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Our Fleet
m/s 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.
Technical characteristics
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Length |
39,4 m |
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Width |
6,9 m |
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Overall depth |
7,0 m |
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Keel depth |
1,9 m |
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Passenger capacity |
32 |
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Personnel |
15 |
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Speed |
20 km/h |
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Number of decks |
2 |
 
Cabins:
14 comfortable cabins (shower, toilet, electricity 220V): 5 double rooms, 6 twin rooms, 3 triple rooms.
Itinerary:
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| Day 1 |
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Starting point – Raketa quay in Irkutsk |
| 10:00 |
Embarkation; heading for Peschanaya Bay. Getting acquainted with the crew. |
| 10:20 |
Breakfast |
| 13:00 |
Lunch |
| 19:00 |
Dinner |
| 19:30 |
Coming to Peschanaya Bay. |
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Peschanaya Bay is one of the most famous and scenic places of the lake, which will never leave you indifferent. 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. Wind and water constantly blow out and wash out sandy soil from under the roots of famous “walking” trees, which grow on the sandy slope in the northern part of the bay. Peschanaya Bay boasts soft microclimate and big amount of sunny days per year – equal to that of Black Sea resorts. This is the only place in Siberia where average annual air temperature is positive (+0,4C). But the water temperature stays quite low, so swimming there is for those who love chilly water. |
| 20:00 |
A walk along the picturesque bay |
| 23:00 |
Russian banya (bath-house) |
| Day 2 |
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| 01:30 |
Leaving Peschanaya Bay for Olkhon Island. |
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Baikal has 26 islands, and Olkhon is the biggest of them. If we use poetic images, we can say that Baikal is the blue heart of Siberia, and Olkhon – the heart of Baikal. The island is the geographical, historical and sacred center of the 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. Even the shape of the island resembles greatly the shape of the lake. Olkhon has steppe landscapes with long and well warmed-up bays, rare for these areas aeol 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. |
| 09:00 |
Breakfast |
| 12:00 |
Coming to Khuzhir settlement on Olkhon island. Debarkation. |
| 12:00 |
Meeting a shaman (witch-doctor) |
| 14:00 |
Lunch (buryat cuisine) |
| 15:00 |
A visit to the ethnographical museum museum; walk on the island with destination at sacred Shaman Rock. |
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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. |
| 19:00 |
The ship goes on to Sennaya Bay |
| 20:00 |
Dinner |
| Day 3 |
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| 08:00 |
Coming to Sennaya Bay |
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In Sennaya Bay where permanently lives a forest guard, you will experience real magic power of Russian banya (bath house). A walk in picturesque surroundings will make this stop in Sennaya Bay unforgettable. |
| 09:00 |
Breakfast |
| 10:00 |
A walk along the shore |
| 14:00 |
Lunch on the shore |
| 15:00 |
The ship goes on to Port Baikal. |
| 19:00 |
Dinner |
| 20:00 |
Cruise along the Circum-Baikal railway |
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Circum Baikal railway is the unique monument of engineering architecture. It’s at the same time the shortest and the most complicated (in terms of construction) part of Transsiberian railways. Relatively short piece of railways (84 km) from Port Baikal to Kultuk has 39 tunnels, lots of viaducts, bridges and stone galleries. Italian and Albanian builders, which were considered to be the best in the world in those times, were invited to put key stones, crowning tunnel arches. This short piece of railways became really a “golden buckle on the steel belt of Russia”. A “buckle” – because Circum Baikal Railways joined broken by the lake Transsiberian railways, and “golden” – because the construction of it took up much more money than any other railway in Russian Empire in those days.
Nowadays Port Baikal is the dead-end of the Circum Baikal railways, but still there are trains coming here, and tourists can see well-preserved portals and vaults of numerous tunnels, various viaducts, massive breast walls and remaining modern style wooden construction built in the beginning of the 20th century. |
| 20:00 |
Coming to Tolsty Cape. Debarkation, visiting the tunnels. |
| 22:00 |
Coming back to the ship. Leaving for Port Listvyanka. |
| 23:00 |
Coming to Listvyanka. |
| 23:20 |
Leaving for Irkutsk. |
| Day 4 |
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| 05:00 |
Arrival at Irkutsk |
| 09:00 |
Breakfast |
| 10:00 |
End of the cruise |
Cruise dates:
12.06.08 – 15.06.08
03.07.08 – 06.07.08
31.07.08 – 03.08.08
14.08.08 – 17.08.08
04.09.08 – 07.09.08
The rate includes:
Full board
Excursions, recreational payments.
Visit to shaman
Everyday entertaining programme onboard
The rate doesn’t include:
Banya (bath-house) visits
A visit to the ethnographical museum
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