“Lake Baikal Day” is celebrated in Buryatia every year
In this area, favorable weather conditions for tourism, hiking, sports, and health activities prevail all year round. Moreover, this region is rich in historical and archaeological discoveries, puzzles, and secrets. By coming to Lake Baikal in Buryatia, you will be able to touch ancient tales, legends, and the historical past of this land.
Interesting sights that are definitely worth seeing include monuments of the Old Believers and Buddhism, Orthodoxy and shamanism, which have flourished in this region since ancient times. While on a tour of famous places, you can visit the incorrupt body of the famous Buryat lama Dashi Dorzhi Itigelov, which remained preserved despite 80 years having passed since his physical death. In the protected areas of the Buryat region, traces of cultural masterpieces of Transbaikal Old Believers are vividly evident.
Located at the crossroads of Asia and Europe, this area combines the best of both sides of the world. For everyone wishing to visit this blessed region, there is a suitable tourist base in Buryatia, a holiday home, or a tourist-recreation zone. Lake Baikal hospitality is widely known today to many travelers. Coming to the recreation center “Raduga”, to “Baikalskaya Gavan”, or any other tourist establishment, every traveler receives a warm welcome.
All cultural and entertainment venues offer interesting and useful vacation programs. Tourists can go hiking in the taiga, travel along mountain trails on horseback, raft down Baikal rivers, and climb mountain peaks. Besides climbing Munku-Sardyk, one can take part in horse races, archery competitions, and have fun at bright ethnic festivals – “Bolder”, “Saurharban”, “Altargana”, “Eryn gurban naadan”. Lovers of folk music gladly visit the festivals “Golden Voice of Baikal”, “Stars of the White Month”, which are always held interestingly and vividly.
Almost all local tourist bases organize picnics in specially designated places, with permission to light fires. Tourist groups can rent entire bases and relax in gyms, visit health centers. Guests are offered medicinal preparations of Baikal herbs, herbal teas, aspen therapy, procedures in cedar phytobarrels, applications of Suvinskaya clay. Guests are provided with all kinds of sports equipment, bicycles, and horses for rent.
Guest houses with inexpensive accommodation have been built for tourists. Both in summer and winter, all conditions for a wonderful and memorable vacation have been created at Lake Baikal.
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