Grade
of difficulty: easy (sightseeing)
Land
cost: available on request.
The price includes:
Accommodation (3 nights in hotels B&B, 8 nights in train);
Train tickets Moscow-Yekaterinburg, Yekaterinburg-Irkutsk,
Irkutsk-Vladivostok; Transfers according to the itinerary;
All excursions, entrance fees and tours according to the itinerary,
including city tours in Yekaterinburg, Irkutsk, and Listvyanka;
Lunches and dinners according to the itinerary: 4 dinners
(2 in Yekaterinburg, 1 in Listvyanka), 1 lunches on the way
to Listvyanka.
Airplane tickets, Insurance, Visas, Tips
are
not included.
**Note that if you have more time than
16 days, you can continue your adventure. You can take the
advantage of the fact that Vladivostok, the last point of
your journey, provides easy access to many coastal destinations:
you can go to Kamchatka or Chukotka with Wild Russia, or we
can organize for you shorter tours to some of the numerous
Far East nature reserves so that you can spent a day or two
in famous Ussuriland taiga. Optionally you can just rest in
a wooden cottage and experience true Russian banya — being
one of the famous Russian extremes, it is a real fun, especially
in winter.
Another option is 18-days trip with 2 extra days on the Lake
Baikal.
Also we can arrange extensions to the route
— for example, you can start from Helsinki or Saint-Petersburg.
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This
route crosses almost all Russia from west to east, starting
in Moscow and finishing at the Japan Sea coastline. In Moscow
you will take the first taste of the Russian cuisine, and
during the sightseeing tour you will have numerous opportunities
to take city photos, including famous Red Square and Kremlin.
In Yekaterinburg you will see the last dwelling of the last
Russian Tzar, and see the museum collections of semi-precious
stones — treasures of Ural mountains. In folklore village
nearby Lake Baikal you will see traditional Russian and
Buryat wooden houses.
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Yekaterinburg— 19th century gold-rush
city
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The Romanovs in Yekaterinburg — the
last dwelling of the last Russian Tzar
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Irkutsk — capital of east Siberia
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Folklore village – Russian and Buryat
architecture
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