Multi-adventures at Lake Baikal
5 days / 4 nights
This tour is a unique cocktail of adventures! Within only 5 days you will get to know Baikal, experience utterly all winter activities offered at the Lake in wintertime, and learn about Baikal and the history of the Land. You will go snowmobiling through the National Park, try yourself in husky sledding, have fun downhill skiing, and find out the secrets of ice fishing. You will visit the famous CircumBaikal Railway and Wooden Architecture museum, learn about the legendary Lake and its flora and fauna, and with all this, you will still have time for yourself - to discover your own Baikal and enjoy its winter beauty on your own.
Tour type: snowmobiling, husky sledding, downhill skiing, ice fishing, sightseeing
Group size: 6 persons minimum
Requirements: no special requirements; warm winter outfit is a must
Day 1
Meeting at the airport, luggage assistance, breakfast. Transfer by coach to Listvyanka located in the mouth of Angara-river, 70 km away from Irkutsk. On the way – stop in Taltsy for a guided tour of the Taltsy Open-Air Museum of Wooden Architecture, stop at the source of the Angara river, the only river flowing out of Baikal. Check in at the hotel “Flagman”, lunch in the hotel restaurant
Time at leisure, dinner and overnight in the hotel
Day 2
Breakfast. Safety and snowmobile driving instructions. Half-day snowmobiling trip to Chernaya Pad’, through the taiga-woods backcountry of Pribaikalsky National Park with stops en route to enjoy the views (two persons on a snowmobile, total distance 36 km).
Tea at the cafeteria of the retreat lodge, return to Listvyanka. Time at leisure
Dinner, overnight at the hotel
Day 3
Breakfast. Depart by an air-cushioned amphibious vehicle (ACV) for CircumBaikal Railroad, the so-called Golden Buckle of Steel Belt of the Russian Empire, which was built under the last Russian tsar. During our trip we will see the 1-st tunnel of the Old Round-Baikal Railway, Italian support walls and bridges and learn about the history of the place and railway construction in Russia.
Return to the hotel. Lunch of Siberian cuisine. Ride in Siberian husky sleds in the vicinity of Chelpanov meadow in the taiga-wood (10 km)
Dinner, overnight at the hotel
Day 4
Breakfast. Walk along the crystal clear Baikal ice, introduction to ice-fishing. The local ranger who is a taiga-dweller and our fishing instructor will introduce to you some Lake Baikal secrets of ice-fishing, which is very popular locally (ice fishing with net)
Return to the hotel, lunch at a waterfront restaurant “Last Century”. Russian steam house - banya
Farewell to Lake Baikal Dinner (Siberian cuisine), overnight
Day 5
Breakfast .Time at leisure or downhill skiing (prior request, ski lift and equipment is not included in the price and is paid extra)
Check-out, departure by coach to Irkutsk. Lunch in a city restaurant. Transfer to the railway station and departure for Moscow at 16.20
