One girl from Moscow who is from Buryatiya is organizing summer school for everybody in a tiny village near lake Baikal. Great nature, local food and good days guaranteed.
Find out more about VOLUNTEER SUMMER SCHOOL IN BURYATIA 2009.
This is great that we have projects like this in Russia. I'm happy to see people, like Ayuna, who organize serious things like that.
You can join Summer School and be either volunteer and student at the same time. Also you can travel to a very unique place.
VOLUNTEER SUMMER SCHOOL IN BURYATIA 2009
James Morgan Photography
James Morgan, photographer, visited lake Baikal and Siberia recently. Good pictures and cultural experience. Visit his website to see some of his work.
New 2009 (its gonna live!)
What can we say about our lake? There is so much have been said, and there is also many things that left to be untold. Lake Baikal is a very mysterious place, there are may legends and myths about its nature, people and spirits. If we will dig deeper into the history we will see that there are so many stories, languages and ways of life that are so closely related to the nature, and they will probably remain there.
Many people visit Baikal from all over the world. Some of them can see what is there and many people see just what they want to see. Year after year travelers have been changing, and today we can see that some of them get involved in cultural, business and social life.
Also there are international organizations that seek partnership with local government and business. They manage ecological and social projects which help people who is in need and try to solve problems in which the rest of the world is concerned.
One can say that local people don't really care about the lake and they go there just for fun. But it is not true. Of course there is a problem in lack of learning and academic skills to understand the whole meaning of living near the lake. Most of the population is just very into solving everyday problems and they don't really have time to join the nature.
Human resource located near lake Baikal is very scarce. Art, sports, music and things of sort lack attention and unpopular among population. Still there are diamonds in this ore. This year baikalclub is going to make an attempt to tell more about interesting people who live near lake Baikal.
MightyMissy's Mighty Adventure
Here is a comment about the Lake.
Wednesday morning, we headed to Lake Baikal. It is HUGE and Beautiful!!! It reminds me of Lake Tahoe in CA but at a much larger scale and less people. The lake was too big for us to drive around in the time we had and we stuck to the lower mountainside of the lake. Many of us were commenting that if it were in the States that developers would have put up exclusive homes and hid the coastline with condos. In general, the parts of Siberia that were saw were gorgeous with birch and pine trees all over the place. Although it looked green and enticing now, apparently the 7+ months of winter deter people from moving there…go figure!
Read more.
Three Go Sideways
News from three persons travelling on a car everywhere...
Interesting article on clrossing Mongolian-Russian border and reaching lake Baikal.
Waking up to the sound of waves crashing on the beach was really nice, and we had a great morning doing nothing chilling on the beach. If we got thirsty at all during the day all you had to do was dip your cup in the lake and have a drink. It is strange to be able to drink straight from a body of water that looks like an ocean. Somewhat reluctantly we paked up and left early afternoon to make camp to the east of Ulan-Ude. Since then we have spent two days driving and have made 700 miles east. This is our first serious driving session for a long time and it feels quite good. The only slight problem is the continued loss of turbo pressure, but it comes and goes and so we can easily live with it.Find out more...
Such a Shame
Here what we may read about Baikal.We found the 'beach' (so strange as the Russians come here for a beach holiday, with sand and everything, but its a Lake... very strange) There are absolutley stunning views here, but it seems the Russians do not know what they have, as the litter and smashed bottles are EVERY WHERE (This is the same throughout the whole of Russian... such a shame).
Read the full article at Travelpod.
An entry from World Nomads mentioning lake Baikal
The undoubted highlight of my trip to Irkutsk, however, was my visit to lake Baikal. It is absolutely vast and extraordinarily beautiful. I got the bus to Listvyanka and spent the day walking in the little valleys of hamlets and along the shoreside, and swimming in the lake. The valleys were so picturesque with little wooden houses winding higgeldy-piggeldy uo the wooded hillsides, the lake glistening and glinting through the trees below. The lake itself stretches further than the eyes can see and the water is as clear as its reputation. I'd been worried that it wouldn't have lived up to my expectations but no, it was wonderful. Its just a pity I didn't have time to head up to Olkhun Island as its meant to be the most scenic but I really enjoyed what I saw. The hot hot weather helped of course, and although the water was freezing at first you soon got used to it. All thse years as a kid swimming in Scottish waters maybe served as good training! Its so clear and banks so quickly you don't have to venture far from the shore to swim easily.
Where is Jess...?
And interesting blog by Jess who has travelled all over the world... Here is a quote...
The village where we stayed was called Listvyanka, a small little town right on the shores of the massive Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal is the biggest and deepest fresh water lake in the world, and during the winter months is completely frozen over creating a roadway between each side of the lake. It had only defrosted around a month prior to us arriving. It really was the most amazing thing to look at. It was as if you were looking out at the ocean, not being able to see where the sky began and the lake ended. And the water was so clear, that when we did a boat trip out on the lake, you found yourself suffereing from vertigo as you could see directly to the bottom in some parts. The water tempreture at that time was around 1 degrees, so we decided going for a swim would not be the best of ideas!
Read more on her blog...
Solar eclipse observed in Irkutsk
Yesterday, I spent my free time out of city at summer house. We had goo time and observed solar eclipse. I thought it would be darker outside while it happens.
Order your new website in Siberia
Talking about innovation technologies and internet projects.
American and European clients may find it more efficient to order Online services like: web-design, IT project management and maybe more. The problem is that companies like Virtech lack good orders. In other words their customers don't need what they really can offer. I'm sure that people may have good experience working with Russian managers and engineers.
Find out more...
:) they have an english version of website...
Baikal Economic Forum (BEF) – 2008
Baikal region is the way of intagration and collaboration of Europe and Pacific Asia.
Documents to download:
Project of the program.doc
Project of the round tables.doc
Topics to be discussed:
- Decent social standards and quality of life as the basis for competitiveness of the regions of Siberia and the Far East.
- The new town-planning philosophy and the practice of territory development.
- The social and economic strategy: role of the human capital.
- Clean environment, a competitive advantage of the lands of Siberia and the Far East.
- The timber industry of Siberia: ways of development.
- Efficient nature management and the environment.
- Baikal as worldwide heritage: environment, economy, and tourism.
- Tourist and recreation areas: ideas and real opportunities .
- “The Eastern Vector” in the Energy Industry of Russia.
- The energy markets of Russia and the Asian-Pacific Region: integration in the global context.
- The energetic safety of Europe and the Asian-Pacific Region: Russia’s role and opportunities.
- Shared energetic projects: the future and ways of carrying them out.
- The role of international organizations in energetic cooperation.
Organisational fee for taking part at the forum
Name | Register fee, thousand roubles |
| FORUM’S PARTICIPANT | 30* |
| ROUND TBLE PARTICIPANT (OR ATTENDANT) | 5** |
*-- approx 1200 USD
*-- approx 200 USD
Preliminary registration of the forum’s participants will be carried out until August, 15th 2008.
Till August 15th 2008 all people wanting to take part in the forum are on the waiting list. The decision to register a person applied for the participation is made by the forums organisational board.If the decision about one’s participation is positive, the forum organisational board bills the participation, it sends the bill to the payer via e-mail or faxes it. The bill is to be paid by August 25th 2008. Only after the organisational fee has been fully paid will the participant registration be considered.If the decision about one’s participation is negative, that person can still register as a round table participant (under condition of registration fee payment till August 25th 2008).
Baikal sets a record!...or not
A Russian submarine set the record for world's deepest lake dive in Baikal.
For more info:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080729/ts_afp/russiasciencetechnology
UPDATE:
Recent news reports that the dive did not, in fact set a new record and that the submarine did not dive as deep as was previously reported. Here's an updated news story:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/07/29/lake-baikal-dive.html
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