Olkhon Safari
Duration: 7 days / 6 nights
Peculiarities: the most popular safari
Available: from the middle of May till the middle of September
Number of dives: up to 4 dives a day, including night dives
Main Areas: Bolshiye Koty, Khomuty, Birkhin, Olkhon, Circum-Baikal Railway
A classic safari, giving one the opportunity to dive a lot of dive sites. More dives every day (because it is summer time!), more time to relax on the shore and aboard.
Day 1
We will greet you once you arrive in Irkutsk and take you to our dive-center to lease equipment, if necessary, and then head straight to village Listvjanka (about 60km away from dive-center), where the ship is. Once we board the ship, we’ll have breakfast and start of our journey!
12:00pm – lunch
1pm – first dive of the day is at “Chernaja Rechka” where there is a series of canyons, an underwater wall and sponge
4pm – second dive of the day is at “Sennaja” – underwater wall, canyon, tunnel, sponge
6pm – dinner
6pm-6am – night shift to Olkhon
Day 2
7am – breakfast
8am – first dive of the day at the left-end of “Uhan-Zjun-Kugun” – ledged slope, sponge, grayling (kharius)
12am – lunch
1pm - second dive of the day at the right-end of “Uhan-Zjun-Kugun” – ledged slope, ‘Finger Rock” (large detached reef), grayling (kharius)
4pm – dive at “Otstojnyj Beach” – sand-stone slope, sponge
6pm – dinner
The night stay is at Otstojnyj Beach with a Bonfire. Possible night dive.
Day 3
7am – breakfast
8am - first dive at the left-end of “Burun-Bude” – canyon, grotto, underwater wall, sponge, grayling
12am – lunch
1pm - second dive at the right-end of “Burun-Bude” – canyon, ledged slope, sponge, grayling
4pm – another dive, location "Shield"
6pm – dinner
The night stay is at Otstojnyj Beach with a Bonfire and barbecue (“grilled” grayling, shashlyki). Possible night dive
Day 4
7am – breakfast
8am – first five at cape “Izhimej” (which is located near the highest mountain on Olkhon and deepest point of Baikal) – canyon, tremendous underwater wall, sponge
12am – lunch
1pm – dive at cape “Khoboj” (northern point of the island – safari turns around here and we head south through Maloe More) – this is Didier Nuaro’s (former Cousteau team’s cameraman) favorite diving spot – canyon, sponge, large rocks, caves.
4pm – dive at “Shamanka” – a rock where god of Baikal’s, Burkhan, is believed to live - sandy bottom, large boulders, sponge
6pm – dinner
7pm – 8 pm - tour of the village Khuzhir and to the rock Burkhan - the symbol of the Baikal
8pm - 8am – night shift to Bolshie Koty
Day 5
7am – breakfast
8 am – dive at “Tchajachij (Devil’s Bridge)” – underwater wall, unusual geological structure of the shelf and walll, a grotto, sponge.
10am -12am – tour of the village Bolshie Koty, visit to the museum of biology.
12am – lunch
1pm – dive at “Skripper” – ledged wall, canyon crack, detached rock towers, grotto, sponge
4pm – dive “Sennaja” – underwater wall, canyon, tunnel, sponge
6pm – dinner
Night stay north of Bolshie Koty village. Possible night dive.
Day 6
7am – breakfast
8am – dive at “Sennaja” – underwater wall and caves, sunken anchor, sponge
12am – lunch
1pm – dive at “Tolstyj Canyon”
2pm – 4pm – a tour around old railway
4pm – dive at “Baranchiki” – wall and grotto
6pm – dinner
Stay at Baranchiki, Banya (Russian Sauna).
Day 7
7am – breakfast
8am – dive at “Wall Katorzhanka” – wall, remains of a train car, grayling
10am – 12am – tour around old railway
12am – lunch
2pm – dive at “Krestovka” – canyons, grottos, wrecked docks, gun, gammarus and pike fish
3pm – 5pm – tour to limnological museum and around Listvjanka
5pm – transfer in the hotel in Listvjanka or Irkutsk. Next morning we provide shuttle to the airport.
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(Vitia Liagushkin. Magazine "DIVETEK" №4 2007)
I was like everyone else,
Drank and worked in fields.
I have read Dao De Jing
And have understood: “I got caught!”
I have burned my penthouse,
I have checked the vines
And I got out to dance
In the fog over Yatszy.
B.G
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(Artem Melamed. Magazine "Neptune")
People are followed by things to do,
People follow the money,
They try to escape shame and sadness.
And I follow, follow the fog,
The dreams and the smell of taiga.
(Y. Kukin)
Saloon of ship “Valeriya” is swaying quietly on the Baikal’s waves; the thoughts start moving quicker through the head hurried by the sound of the motor, and outside the illuminator there is only indescribable beauty. A thoughtful young man is sitting with his laptop, trying to lure in the muse and get some inspiration from her. This is probably the best time to start a ship journal about our adventures. So, get comfortable, pour yourself some tea, take a cookie, and listen.
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