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SIBERIAN MOSAIC

Route type: excursion.
Route: Irkutsk city - Maloe (small) sea – Olhon island – Listvyanka settlement - all-around Baikal railway - Irkutsk city.
Distance: 780 km by auto.
Time of the year: all-the-year-round except December/February.
Duration: 6 days/5 nights.        
Dates: by request.
!!! Tour must start on Monday or Friday due to tourist train timetable.

PROGRAM

1st day:
     Arriving to Irkutsk. Meeting (airport or railway station, "Baikal-Eco" nameboard). Gathering in the office at 9 o'clock. Meeting with guide. Traveling to the warm gulfs of Maloe Sea at 10 o'clock. (Distance is 250 km, it takes about 6-7 hours to get where with stops for rest and short walks). Breakfast on the way (traditional buryat cuisine). The road goes along Tazheranskaya steppe. Visiting petroglyphs. Stopping near Obo. This is a holy place for offering to Buryat spirits. Arriving and accomodation in the tourist's base. Lunch. Short excursion to an ancient settlement of Kuerkans, to a settlement of primitive man and taking a look at surrounding bays. Here you can climb on the Shibete peak. Beautiful view is opened from it top. Dinner.  

2d day:
     Breakfast. Travel along Tazheranskaya steppe to the cave “Mechta” (Dream). Total distance is 20 km. (Transfer by UAZ auto. Coming back by foot.) After cave you can come down to Baikal to small quite "Arso" bay. Shores in this part of the lake are very high. So we will walk one and a half kilometers to a small quit bay “Arso”. After rest we will come back to the camp on the steppe along the steppe and abrupt bank. If group is physically strong, we can climb on top of a cult mountain “Tanhan” (970 m total, climbing 500 m), and come down through the larch forest. We can meet fox, musk-deer or wild goat there. Dinner. Sauna.
    Optional: water excursion by motor boat along Baikal.

3d day:
     Early breakfast. Ferry to Olhon Island. Going to Huzhir village (35 km). Accommodation and lunch on the tourist's base. Walking to holy cape Shamanka. It means White Rock. It is “visiting card” of Baikal. Visiting famous sandy beaches, local regional museum with collection of ancient household goods reflecting life and culture of islanders. Dinner. ride bicycles, horses at free time.
     Optional: sauna, ride bicycles, horses.

4th day:
     Breakfast. Jeep-excursion to the north end of Olhon island (about 60 km). Visiting picturesque places: Sagan-Hushin (Three brothers) rock, Peschanaya bay (where GULAG camp was located); tracking to the end of island - Hoboi cape; observing gull rookery. Lunch in the Uzury village. Omul fish-soup. Coming back to the tourist's base. Dinner.
     Optional: meeting with local shaman.

5th day:
     Breakfast. Departure from the island. Traveling to Lystvyanka settlement (distance - 370 km). Angara river originate here. It is the only river flowing out from Baikal. Short stop at the air view spot. View to holy Shaman-stone is opened from it. One legend tells that angry Baikal threw it after his daughter Angara. Because she run away to her lover Enisei. Lunch on the way. Visiting Ethnographic museum of wooden arts “Talcy”. Accomodation in guest-flats. Visiting the acting church of Nicolas wonder-worker, private picture-gallery of Vladimir Plamenevskyi. Taking a look at the fish and souvenir market. Free time. Dinner.

6th day:
Breakfast. Walking along Lystvyanka settlement. Visiting Baikal limnological museum. Its exposition meets us with lake's history, its animals and plants. We will see lakes’ inhabitants: nerpas, omul, golomyanka in aquariums of the museum. Virtual diving at the Baikal floor. After lunch visiting the air view spot “Cherskiy stone” (taking a lift). Free time. Dinner.
     Optional: hire of quadrocycles, dog's teams, riding.

7th day (thursday, Sanday):
    Breakfast. Boarding on the tourist train going along Baikal shore by the old all-round Baikal Railway. Lunch on the Polovinnaya station. The train arrived at the railway station of Irkutsk city. Travel is finished.
     !This 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.

Horses of Tazheran. 

Heart in the steppe.

Sunny.

 

Cost for 2008:

group of 8-13 persons

group of 5-7 persons   

 

group of 3-4 persons   

group of 2 persons   

 

Included:
- meeting in the airport (railway station);
- accomodation: tourist's base at Maloe sea and Olhon island, privite guest complex (homestay-flats) in Lystvyanka;
- nutrition;
- transport;      
- excursion and museums;
- guide from 1 to 6 day;
- accidence insurance.

Not included:
- program indicated “optional”;
- insurance against tick-borne encephalitis;
- single-room.

 

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