- But Lake Baikal is not only Earth’s oldest lake, at 25–30 million years of age, but also the largest, and the one with the most potential for revealing new discoveries...
- Being one of the famous tourist attractions, there are a lot of hidden facts about Lake Baikal that people across the world are not aware of.
- United States and Russian studies of sediment cores taken from Lake Baikal provide a detailed record of climatic variation over the past 250,000 years.
- Unless you’re staying for several weeks, it’s going to be nearly impossible to see everything around lake Baikal.
- Lake Baikal pictures: Check out Tripadvisor members' 490 candid photos and videos of landmarks, hotels, and attractions in Lake Baikal.
- In this section, general information on the lake is presented with links to pages in The Magic of Baikal where you can find more detail.
- Lake Baikal, at its deepest, is the deepest lake in the world, and with some 7 kilometers of sediment filling the lake bottom, the deepest continental rift on Earth.
- Lake Baikal sits in Southern Siberia in Russia, located between Irkutsk Oblast to the northwest and the Buryat Republic to the southeast, near the city of Irkutsk.
- Here’s the road from Irkutsk, following the coastline of Lake Baikal at Listvyanka till the end of the town, where the road ends (and forests begin).
- The world's oldest at more than 25 million years old, 636 km long Lake Baikal is known for its depth and the purity of its waters.