Upon arrival in Irkutsk you’ll be met by your guide at the airport and transferred to our comfortable hotel (standard rooms, DBL/TWN). You’ll have some spare time to relax after check-in.

13:00-14:00 Enjoy Russian cuisine for lunch and go sightseeing. Irkutsk have a lot of interesting places to visit!

Today City Tour including a visit to the Cathedral of the Holy Sign. Apart from ornate and rich iconostasis, the cathedral is famous for its graveyard where you will see the graves of the Decembrists Mukhanov, Beschasnov, Trubetskaya and the Russian Columbus Shelekhov. We will then proceed to the Museum of the Decembrists. The museum is housed in a mansion belonging to one of the leaders of Decembrist revolutionaries - these were Russian aristocracy who were banished to Siberia after their ill-fated attempt in December 1825 to overthrow the Russian Tsar in favor of a Constitutional regime. The museum really gives off an aura of 18th century Russia.

Your day will start with breakfast in the hotel restaurant.

Today we will visit Kirov’s square, district of the Irkutsk city, located in the historic center between Lenin and Sukhe-Bator streets; the main square of Irkutsk. Monument to Alexander III, The figure of the russian emperor that was placed here in honor of the completion of the Trans-Siberian Railway. And also we will visit 130th District (Siberia’s most impressive original timber architecture) and it’s Sculpture Babr.

Breakfast at the hotel

Departure for Listvyanka, a small settlement located on the shores of Lake Baikal.

After lunch, you will go on a walking tour around the Listvyanka settlement: you will visit the Church of St. Nicolas the Wonderworker - the guardian angel of travelers, make a stop at a local fish marked, go to the Baikal Ecological Museumto see the lake's flora and fauna.

Overnight in Listvyanka

Breakfast at the hotel

Today you will take a trip by cable road to the Chersky Rock observation platform to enjoy a spectacular view of the Lake Baikal. If it is clear enough you will also see the Khamar-Daban mountain range on the opposite shore of the lake.

Overnight in Listvyanka

Early breakfast (or not, it depends on your plans) and departure from Listvyanka. Trip back to Irkutsk (we will deliver you to the airport or train station; upon request we can arrange extra night at our hotel in Irkutsk).