Listvyanka Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Driving into Listvyanka was quite a sight. Coming around the mountainous corner, Lake Baikal opens up before you like a great black mass, all moody and intriguing. The snow has covered everything and its like a remote winter wonderland. There is only one road into Listvyanka and it finishes at the end of the town – less than 2kms in total....

After an early morning transfer from Irkutsk station we arrived in Listvyanka - our home for the next three days. Listvyanka is a small village on the shore of Lake Baikal, the largest freshwater lake in the world.

Lena took us for some much needed breakfast at our hotel (not yet tried hostelling you'll notice!) which was located on the ...

TRAIN 2 "ROSSIYA" SVERDLOVSK - IRKUTSK


The 50 hour train journey was fantastic. A lovely train, interesting fellow travellers, amazing scenery and plenty of reading material meant that if anything we thought it passed too quickly. We met Corina, a Swiss girl, and Laurens and Myrthe, a dutch couple, who are all doing the exact same t...

Shane says: Listvyanka looks like Santa's neighbourhood. Every house has about 3 feet of snow on the roof, and Lake Baikal is completely frozen over. Our driver Leonid said that there is 3 metres of the lake completely frozen over, and that 3 metres of ice can hold 12 tonnes; the equivalent of Milli's backpack. Russia for some reason unsettled m...

Nach diversen Grossstaedten waren wir wieder einmal mitten in der Natur. Der Baikalsee ist der groesste See der Welt und fasst 1/5 des weltweiten Suesswassers. In Listvyanka wohnten wir in einem romantischen Blockhaus mit Seesicht. In diesem wurden wir von einem Erdbeben ueberrascht, dass zum Glueck glimpflich ausgegangen ist. Einen kleinen Scho...

Our train trip from Ulan Bator to Irkutsk was pretty quick - or it would have been had we not gotten to the Mongolian border at 5am and had to wait till 9am before the immigration people came on board. So it took about and hour there. Then we had to go to the Russian border that was about an hour away, and it took about another 3 hours there. Th...

With a day to waste, we decided not to spend anymore time than was necessary in Irkutsk, so we headed out to a small town on the lake called Listvyanka. The town's big tourist draw is the "Shaman Rock", a large rock in the mouth of the river to which there is some local folklore attached. Try as we might however, we could not see this thing, and...

We were extremely relieved to see the sign with our names on it standing on the platform, because had the driver not been there we had absolutely no idea how to get to a hotel that was 70 Km away. We did another round of quick goodbyes to our train companions and we left. The driver grabbed my bag, completely ignoring Ho-Ki and his bag, and away...

I haven't seen it myself but apparently when Ewan McGregor reached Lake Baikal on the Long Way Round he described it as the biggest disappointment of his life. Or something like that anyway. I can't say that I agree with that, I've had far bigger disappointments in my life I'm sure, but it wasn't all that exciting either. Like going to Ayr, but ...

Listvyanka, Russia The train arrived into the largest city and capital of Siberia, Irkutsk, at around 8AM. The sunrise over the Siberian steppes was an inspirational introduction to the this city founded in 1652 by Russian Cossacks. Also known as "Paris of Siberia," the architecture of this city was supposed to be very European with classical st...