Baikal is impressive. It's the deepest and the cleanest lake on Earth.
When we were planning a trip, we didn't even suspect it is so wonderful,
majestic and fairy. We were raptured over its beauty so much, that we
almost didn't sleep all 3 days we were here.
Lake Baikal is about 600km in length. The thickness of it reaches 1,5-2
meters. This ice can tolerate the vehicle of about 15 tonnes, but
sometimes we saw cars that had been fallen down. Ice has different
patterns in different parts of the lake. It happens because water is
freezing layer by layer. Especially it is very interesting to find a
fish or a branch in the ice. The ice in Baikal is the most transparent
in the world! And this is true. You can see everything till the bottom:
fish, green stones, plants and bluish gulf. The water in the lake is so
clear, that you can see various objects on the depth of 40 meters.
Baikal is also the deepest lake. The genesis and the age still provoke
scientific arguments, so let's just remember, that Baikal is the biggest
reservoir of fresh water on Earth, and its depth is 1642 meters. Apart
from Baikal, there are only two lakes that are deeper than 1000 meters:
lake Tanganyika (1470 m) and Caspian Sea (1025 m).
In some parts ice is slippery like the mirror. You can shoot ideal
reflections. A lot of travelers are moving about on skates, bicycles or
sledge. Some of them are walking for several hundreds of kilometers and
are sleeping in the tents on ice. Marvelous place. Very atmospheric.
Ice is cracking all the time. When the frost is very heavy, cracks
divide ice on different areas. The length of these cracks is 10-30 km,
and the width is 2-3 m. Cracks happen every year, approximately at the
same areas of the lake. The are followed by a loud crack that reminds of
thunder or gun shot. Thanks to the cracks, the fish in the lake don't
die from the lack of oxygen. Generally, ice of Baikal carries a lot of
enigmas, the majority of formations provokes the interest of scientists.
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