DATE

PROGRAM

1 day

Arrival from Europe to Moscow

Meeting with an English-speaking guide and transfer to the hotel.

Accommodation in Rossia hotel, standard DBL rooms

2 day

Buffet breakfast in the hotel

Check-out and departure for excursions

Excursion in the Kremlin with Cathedrals followed by a sightseeing excursion around the city

Dinner in a local restaurant

Transfer to Yaroslavsky rws to take a train #10 to Krasnoyarsk

Departure by train at 23.24, 2nd class

3 day

In train

4 day

In train

5 day

Arrival in Krasnoyarsk at 13.23 (local time).

Transfer to the hotel with a guide

Sightseeing excursion round the city.

Free time in the city (optional excursion to Enisey HydroElectroStation)

Dinner and overnight in the hotel

6 day

Cont breakfast in the hotel.

Departure for an excursion to the National Reserve "Krasnoyarsky Stolby"which is a unique natural phenomenon comfortably situated at the right shore of Enisei. Tourists will see here such animals as deer, sable, wild voles and also those animals listed in the Red Book: peregrine falcon, calypso, Golden Eagle,Saker Falcon.

Lunch picnic during an excursion in Krasnoyarsky Stolby National Reserve

Coming back to the city and dinner in a local restaurant

Transfer to the railway station for the train #44 dep at 00.24 (local time that is 24.09), 2nd class

7 day

Arrival in Irkutsk at 19.54 (local time).

Meeting with a guide and transfer to the hotel.

Dinner in the hotel

8 day

Cont breakfast in the hotel

Departure with guide and bus for excursions.

Excursion in the museum of Decembrists.

The museum is regularly open for visiting and detaily tells about the life of Decembrists in a settlement of the Eastern Siberia (1826-1856).  Precious original belongings of the family of Trubetskiye are kept in the museum.

Departure for Baikal.

Excursion in Taltsi (Wooden Museum under Sky) which includes incredible antiques and art objects. For instance an ancient German washing machine, symbiosis of wooden barrels, a tramendous cast iron clockwork.

Arrival in Listvyanka.

Excursion in Limnological Museum which is the only museum fully dedicated to the history of Baikal lake, its animals and greenery. Tourists will learn more about fish of the lake and Baikal seal.

Walking in Listvianka.

Dinner in a restaurant in Listvianka or in "Sibirskaya Zaimka"

Overnight in the hotel

9 day

Cont breakfast in the hotel

Departure by bus for guided excursions

Sightseeing excursion round Irkutsk

Departure with guide and transport to Slyudyanka -  one of the smallest regions of Baikal known for its amazing landscape, Port Baikal and Locomotive museum.  

Visit Locomotive Museum. The museum will introduce tourists with the history of Krugobaikal railway construction which is one of the most beautiful railways of Russia. Thanks to Krugobaikal railway founded in 1904 Slyudyanka city was developed and turned into an attracted tourist city. In the reading hall of the museum tourists will see a librarywith a huge collection of historical, archeological and railway transport books.

Arrival in Port Baikal.

Taking a ferry to Listvianka

Dinner in Listvianka or in a restaurant in Irkutsk

Transfer to rws for taking the train to Ulan-Ude, #2, dept at 02.36 (local time)

10 day

Arrival in Ulan-Ude at 10.34, local time. Meeting with guide and bus and transfer to the hotel.

Sightseeing tour round Ulan-Ude, visiting Ethnografical Musem under Sky, Ivolginsky Datsan, memorial of Victory, Square of Unions, Square of Pushkin, the Gates of the Monarch, Fountain near the theatre of Opera and Ballet, Arbat as one of the main streets of the city.

Dinner in the hotel, rest and overnight in the hotel 

11 day

Check-out from the hotel in the early morning 

Transfer to the rws to take a train  to Ulan-Batoor.

Taking a train # 264 at 05.43 (local time)

12 day

Arrival in Ulan-Batoor at 11.20 (local time). Meeting with guide and transfer to the hotel.

Sightseeing tour round Ulan-Batoor without entrances. During the excursion you will visit such attractions as square of Suhe-Batora, Park of Friendship, Zaysan memorial, Center of Cultural and Religious heritage of Zanabazar.