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Tour Summer Drive
Walking around Olkhon Island, boat rides and getting to know the Buryat culture. Unique landscapes, excursions in UAZ vehicles and boat trips along Lake Baikal await you.
Author's tours to Lake Baikal, Mongolia and Kamchatka
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Program

day 1: meeting at the airport and excursion to Listvyanka 🏘

9:30 we meet you at the airport or pick you up from anywhere in Irkutsk and start our mini journey
10:30-12:00 we will visit the architectural and ethnographic open air museum Taltsy
12:30 we will stop at the source of the Angara
13:00-13:45 we will climb to the observation deck at a height of 728 meters (the lift costs 400 rubles per person, or you can walk)
14:00 we will visit St. Nicholas Church
14:30 we will stop at the fish market, where you can taste the most delicious fish of Lake Baikal
15:30 we will visit the Baikal Museum (optional 400 rubles per person)
16:30 check-in at the hotel and a long-awaited rest after the flight on the shore of Lake Baikal

🏘 Accommodation: Listvyanka
🍲Meals: Not included

day 2: water tour to the Circum-Baikal Railway 🌊

10:00 breakfast
11:00 departure time from Listvyanka
11:30 our tour will start with a visit to the Shaman Stone. We will approach it by boat. Then our way will pass along the Port of Baikal and the Circum-Baikal Railway
12:00 the first stop of the village of Shumikha and an excursion to the Italian wall
13:30 picnic time
14:30 transfer by boat to Polovinnaya station, inspection of bridges, tunnels. Optional swimming in the lake
17:00 arrival in Listvyanka

🏘 Accommodation: Listvyanka
🍲Meals: breakfast, picnic

day 3: heart of Lake Baikal - Olkhon Island and Ethopark

9:30-10:00 departure to Olkhon
On the road 4-5 hours. There will be stops along the way where the guide will tell you about local traditions
12:00 Ethnopark, Buryats traditions, throat singing, playing a musical instrument and the Ekhor dance
14:00 lunch time, we will taste the national Buryats cuisine
16:30 sculpture Eagle - sacred animal of the Buryats
17:30 ferry to Olkhon Island
19:00 check-in at the hotel
19:30 we will meet the sunset at Cape Burkhan, Shamanka Rock is a sacred place, a place of power on Lake Baikal

🏘 Accommodation: Olkho
🍲Meals: breakfast, lunch

day 4: explore the north of Olkhon Island 🧐

9:00 breakfast
10:00 today we will have a car tour on a colorful local UAZ – the only transport that never fails in the absence of asphalt, and we will go on a tour of the northern part of Olkhon. Today will be full of beautiful landscapes and off-road.
13:00 picnic time and continuation of the trip. Today we will visit: Cape Harantsy overlooking the islands of Belenky and Krokodilchik, Sandy bay, Cape Three Brothers, the north of the island - Cape Hoboy and Love Cape
17:00 return to Khuzhir and free time
19:00 dinner

🏘 Accommodation: Olkhon
🍲Meals: breakfast, lunch

day 5: Small Sea water tour 🌊

9:00 breakfast
10:00 today we have a boat trip on the Small Sea: we will visit Zamogoy Island, Ogoy Island with a Buddhist Stupa of Enlightenment and a holy spring.️
(In case of bad weather, there will be an excursion to the south of the island by car: Rock Garden, Khalzany, Cape Mare's Head and Trident rock).
16:00 return to Khuzhir and free time
19:00 dinner.

🏘 Accommodation: Olkhon
🍲Meals: Breakfast

🎁 And only for our tourists we give you a BONUS
👇 a visit to the BATHHOUSE right on the shore of Lake Baikal🤪

day 6: Tazheran Steppe and way back to I

9:00 breakfast
9:30 we leave for the ferry
11:30 Tazheran Steppe is a place of nomadism of ancient people, ancestors of modern Yakuts: bird's-eye views of Lake Baikal, valley of stone spirits, Bay Aya and panoramic points of Tondor mountain
14:00 lunch at the Buryat cafe
17:30 return to Irkutsk

🏘Accommodation: Irkutsk (not included)
🍲Meals: breakfast, lunch
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Our team of native Siberians who know and love Baikal

Ivan
Founder, operation and client manager, tour guide
“I spent every summer at the Baikal in my childhood and youth so Lake Baikal is my second home”. Will select the best tour.
Kate
Co-author, ideological inspirer, tour guide
Baikal is a piece of her soul. You will be inspired by the beauty of Lake Baikal for the rest of your life so that you will want to come back here again and again.
Vitaly
Tour guide, ethnographer
and Baikal expert
He knows how to intrigue, show and tell not only about Baikal, but many corners of our vast country.
Oleg
Tour instructor
and guide
In tourism since school years, hiking, climbing in the Baikal region and Central Asia. Drives the car perfectly.
Igor
Guide-instructor. The best instructor in the world of rafting
I love water in all its forms: liquid - rafting, snow - snowboarding, ice - skating and winter Baikal"
Alexander
Tour guide,
historian
A sociable person whom you can listen to without getting tired, knows the answers to all questions, remembers all the dates and numbers.
Oksana
Tour guide. Knows everything about Irkutsk and Baikal.
She will show you, tell you and make you fall in love with our region. You will never be bored with her, because she has a lot of experience behind her.
Sergey
Guide driver and
a dad of four children
He loves to travel by car. He knows many local legends and will tell you everything about the Buryats and their traditions.
Maria
Tour guide, as well as
a trekking instructor
“My calling is to make people fall in love with Baikal and see how guests experience delight when discovering its unique beauty.”
Daria
Tour guide, as well as
an experienced driver
A guide with more than 10 years of experience in tourism and 20 years of hiking experience. Conducts walking and auto tours of Lake Baikal and beyond
Lisa
Guide-translator,
loves nature
“The best mind-stimulating substance are people! They help you discover new facets of the boundless world around you.”
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