Where to stay - Arshan

The idyllic village of Arshan in the East-Sayan Mountains is often compared with Davos or Carlsbad due to its location and the mineral springs. This might be slightly exaggerated but nevertheless its worth a visit. Arshan is an ideal starting point for trips into the mountains, to the close mineral and thermal springs as well as to the Kyngara Waterfall.

Nice, but expensive 2-star-hotel built in 2006. Adress: ul. Gagarina 18 Arshan Prices (per room): Double room business-class A: 5000 roubles Double room business-class B: 6000 roubles Double room business-class C: 7000 roubles Penthouse (2 persons): 8000 roubles Breakfast is included only for business class C and penthouse.

The pension offers 2- and 3-bed-rooms with toilet and shower. Adress: ul. Veresova 23 Arshan Prices (per room): Double room category A: 2900 roubles 3-bed-room category A: 3500 roubles Breakfast is not included. Service: - sauna - billiard - canteen

New camp (finished in 2010), consisting of 3 cottages with 3 rooms in each of them. You can rent a whole house. No meals offered, but cooking is possible. Adress: ul. Veresova 84 Arshan Prices (per room): 3-bed-room: 1650 roubles 4-bed-room: 2200 roubles Cottage (6 persons, 10 if necessary): 6000 roubles Prices without breakfast. Service: - sauna - volleyball - table tennis - parking zone - playground for children

3 single cottages with 3 rooms in each of them (two double rooms and one 4-bed-room). It`s possible to rent a whole building. Adress: ul. Traktovaya 89 Arshan Prices: Double room: from 2100 roubles Cottage (8 persons): 8400 roubles Prices without breakfast. Service: - sauna - parking zone - children`s room

Very simple accomodation organized by private people. Adress: ul. Naberezhnaya 45 Arshan Prices (per person): from 400 roubles Prices without breakfast.

Cheap accomodation in a simple wooden house. 2-3 minutes by foot to the centre of the village. Adress: ul. Traktovaya 66 Arshan Prices (per person): 500 roubles Breakfast is not included.

Two wooden buildings with two floors offering rooms in different categories. It`s allowed to cook. Adress: per. Lomonosova 1 Arshan Prics: from 1500 roubles Breakfast is not included.

The pension is situated in a new framehouse; double rooms and 3-bed rooms are available, incl. en suite facilities. Prices: from 400 roubles per person reservations at: ul. Bratjew Domyschewysch 8 telephone: +7 (30147) 697 e-mail: vmftur@online.ru

By the time busses or Marshrutkas arrive from Irkutsk or Sludyanka a small crowd of people has usually assembled in front of the station. They hope to rent single rooms or even complete houses to tourists and to earn some money in doing so. Those rooms are usually very simple, the guests will have to be satisfied with outhouses and a close-by river that serves as washing facility. On the other hand, thus, an insight into the simple lives of Buryats is being given and often it is a great opportunity to talk to locals. Prices: between 100 and 150 roubles pp