BDN31. New Year at the Baikal Lake
Type: Discovery
Duration: 6 days
Season: December-January
Dates: 31/12/2011-05/01/2012
Recommended Group Size: 1-10 PAX
Transportation: car/minibus
Itinerary:
Day 1 (31/12/2011).
Arrival in airport of Irkutsk. Transfer to Listvyanka settlement located at the Baikal Lake shore (70 km). Lunch. Accommodation at the Baikalskiye Terema hotel **. Free time in Listvyanka. New Year party at the hotel restaurant: Gala dinner, New Year games and competitions, gifts and surprises. Fireworks. (LD)
Day 2 (01/01/2012).
Breakfast. Free time in Listvyanka. You can go for a walk at the Baikal Lake shore and to watch ice sculptures. Other activities recommended: dog sledding, snow-mobile or “Khivus” motor-ship drive by the Baikal Lake ice (the most transparent in the World!). (B)
Day 3 (02/01/2012).
Breakfast. Baikal Ecology museum tour. At the museum aquariums you can see fishes of the Baikal Lake and famous nerpa (Baikal seal). After museum you can visit local market where you have a chance to purchase souvenirs made by Siberian skilled workmen with stone, wood, birch, glass and to taste smoked Baikal Lake fish (omul, grayling, whitefish). (B)
Day 4 (03/01/2012).
Breakfast. “Taltsy” open-air ethnographic museum tour. Museum is located at the picturesque Taltsy Tract at the Angara River shore. Tourists can see more than 40 samples of East Siberian wooden architecture. Dinner at the hotel. (BD)
Day 5 (04/01/2012).
Breakfast. Transfer to Irkutsk. Accommodation at the Irkutsk hotel ***. Lunch. Irkutsk city sightseeing tour: you can see the most interesting places of the city (squares, parks, churches, embankments, the oldest brick building of Irkutsk – The Church of Our Saviour (17th century), Kirov Square – place at city centre where Yakov Pokhabov's Cossak detachment established wooden fortress in 1661). (BL)
Day 6 (05/01/2012). Breakfast. Check-out by 12:00. Transfer to the airport or railway station.(B)
Legend: B – breakfast, L – lunch, D - dinner
Costs netto – winter 2011/2012:
716 EUR per person for joining in a fixed group.
Included:
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TWN accommodation in STD rooms
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meals per program: 5 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 1 dinner, 1 New Year Gala dinner
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all transfers per program
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excursions (entrance fee per programme is included)
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service of English-speaking guide
Not included:
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visa
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insurance
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air tickets
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luggage rooms in hotels, airports and train stations
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Russian bath-house
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dog sledding, snow-mobile and “Khivus” rent
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alcoholic drinks
Supplements:
All the costs are valid at the date of publication and are subject to reconfirmation at the time of booking.
Tour will be arranged for minimum tour capacity of 5 pax.
Comfortable and warm foot-wear and clothes are recommended.
The above day-by-day order of programme might be changed.