Irkutsk Hostels - Reviews and Rates

Arriving at 5am with a snowy blizzard and little sleep, the first few hours were spent in the station drinking tea, eating pizza slices and people watching whilst we waited for it to lighten up outside. By 7.30am we decided to head for the bus station on the other side of town by tram. We ended up walking as we couldn't figure out the tram stops...

Hello everyone, am writing to you from Irkutsk in Siberia. I've just got back from two nights at Lake Baikal which was wonderful, so huge, it's something like 400 miles long! It's been really cold today and yesterday, and raining. So weird, the change in the weather - I was getting sunburnt the day I arrived. I stayed in a rustic log cabin style...

We were happy to arrive in Irkutsk, but once dropped at the bus station we were faced with having no guidebook, no map, nowhere to stay and woeful Russian language skills.

We made a plan: find a tourist; someone with a big backpack or guidebook. They should be able to point us in a helpful direction or show us a map, and at the very least...

We arrived at Irkutsk early this morning and were greeted at the station by a jovial Russian fellow by the name of Costa, where we joined the bus immediately for the hour and 15 minute journey to Lake Baikal, the largest lake in the world by volume of water containing 20% of the earth's fresh water supply. Lake Baikal is up to 80 kilometers wide...

After a few days in UB and a visit to some friends in Darhan we sadly moved on from Mongolia but began the real adventure, the trans siberian, on our own with no help from tour leaders etc. We decided to make our first stop Irkutsk. We weren't sure if we wanted to go to Olkhon Island or not but wanted to see Lake Baikal. We bought our tickets fr...

Hello everyone Me and Pete have had a great past few days here in Irkutsk. The hostel were staying in is pretty nice, but the mattresses are about as thick as tissue paper but what are you going to do? We have met some friendly folks here, especially the people who work in the hostel and some other travelers (ranging from Austrian to French to A...

Arrived in Irkutsk early in the morning and after hanging around the station for a little while wiht Alen and Ella (Brasilial guy and Polish girl) I made my way down to the hostel. The hostel lady was soooooo friendly and I really felt welcome from the first moment. It was like a real home away form home where you take your shoes off, get offere...

The first few days in Russia were certainly very different from what we had been experiencing throughout Asia and even though the Russians are considered European there was still something uniquely strange about the Russian people that I couldn't quite put my finger on. After a few days I slowly began seeing the similarities and the differences....

May 2, Friday Ulan Ude to Irkutsk It was very sad to leave Ulan Ude but I felt we met and made some very special friends. We caught the 10:22am train No. 7 (same train we took to Ulan Ude) that will arrive in Irkutsk same day at 17:17 (Russian trains run on time! Nothing like the planes) This time we took second class which was a drop but OK. We...

Retour en ville our s'occuper de l'enregistrement des visas Russes et de la demande des visa Mongols. Ca nous prendra qd meme 2 jours pour gerer tout ca mais avec la rerencontre de Xavier le francais qui nous avais parler d'Avene Nomade. On se fera une petite soiree ensemble le mardi soir juste avant notre depart pour l'ile Olkhon.