"Baikal - Amikan", individual tours and nature at Baikal Lake

I am kinda seasick. I miss summer and Baikal. I know it is coming, but still... It took me almost a year to make a video after our last trip to Olkhon. We went there last summer. I had the files stored in my comouter and never found time to put them all together, until last night. SO here it is, a short sketch about our 2-days trip to Olkhon - the biggest island on Baikal lake.

I’m happy to introduce you the itinerary for the new horse-riding Baikal tour which is available for booking this summer season 2013. This tour will give you an opportunity to horse-ride at the most beautiful place of Baikal – Olkhon island, where the freshest wind is blowing while you’re galloping among the steppes, hills and forests surrounded by the greatest waters of Baika lake, as well as you’ll have one-day excursion to the northernmost of the island – Khoboy where the width of the lake and the steepness of its shores takes away the breath… Duration: 4 days/3 nights Day 1  Transfer to Olkhon, walk to Burkhan cape Welcome to Siberia! Once you arrive to the train station you’ll be met by your English-speaking guide who will accompany you during your trip. Transfer to Olkhon Island – the biggest island on Baikal lake by mini-van. It takes about 5-6 hours to cover the distance of 300 km. Out way runs partly through the forest, flowering meadows, little villages...

Child Baikal expedition accompanied Russia's best ice sculptors, musicians, actors, cameramen, photographers and parents went to Baikal children’s expedition this March 2013. In this creative expedition kids did everything themselves: made sculptures out of ice, shot, played, took pictures. Masters guided and helped them. Enthusiasts decided to put a maze of transparent blocks bizarre. From the frozen surface of the reservoir, it looks like rows of crystal sculptures. But once you take off and rise in the air, then you’ll see an icy eye. The labyrinth was built by several dozen of artists from Moscow, St. Petersburg, Khabarovsk, Perm and Ufa. The materials were no problems. Baikal ice is renowned for its fantastic clarity. The maze looks especially impressive at dawn and dusk, when it begins to play colored rays. You can watch the video here.

Wintry Baikal... Pristine vastness of frozen Baikal, transparent iced treasures, turquoise to blue colors of clearest ice under your feet, thousands of patterns of the cracks in the ice, watching which you never get tired of, the grandest ice-rink flows under the ice-skates and makes you feel great, thousands of stars in the dark velvet sky which are never seen in the city, freezing freshest wind which tickles your neck - Baikal embrace. I feel full and happy. I am safe. I am home. Thank you for everything!      My trip this march 2013 started in Listvyanka where we got on the hover and went for one-day ride to Peschanka. This place is so quiet in winter, unlike the summer time when it is kinda crowded, no wonder - this place is nolike others. Clearest ice let us fell absolutely free skating. The wind was carrying us. The man was bringing water from the lake for heating Banya, and we were jealous of how quiet and smooth his life must be here. A simple wooden Ba...

I am not a professional in making video, but this place is such a real "Winter" place, with its own magic and magnificance, with the freshest frozen air and cleanest snow ever, that I decided to make a short video sketch about it. It shows our Christimas trip to Khamar-Daban mountains (it's on the south of Baikal lake). Now it is winter and it is perfect time to go skiing, snowshoeing and living WINTER!!! It's calling...

We’ve visited Baikal lake today and guess what! It’s sensational but it is frozen! (At least in Listvyanka it is)) This year it is the earliest as I can remember time – early January when Baikal is frozen already! Usually it happens in the middle of January only but due to the low temperatures of December last year the water got frozen. We walked a little on the ice feeling very strange as it always feels when standing on the ice for the first time after a while, especially fresh ice. It is considered safe to walk over the ice the its thickness reaches 10cm and for the car to drive – when it is 20cm. I hope this year there will be lots of places with clear ice-fields suitable to skate, but Baikal is creative and I’m sure his design is the best anyway. So, Baikal welcomes to its frozen spaces!!! Try our Baikal winter tours here . And it was the first time when Kristina has ever stood on the frozen Baikal (she is 1,2 years old) and touched the ice herself.  Hope she’ll rem...

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