Stop in the major cities nearest to Lake Baikal and then from there go to the lake, it will be very inconvenient, expensive and simply too hard . Even if you are in your car , it is better not to spend the night in Irkutsk (about 70 km to Lake Baikal) and not in Ulan-Ude (about 130 km), but in towns and villages closer . For example, in Severobaikalsk, Slyudyanka, Baikalsk, Babushkin, Arshan, Listvyanka, Nizhneangarsk , Greater Goloustnoye, Slyudyanka, Pankovka, Maximich, Big Cats (accent on afterwards ), Khuzhire, Ust-Barguzin and T . p . There are campsites in many of these and other settlements where they willingly lodge tourists with tents, and quite well-equipped tourist centers and small houses in bays and bays (Peschanaya, Chivyrkuisky) .