05 february
sunday, 21:15

About Baikal

 


Feel the sacred energy of Lake Baikal!

There are so many temptations in the modern world! However, there is one, having fallen into which you will experience true delight without sin... Enjoyment of meeting the wondrous creature of nature — Lake Baikal, the cleanest lake on Planet Earth.

Baikal is «placed» by Creator into «necklace» of mountains and woods as a diamond of rare beauty. It is a whole world — with its unique nature, where all in one place you can find taiga, semi-desert, tundra, rock steppe and Siberian subtropics. Sky lies above all of this harmony. Here, the sky is especially endless, a mystic abyss. By day, it charms you with its piercing blue, by night it lures you with brilliant scattered stars.

When admiring Baikal, one cannot avoid numbers, which do not bring its poetry down to earth, but rather add to its vivid and magnificent lines. The length of the lake being 636 km is comparable with distance between Moscow and St. Petersburg. The square area of the water surface of 31.5 thousand sq.km. Baikal is the deepest lake in the world, its deepest point is 1637 m. Baikal’s basin contains one fifth of the world’s fresh water.

Magic transparency of Baikal’s water brings you to the state of euphoria, endless excitement. Like through a cut-glass lens, you can see what the depth of the lake conceals.

Baikal is a living miracle and, as all living creatures, it has its own rhythm of life and character. Accepting three hundred rivers, rivulets and streams, Baikal generously shares this colossal energy with people. There is a belief that one day spent at Lake Baikal gives the vital energy for the whole year ahead and increases all the good traits of one’s character

Baikal is the most interesting riddle granted to us by Mother Nature, and no one was able to solve it to the end yet. One this is for sure that there is no other lake anywhere in the world that would be so famous for its charisma and luring power, which brings great joy and enormous satisfaction. It is here at Lake Baikal that one can experience the long-wanted peace with nature, plunging into it and letting it impregnate oneself.

Baikal has a remarkable feature: the more you try to learn it better, be closer to it, the stronger it lures you and makes you realize clearer that it is absolutely unique and magically unmatched in the world.

Among all beauties and riches of Siberia, Baikal holds a special place. People rush to meet Baikal from all sides of the world, to get a true soul’s rest. Baikal welcomes its guest like a hospitable host sharing its home coziness with them. Here, far away from big city life, on the shore of the sacred lake, tourists can find accommodation in comfortable hotels. Comfortable rooms, conference halls and a Russian sauna. Hotel restaurants offer rich selection in their menus: these are exclusive dishes of Baikal fish, delicacies of wild game, traditional dishes of Russian and European cuisine. None will be left untouched by excursion programs.

Being on cloud nine from meeting Baikal once, very few travelers will not long to return again and again to its shores, to touch the water and feel its unforgettable taste.

That’s why it is so easy to understand why pagan gods of peoples, who settled around Lake Baikal since old times, have chosen to dwell at this lake — quite a place for gods.

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