PROGRAM
1st day: Meetingin in Irkutsk city. Traveling to Baikal shores along Tazheranskaya steppe by jeeps. Lunch (national buryat and siberian cuisine). Overcoming complex wood road along shores of Maloe sea. Visiting shaman’s places, healing springs and ruins of an ancient settlement. Accomodation in the comfortable hotel in the middle of virgin taiga near Zama village or in tents.
2d day: Traveling to cordon of Baikal-Lenskyi National preserve by high-speed boat along shore. Accomodation in big comfortable tents at the cordon. Lunch at the cordon - siberian cuisine (baikal fish - white-fish, grayling, burbot, pike).
3d day: Traveling to the head Lena river from “Solnechnaya” weather station to Baikal range pass along good wood path escorted by armed preserve worker. Observing wild animals in native habitat. Night in the winter hut on the shore of mountain lake.
4th day: Observing beautiful sunrise from rocks of Baikalskyi range. Coming back to the cordon of the preserve. Accomodation in tents at the cordon. Siberian sauna.
5th day: Walking to waterfalls near foothills and the air view spot. Observing and photographing/ image acquisition wild animals of preserve shore from high-speed boat in evening and morning
6th day: Traversing Baikal to Ushkaniy islands archipelago by high-speed boat. Observing and photographing nerpas breeding-ground at Bolshoi Ushkanyi island. You can see up to 200 nerpas. Turning round Svyatoi Nos peninsula by boat and going to Chivyrkuiskyi gulf. It is “omul barrel” of Baikal. There are many fish species in the shallow gulf. There are healing springs in “Zmeinaya” bay. Taking bath in springs. Excursion round islands of the gulf. Traversing Baikal. Coming back to the cordon.
7th day: Excursion along Baikal-Lenskyi preserve shore. Visiting weather station. Observing and photographing brown bears from air view spot and tower. Sauna.
8th day: Traveling to Zama village by high-speed boat. Going to Irkutsk city by jeeps. Accomodation in the hotel in Irkutsk.
9th day: send-off.
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