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Sacred Baikal

Duration: 
9 days / 8 nights
Meals: 
Full board
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Tour program
1

Arrival in Irkutsk. 
Transfer to the Hotel. Check-in.
Breakfast.
Tour of the most beautiful city in East Siberia with their churches, traditional wooden houses and the old cemetery. We will visit the Museum of the Decembrists, and listen to a concert there.  
Lunch. 
In the evening time for a walk on the promenade of Angara River.  
Dinner.  
Overnight in the hotel.


2

Breakfast. 
Check-out. 
By ferry and bus we drive most of the over 25 Islands in Lake Baikal, with some of the most beautiful landscapes of Siberia from Irkutsk to the island Olkhon, with about 1,500 inhabitants. The island is the result of tectonic processes that are responsible for the rising steeply behind the West Bank Primorskij-mountains. But also on the island Olkhon the Zhima rises all 1,274 m after all, close to Lake Baikal deepest point (1,642 m).
Everywhere on the island archaeological sites can be found, it should be 149. 
Transfer to the Hotel. 
Check-in. 
Lunch.
We hike to the Shamanka rock at Cape Burhan, a sacred place with Buddhist rock inscriptions and an ancient cave. 
Dinner. 
After dinner, we drive to the Buryat village.
Overnight in the hotel.


3

Breakfast. 
Walk to the pier in the Khujir. Today you go by boat on Lake Baikal to island Ogoi. There is a Buddhist mortar. 
Lunch - picnic.
In the evening, you will have leisure time. 
Dinner in the hotel restaurant.
Accommodation in Irkutsk at the hotel.
Overnight at the hotel.


4

Breakfast. 
Check out in the Hotel. 
We leave the island Olkhon and cross the "sacred Baikal" by ferry to the Mainland.
Return by bus to Irkutsk. Descent to the village of Ust-Orda. 
Lunch. 
Visit to the ethnographic museum in Ust-Orda, detailed stories about the culture and traditions of the Buryats. Meeting with a shaman, cleansing ritual. 
Dinner. 
Accommodation in Irkutsk at the hotel.
After the tour you return to your hotel and have the rest of the day free. 
Overnight at the hotel


5

Breakfast. 
In the morning we drive to Listvyanka. On the way visit of the open-air museum "Talzy". 
Lunch (Listvjanka) 
Then we stroll through the market and visit Baikal ecological Museum can admire the beautifully decorated wooden houses during a tour. With the chair lift, you can climb on the supervisory platform "Chersky Rock". It offers beautiful views of the AngaraValley, the shaman stone and the Khamar-daban mountains. On the seal station, we will see the unique performance of trained Nada (seals) and even of them buy a painted image. 
Return to Irkutsk. 
Dinner.
Accommodation in Irkutsk in the Hotel.
Overnight at the hotel.


6

Breakfast.
Check-out.
Transfer to the railway station. 
Today you have excursion in the Baikal railway. Departure from the railway station. On the way two stations - Kaja and Goncharovo. 
10.30- arrival in Slyudyanka. 
10.50-journey through Baikal railway. On the road multiple stops at interesting places, walks with guide. 
Lunch.
In the afternoon arrival in the port Baikal. Crossing by ferry to Listvyanka. 
Transfer to Irkutsk.
Dinner. 
Transfer to the train station. 
Train departure to Ulan-Ude. 
Overnight in the train.


7

Arrival to Ulan-Ude. 
Transfer to the hotel. Check-in (standard room). 
Breakfast.
Free time till 10:00 p.m. 
Ulan-Ude city tour.
Lunch. 
Transfer to the Ivolginski Datzan. 
Return to Ulan-Ude. 
Dinner. 
Overnight in the hotel.
 


8

Breakfast. 
Departure to Novoselengisk (130 km). 
Excursion in the Decembrists Museum and in the village.
Lunch. 
Return trip to Ulan Ude. 
Dinner. 
Transfer to the railway station. 
Train departure to Irkutsk. 
Overnight in the train.


9

Arrival in Irkutsk. 
Breakfast. 
Transfer to the airport.
Departure from Irkutsk to Moscow.
Departure from Moscow.