Baikal - Amur Mainline: from West to East

Duration: 8 days
Capacity: 16 pax (full board)

Separate sleeping car throughout the way.
The construction of the BAM (Baikal - Amur Mainline) required stamina and an iron will. Just think of the tremendous distance, the mountain ranges, the swamps, the many rivers, the virgin taiga, the permafrost, the high seismicity, the swarms of mosquitoes that bite so painfully in summer, and frosts as much as - 40 C in winter. More than 3000 kms of the railways, more than 5000 bridges, dosens of tunnels, among them the 15-km-long Northern Muya tunnel- that is BAM, the major project of the former USSR within 10 years following 1974. BAM was built by the whole of the country. Every republic has created a piece of their native land in that outlying area - a town or a city that reminds of the national community of Baltic or Caucasian, Ukrainian or Asian republics - so carefully they kept up their traditional architecture.

Day1 Morning: arrival in Bratsk. Accommodation at the “Taiga” hotel. Afternoon: city-tour and visit to the Dam (3.5 hours).

Day2 Morning: Ethnography Museum (2.5 hours) Afternoon: departure for Severobaikalsk (18 hours).

Day3 Morning: arrival in Severobaikalsk. Accommodation at wooden cottages (3 double rooms in each, bath, kitchen). Afternoon: boat trip along the Baikal, visit to old Cossak village of "Baikalskoye" (6 hours).

Day 4 Morning: full-day trip to“Dzelinda” hot springs (coach); picnic in the forest. Evening: departure for Tynda.

Day5 On train (53 hours from Severobaikalsk To Tynda.

Day6 Morning: arrival in Tynda, city-tour(2.5 hours). Afternoon: departure for Khabarovsk.

Day7 On train (40 hours from Tynda to Khabarovsk).

Day8 Morning: arrival in Khabarovsk.