About Baikal
Baikal is the deepest lake in the world. Its depth is 1,642 meters. It is a whole world, and you can enjoy its beauty over and over again. And every time you will discover something new in this harsh and extraordinary land. It's impossible to see all the corners of the Sacred Lake and to know all its mysteries just during one trip.
Lake Baikal contains 1/5 of all the fresh water on Earth, is the habitat of more than 2600 species of animals and plants, more than 1000 of which are endemics, including Baikal seal, the life-giving fish Golomyanka and the famous omul? A lake with 336 rivers flowing into it and only one river, the Angara, flowing out?
Nowhere else in the world will you find such clear water, which you can scoop up with your hands and drink. The taste of Baikal water will amaze you! And its transparency: if you put a disc with the diameter of 30 centimeters down to the bottom, you'll see it at the depth of 43 meters! In spring and summer, the transparency can reach 50 meters.
