Lake Baikal Travel

Lake Baikal becomes one of the most popular tourist destinations in Russia after capital cities of Moscow and St. Petersburg, and it is surely the most visited tourist center in Siberia. Each year the increasing number of foreign visitors choose Lake Baikal as a final point of travel or as one of the key stopovers along their Trans-Siberian tour. Some use services of travel agencies in their home countries, some like to take full responsibility of their vacation and surf the web in search of the best options. Since Internet became a part of everyday life most of the travelers no matter how they book a tour research the information on the places they visit. There is a variety travel guides that feature articles about Lake Baikal. However, most of them give only common information with no deeper insights into accommodation options, historical and natural landmarks of smaller cities and settlements found here. Besides, many of these travel guides are not locally run which make the data accurate only for the time of writing. As for the local travel sites about Lake Baikal there is certainly a lack of comprehensive information in English.