There are many reasons to visit the lake and experience the way of life over here. The usual activities of adventure tourism like trekking, biking, kayaking, fishing or jeep-safaris are all the more memorable when they are carried out at…
It’s Baikal Day!
On the fourth Sunday in August, Russians celebrate Baikal Day. It’s a relatively new occasion, marked only since 1999, but it’s designed to remind people of the beauty of this magnificent lake and its surroundings. Baikal is something special. Whereas…
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Irkutsk and Lake Baikal
We continue publishing our customer comments about their holidays along the Trans-Siberian railway. At 11am we went to Ust Orda, a Buryat village about 70km north from Irkutsk. The Buryat people are the largest indigenous group in Siberia and the…
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