Baikal Travel - We are Siberia ! 
Lake Baikal: the destination for nature lovers with sense of romantic adventure. For walking, trekking friends and anyone who wants to see the most beautiful natural wonders of Siberia.
Here you find traveling around Lake Baikal, as well as accommodations, 4 star comfort hotel at source of the Angara, private rooms and a simple small guest house in the fishing village Baikalskoje on the northern Baikal. Welcome!
Lake Baikal - the Pearl of Siberia
Lake Baikal – freshwater lake in the south of Eastern Siberia
Position: between 55 ° 46.3 ° northern latitude and 109 ° 57.5 ° east longitude and 51 ° 27.5 ° north latitude and 103° 42.5 ° east longitude
Height above sea level: 455 meters
Age: about 25 million years
Flora and fauna: about 2600 species
Maximum depth: 1637 meters
Size: 31500 sq km
Volume: 23000 km3
Length of the Lake: 636 km
Greatest width: 79.5 km
Minimum width: 27 km
Length of coastline: 2000 km
Number of Caps: 174
Number of islands: 26 (largest island: Olkhon)
Number of inflows: 336 (Largest inflow: Selenga)
Number of outflows: 1 (Source Angara at Listvjanka settlement)
Average temperature of the water (open sea) in the summer: max. 16 ° C, min. 0 ° C. Maximum temperature of the water at the coast in summer: max. 24 ° C.
The warmest water is measured here: Mukhor (Maloe More - Small Sea) and Chivyrkuyskiy
Period of ice formation: mid-January to early May
Period for passenger transport on the lake: 17 May to 10 November, except Listvjanka - Port Baikal, here all year round ferry service is possible as a result of the flow (source Angara - outflow), no icing
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The legend about Lake Baikal
How Lake Baikal had been created (legend):
There are not too much soil on earth. Everybody knows that you do not need to dig particularly deep to encounter only on sand, gravel and stones. And the deeper one digs, the more the soil is rocky. You dig deeper, then you meet at the end ground water only. Deep under the earth there are stones that are glowing hot and break, as soon as they come into contact with water. From these stones there is a lot beneath the earth, much more than on the Earth's surface.
Thousands of years ago, so the legend told us, these stones were just below the earth in contact with water and became hotter and hotter. The water began to boil, but the water vapor could not escape. The steam went from side to side and pushed the ground and shook the whole ground.
The steam fought his way upward to the surface, leaving a hole at the same time, where the ground slide down. As the steam cools, the water was liquid again, and covered all the deep places and the mountains where the water had been stopped and a huge lake was created, The Lake Baikal.
The lake is said to be related to the Arctic Ocean, and there are many stories about boats that have sunk in Lake Baikal and been recovered in the Arctic Ocean.
