"Baikal tour 2014"

[Tiger3]

Hello,
I prepar, now my travel to baikal:

I would like to know if i'ts possible to go by track to Bratsk to Severobaykalsk and take a boat to travel Baikal to go to Listvyanka?

If russian Biker know how cost the travel by boat?

or second way irkutsk, ulan ude and i wloud like to go by road or tracks to maKarinino and kurumkan . and go back.

or the road to go to Olkon island and perhaps take my motorbike to go to this island.

thanks for your advice
tiger

[Bermuda Rover]

Tiger,

I have been researching this area for my 2014 trip. Yes, you can drive from Krasnoyarsk to Severobaikalsk, via Tayshet, Bratsk and Ust Kut.

If you look at the map below, you'll see that there are two options between Tayshet and Bratsk - either the 'longer' road marked in yellow then red or the 'short cut' via Chanskly. I'm told that the 'short cut' can be difficult, particularly in the wet.


http://http://bermudarover.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/img_6212.jpg?w=650


I can't tell you anything regarding boats or ferries from Severobaikalsk but it is possible to drive south to Irkutsk via track roads. You would need to back track from Severobaikalsk toward Ust Kut to pick up one of the track that go south. The map shows a track road that runs south from Ulkan (on road between Severobaikalsk and Ust Kut) and meets up with a secondary road from K a c h u g (spaced to avoid emoticon automatically replacing 'chug') to Irkutsk. There is another track (old logging road) that runs south from Ust Kut to Zhigalovo and on to Irkutsk.

There are a couple of paper maps that you might find useful - the Reise Know How map for ‘Russia from the Urals to Lake Baikal’ map which has a scale of 1:2,000,000 (1:2 Mill) and the Reise Know How map of ‘Lake Baikal’ which has a scale of 1:550,000.

Regards,

Craig

[Tiger3]

hello Bermuda Roover,
Thanks for your answer.
for the moment i don't know if I prepar this trip (difficult) or if i go to visit Mongolia.
I have a reize map , we will see.
thank you very much for your answer.

tiger