Lake Baikal Vacations, Lake Baikal Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide
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Lake Baikal Vacation Guide
Lake Baikal is located in Russia between the provinces Irkutskaya and Buryatia. The biggest city at the lake is Irkutsk, which is also the city you arrive in by train, when visiting Lake Baikal.
Lake Baikal is an enormous lake, which contains more fresh water than the great lakes in the North Americas together. Lake Baikal contains over 20% of all the fresh water in the world. The lake is 2,000 meters deep followed by 7,000 meters of mud. The temperature of the lake never rises above 9°C.
The lake has a wide variety of life, even a seal lives in the lake, the only fresh water seal in the world.
If you visit Lake Baikal, you should take a very short dive in it. The myth goes that you expand your life with 25 years.
Lake Baikal is an enormous lake, which contains more fresh water than the great lakes in the North Americas together. Lake Baikal contains over 20% of all the fresh water in the world. The lake is 2,000 meters deep followed by 7,000 meters of mud. The temperature of the lake never rises above 9°C.
The lake has a wide variety of life, even a seal lives in the lake, the only fresh water seal in the world.
If you visit Lake Baikal, you should take a very short dive in it. The myth goes that you expand your life with 25 years.
Lake Baikal Travel Blogs
Jan 22, 2006 – Feb 17, 2006
After having a pretty restless sleep, I awoke to a magnificent breakfast. Not kidding there were tons of food on the breakfast table. The chalet we were staying in Lake Baikal was basically the best place we stayed at all tour. Comfy beds, hot showers, and an awesome breakfast to boot. With a full …
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Aug 24, 2004 – Sep 06, 2004
Moscow, Russia -› Balezino, Russia -› …
The tour guide had told us that if we wanted to see Lake Baikal, we had to wake up pretty early. As I had slept late the 2 previous mornings and I really wanted to see the lake, I set my alarm to wake up in time. At approximately 8:00am the train would be passing the lake, so I set the alarm at tha…
Sep 11, 2005 – Nov 10, 2005
It felt really exciting to be in Siberia. It's one of those places you hear about, but never think you'll have any reason for going to.
We stopped off in Irkutsk to break our Trans-Mongolian train trip; we'd been on the train for four days. We'd really enjoyed the train journey, but it made a nice…
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