Route: Irkutsk city - Lystvyanka settlement - Irkutsk city           
Route type: excursion.           
Distance: 15 km by foot; 150 km by auto; 90 km by tourist train.           
Time of the year: all-the-year-round           
Duration: 3 days/2 nights          
Dates of groups that you can join: by request. Tour must start on Friday or Tuesday due to tourist train timetable.      

Easy 3-day beginners’ tour. If you have just a few days, meet Baikal in the Lystvyanka village not far from Irkutsk. There are very picturesque places. There are large range of entertainments such as excursions, Talcy museum of wooden art, Lymnological museum, solar observation, small trip along old railway, boat trip, hire of quadracycles. Skiing base works for winter sports lovers. In winter you can ride snowmobiles or ice boats on Baikal ice (January-March).           

Program:  
         
1st  day:           
Meeting in the airport (railway station). City tour "Irkutsk - heart of East Siberia". Going to the south part of Baikal - Lystvyanka settlement. Visting Talcy museum of wooden art on the way. Accomodation in the hotel Lunch. Walking to the air view spot “Cherskyi stone”. Dinner.       
    
2d day:          
Breakfast. Visiting Baikal museum. Walking excursion around Lystvyanka (visiting church of Nicolas wonder-worker, Plamenevskyi picture-gallery). Lunch. Dinner.
Optional: walking by motor boat, hire of quadracycles.
          
3d day:          
Breakfast. Coming by motor ship to Port Baikal village over Angara source at 11 o'clock. Traveling by train along old all-around Baikal railaway. Lunch on the way. Coming back to Irkutsk city.  
         
!!! The old-around-Baikal railway is a historical monument and architectonic-landscape reserve where 424 engineering constructions were built in the beginning of XX century on the distance of 84 km. Many tunnels, relieving walls and stone galleries are unique and extremely picturesque. This short section has no equal among other Russian railways by the volume of complexity and cost of work. Only tourist trains with soft armchairs and modern tele- and audiosystem go by the railway. The train has a bar. Guide tells about the history of building of all-round Baikal railway during stops in the most interesting and beautiful places.        

Cost:

group of 8-13 persons
group of 5-7 persons
group of 3-4 persons
group of 2 persons

Included:       
- Accomodation: hotels, guesthouses  
- Food        
- Transport       
- Excursions and museums      
- Guide from 1 to 3 day       
- Accidents insurance       

Not included:        
- Insurance against tick-borne encephalitis;        
- Program indicated “optional”   

   
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