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Amazing Lake Baikal

Posted by zns | 18th November 2008

In December of 2007, we made an incredible voyage to the biggest lake in the world – Lake Baikal. I went there with my friends who were living and working in Moscow for the moment. Actually they found a local travel agency that organized everything. We were lucky to have guides who spoke English fluently and knew the region perfectly. They were telling lots of stories and legends about the lake all the time! The agency is called “BaikalNature” so it was a kind of “nature” travel.
Two English-speaking guides met us in the airport of Irkutsk and we were delivered to the homestay in the centre of the city. After a great lunch at Nina’s we had a city tour: some orthodox churches, the Decembrists museum etc.
On the following day we made a trip on famous “Circumbaikal” railroad, called “the golden buckle of Russia”. Russian food is tremendous! We visited the Baikal museum, Chersky Peak and the Baikal port. In the evening we got

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