Lake Baikal, Russia
3 Day Tour
3 Days on Lake Baikal
Day 1, Lake Baikal
Start the day with city tour. Irkutsk was founded by Cossack in 1661. See Victory Square with the WWII Memorial, the Church of Our Savior - the oldest stone construction in the city, built in 1706.
You might want to visit the couple of local museums during the city tour. Start with Sukachev’s Fine Arts Museum. You will see Novgorod & Siberian icons 16th-17thc. The collection includes the best Russian painters from the 18th-20thc such as Repin, Polenov, Korovin, Kustodiev and Petrov-Vodkin, as well as Western European masters from the 16th-19th centuries and paintings from China, India and Japan.
Next to Decembrists’ Memorial Complex, consisting of two houses: House-Museum of Sergey Trubetskoy & House-Museum of Sergey Volkonsky.
Day 2, Lake Baikal
Today you will be invited to Baikal Lake tour with 4 hrs boat ride and visit Irkutsk Museum of Regional Studies. Opened in 1782, the museum houses over 350,000 items, the majority of them are rarities. The life of Siberia from Prehistoric Age to present. Vast collection of minerals. Unique herbaria, stuffed animals and birds, logbooks of geographical and geological expeditions. Few unique items from China, Tibet and Mongolia like Buddha statues, tanka icons, masks and robes for Buddhist ceremonies, tambourines, drums, copper cymbals. The Natural Life Museum is located in the Church of Our Savior, Decembrists’ Museum, Taltsy Museum of Architecture and Ethnography, Icebreaker “Angara” and the Scientific Library.
Lunch in the local restaurant with the view of Baikal and as a main course fish "omul"
Day 3, Buryat Village
Visit to Buryat village with shaman show and lunch.
