Sumak Specialty Walking Tour
Hiking is not just a sport, but a kind of practice. The purpose is not "suffering" or "walking", but "cultivation". Let go of the disturbances brought by city life, restore your mind to a calm state, explore many unresolved confusions in your inner world, and seek answers to "what", "why" and "what to do" while walking, in a calm but not escaping state, in a free and thoughtful process.
Away from the catharsis of the city, surrounded by this blue gem inlaid on the land of Siberia, the gold all over the mountains, and breathing the fresh air... Come on, I'm waiting for you here!
High View Restaurant on the Bank of Lake Baikal - You can see the surface of Lake Baikal and the surrounding mountains from the viewing platform of the restaurant.
The most beautiful starry sky of Lake Baikal - Watch the Milky Way at night;
Sumaq Snow Mountain - Experience the refreshing feeling on the snow-capped mountains in summer.
Sumaq Alpine Hot Spring - There are more than 1,000 hot springs and cold springs here, each of which has different therapeutic effects, waiting for your patronage.
Spectacular icefalls - take you to an unprecedented icefall in the hot summer, and feel the spectacular summer icefalls that are tens of meters high.
Explore the caves of Lake Baikal - the residence of primitive people.
Experience the kiss of nature - camping in the wild.
Enjoy the fragrance of forest trees - Siberian taiga.
Irkutsk - Karl Marx Avenue, 130 style area, and experience Russian sauna;
Itinerary summary: We take you to the magnificent Dongsaling and feel the clear mountain springs.
Beijing-Irkutsk
Meet at the Capital Airport and take a flight to Irkutsk. After arrival, the tour guide will pick you up and visit the city of Irkutsk, an architectural civilization monument with a history of more than 350 years. Among them are the Cathedral of the Epiphany of the Lord, the Polish Cathedral (Gothic style), and the Cathedral of the Savior (the only church in Siberia decorated with murals inside and outside. Visit the riverside landscapes such as Alexander Square and Youth Island, and the Convent of the Virgin (the only women's monastery in East Siberia). After lunch, you can go to the mall to replenish hiking equipment.
Accommodation: Star hotel in the city Meals: / Lunch Dinner Transportation: Airplane Bus
Irkutsk-Gulduko-Mountain Foot Station
After breakfast, drive to the southernmost town of Lake Baikal – Gulduk Town, and visit the southernmost part of Lake Baikal – Shaman Corner as the locals call it. Get close to the world's deepest and largest freshwater lake (20% of the world's freshwater is here) and the life of the local Russian people. After lunch, drive through the vast grasslands, where flowers are everywhere and cattle and horses are eating fat grass freely and lazily on the grasslands.
Drive across the clear river and arrive at the hiking camp at the foot of Dongsaling.
After dinner, you can walk to the foot of the mountain to watch the sunset, animals returning to their nests and other natural beauty...
Accommodation: Specialty Inn at the Foot of the Mountain Three Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Transportation: Bus
Mountain Foot Inn-South Side of Suma Peak(Walk about 25 kilometers)
After breakfast, set out from the mountain foot station and walk among the beautiful mountains and waters, listening to the birds singing softly, watching butterflies flying happily in the flowers, and flowers and plants swaying freely with the breeze. In this beautiful landscape painting, we go to Suma Peak, let us get closer to the embrace of nature and feel the shock brought by her beauty.
Choose a suitable place for a picnic at noon.
After a rest at noon, continue to move towards Suma Peak in the afternoon and choose a suitable place for camping.
Accommodation: Field Tent Three Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner Transportation: Hiking
South Side of Suma Peak-Suma Valley(Walk about 25 kilometers)
After breakfast, start the most emotional day and truly exert people's inner desire for conquest.
We will pass through the most beautiful part of the hiking route - the Sumaq Alpine Lake (this is the best choice for world tourists to challenge themselves and conquer themselves). Through the continuous S-shaped gentle slope climbing road and steep stone trails, you can personally experience what "Lu Xun" wrote in his international masterpiece "Hometown" that "In fact, there is no road on the ground, and more people walk on it, and it becomes a road." When you reach the top of the mountain, the feeling of standing on the top of Sumaq Mountain overlooking the mountains and mountains, the scenery is extremely spectacular, which brings us a more beautiful visual impact, and then it is a continuous gentle slope down the mountain. This is a very difficult section, but also a very beautiful section. After crossing this mountain with an altitude of more than 2,800 meters, you are already in the Sumaq Valley. We will choose to set up camp on the platform next to the spectacular icefall.
Accommodation: Field tent Three meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner Transportation: Hiking
Sumaq North Camp-Sumaq Tourist Resort(20 kilometers hiking)
You can get up by yourself in the morning to watch the sunrise together. After breakfast, we continue hiking along the mountains. Passing through the real Siberian coniferous forest and birch forest along the way, breathe the fragrance of fir and larch, and experience the charm of the primeval forest in person. Afternoon: After the picnic, arrive at the mysterious Sumaq Alpine Resort. The straight and tall coniferous forest and the natural oxygen it releases will definitely make you happy. The endless primeval forest is in front of you, and the scenery along the way is changing. You really feel that Sumaq is a different scenery. In the evening: everyone enjoys a Russian picnic together in the camp, and sings and dances with the Russians in the resort. Enjoy the happiness brought to us by the beautiful scenery of the mountains.
Accommodation: Field tent Three meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner Transportation: hiking
Sumaq Tourist Resort
In the beautiful forest of the Sumaq Alpine Resort, enjoy the therapeutic and health-preserving effects brought to you by more than 1,000 hot springs and cold springs here. Players who like black mud baths can enjoy the long-standing black mud baths here and enjoy the physical and mental pleasure brought by black mud baths.
Return to Irkutsk
Accommodation: Star hotel in the city. Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner. Transportation: bus.
Irkutsk – Beijing
After breakfast, pack up and go to the most magnificent local church, Kazan Cathedral: This is the most beautiful Orthodox church in Irkutsk, with a magnificent and eye-catching appearance and a magnificent interior, exuding endless charm. Znamensky Monastery: The great Decembrists in Russian history are buried here. 130 style blocks, Russian-style commercial blocks, the Irkutsk State Emblem Babur sculpture has become a new landmark of the city, standing here. There are various restaurants, bookstores, bars and shopping centers in the middle of the ancient and exquisite Russian carved buildings, shining with modern light. The remaining time is for shopping, buying gifts, souvenirs, vodka caviar and other specialty foods. After dinner, go to the airport to return to Beijing.
Accommodation: plane. Meals: breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Transportation: bus, plane.
Arrive in Beijing.
End this romantic hiking trip. Arrive and say goodbye to each other! Return to your home.
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