IRKUTSK

Irkutsk-Baikal Tour
 

ITINERARY

Day 1.  Arrive in Irkutsk, transfer to the hotel***/****. Accommodation at the hotel. City tour, including a visit to the main sights of interest. You'll see buildings created in beautiful Siberian baroque, Russian classical style, in neoclassicism and constructivism, nice merchant houses and wooden houses so typical for old Siberia. Visit to Znamensky nunnery famous for its original iconostasis and the site of foundation of Irkutsk fort. 

Day 2. Full day at the Baikal Lake, the deepest lake in the world. Visit to the Open-Air Museum of Wooden Architecture on the way. It occupies the territory of 70 ha. A unique collection of historical and cultural memorials of Eastern Siberia peoples. Lunch at the restaurant on the shore of Baikal Lake. Tour to Baikal Museum (so called Limnological Museum) offering a great variety of species of fauna and flora of Lake Baikal and the lake history. Transfer back to Irkutsk.

Day 3. Visit to one of Irkutsk museums (at your choice: local lore museum, art gallery, museum of Spasskaya church, mineralogical or nature study museum, etc). Departure transfer to airport or railway station. Departure.

Prime season - the whole year round.

Included: transfers, accommodation, breakfasts and 1 lunch, english/ german -speaking guide, entrance fees,  transportation according the program.

Optional: one-hour boat trip (2 pax - 40 USD per person; 3-8 pax - 30 USD per person) - summer time only :-). 

You are welcome to Irkutsk and Baikal Lake!