Let's find out in detail about holidays on Lake Baikal in the summer of 2021, food prices, hotels, find the best air tickets and visit the most famous places in the southern part, where you can stay for a week or more in a tent or at a good camp site.
The lake is an amazing place and relaxation here is more than just a vacation. This is the place where tourists from all over the world come to rest for savages, summer vacations on Lake Baikal are one of the most popular tourist destinations among tourists from Europe, the water here is the purest water of all lakes on earth, and the depth of the deepest point is 1698 meters ...
To begin with, if you decide to arrange a vacation on Lake Baikal in the summer, we advise you to familiarize yourself with the recommended hotels where it is better to stay for a vacation in nature.
If you have decided to purposefully relax in such places as ‘Sandy Bay’ or relax on Olkhon Island, then we recommend that you read these articles.
How to get to Baikal?
From Irkutsk you can get there by car or minibus in just a few hours. Minibuses run from the city center, the trip takes 1 hour to Listvyanka, to Olkhon 4 hours, to Baikl'sk 3 hours.
You can get from Moscow by plane in just 5 hours, then from the airport by minibus No. 45, 80, 480 we get to the center and take a bus to the desired place on Lake Baikal.
The prices for travel, stops and routes are described in detail in the material on how to get to Lake Baikal.
You can find cheap plane tickets to Irkutsk from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Krasnoyarsk, and other cities further.
Where can I find cheap hotels and flights?
For those tourists who have decided to relax in the summer in Siberian nature and clean air, we advise you to book cheap hotels on Lake Baikal in the search form on a separate page.
With the help of the search engine for the best accommodations, you will receive not only discounts, but also high-quality service of all hotels located on the coast. Most importantly, don't forget to book your seats in advance!
You can buy plane tickets to Irkutsk through Aviasales, this search engine offers the lowest prices for flights.
Summer vacation on Lake Baikal 2021
Where to go to rest on Lake Baikal? Be sure to check out all the directions suggested below:
- a selection of the best recreation centers on Olkhon with good reviews and prices,
- tourist centers on the Small Sea with prices and photos,
- camp sites on the lake in the area of Bolshoy Goloustnoye, Listvyanka and other areas.
Rest in Listvyanka, hotel prices
We will start our summer vacation on Lake Baikal from the village Listvyanka, everyone who has ever come to the city of Irkutsk for work or to relax, to see the city, have been here and enjoy the beauty of the lake.
There are plenty of tourist camps, anyone can stop and eat real Baikal dishes. One of the hotels we recommend is Mayak.
This hotel is located in the very center of Listvyanka, all buses stop right outside the entrance at the final stop. If you want to go to Irkutsk to museums, visit the 130th quarter or walk along the embankment, then we can safely take a minibus to the city center, the fare is 150 rubles.
The cost of a room in the Mayak hotel costs from 4200 rubles / day, on the upper floors there is a very beautiful restaurant with a picturesque view, a dinner for 2 people will cost 3000 rubles excluding alcohol.
You can also relax on Baikal in summer in other hotels with good service and comfortable accommodation, located right on the shore of the lake.
One of the hotels is "Anastasia", located right next to the coast with its own swimming pool and a real wooden yacht, the cost of living is from 4800 rubles per day.
Among the comfortable hotels are:
- "Legend of Baikal" from 3600 rubles,
- hotel "Baikal Fairy Tale" cost per day from 3000 rubles,
- hotel "Nikola" about 2000 rubles
Why do tourists come here? Try Baikal omul! A fish market is organized in the center of the village, where every tourist will find omul and grayling to his taste. Omul is sold in several forms:
- Hot smoked omul, cost per tail from 100 rubles
- Cold smoked omul, cost per tail from 130 rubles
- Omul salted, cost from 120 rubles
- Omul dried, cost from 100 rubles
In the markets you will find boutiques with souvenirs, prices for magnets from 200 rubles, a marble casket costs 4500 rubles, handicrafts from cedar from 500 rubles.
Prices for food, travel, entertainment and other costs can be found on a separate page →
At the fish market, we do not forget to bargain and reduce the price, there is no need to pretend to be a tourist who has arrived from afar, for such a special price tag here is one and a half times higher than usual.
Summer vacation on Baikal in 2021 simply must be accompanied by the preparation of the Baikal omul, this is one of the conditions of the Baikal nature. If you didn't manage to taste the fish, you can try it in any cafe or restaurant, there are enough establishments near the road and on the shore.
Also in the village, many excursions are organized, both on foot along a special path to the village of Bolshie Koty, and boat excursions. The cost of walking tours starts from 500 rubles, boat tours from 500 rubles to the village "Big cats", walking time is 1 hour along the coast.
From the entertainment you can go to see the real Baikal seals living in the "nerpinaria". The cost of the show with Baikal seals is 350 rubles per adult and 250 rubles per child.
The village of Listvyanka is also famous for the fact that during the Sochi 2014 Olympic Games, it was here that they plunged into the water with the Olympic torch, and it was from this place that the Mira expedition began, in which James Cameron (producer of the film Avatar) even took part. ...
The lake in the village is the beginning of the Angara River, water routes go directly from Irkutsk to all corners of the lake. One of the water trips is the Circum-Baikal excursion, the cost of the tour is 2500 rubles per person, the excursion is designed for the whole day.
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Budget rest in Kultuk and Utulik
Where to have an inexpensive vacation on Lake Baikal in the picturesque places of the southern part? Many tourists like to stay on the coast near the village Kultuk and Utulik.
The distance from Irkutsk to Kultuk along the M55 highway is 100 kilometers, everyone who goes to rest has an amazing panorama and mountain serpentine road.
When stopping in Kultuk for photographs, we recommend parking away from the road, the brakes of heavy-ton trucks often overheat during descent and accidents are not uncommon here!
Here you will also find a toilet for 15 rubles and a small fish market, the cost of one tail was announced earlier.
If you drive further along the M55 highway along the coast, then after 50 kilometers you will be met by the Kedr and Chaika tourist centers located nearby in the village of Utulik, here they will shelter any tourist who has come to have a cheap vacation on Lake Baikal.
At the tourist centers they will give you tasty food, have fun at night discos, provide good and warm rooms, and you will also ride on catamarans, in general, you will have a full-fledged vacation. The cost of living is from 1100 rubles per day per person without meals.
- All hotels and accommodation in Utulik →
Summer vacation in Baikalsk
Baikalsk is another place where you can go to relax on Baikal in the southern part of the whole family inexpensively. Here you can organize a vacation not only in summer, but also in winter.
In winter, most skiers and snowboarders from neighboring regions of the country come here. Have you decided to go skiing? Then you should take care of the accommodation in hotels in advance.
For a full vacation on the coast of the lake, many hotels have been built; prices for accommodation in Baikalsk start from 700 rubles per day.
Recommended hotels include the popular Grand Baikal hotel (accommodation costs from 1,700 rubles), the Sobolinaya hotel from 900 rubles.
- All hotels in Baikalsk →
Prices for holidays on Lake Baikal in this place are lower than in other areas, especially in summer. From entertainment, you can rent bicycles, the cost is 100 rubles per hour or 500 rubles per day, there is a catamarans rental on the coast, the cost is 150 rubles per half hour.
At the city pier, you can find a private entrepreneur who organizes trips on his boat from one hour to several days on a comfortable yacht.
For hungry tourists, there are many cafes and restaurants with attractive prices from 500 rubles for a lunch for two. A vacation on Lake Baikal in 2021 can please you with a summer cable car on Mount Sobolinaya, the fare is 250 rubles.
If you eat to rest on Lake Baikal in July, do not forget to buy delicious strawberries. Berry prices start at 500 rubles per 5 liters. We recommend not to take near the road from private traders, here it is twice as expensive, look for places where they buy Victoria in bulk, it is much cheaper there.
Rest on the Warm Lakes
All tourists on Lake Baikal are advised to turn off in front of the "Warm Lakes" sign (about 40 kilometers along the highway after Baikalsk), next to the Snezhnaya camp site.
The road to Warm Lakes is 5 kilometers along a terrible gravel road, we advise you not to rush, otherwise you will miss the centuries-old poplar, which is about 400 years old.
Rest in the summer on the Teplye Lakes will be an excellent pastime for the whole family, here you can rent a house or stay in a tent, on the territory of the camp site it is calm and all the tourists are very polite.
Three amazing and different lakes at the camp site:
- “Lebyazhye”
- “Dead”
- "WITHkazka”
All three lakes are offshoots of the largest one called Baikal; paths lead to all three lakes. The first is called Lebyazhye. It was named so because the owner of the camp site bred swans and all the birds took root on only one lake, every tourist must visit this place to feed and take pictures of the local landmark.
The Dead Lake is the second largest, the water in it is much warmer than in the other two. It is called dead because of the abundance of sulfur in the water and the lack of fish, but many tourists prefer to swim here, the water is the warmest.
The third lake is called "the lake of a fairy tale" and in truth you feel like one of the heroes of Russian fairy tales, the owner of the camp site even built a house that looks like a hut near this place.
The rental price of cottages at the camp site is from 700 rubles.
The prices for rest on Lake Baikal in the southern part are designed for budget tourists, in the summer you can be alone here, recharge with the energy of nature, and forget about all the city problems.
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