- Lake Baikal’s is 600-kilometers in length and is an ecosystem of its own. In 1996 UNESCO recognised it as a world heritage site.
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- Lake Baikal is the deepest and oldest lake in the world – a beautiful eye of Siberia. Irkutsk is a very convenient starting point to visit Baikal.
- Baikal is the deepest (with a maximum depth of 5,387 ft) and oldest (formed about 25 million years ago) lake in the world.
- Lake Baikal is nothing short than a natural wonder. It is the deepest, oldest and largest freshwater lake by volume, containing one fifth of the world’s fresh water.
- 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.
- Furthermore, the researchers found out that Baikal lakesides continue separating for 2 cm a year. The geophysicists believe that Baikal is an incipient ocean.
- In the west there are the Baikal Mountains, in the east the Zabaikalskie Mountains. The Angara River is the only outflow of Lake Baikal.
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- Baikal will not disappoint even the most experienced travelers, revealing its greatness to them. There are a lot of beautiful places on Baikal – all worth visiting.