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GBT Hostels 1. GBT Hostel in Irkutsk Property Name: Penguin Hostel
Motto: home away from home.
Description:
The Penguin Hostel was started in 2008 to house Great Baikal Trail (GBT) volunteers and independent travelers. GBT is a Siberian based international effort to build trails in the Lake Baikal region, which provide an infrastructure for ecotourism as an alternative to industrial development. See www.greatbaikaltrail.org for projects open to Russian and international volunteers.
At our hostel, you will find a friendly, international atmosphere, full of people who are excited about protecting the environment and developing ecotourism in the Baikal region. Reliable information about existing hiking trails all around Baikal will be available here. We can also help you plan a trip using our best trails, and, if necessary, provide you with a guide and translator.
Our knowledgeable staff is affiliated with GBT, concerned with environmental protection, and knowledgeable about outdoor activities. Your stay helps support trail-building and environmental protection efforts.
Become a GBT volunteer and get the cheapest accommodation in Irkutsk! For our volunteers, the Penguin Hostel is the cheapest hostel in Irkutsk at 400 rubles per bed each night.
For our other guests, the price will be 550 rubles/bed for one night.
Directions to the hostel: Irkutsk, Yamskaya street, 5A-46
Booking:
Phone: +79086470744 – Natasha Luzhkova +79148800115 – Tanya Yourchenko E-mail: Tanya Yourchenko gbt.volunteers@gmail.com
2. GBT Hostel in Severobaykalsk
Hotel Taezhik
Adress: Building 11, Shkolnyi street, Severbaikalsk Phone: (30139) 20-323 The hostel used to be a kindergarden. The cost is 300 rubles (per person). Each room sleeps 5 people. There is a kitchen (self-service), a toilet and a shower in the hostel. To make reservations, send an email to kolonok2004@yandex.ru Any local will tell you how to get there. If your Russian skills are not that great, here are the instructions to getting there from the train station: take the Leninsgradskii Prospekt uphill (into town) for about 20 minutes. When you get to an intersection with a traffic light, keep going straight, and then make a left at the second street after the intersection. The hostel is a former kindergarden; across from it is School #1. |