If a car ride to the south seems too trivial to you, you can choose another route and go, for example, to Baikal. Bingo, this route has been explored and explored by our Autoducists long ago. So, what is it worth knowing about going to Baikal in a car?

To begin with, you will not be able to go around one time and see the Baikal: first, the lake itself has spread over several hundred kilometers, and secondly, there is no single road linking parts of it. A large part of the coast is a sanctuary, so you can't just "drive along the coast".

So to begin with, you should decide which part of Baikal and its environ you want to look at. Most often, they are sent to the southern coast of Baikal, there is a federal highway M55 "Baikal", which runs through Irkutsk, Ulan-Ude and Chita.

Perhaps the most popular destinations for Baikal in the car are:

  • Olkhon Island
  • Leostyanka settlement,
  • Cape Kotelnikovski.

To reach Irkutsk from the European part of Russia, it is possible to route the route as follows: Nizhny Novgorod-Kazan-Ufa-Chelyabinsk-Kurgan-Ishim-Omsk-Novosibirsk-Kemerovo-Krasnoyarsk-Irkutsk. From Irkutsk it is possible to go directly to the coast of Baikal, for example in Ust-Barguzin in the Republic of Buryatia.

In planning the route to Baikal in the car, avoid routes passing through the territory of Kazakhstan.

Most often tourists go to Baikal in July-August-these are the two warmest months of the year (some even daring to bathe in the cold Baikal water). At the beginning of September, the majority of tourists are getting away, so this time is suitable for quiet walks on the sandy coast of Baikal.




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