Excursions in Ulan-Ude

from 3500 RUB

Description

Meeting with your guide in a hall of your hotel in Ulan-Ude. During 3 hours of sightseeing tour of Ulan-Ude you will get acquainted with the following sights:
1) The Soviet square. Here you can see the Soviet architecture, administrative buildings, for example, the People’s Khural. Also here you can see the biggest head of Lenin in the world. 
2) Theater Square. Here you will see opera and ballet theater, singing colored fountainand symbol of friendship between the Buryats and Mongols. 
3) The Royal Arch. After the theater square, you will pass under the royal arch. Under this arch we will ask money from a local merchant monument. Then we will go to a souvenir shop in the Buryat Arbat. Here you will learn about the Buryat national cuisine (buza, shulen, buhler, hushur, boava).
4) Next, we will go to the market square of the 18th century. Here we will take a look at the first stone building in Buryatia – the Cathedral of St. Hodegetria
5) Geser monument. Here you will know a lot of Buryat legends about Buruat national hero – Geser. 
6) National theater of the Buryat drama, Victory Avenue built after Second world War. 

  • Price of walking tour / by car
    1 person – 8000 rubles. / 11000 rub.
    2 people – 5000 rubles. per person / 6500 rubles. per person
    3 people – 4000 rubles. per person / 5500 rubles. per person
    4 people and more – 3500 rubles. per person / 4500 rub. per person

Meeting with your guide in a hall of your hotel in Ulan-Ude. During 3 hours of sightseeing tour of Ulan-Ude you will get acquainted with the following sights:
1) The Soviet square. Here you can see the Soviet architecture, administrative buildings, for example, the People’s Khural. Also here you can see the biggest head of Lenin in the world. 
2) Theater Square. Here you will see opera and ballet theater, singing colored fountain and symbol of friendship between the Buryats and Mongols. 
3) The Royal Arch. After the theater square, you will pass under the royal arch. Under this arch we will ask money from a local merchant monument. Then we will go to a souvenir shop in the Buryat Arbat. Here you will learn about the Buryat national cuisine (buza, shulen, buhler, hushur, boava).
4) Next, we will go to the market square of the 18th century. Here we will take a look at the first stone building in Buryatia – the Cathedral of St. Hodegetria
5) Geser monument. Here you will know a lot of Buryat legends about Buruat national hero – Geser. 
6) National theater of the Buryat drama, Victory Avenue built after Second world War.
In addition, we will visit the Ivolginsky Datsan – the center of the Buddhist traditional Sangha of Russia. Ivolginsky Datsan was built in 1945 and it is the first Datsan in Russia after the destruction of Buddhist traditions in the USSR in the 1930s.
Also here you can find the immortal body of Khamba – Lama Itigelov. Hambo – Lama Itigelov went to nirvana and was buried in 1927 in a lotus position. In 2002, Hambo-Lama Ayusheyev and a group of lamas raised a sarcophagus with Hambo-Lama Itigelov and transferred his body to the Ivolginsky datsan. Nowadays there is a palace of Khamba – Lama Itigelov at the territory of Ivolginsky Datsan where his body is located. 
During the tour we also have a lunch with the Buryat national cuisine and you will learn what is buuza, shulen, buhler, hushur, boava. 

  • Price of walking tour / by car:
    1 person – 18000 rubles
    2 people – 10000 rubles. per person 
    3 people – 8000 rubles. per person
    4 people – 7500 rubles. per person
    5 people and more – 6500 rubles. per person

Other excursions

Trekking excursions in Baikal – 17 000 RUB
Excursions in Ulan-Ude – 3500 RUB
Excursions in Olkhon Island – 9000 RUB
Excursions in Arshan – 7500 RUB
Excursions in Listvyanka – 4500 RUB
Excursions in Irkutsk – 4500 RUB

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