Welcome to Buryatia!

• Would you like to get to know Lake Baikal in winter when it is wrapped up in white snow sparkling in the sun?
• Would you like to breathe clean forest air?
• Would you like to do ice fishing?
• Would you like to ski?

The East-Siberian State University of Technology is in Buryatia. The Republic of Buryatia is  the land of broad scenic vistas with vast forest and steppe areas, life-giving mineral springs and of course world famous Lake Baikal. 

Visitors to Buryatia are offered:

•  fascinating ice fishing (Baikal omul, pike,white fish, perch ,etc). You can watch how water and fish move under as wind- scoured transparent ice.

• unbeatable sking experience on Lake Baikal. You will learn that Winter Baikal is a sculptor as well. On its shores it constructs  magnificent monuments from heaps of ice glistening on the sun like glass.

After happy fishing and skiing You are a welcome guest in a beautiful buryat urta located  on the shore of the Baikal. You will be treated with national Buryat cuisine made up of hot poses, green tea with milk, etc. You will experience Russian banya with the siberian tea, soft drinks made of local berries.
  The University tourist camp "Rovesnik" is located on the picturesque lake Baikal shore 220 km from Ulan-Ude, 7 km from the village Maximikha and 40 km from Barguzin settlement.

1.  Accommodation

1. In the city you may stay:
• at hotels "Geser" or "Buryatia" (30-35 $ US a night);
• at the university's hotel"Lira" (15-20 $ a night);

2. On Lake Baikal you may stay in the University's tourist camp. It is situated on the picturesque shore of Lake Baikal, 220 km away from Ulan-Ude, 7 km from Maximikha village and 40 km from Ust-Barguzin settlement.

There are two hotels made of wood. There are single and double rooms. One hotel has cold and hot running water and a bath-room. The other hotel has a room for washing, and a biotoilet at night. There is no shower in ether of them.

2. Transportation

Mostly by bus and by car. On the way to the camp you will be informed about the republic, lake Baikal, health spa Goryachinsk (mineral springs resort).

3.  Food is varied

Natural dairy products; meat and fish (Baikal omul, graling, white fish), eggs, pine nuts, vegetables, fruit, juices, beverages. Visitors are offered Buryat national cuisine. You may also have meal to order.

4.  The following excursions

 Visitors to Buryatia are offered the following excursions:

• sights of Ulan-Ude, the capital of the Republic of Buryatia;

• Ivolga-datsan (Buddhist monastery) tour. The datsan a centre of buddhism in Russia, is located 40 km from Ulan-Ude;

• visit to the ethnography museum of Peoples of the East of the Baikal;

• a car trip to Novoselenginsk settlement, place of Decembrists exile and to town of Kyakhta, the oldest trading center on the border with Mongolia;

• ethnography tour to the old-believers.

The tour programmes are supposed for 10-15 persons and more. The period of stay is 5-10 days from 1 st to 31 of March.

5.  Expenses

•  lodging, meals, service at the camp Rovesnik, depends on the accommodation - 40-60 $ a night

•  transportation, tour operator (guide), interpreter driver - 170$ per person.