Watch here for the VIDEO PRESS RELEASE on
SIBERIA - A Land of Dreams
April 2006
Brief information about Baikal
Region - See BAIKAL TRIP SUMMER
All the photos posted below are
from the Summer trip.
We will be posting the new shoot
highlights here sometime in late October 2005
* Lake Baikal is a Sacred
Sea, and home to an incredible rebirth of legend, dreams and magic.
* Lake Baikal is the deepest,
purest, oldest, largest lake on the planet.
* Lake Baikal
holds twenty percent
of the earth's fresh water
* Lake Baikal
has more species of plants and animals than
any
other lake on the planet
* Over fifty
species of fish including bullhead,
sturgeon and omul
* Fed by more than 336
rivers and streams including the Angara, Barguzin,
Selenga, Turka and Snezhnaya
[only one, the Angara, flows out from Lake Baikal]
* A Crossroad of cultures,
where native Sayats
still herd reindeer
* Buryat
people maintain many of their old traditions
* Gateway to Mongolia and
its ancient and amazing culture
* Legend states that Olkhon
Island was the birthplace of Genghis Khan's Mother
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