Baikal Explorer - Winter tours to lake Baikal

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Winter tours

Explore the beauty of winter Lake Baikal privately or with a small group.
Tours suit every activity level, budget and schedule, and are led by experienced guides.

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With 20 years of experience, we offer Customized tours & Group trips to the most beautiful places on lake Baikal & Siberia, led by professional local families.

Whether you search for a one-day introductory tour, or want to fully indulge in local nature — we've got an option for everyone! Here are the most popular tours, that can be customized to your liking:

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Check out our summer options, photo tours & boat cruises!

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Listvyanka

Get to know the lake with 1-day active tour, that features panoramic views of the lake, local cuisine, and a visit to Baikal Museum.

Olkhon Island

Visit the biggest island of the lake, see the icy lake and get a ride through wonderful scenery — all on a 4WD Russian UAZ jeep.

Arshan

Visit Tunka valley, surrounded by beautiful Sayan mountains, see frozen waterfalls and try local Buryat cuisine — all in a day!

Dog sledding tours

Get a speedy ride with indigenous Baikalian huskies through beautiful Siberian scenery, and get to know the countryside life.

Snowmobile tours

Ride a snowmobile through beautiful forest or at the lake. From short rides to long trips — there's an option for everyone.

Good years of experience

First informal photos of my guests taken quickly in early 2000s can be seen at: https://www.instagram.com/baikal_explorers/
Wish that I took more photographs in previous years. If only I could know how more important photos become with age!

Personal experiences

We are glad to help you to arrange vacation and to get profitable information for you. Be supported and feel safe, stay independent and explore Baikal reality.

Security and convenience

We can fit any of our tours to any schedule, activity level, group size. Any place, all seasons, different opportunities - any time.

Passionate guides

We are locals ourselves, know the place at heart and eager to share our passion to the lake with our guests.

What our clients say

Had the most amazing time with Leonid, our guide, to Lake Baikal. Very well organised and luxurious trip to Olkhon island. Leonid was very informative, polite and friendly and made us feel extremely comfortable through out the trip. He took us to some rare spots around the island from where we got breath taking views of the Lake. Not only this, on our return he even took us to the airport to get back our misplaced baggage (which is a long story) and dropped me and my family back to our apartment hotel. That was not a part of his job but he was kind enough to help us out.
Thank you so much Baikal Explorer for a superb trip. You have left us with life long memories. Loved every minute of it!

Rupalidass

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We wish to express our most sincere gratitude for the wonderful tour Alena has shown us around Arshan and Zchemchug. It came as a very pleasant surprise of what we saw, the remnants of a volcanic mountain, the cheerful walk through the bushes, and most amazing of all, the rows of 256 radar (Ssrt). Please also send our best regard to the driver who bring us safely to all the sightseeing places, despite some parts of the road are a little bit bumpy. Thank you again for the wonderful service your company has offered us.

HappySiberia

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We booked our excursion for Olkhon Island/Lake Baikal with Baikal Explorer for our first stop on our Trans - Siberian journey. The tour company was professional in handling our last minute requests to accomodate our needs. We highly recommend Baikal Explorer for your Olkhon Island/Lake Baikal experience. As for our guide, Max, he is the man. Patient, articulate and has a quirky sense of humor with an artistic eye to boot for your photo oppurtunity needs. Thank you for showing us a piece of Russia even with that little time. Also, thank you for staying awake for that 6 hour ride back home and bringing us back safe to Irkutsk.

Patrick & Kristen

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Booked this tour 48 hours prior to our arrival in Irkutsk. It was the best thing we have done in 30 days in Russia. Baikal Explorers we're responsive and put together exactly what we wanted. Easy to work with Leonoid from their office. Maxim, our guide, met us at the steps of our railroad car and stayed with us until we were settled in to our Air B&B after our tour. Maxim was a great guide. Great English, he even understood humor. That is the test of true comprehension of another language. My wife has Celiac's Disease and has to maintain a strict Gluten Free diet. Maxim made sure her food was safely prepared for her. We was helpful to a fault, pleasant and knowledgeable. I give Baikal Explorers our highest recommendation.

Gregory

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