Listvyanka, Lake Baikal, Russia

... swim in the Lake it will add 25 years to your life, so I'm hoping that's true. This afternoon we all took a boat across to Port Baikal, which is part of the old Trans Siberian Railway Line. It was pretty run down with not a lot to do. I went for a short ...

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... to Lake Baikal from the station. I stayed in a typical Russian house called an Izba in a little town called Listvyana on Lake Baikal. It's basically one big room with a huge big stove in the middle, the rooms are sectioned off with wooden partitions. ...

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... lake came into view. It's big. There are mountains on the other side. Everything I'd hoped for. The bus stopped outside of Listvyanka at the Baikal Museum and Sarah and I decided to get off and check it out, saying that we'll meet the others later - they ...

... bus to Olkhun Island but decided to head for Listvyanka, a small town south of Iirkutsk, located on the shores of famous Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal is the worlds largest and deepest lake, up to a mile deep and is inhabited by many rare species found only ...