Christmas Eve at Lake Baikal, 4 days

Itinerary

1 day Arrival at Irkutsk airport. Transfer and accommodation in "Irkutsk" hotel. Breakfast at the hotel restaurant.
* as a rule at breakfast on Christmas Eve one goes for wheat porridge, honey and dried fruit. Irkutsk sightseeing tour featuring a way up the belfry of the Holy Cross church. Lunch in a city restaurant. Visiting the ice town. Ice-skating. Transfer back to the hotel. Free time.
Visiting the Holy Sign Convent, Christmas mass. Transfer to the hotel

2 day Holiday breakfast. Baikal tour, visiting Sibirskaya Zaimka (Siberian hunters’ lodge). Riding on troika (triplet of horses). Visiting Taltsy
* an open air museum of wooden architecture which presents a unique gathering of historical, architectural and ethnographical monuments of XVII–XIX cent. One can go sliding on cow skins (at extra cost) from the highest ice chutes of Baikal region. On your coming to Listvyanka you will visit a Russian family to have dinner with. In the evening you can take a real Russian steam-bath. Dinner.

3 day Breakfast, walking in Listvyanka. Getting up to Chersky Stone by chair-lift that opens a beautiful Baikal view Going by dog sled. Lunch at the restaurant. Transfer back to Irkutsk. Check-in at the hotel “Irkutsk”. Dinner.

4 day Breakfast. In the morning you will be transferred to the airport / railway station.

Price

From € 746

Included

• twin hotel accommodation BB
• entrance fees
• transfers without guide
• meals per program
• transport assistance per program
• English, German or French speaking guide

Supplements

Single accommodation 22 euro