Lake Baikal

by mountains, forests and wild rivers, Baikal is an immense and breathtaking area of natural beauty. It is the world’s oldest and deepest freshwater lake, declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1996.

Lake Baikal is one of the world's great natural wonders. With a surface area bigger than Belgium, it contains nearly one quarter of the entire world's freshwater. The water in the lake creates a mild microclimate around its shores.

20-25 million years ago.
While more than 300 rivers flow in, only one - the Angara - flows out, eventually draining into the Arctic Ocean, hundreds of kilometers to the north.
The Earth's deepest inland body of water, its massive stone basin is so large that all of the rivers on the planet would take an entire year to fill it.

water. In a good day you could see 40 meters into the lake.
Lake Baikal is home to more than 2,000 species of plants and animals, two-thirds of which are endemics. They can be found nowhere else in the world, including the Baikal omul fish and golomyanka оr Baikal oil fish as well as the nerpa, one of the world's only freshwater species of seal.

not have a uniformly even surface. There are also large slabs and huge blocks of ice that can reach 12 meters in height and resemble rock crystals;