Day 1
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.And also we will visit 130th District (Siberia’s most impressive original timber architecture) and it’s Sculpture Babr.