Baïkal Summer / Winter
Baïkal summer/winter
A land with more contrast than any other, Siberia could be nothing but a wide case of plains and forests built to protect the jewel of all Russias : the famous Baïkal lake.
Covered with one meter of ice in winter, being able of the worst storms in summer as well as ocean softness, Baïkal is a phenomenon. It’s the deepest lake of the world (1.650 m), one of the biggest (700 km long), it holds the most important fresh water reserves of the earth (20%) just after Antarctica, hosts lots of endemic species, knew in the Neolithic ages a lost civilisation and remains today one of the wildest and most fascinating places on earth.
What makes this place so weird is first this exceptional distance between winter Baïkal and summer Baïkal. From February till mid-April, one can ride horses or drive an old Volga on the frozen waters. Fishermen make holes in the ice and the seals wait for the first melt to mate on the ephemeral ice floe. From June, Siberians bath, boats get out to fish Omoul and herds and peasants take advantage of the short summer to fill up with fat grass.
In all Russia, 12.000 kilometres from west to east, winter is the same, taiga is the same, only the Baïkal can provide another vision, in summer or in winter.
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- Longueur 1 910 966
- Auteur Marc Roussel / Orizon / Lightmediation
- Date Tue, 21 Nov 2006 21:11:10 +0100
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