Jugendherbergen und Hostels in Olkhon Island

50th Birthday destination?
You want remote? How about Lake Baikal, Siberia? It's the largest freshwater lake in the world, and has some unique wildlife, such as freshwater seals. Absolutely beautiful, and undeveloped. In June it would be warm enough, though certainly not hot. I'd recommend staying on Olkhon Island, in a homestay ...

Russia: Irkutsk & Lake Baikal (Trans-Siberian Railway)
beautiful and remote places we've visited so far, Olkhon Island on Lake Baikal. Photo Highlights ...
Posted in Ali and Rowan's Big Trip by bigtrip09

New friends enjoy desolation and despair in Siberia
Trans-Siberian Railway – Irkutsk – Olkhon Island, Russia With time for breakfast we disembark ...
Posted in Overland from Europe to China and beyond by jamesh1066

Amazing Lake Baikal
we got back to Irkutsk. Next day we left for Olkhon Island. It took four hours to go through steppe and taiga and finally we came to the strait of Olkhon Gates. The lake hadn’t frozen yet “in the open sea” but the south of the Small Sea (wide strait between Olkhon and the land) was covered with ice ...
Posted in Baikal by zns