Adventures

Introduction to lake Baikal

Lake Baikal is a place of superlatives: the deepest, the oldest, the clearest, the cleanest, the highest level of biodiversity, the largest volume (20% of the total) of freshwater in the world, and home to a freshwater seal. For this reason Lake Baikal is on the World Natural Heritage List of Unesco.

It is especially good and just a "must" to visit Baikal if you're taking the Transsiberian train. This train stops in Irkutsk. You can hop off the train and make a trip to Baikal Lake. The experiences you will get there will be incomparable to anything else.

We give you the opportunity to discover the Lake trought Adventure travels. Take your time to discover our propositions and you will see that Russian Concept as an Adventure for you.

Lac Baïkal WE CAN ARRANGE FOR YOU

  • hiking
  • Cross-country skiing
  • Boating
  • Photo Safaris
  • Visit to shamans
  • Summer & winter Adventures
  • Transsiberian tours


GEOGRAPHY

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Baikal is easily the largest lake in Eurasia, and it is just as easily the deepest lake in the world (1,620 metres). On the merits of magnitude alone the lake is renowned as one of the earth's most impressive natural wonders, and rightfully so--Baikal is so large that all of the rivers on earth combined would take an entire year to fill it.

What fewer people realize, however, is that Baikal's majestic expanse is situated in a region of surpassing beauty, its forested shores surmounted by the jagged, snow-clad peaks of the Barguzin mountains. In the winter Baikal freezes over, with ice so thick that the Trans-Siberian Railway was briefly run over its surface. At this time of year the lake provides an unsurpassed venue for the pleasures of a tour by sleigh. In the summer, its crystalline blue waters are transparent to a depth of forty meters, and its shores are ringed with the brilliant colors of seasonal wildflowers. Boat tours offered during the warm months are one of the best ways to gain an introduction to the lake, as is hiking amongst the forests, streams, and waterfalls of Baikal's parks.

CLIMATE

Siberian winter is a really cold winter. Meanwhile, Baikal accumulates much warmth during Summer period and influences the temperature during Winter time. The lake completely freezes in Winter and remains iced in some northern as long as until beginning of June.

Most of the travelers visit the lake during Summer time. However number of tourists who wish to check what is Siberian winter and how transparent ice of the lake looks like is increasing.

Climate conditions in Lake Baikal
January
-21C
 July
18C
February
-18C		 August
15C
Mars
-9C		 September
8C
April
1C		 October
1C
May
9C		 November
-10C
June
15C		 December
-18C