman-stone, Baikal Museum

Day 3.

Free time in Listvyanka.
A number of additional programs are offered (additional fee).
You can visit the Nerpinariy, the stone of Chersky, ride along Baikal on a boat / hovercraft (Khivus), ride quad bikes, and in winter also on snowmobiles and dog sleds, go on a hiking or horseback tour, visit a forge or pottery workshop.
Note: at the request of tourists with additional approval (in advance) and the availability of trains on the Circum-Baikal railway, it is possible to organize a tour of the KBZD by train or hivus (in winter).
Attention: on this day for tourists making a tour of KBZHD - overnight in Irkutsk, for vacationers in Listvyanka - overnight in Listvyanka.
The Circum-Baikal Railway (“Golden Buckle of the Trans-Siberian Railway”) is a unique monument of engineering architecture.
The excursion is full-day, begins in Listvyanka approximately from 9.30-10.00 from Listvyanka and ends at the Irkutsk railway station at 22.00, in this regard, when purchasing this tour, the tour program changes: accommodation on this day changes to Irkutsk.
The cost of the tour: 4400 rubles.
The price includes: the water crossing Listvyanka - the port of Baikal, a ticket for the KBZD train.
Additionally paid (independently on the spot): transfer of the tourist base - berth: 250 rubles (taxi), railway station Irkutsk - hotel Irkutsk: 250 - 300 rubles (taxi). Baggage Carriage (CBZ) : 250 rubles.
Meals: Breakfast.
Guide: Yes (when ordering a tour of the KBZD - guide KBZD).

Cities: Listvyanka, Irkutsk

Attractions: Circum-Baikal Railway (KBZhD)

4th day

Breakfast, free time.
Transfer to Irkutsk (transfer time is stipulated for each application in advance).
Arrival at the railway station or the airport.
End of tour. Have a good trip!
Meals: Breakfast.
Guide: No.

Cities: Irkutsk