Baikal

Lake Baikal. The deepest and oldest lake in the world. Holds about 20% of all unfrozen fresh water. It is so clean that you drink from it. It is some 650 km long and 80 km wide.



To see it all 'properly' would require probably a month but with really only 5 days I had focused on its closest south western tip. Thus I skipped the Olkhon Island and done two two-day treks instead. First of all led me to a very picturesque 19 century mining village with no road access called Bolshoie Koty.
For the other one I have hiked sections of the Circumbaikal railway which proved to be a bit less fun then anticipated - try walking 50 km on the tracks! But it led me to some nice places and I can in the end say I did it!