- 3. WHEN TO VISIT THE BAIKAL LAKE: heat, cold, ice and thaw. 4. WHAT TO SEE ON THE BAIKAL LAKE: visits and outstanding activities.
- In it there are numerous endemic species such as the seal and the Baikal sturgeon, the golomjanka fish and the epishura crab (a tiny animal whose role is...
- Lake Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, as well as one of the clearest. ... 30 islands on Lake Baikal, the largest and most famous - Olkhon Island.
- He was also the first one to point out Lake Baikal’s great depth. But habitation in the Baikal region goes back much more than that.
- The Baikal stage would be equipped with a folding wing, which would be stored along the fuselage of the vehicle during the ascent of the rocket.
- It was built in the 1950s for the workers of the fish factory. This may seem strange, but produced “fish” was not the Baikal omul, but the Pacific herring.
- Amazing Facts. Baikal is the deepest (with a maximum depth of 5,387 ft) and oldest (formed about 25 million years ago) lake in the world.
- Look for Nerpas. There’s a specific seal living in lake Baikal: the Baikal seal. At the moment there are around 80,000 to 100,000 animals living in the lake.
- When the morning gloom cleared, we saw the eastern shore of the lake. It looked so close, that we asked our driver: "Why do they call Baikal the Big Sea?
- Lake Baikal is a Siberian gem and a must see natural beauty. A trip to the Baikal had been on our wishlist for years.