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Trans Siberian Destinations - Lake Baikal, Russia
Baikal is the deepest lake in the world. Its maximum depth is 1,637 m. Baikal is 636 km long and 79.4 km wide at its widest point. The lake's shore-line is about 2,000 km long. Baikal's water surface area is 31,500 sq. km. This comes out to about the area of such a country as Belgium, the Netherlands or Denmark. The gigantic reservoir of fresh water containing about 23,000 cu.km of life-giving moisture is highly saturated with oxygen. The lake is the largest reserve of fresh surface-water on the globe. It would take all the rivers of the world - the Volga and Don, Dnepr and Yenisei, Ural and Ob, Ganges and Orinoko, Amazon and Thames, Seine and Oder - nearly one year to fill Baikal's basin, and all the rivers, streams and brooklets now flowing into the Siberian lake-sea, about four hundred years.
Baikal is inhabited by 52 fish species belonging to 12 families, from Baikal sturgeon to golomyanka (Baikal oil fish). Yet the main commercial fish is omul (Arctic cisco).
The area surrounding Lake Baikal (Prebaikalie) enjoys an abundant and diverse wildlife. The brown bear, raspberries and mushrooms fancier, is scrounging the taiga forest. The hazel-grouse is being stalked by the dandy sable, whose sleek fur is really iridescent in the sun. The stag, the Manchurian deer, is grazing in the swampy sparse larch forests. The jumper musk-deer, the smallest deer, is standing motionless on a rock ledge.The fox, the wild boar, the hare, the Siberian weasel and the stoat are to be found in the taiga. The dense, overgrown forest is inhabited by the glutton and the lynx. One may frequently come across small herds of wild horses places more accessible to hikers.
76 species of plants that inhabit Prebaikalie, are qualified as rare and protected ones. Among them are the endemics and relics of Prebaikalie, the area surrounding Baikal: Boletus luteus, saw-wort, Hedysarum austrosibiricum B. Feldtsch prebaicalensus, and others. There occur plants, whose populations are being markedly reduced: lilies, Trollius asiaticus, Padus avium Mill., apple-tree Pallas, and others. Such valuable medicinal herbs as Rhodiola rosea and Paeonia anomala L. are to be found on the Park's territory, though quite rarely.
Where to stay in Lake Baikal:
Hotels in Lake Baikal, Apartments in Lake Baikal, Homestay in Lake Baikal
What to see in Lake Baikal:
The National Natural Park Pribaikalsky, The Taltsy Museum of Architecture and Ethnography, Source of the Angara, The Baikal Museum, Krestovka village with a visit to St. Nicholas' Church, Boat Ride, Picnic in the taiga forest or at the Angara river bank
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