Summer Baikal classic (4 days) - 61 000 RUB - BaikalVision

SUMMER BAIKAL CLASSIC

from 61 000 RUB

Overview

It is your first time in Baikal, but unfortunately you have enough time to spend here? You have just 3-4 days, and you need to be in another place?
Don’t worry because we have express tour to Baikal. During 4 days you will visit the most popular tourist village – Listvyanka, the only habitable and bigget island in Baikal, taste Buryat cuisine and the famous Baikal omul, get acquainted with a flora and fauna of the lake, look at Baikal from a bird’s eye view and at a depth of 1642 meters, and of course, you will swim and sunbathe. So you can check your “must to do” list and strike out “Swim in Baikal”.
Despite the fact that you have limited time, you can enjoy beauty, grandeur and vastness of sacred Baikal.

Itinerary

Day 1

IRKUTSK – LISTVYANKA

Morning meeting at the airport / railway station with a nameplate “BaikalVision”. Transfer to Listvyanka village. Today you will visit Taltsy open-air museum. Here you will get acquainted with architecture of the 18th and 19th centuries. Then you will go up with the cable car to the Chersky Stone, from where you can see a picturesque panorama of Baikal and the source of the Angara river. Lunch in a restaurant with Baikal cuisine, where you will finally have the opportunity to taste the famous Baikal omul. Visit the Baikal Museum, where you discover flora and fauna of the Baikal region, you will see live seals, dive to the bottom of Lake Baikal at a depth of 1,637 m for 15 minutes. After you will visit a fish market.
You can also go to the nerpinary or enjoy a boat trip (extra charge).
Way Back to Irkutsk. Free dinner. Overnight in the hotel.

Day 2

IRKUTSK – OLKHON ISLAND

Breakfast. Meeting with the guide at 10.00. Transfer to the village Ust-Orda. On the way, we will meet with a real shaman, who will sanctify your journey, will answer your questions. Visit the National Museum of Ethnography, where you will know about history and traditions of the Buryat people.
Lunch at the “Golden Horde” cafe, where you will get acquainted with the Buryat folklore: dances, songs, throat singing, purification rites, etc.
Continuation a way to Khuzhir – central village in Olkhon island. Today you will have an excursion around Khuzhir village: Shaman Rock, one of the nine sacred place of Asia. Free dinner. Overnight in guest house/hotel.

Day 3:

KHUZHIR

Breakfast. Departure for an excursion (8 hours) at the northernmost point of the island – Cape Khoboy. Due to a lack of roads on the island, your trip will be in “road-off” style in specially designed cars like UAZ or Niva.
Cape Khoboy is a sacred place for the indigenous people of the island – the Buryats. It takes plenty of shamanic rituals and religious ceremonies. Here you can see all four sides of the lake. During your excursion, the driver will prepare for you lunch from fresh fish.
Return to Khuzhir. Free dinner. Overnight in guest house/hotel.

Day 4:

OLKHON ISLAND – IRKUTSK

Breakfast. Today you will have water excursion around the area of the Small Sea (group). Today you will see Ogoy Island, Zamogoy Island, Elenka Island. You will try the healing springs, visit the Buddhist stupa. In addition, today you may see real seals in the wild.
Arrival in Khuzhir village at 3 pm.
Next you will have a transfer to Irkutsk (about 4 hours). Crossing the Olkhon Gate Strait by ferry. Transfer to Irkutsk. On the way you will be able to see 3 types of terrain: rocks, forests and steppes. Arrival in Irkutsk at 7-8 pm. End of the program.

Price of this tour

63 000 RUB per person in a group of 10 people
67 000 RUB per person in a group of 9 people
69 000 RUB per person in a group of 8 people
71 000 RUB per person in a group of 7 people
77 000 RUB per person in a group of 6 people
81 000 RUB per person in a group of 5 people
85 000 RUB per person in a group of 4 people

Price includes:

Accommodation as in itinerary(private bathroom)
Transport as in itinerary
Meals as per itinerary: 1st day — lunch; 2nd day — breakfast, lunch; 3rd day — breakfast, lunch; 4th day – breakfast.
English-speaking guide
Visits and excursions as in itinerary
Activities as in itinerary

Price does not include:

Airline tickets
Alcohol
Visa fees and travel insurance
Personal expenses and tips
Invitation letter

Additional info

The sequence of visits can be changed depending on weather conditions.
Guaranteed departure from 4 people.
Accommodation is expected in rooms of the “Standard” category.
The room or hotel category can be changed according to your preferences. Please contact us before departure.

Departures

May and September 2026: on request