The village named Listvyanka (the most “touristy” place on Lake Baikal) is situated on the lakeshore giving you a great opportunity to enjoy yourself suntanning and swimming in the clear Baikal waters. While you are there, you'll get to know the natives' way of life and figure out why the stove in the house has to be in a living room. There is a nearby museum, where you'll find out why scientists think that relatively soon Baikal will become an ocean. In the aquariums of this museum you'll see a unique creature – the Baikal seal.
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Tankhoy is a tiny settlement on the Eastern shore of Lake Baikal populated by Buryats (indigenous people of Siberia) and Russians living together side by side. The village was founded in the end of the 19th century while the Trans-Siberian Railway was being built. Due to its location on the territory of the Baikalsky State Biosphere Reserve, you will rub shoulders with wilderness and even have a chance to encounter the Baikal sable, once almost extinct but now a well protected animal, a symbol of Siberia. You'll stay in an authentic Siberian “izba”, try Russian borsch and pirogi. Local “Babushka” (your hostess) will make your experience unforgettable.
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If you are looking for a place where you don't want to see streets full of tourists… If you are looking for a place where in addition to Russian traditions you'll get to discover the traditions of indigenous people – the Buriat nation… If you are looking for a place where you'll have a chance to rest properly after a long train trip… Then Bolshoe Goloustnoe is the place for you!
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Olkhon Island gives you a great chance to explore the stunning beauty of Lake Baikal. It might seem that you are living in a not extraordinary village on a not extraordinary Island, but in 5 minutes you are on a sandy beach talking to a local Shaman. In another 5 minutes you are in a dense forest and don't know how to find your way out. In half an hour you are standing on the rock and are afraid to look down as even if you throw a stone from that height, you cannot hear it fall. Olkhon Island is a sacred place for shamanists. Everybody who comes there recharges their batteries and goes back to Irkutsk born again.
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In 1891 Emperor Alexander III made a decree about building the longest railway in the world, the Trans-Siberian Railway. It connected the western part of Russia, Moscow, with the Eastern port, Vladivostok. The railway was being built from both ends towards each other. The biggest barrier for linking the ends was mountain ranges around Lake Baikal. It took the constructors never-ending seven years to build the road around the lake and complete the Trans-Siberian Railway. They had to build 39 tunnels and more than a hundred bridges. Nowadays this masterpiece is an open-air museum and this tour will give you a chance to enjoy Lake Baikal and take a tourist train through the history.
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Listvyanka
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