Irkutsk / Talzy and Listvyanka

Already 2 weeks ago we made a tour to Talzy and Listvyanka. By now I haven't had time to write about it but I don't want to hide it from you.

 

Talzy is an open-air museum 47 km from Irkutsk located in a birch forest. It is an architecture-ethnographic museum about old Sibiria. 36 constructions have been re-erected here: an Evenk camp, Buryat yurts  and a whole village with farmer's houses, churches, a school and a fort from 17th - 19th centuries. Some of the buildings were relocated in origin from their primary positions in Irkutsk and surroundings. 

 

 

Evenk lodge

Oven and cooking corner in one of the houses

In one of the farmer's houses

Huge shoes made of iron

 

 The Museum Talzy lies at the river Angara

 

After we finished the excursion in the museum we continued our tour to Listvyanka. It is a village at the shore of Baikal, 70 km southeast from Irkutsk. Listvyanka is a popular touristic place and offers a lot of accommodation facilities and the Baikal fish omul as local delicacy.

 

On the way to Listvyanka we made a stop at a place, where the Angara leaves the Baikal.

 

On the picture behind me, in the mid of the river, there is a Shaman's Rock that marks the frontier between Baikal and Angara. There is a legend to this rock: When Angara, the daughter of Baikal, fell in love with Yenisey (another river in Sibiria) and went to see him, her father Baikal became angry and threw the rock after her. This rock is now called Shaman's Rock.

Here we already arrived at Listvyanka, at the Baikal shore.

As special attraction you can use a cable car to get to a viewpoint on the top of a mountain, that offers a wonderful view on the Baikal and its shores. In winter you can ski here.

The view from the mountain