Duration: Full day*
Group: 2-10 persons
Season: January – April
Language: English, Chinese
Tour type: Ice yachting/Nature, Wildlife and Adventure
Tour price: 140,000 rub
* Tour duration might change based on tourist preferences.
Baikal Ice yachting is luxury and adrenaline fuelled experience! It’s a favorite activity of the Russian tsar Peter the Great. If you’re looking for something unique and special, try yourself as a brave ice-yachtsman sailing a yacht across the clearest ice of beautiful Lake Baikal in the heart of Siberia.
The tour takes place either in Listvyanka village located 65 kilometers from Irkutsk or on the ice of the Maloye Morye strait 260 km away from Irkutsk. Listvyanka is one of the oldest villages at Lake Baikal. The Maloye Morye is a strait that separates Olkhon Island form the mainland.
You have a chance to try unique ice yachting on the transparent Baikal ice with ideally flat surface. The ice boat moves at air speed or even 2-5 times faster. Please notice, it’s not ice windsurfing. What is the difference between ice yachting and ice windsurfing? – It’s like a Formula1 race car and a bicycle respectively.
We have got the ice boats of two types – modern vehicles and vintage ones. The modern boats accommodate 1 person. The elegant retro-yacht is designed for 2 persons.
In Russia the ice boat construction began in XVIII century by order of the Tsar Peter the Great. Peter the Great used to sail a ice boat daily in front of the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg.
The ice yachting is an exclusive and unique activity. The ice boats are created using modern technologies and expensive materials, for example the carbon fiber is for the mast, and the special steel is for the ice skates. Each detail is aligned accurately by the professional pilot.
You will sail the ice boat under the control of a professional instructor if the air speed is comfort for sailing, 3-6 km/h. Previous experience is nor required. Children are allowed to participate the tour.
You can visit the famous Baikal Ice boat Racing as a spectator. Te event takes place in the period from mid March to mid April depending on the current temperature.
Price of the Baikal Ice Yachting: 140,000 rub per boat
The price includes:
– Hotel pick-up/drop off (Irkutsk, Listvyanka, Olkhon)
– Transfer to starting point
– English speaking guide
– Transfer of the ice boat
– Assembly/disassembly of the ice boats
– Ice boat rent for a full-day
– Equipment (helmets, gloves, goggles)
The price does not include:
– Meals and drinks
When you are at Lake Baikal area you can have the unique opportunity to visit a Shaman in Ust-Orda village or on Olkhon Island. You’ll be able to ask the Shaman all your questions and take part in the rituals of the Shamanism.
Whatever rout of the Full-day snowmobile tour you choose, either through taiga or over frozen surface of the lake, make sure you’ve got your camera with you because the views are breathtaking!
Book the Dogsled Tour along the Circum-Baikal Railway and enjoy working with powerful Baikal huskies, the beauty of the Baikal’s winter nature and the architecture monuments of the Circum-Baikal Railway.
Want to see the Circum-Baikal Railway in winter but afraid of riding over the frozen lake? Take a the tour by hovercraft and enjoy winter views of the Circum-Baikal Railway from its warm and comfortable cabin.
On the Baikal Caves tour you will explore several caves and admire their spacious halls and narrow passages, stalactites and stalagmites, crystals of ice and corallits. Most of Baikal caves are even older than the lake!
Circum-Baikal Railway tour. Spend a day in a comfortable train moving along Lake Baikal shore by the old railroad through tunnels and bridges built during the Tsarist Russia in 1902-1904.
Explore the Circum Baikal Railway more thoroughly with the Baikal Railway Walking Tour. Walk through the old tunnels and visit the most significant structures of the Baikal Railway.
On the Baikal Helicopter tour, you will see the unforgettable Baikal landscapes and the Circum-Baikal railway from a bird’s-eye view.
A Real Icy Banya! Such an exotic place actually exists and is located on the shore of Lake Baikal.
Spend your vacation in the Floating hotel “Ecotur” which is located in Chivyrkuysky Bay, the most magnificent bay of Lake Baikal.
“Around the Baikal” tour. During this boat tour you will travel by variety of water vehicles watching slowly changing landscapes or getting adrenaline rafting the fast mountain rivers.
One-day Fishing trip on Lake Baikal give you a chance to spend a day enjoing the stunning beauty of the Baikal’s nature and experience the excitement of fishing.
Winter tour to Maloye Morye and Olkhon Island. During the trip you will see landmarks which are not available in any seasons except winter.
Looking for an itinerary for a One-day tour to Olkhon island? It is impossible to see all of Olkhon in one day, but a daytrip can be fun and rewarding.
Hot Springs Arshan tour.A real fairy tale awaits you on Arshan tour! Down caps of treetops, blue, green, black, white ice of Lake Baikal, sun, walk along the lake on foot and by car, hot springs with amazing views of the majestic snow peaks bring resemblance to the Swiss Alps and Tibet at the glance of a globe rover.
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