"Baikal - Amikan", individual tours and nature at Baikal Lake

Child Baikal expedition accompanied Russia's best ice sculptors, musicians, actors, cameramen, photographers and parents went to Baikal children’s expedition this March 2013. In this creative expedition kids did everything themselves: made sculptures out of ice, shot, played, took pictures. Masters guided and helped them. Enthusiasts decided to put a maze of transparent blocks bizarre. From the frozen surface of the reservoir, it looks like rows of crystal sculptures. But once you take off and rise in the air, then you’ll see an icy eye. The labyrinth was built by several dozen of artists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Khabarovsk, Perm and Ufa. The materials were no problems. Baikal ice is renowned for its fantastic clarity. The maze looks especially impressive at dawn and dusk, when it begins to play colored rays. You can watch the video here.

Wintry Baikal... Pristine vastness of frozen Baikal, transparent iced treasures, turquoise to blue colors of clearest ice under your feet, thousands of patterns of the cracks in the ice, watching which you never get tired of, the grandest ice-rink flows under the ice-skates and makes you feel great, thousands of stars in the dark velvet sky which are never seen in the city, freezing freshest wind which tickles your neck - Baikal embrace. I feel full and happy. I am safe. I am home. Thank you for everything!      My trip this march 2013 started in Listvyanka where we got on the hover and went for one-day ride to Peschanka. This place is so quiet in winter, unlike the summer time when it is kinda crowded, no wonder - this place is nolike others. Clearest ice let us fell absolutely free skating. The wind was carrying us. The man was bringing water from the lake for heating Banya, and we were jealous of how quiet and smooth his life must be here. A simple wooden Ba...

I am not a professional in making video, but this place is such a real "Winter" place, with its own magic and magnificance, with the freshest frozen air and cleanest snow ever, that I decided to make a short video sketch about it. It shows our Christimas trip to Khamar-Daban mountains (it's on the south of Baikal lake). Now it is winter and it is perfect time to go skiing, snowshoeing and living WINTER!!! It's calling...

We’ve visited Baikal lake today and guess what! It’s sensational but it is frozen! (At least in Listvyanka it is)) This year it is the earliest as I can remember time – early January when Baikal is frozen already! Usually it happens in the middle of January only but due to the low temperatures of December last year the water got frozen. We walked a little on the ice feeling very strange as it always feels when standing on the ice for the first time after a while, especially fresh ice. It is considered safe to walk over the ice the its thickness reaches 10cm and for the car to drive – when it is 20cm. I hope this year there will be lots of places with clear ice-fields suitable to skate, but Baikal is creative and I’m sure his design is the best anyway. So, Baikal welcomes to its frozen spaces!!! Try our Baikal winter tours here . And it was the first time when Kristina has ever stood on the frozen Baikal (she is 1,2 years old) and touched the ice herself.  Hope she’ll rem...

  A great video about Russia's specialty and piculiarities: Borsh, Banya, Dostoevskiy, old Russian car, and much more! Touch Russia...

I'd like to invite you for a trip to winter Baikal. During this trip you’ll see the most beauties of wintry Baikal, ride over the ice of frozen Baikal by snowmobile and feel its vastness, experience dog-sledding on Baikal and spend night at the warm wooden houses, try Russian Banya, explore icy grottoes of Olkhon island, try ice-fishing and have a UAZ-car excursion to the northernmost of Olkhon island. It is a nice combination of activities and leisure at the same time! To read more... Day 1: Arrival to Irkutsk, meeting with your guide and transfer to Listvyanka by car.  On the way to Listvyanka you’ll have a stop in the open air Taltsy museum of wooden architecture which is located at the picturesque shore of Angara river. Your next stop will be near the Shaman rock  - a sacred place among local people. It stands in the widest river mouth in the world – the place where Angara river flows out of Baikal. In Listvyanka you’ll be accommodated at the hotel. Lunch. Si...

Winter has taken its full rights and is giving quite low temperatures to us! The night temperature of -25 C -30 C is a normal thing while at the day time it can be about +15 C on the warm days. The skiing and snowboarding and dog-sledding season has already started, but Baikal lake is not frozen yet. Will wait till the middle of January! Till then enjoy sunny days and snowfalls and long evenings!