Tours to Lake Baikal. Tour for the May holidays Excursion tours to Lake Baikal

This year in May we will have as many as 5 days off. We invite you to spend these little holidays with benefit and pleasure and go on a trip to Lake Baikal! Few people know that it is at this time that Baikal awakens and begins to free itself from ice. You will be able to witness this unique natural process and go after the “leaving ice of Lake Baikal”. Unique photographs, a charge of positive emotions and a sea of ​​new impressions are guaranteed to you!

1 day

In the morning, meeting at the railway station and at the Irkutsk airport, introductions, baggage collection. Then we go by minibus to our first meeting with Lake Baikal in the village of Listvyanka (70 km from Irkutsk). Along the way we will visit a wooden museum under open air- Taltsy. On the territory of the museum there are more than 40 historical and architectural monuments and 8,000 exhibits of great historical value. Here you can see beautiful panoramas of the Baikal nature and the Angara River.

Lunch in Listvyanka. After lunch, visit the Baikal Museum, the only museum in the world entirely dedicated to the great lake.

In the evening, accommodation at the hotel. Dinner

Meals included: lunch and dinner.

Day 2

Breakfast at the hotel. Today you have a free day, which you can spend at your own discretion. We recommend you visit observation deck at Chersky Peak, nerpinarium, try Baikal omul at local market and check out the souvenir market. You can also take an ATV tour or go diving on Lake Baikal.

Meals included: breakfast

Day 3

Breakfast at the hotel. Departure from Listvyanka to Olkhon Island. Distance is about 350 km.

Along the way there will be stops at a roadside cafe, as well as at ferry crossing. Arrival on the island. Accommodation at a tourist base. Dinner. After lunch you have free time, you can take a walk and see one of the main sacred places on Lake Baikal - the Shamanku rock (Cape Burkhan). In the evening, dinner, for those who wish - a bathhouse.

4 day

Breakfast at the base. Today you have a tour of Olkhon Island. You will discover all the natural diversity of the island, here the steppes give way to coniferous forests, and the gently sloping shores turn into bizarre cliffs and rocks. Along the way, you will see how Baikal is awakening, in some places it is still covered with ice, and somewhere you can already see reflections of water.

You will see an extensive panorama of Small and Big Baikal. From above, you will see the endless expanses of the island and feel all its indescribable energy.

After a picnic in nature, the excursion will continue to Cape Shunte (or Cape of Love) and the Uzury Pad, where you will have the opportunity to go down to the shore of Big Baikal.

Return to base. Dinner.

5 day

After breakfast, packing and departure to Irkutsk. Travel time will take about 6 hours.

Accommodation in hotels in Irkutsk upon prior request.

Tour cost for 1 person 2019:

Superior option: accommodation on a tour in comfortable rooms (shower and toilet in the room)

Standard option: accommodation in Listvyanka - in comfortable rooms, on Olkhon - semi-comfortable rooms (shower and toilet on the floor)

The tour price includes:

1. Transfers according to the tour program
2. Hotel accommodation in Listvyanka, comfortable rooms
3. Excursion to the Taltsy Museum
4. Excursion to the Baikal Limnological Museum
5. Accommodation on the island Olkhon, mini-hotel "Baikal", semi-comfortable or comfortable rooms
6. Excursion to Cape Burkhan
7. Excursion to Olkhon Island
8. Meals according to the program: 1 day - lunch and dinner; Day 2 - breakfast; Day 3 - breakfast, lunch and dinner; Day 4 breakfast, picnic lunch, dinner; Day 5 - breakfast

The tour price does not include:

1. Additional transfers not specified in the program or specified in the program for an additional fee.
2. Additional services, not specified in the program or specified in the program for an additional fee.
3. Bath services.

You've traveled half the world. We vacationed at famous resorts. But you still haven’t seen Baikal?! Friends, since you are reading us, it means you are on the right track! Especially for you, we have developed and prepared excursion tours around south coast this amazing Siberian sea. With boat trips. Swimming in hot springs. Siberian cuisine. Bonfires under the starry sky and, of course, tasting fish soup from the freshest Baikal omul. We will introduce you to the sweetest inhabitant of the lake - the seal, tell you many legends and fairy tales, show you the amazing corners of this sacred sea and teach you how to eat Buryat poses. Come and touch your soul to this wonderful world!

For lovers of the romance of long and difficult roads, we offer several trekking tours along the Khamar-Daban and Eastern Sayan ridges, Olkhon Island and the Tunka Valley. Tours consist of two parts, the first one is more active and includes hiking through the mountains with a rise to a height of more than 2000 meters above sea level. And the second part is less active, provides for a tent holiday on the shores of Lake Baikal with one-day radial routes.

Our experienced guides are ready to organize for you an unforgettable fishing trip on Lake Baikal and Baikal mountain rivers. You will learn many features of fishing in Siberia. You will be able to catch grayling and Baikal omul, and just have a great rest doing your favorite activity.

It’s difficult to drive through places, that’s real adrenaline! Impenetrable swamps, stormy mountain rivers, complete off-road conditions and windfalls of the Siberian taiga... There are no tow trucks, no rescue service, only a winch, a jack, the skill of your accompanying people, a general team spirit, and an irresistible thirst for adventure! That's all you and I need! And as a reward, crystal clear mineral springs, views of mountains from angles from which very few people have seen them, the untouched nature of Siberia, and a lot of impressions!

Have you long dreamed of leaving the bustle of cities and plunging into the romance of camp life, with tents, bonfires, the sound of the surf and an endlessly starry sky? But, unfortunately, you’ve never had experience walking with a backpack, and therefore you don’t risk taking on serious routes yet? Or maybe you just love history and wouldn’t mind immersing yourself in the atmosphere of bygone days? Feel like a participant in those distant events, touch the secrets and mysteries that are a thing of the past? Then this tour is for you! A completely unique offer, a multi-day, historical quest tour on Lake Baikal. Discover the secrets and mysteries of the Irkutsk land!

Program

Attention! The website indicates the start date of the tour in Irkutsk.
(local time MSK+5)

• 1st day
• Meeting: Railway station Irkutsk, entrance No. 3, 9 a.m. a.m. local time (4 a.m. Moscow time), Irkutsk Airport, arrivals hall, opposite baggage claim, 9 a.m. a.m. local time (4 a.m. Moscow time)
• Departure by minibus to Olkhon Island (280 km from Irkutsk). Along the way, stop at a roadside cafe and at the ferry crossing.
• Arrival on the island Khuzhir village – tourist center Olkhona. Accommodation at a tourist base of your choice.
• Free time.
• Waiting for you in the evening walking tour To Cape Burkhan– one of the main attractions of Lake Baikal.
• Meals included: dinner.
• Breakfast and lunch - on your own.

• 2nd day
• Breakfast.
• Today you can go on one of the excursions around Olkhon Island.
• We recommend taking one of the following tours (for additional fee):
• - Excursion to Cape Khoboy - Uzury Pad, lasting 6-8 hours (1200 rub./person, including lunch);
• - Excursion to Pad Idibu - Lake Shara-Nur, lasting 5-6 hours (1200 rub./person, including lunch);
• - Boat excursion to the western shore of the Small Sea lasting 7-8 hours (1800 rub./person, including lunch).
• In addition to excursions, you can travel around the island on your own by renting bicycles or ATVs.
• Meals included: breakfast and dinner.
• Lunch - on your own.

• 3rd day
• After breakfast, get ready and return to Irkutsk.
• Departure by minibus from the base, lunch at a roadside cafe, arrival in Irkutsk.
• Standard departure time from Olkhon is 12:30, arrival in Irkutsk after 19:00
• Meals included: breakfast.

Hotel information

Tour cost for 1 person in rubles:

Discount for children under 12 years old - 10%.

Economy tour option: accommodation recreation center "Solnechnaya", 2 or 3 bed, poorly equipped room.
Standard tour option: accommodation mini-hotel "Baikal", 2- or 3-bed standard room (shower and toilet on the floor for 4 rooms)
Improved tour option: accommodation mini-hotel "Baikal", 2 or 3 bed superior room (shower and toilet in room)

May on Lake Baikal is a very controversial season. On the one hand, strong storms often occur here this month, powerful winds blow, and the weather often changes. On the other hand, this is one of the most interesting periods in the annual cycle, when nature awakens and the ice breaks up. There are still few tourists here, the coast is quiet and deserted. For those who decide to go to Baikal in May 2018, we are ready to offer exciting tourist programs. At this time, tourists have an amazing opportunity to see the beginning of ice drift on the largest freshwater lake world - a spectacle for which it is worth taking the risk and coming here, despite storms and snowstorms.

What is it like in May on Lake Baikal?

The May holidays are a great opportunity to go on a tour to Lake Baikal! It is in May that Baikal awakens from hibernation and begins to free itself from ice. You will see something unique natural phenomenon and go for the “leaving ice of Lake Baikal”. Beautiful photos, a charge of positive emotions and a sea of ​​new impressions are guaranteed to you!

ROUTE: Irkutsk - museum "Taltsy" » - village Listvyanka - Olkhon Island - Cape Burkhan (Shaman Rock) - Cape Khoboy - Irkutsk

TOUR PROGRAM

1 day

• Morning arrival in Irkutsk.
• Meeting tourists at the airport and railway station of Irkutsk, meeting the guide.
• Then we go by minibus to our first meeting with Baikal in village Listvyanka(70 km from Irkutsk).
• Along the way - a visit to the open-air museum of wooden architecture - "Taltsy". On the territory of the museum there are more than 40 historical and architectural monuments and 8,000 exhibits of great historical value.
• The Taltsy Museum is located on the right bank of the Angara on the 47th kilometer of the Baikal Highway on the road from Irkutsk to Baikal. The open-air museum complex attracts visitors with the opportunity to directly get acquainted with the material and spiritual culture of the peoples of the Baikal region. Evenki and Tofalar camps, a complex of Evenki burials and the Buryat ulus-letnik tell about their way of life, peculiarities of life and beliefs.
• Beautiful things open up here panoramas of Baikal nature and the Angara River.
• Lunch in Listvyanka.
• After lunch - visit to the Baikal Museum, the only museum in the world entirely dedicated to the great lake.
• Currently, more than 17 thousand different exhibits about the lake are collected here. In 2003, 11 huge aquariums appeared in the museum, in which visitors are presented with all underwater life - from gammarus crustaceans to the Baikal seal. The aquariums have a unique water supply system and water is supplied to them from a depth of 500 meters. The conditions for keeping representatives of the Baikal fauna are as close as possible to the natural biocenosis of the lake.
• In the evening, accommodation at a hotel in Listvyanka, in rooms with private amenities.
• Dinner.
• Route length per day- 350 km (auto).
• Power included: lunch, dinner.

Day 2

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Today you have a free day, which you can spend at your own discretion.
• We recommend you visit observation deck on Chersky Peak, nerpinary, try Baikal omul at the local market and check out the souvenir market. You can also take an ATV tour or go diving on Lake Baikal (for an additional fee).
• Power included: breakfast.

Day 3

• Breakfast at the hotel.
• Departure from Listvyanka to Olkhon Island. Distance is about 350 km.
• Along the way there will be stops at a roadside cafe, as well as at the ferry crossing.
• Arrival on the island.
• Accommodation at a tourist base.
• Dinner.
• After lunch you have free time, you can take a walk and see one of the main sacred places on Lake Baikal - Cape Burkhan (Shamanku rock).
• This cape is considered a symbol not only of the island, but of the entire Baikal.
  This place is otherwise called Shamanka rock. This name is due to the fact that shamans have performed their rituals here since ancient times. There is a hard-to-reach through cave in the rock, in which the shaman disappeared, and then appeared on the opposite side in front of the amazed crowd. For a long time, ordinary residents, and especially women, were not allowed to come here.
• This place has a special energy and is considered one of the places of power on Lake Baikal.
  
• In the evening - dinner.
• For those who wish, there is a sauna (for an additional fee).
• Power included: breakfast, lunch, dinner.

4 day

• Breakfast at the base.
• Today you have excursion to Olkhon island. You will discover all the natural diversity of the island, here the steppes give way to coniferous forests, and the gently sloping shores turn into bizarre cliffs and rocks. Along the way you will see how Baikal is awakening, in some places it is still covered with ice, and somewhere you can already see reflections of water. At Cape Khoboy you will see an extensive panorama of Small and Big Baikal. From above, you will see the endless expanses of the island and feel all its indescribable energy.
• After picnic in nature the tour will continue on Cape Shunte (or Cape of Love) and in the Uzury Pad, where you will have the opportunity to go down to the shore of Big Baikal.
• The length of the route per day is 76 km (by car).
• Power included: breakfast, picnic lunch, dinner.

5 day

• Breakfast. Releasing hotel rooms.
• Departure to Irkutsk.
• The length of the route per day is 350 km (by car).
• Power included: breakfast.

Included in price

1. Meeting at the railway station and at the airport at 09:00 am (local time, + 5 hours to Moscow)
2. Transfers according to the tour program
3. Hotel accommodation in Listvyanka, comfortable rooms (shower and toilet in the room)
4. Excursion to the Taltsy Museum
5. Excursion to the Baikal Limnological Museum
6. Accommodation on the island Olkhon, mini-hotel "Baikal":

Economy option– economy room, shower and toilet on the floor for 4 rooms;

Standard optionT– standard room, shower and toilet in the room.

1. Excursion to Cape Burkhan
2. Excursion to Olkhon Island
3. Meals according to the program: 1 day – lunch and dinner; Day 2 – breakfast; Day 3 – breakfast, lunch and dinner; Day 4 breakfast, picnic lunch, dinner; Day 5 – breakfast.

The price does not include:

1. Additional transfers not specified in the program or specified in the program for an additional fee.
2. Additional services not specified in the program or specified in the program for an additional fee.
3. Bath services.

Duration of this tour is 5 days / 4 nights. Length of stay at the hotel this tour- 4 days.

Requirements for participants/age restrictions:

• 1. Both beginners and experienced tourists can take part in the tour;
• 2. Children, accompanied by adults, are allowed to participate in the tour from the age of 5;

• headdress (warm cap);
• warm comfortable shoes for hiking and excursions,
• thermal underwear,
• wool socks,
• gloves/mittens.
• personal hygiene items,
• individual medications (related to health conditions),
• sunglasses.

ATTENTION!

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• Train (or flight) number, time of arrival at the starting point of the tour, mobile phone tourists for emergency communications.
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