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BOUNDLESS NATURE
On our small planet, there are few places left where nature is still in its virgin state. Siberia, especially the Baikal Region, is no doubt one of such areas:
Siberia is an "unknown planet" for the world tourism. One can even get the impression that the world community knows more about the Moon than about Siberia. And Baikal, the greatest freshwater lake in the world that is situated in the middle of Siberia, is as much mysterious and enigmatic. Siberia is a part of the Russian Federation consisting of a few federal regions. Irkutsk region is lucky in that its eastern borders are washed by the sacred waters of Lake Baikal. Here, one can find endless taiga forests (some say, the largest in the world) with practically no people inhibiting them, mountain ranges with never -melting snow on the peaks, forests, dunes, steppe, and marshes:
Lake Baikal is a real magnet for tourists. It is so unbelievably huge and deep that one can hardly call it a lake. 600km long, 80km wide, and 1.6 km (!) deep, it covers an area equivalent in size to a quarter of England. It contains 20% of the planet's fresh-water resources. According to the scientists, the water quality is a standard for drinking water. Along the whole shore -line , with the exception of the large settlement's beaches, you can drink it directly from the lake without boiling and you can be sure you never get any infection or upset stomach. Scuba-divers get amazed at the exceptional purity and clarity of the water in Lake Baikal. 80% of the animal and plant species in Lake Baikal are endemic, which means you cannot find them anywhere else in the world. The scientists are still unable to answer the question of how the Baikal nerpa (seals) got into this fresh-water reservoir, 3,500 km from the nearest ocean. There was even a hypothesis once about an underground cannel connecting Lake Baikal and the Artic Ocean. Golomyanka, a small viviparous fish, which contains about 30% fat, abounds at a great depth of the lake These fishes are almost transparent so that one could read a newspaper through them. And they are only two of the hundreds of Baikal's wonders!

THE WAY TO THE RED FISH DAVATCHAN

KING - FISH
By Vassily Smirnov Doctor of Biology

THORNY PATH TO LENA RIVER
By Semen Ustinov

BLESSED BY THE TIME
By Semen Ustinov

PRESERVED HAMAR-DABAN

ISLAND BETWEEN TWO SEAS


IT LIVES ONLY IN BAIKAL


THE CIRCUM-BAIKAL RAILROAD 100 YEARS' ANNIVERSARY
By Sergey Vyhara




 Baikal Adventure Tours  

Summer Programs -

- ADVENTURE TOUR TO LAKE BAIKAL and IRKUTSK
- TREKKING ALONG THE BAIKAL'S SHORE
- JEEP TOUR TO TUNKA VALLEY
- JEEP TOUR TO OLKHON ISLAND
- JEEP TOUR TO ORLICK, WESTERN BURYATIA
- HORSEBACK RIDING IN BURYATIA
- EASY BIKING TOUR AT LAKE BAIKAL
- MOUNTAIN BIKING AT OLKHON
- RAFTING TOUR ON IRKUT RIVER, Grade II
- ONE DAY TOUR TO SHAMAN
- ONE DAY CIRCUMBAIKAL TOUR

Baikal Winter Programs -

- ICE LAKE BAIKAL EXCURSION
- CIRCUMBAIKAL RAILROAD TOUR
- WINTER JEEP TOUR TO OLKHON ISLAND
- HIKE TO BOLSHIE KOTY
- DOG SLEDDING & BAIKAL EXCURSION
- SKIING IN SIBERIA
- BAIKAL MARATHONS


Our address: "BAIKALCOMPLEX" P.O. BOX 30, IRKUTSK- 29, RUSSIA
TEL/FAX: (3952) 46 15 57, 46 22 44, 510 934, Cell +7-914-8-951-961
E-mail: travel@angara.ru     baikal@online.ru
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