Breakfast at the hotel. Today we remind you what a huge part of the Asian continent Siberia really is, as we tour to a Buryat town of Ust-Orda and visit the Datsan monastery to meet the Buddhist Lama. Ust-Orda village is home to the indigenous Buryat people. The Ust-Orda Museum has a rich collection of exhibits on Buryat history and culture.

Here in Datsan you will meet the Lama, Renchen, who has been commissioned to start the reconstruction of the Buddhist Monastery, destroyed during Soviet times. Lunch with traditional Buryat food: salad, soup, pozy (Buryat steamed meat dumplings), dessert, and drinks, including traditional vodka.