Baikal with a card

"Glorious Sea, sacred Baikal" - Everyone heard the words of this romance, well, almost everyone! A lot of songs and legends are composed about this ancient lake. This is the largest freshwater lake in the world and the deepest (on average 745 m, and its maximum depth reaches 1642 m), which formed as a result of tectonic shifts.
You can relax on Lake Baikal all year round. In the summer - swim and sunbathe on sandy beaches, combining "nothing - with an inspection of sights in Irkutsk and Ulan -Ude. In August-September, catch fish, admire magnificent landscapes, go on hiking. In winter, skating and roam among ice caves and sculptures created by nature itself, because even the ice here is unique! He has no equal in transparency, thickness and other indicators. It appears at the end of December/ January, and melts only at the end of May. If your free time has appeared in February, try to get to the celebration of the New Year according to the lunar calendar - this is the best time to get acquainted with Buddhist temple complexes (Datsans)
And in Irkutsk, be sure to take a picture of the monument to the woman (and from the guidebook find out who it is!), And go to Ulan-Ude in the Buddhist Center of Russia, try the Baikal Omul in Listvyanka, and in Taltsy find out about the life of the indigenous peoples of the Baikal . If there is time, admire the source of the hangar - the only stirring river from Lake Baikal, and if time remains, go along the Big Baikal path.
And also thanks to the guidebook you will learn a lot of interesting things about the Sandy Bay, which has long been a local tourist brand, prepare for a trip along the Dolkobaikal Railway, or decide to go to the famous island of Olkhon - one of the places of power on the ground, which the Buryats call " The heart of Baikal "