Transfer to the Lake Baikal (65 km) with stop for excursion at the Taltsy open-air Museum of Wooden Architecture and Ethnography situated in the picturesque place on the bank of the Angara River. Museum represents a common Siberian village. Authentic wooden buildings of the XVII-XIX cc. carried away from different parts of the Irkutsk Region were reassembled at one place presenting Russian, Evenk and Buryat way of living. Arrival in Listvianka settlement located at the Lake Baikal shore. You will visit the Limnological Museum (the Baikal ecology museum) with a magnificent exhibition of the flora and fauna of Lake Baikal region and aquariums with live inhabitants of the Baikal presented.

Here, for example, you can see nerpa — a the only in the world exclusively freshwater small seal found only in the Lake Baikal. Scientists still can’t understand how these seals originally came to Lake Baikal located in the middle of Asian continent, hundreds of kilometers from any ocean. This astonishing species was on the verge of extinction in the second half of XX c. because of the valuable fur of cubs and now it is listed in the Red Book. You will ascent by cable way the Chersky Stone panoramic platform where you can take pleasure in picturesque the Lake Baikal and the Angara River source view. Also you will see St. Nicholas Church and visit souvenir market.