BDV6. Baikal Cruise by m/s Vampilov
(6 days)
Type: Discovery
Duration: 6 days
Season: August
Group Size: 1-32 PAX
Transportation: cruise boat "Alexander Vampilov"
“Alexander Vampilov” is a modern, comfortable double-decked motor ship. Refit in 2000, now it is equipped with modern navigation system and meets the demands of the most particular client. Up to 32 guests can be accommodated in comfortable cabins with shower and toilet. Big windows in the cabins offer stunning views of the Baikal sceneries. There is a restaurant, a bar, open deck for you to enjoy your cruise.
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Length overall
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39.4 m
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Speed
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20 km/h
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Beam overall
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6.9 m
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Number of decks
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2
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Overall depth
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7.0 m
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Number of cabins
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14
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Keel depth
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1.9 m
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Restaurant
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32 seats
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Passenger capacity
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32
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Bar
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Personnel
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15
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Reception
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Cabins:
14 comfortable cabins (shower, toilet, electricity 220V):
5 double rooms, 6 twin rooms, 3 triple rooms.
Itinerary:
Irkutsk – Peschanaya Bay – Sennaya Bay – Olkhon Island - Ogoy Island - Kadilnaya Pad - Irkutsk
Day 1
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Starting point – Raketa quay in Irkutsk
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10:00
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Embarkation heading for Academicheskaya Bay. Getting acquainted with the crew.
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10:30
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Breakfast
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13:00
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Lunch
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| 18:00 |
Dinner |
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Arrival in Akademicheskaya Bay.
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19:00-
22:00
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A walk along the picturesque Peschanaya Bay. |
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22:00
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The ship goes on to the Sennaya Bay.
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23:00-
01:00
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Arrival at the Sennaya Bay. Banya at the Baikal Lake shore. Tasting tea made of Baikal grasses. |
Day 2
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01:00
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Departure for Khuzhir settlement on the Olkhon Island.
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09:00
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Breakfast
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12:00
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Lunch.
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13:00
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Arrival at Khuzhir settlement.
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13:00-
16:00
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Debarkation by boats if the weather is favourable. Walk on the island to the Shaman-Rock, meeting a shaman (witch-doctor).
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16:00-
18:00
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A visit to the museum of Local Lore (to be paid on spot) and Bocharov's Estate (horse riding and mountain biking is offered for payment on spot).
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18:30-
19:00
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Return to the ship.
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| 19:00 |
Dinner. |
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Departure for the Zmeinaya Bay.
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| 22:00 |
Khoboy Cape (top Northern point of the Olkhon Island, one of the most picturesque places at Baikal) seeing from the board of the ship.
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Day 3
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08:00
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Arrival at the Chevyrkuysky Gulf (Zmeinaya Bay).
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09:00
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Breakfast
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10:00-
13:00
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Debarkation if the weather is favourable. Hot springs bathing. Recreation at the sandy beach. A walk along the picturesque bay.
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13:00
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Lunch.
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14:00-
18:00
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Hot springs bathing. Recreation at the sandy beach. A walk along the picturesque bay.
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18:00
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Dinner.
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19:00-
22:00
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Perch fishing is offered for payment on spot.
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| 22:00 |
Departure for the Ogoy Island.
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Day 4
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09:00
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Breakfast
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10:00
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Arrival at Ogoy Island. Debarkation (if the weather is possible).
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10:00-
13:00 |
Visiting Buddhist stupa (a mound-like building containing Buddhist relics, typically the remains of Buddha, used by Buddhists as a place of worship), built in 2005.
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| 13:00 |
Departure for the Kadilnaya Pad'.
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| 13:00 |
Lunch.
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| 18:00 |
Dinner.
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Day 5
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Arrival at Kadilnaya Pad.
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Breakfast.
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10:00-
12:00 |
A walk along the picturesque place.
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| 12:00 |
Lunch at the shore if the weather is favourable: tasting ukha (Russian traditional fresh fish soup) cooked of Baikal fishes at the camp fire.
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13:00-
15:00 |
Recreation at the shore. Excursion to the caves.
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18:00-
19:00 |
Dinner on the shore (if the weather is favourable).
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| 19:00 |
Recreation at the shore.
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20:00-
22:00 |
Banya at the Baikal Lake shore, tasting tea made of Baikal grasses.
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Day 6 |
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Departure for Irkutsk (Rakets quay).
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| 09:00 |
Breakfast.
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Arrival in Irkutsk. End of the cruise.
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Cruise dates - 2012:
Note: a cruise may be cancelled if the number of passengers is less than 25.
Costs for individual tourists – 2012:
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Cost, EUR per person, with the accommodation:
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TRP |
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925 |
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| DBL (5 cabins) |
1499 |
925 |
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| TRP (3 cabins) |
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816 |
Included:
- full board
- excursions, recreational payments
- visit to shaman
- everyday entertaining programme onboard
- service of English-speaking guide/ interpreter
- banya
Not included:
- visit to the museum of Local Lore
- transfers
- fishing
Accommodation, transfers and other services in Irkutsk and Listvyanka are available for extra fee. Please inquire.
Highlights of the cruise:
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Peschanaya Bay- one of the most famous and scenic places of the lake. The Bay was given the name of Siberian Riviera, moreover, it is declared to be under protection as a part of natural treasury. Coming here you feel as if the Creator while working on lake Baikal felt special inspiration exactly here and put all his love into the made by him cliffs, smooth slopes of the hills and perfectly shaped semi-oval of bay beach.
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Olkhon Island - the geographical, historical and sacred center of the Baikal Lake. It is the treasury of ancient legends and historical traditions. With its position in the central part of Baikal, near the maximum depth point (1637m), Olkhon has got the whole variety of natural Baikal landscapes. Olkhon has steppe landscapes with long and well warmed-up bays, rare for these areas sandy patches with dunes and hills, mixed deciduous forest with relic fir-groves, amazing marble cliffs covered with red lichen. For those who love wild nature and photographers it’s a real fount of immensely various landscapes and majestic sceneries.
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Shaman Rock – one of the nine Asian places of worship, located not far from Khuzhir settlement, has become a kind of visiting card of the lake, one the most famous key images of Baikal: there is no film or photo album about the lake, which can do without the picture of this place. The cave in the cliff of this cape is called Shamanka and it’s one of the most worshipped sacred places, where they made sacrifices and swore oaths since the time immemorial. Sacred Shaman Rock with the cave going through it and with access to it only for a shaman has been prohibited area for a long time, so nobody could go through the cave and even approach it.
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Zmeinaya (Snake's) Bay - The bay got its name because of the non-poisonous snakes sometimes appearing here. The bay is famous for hot bicarbonate-sulfate-sodium springs on the land and under water (temperature from +35C to +45C, water has hydrogen sulfide odor and flavour, florine content of 10-23 1/mg). Sources used for treatment of sciatica and musculoskeletal diseases.
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Kadilnaya Pad (Incense Gorge) - place where limestone was mined in ancient times. Now this is protected area. Picturesque mountain path goes to famous Kadilinskiye Caves. In the cultural layers of this caves the remains of two ancient culturals were found: the Stone Age and the Iron Age. On the way to caves you can see the surface outcrops of rocks. Some of them have intricate shape formed under the influence of weathering. Along the way you will go through the Devil's Bridge, where the trail passes by cliffs.

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