Winter Lake Baikal Travel Guide

Where are we going to travel this winter? Lake Baikal is a good choice. It begins to freeze slowly in December, and the ice age here really ends in January. So a guide to winter travel to Lake Baikal.

Starting from December, Lake Baikal enters the freezing period, and by the end of January, it completely enters the freezing period, so February to March is the best season to visit Lake Baikal. It is necessary to pay attention to the climate throughout the year. Cold winters and warm winters may enter the freezing period earlier or later, which often results in failure for tourists who do not plan well.

Most travelers choose to go to Lake Baikal in the west, because Olkhon Island in the south is the island with the largest scenery and the most games. At the same time, there are also many games in the surrounding towns, such as husky sledding, ice skating, ice biking, and even swimming in the winter.

Recommended route: Irkutsk Kristyanka Olkhon Island

Irkutsk

The first stop is known as Siberia Heart of Irkutsk. For travelers, Irkutsk is the only place to enter Lake Baikal, which is the transportation hub to Lake Baikal. And Irkutsk has won the favor of many travelers with its long history and culture. The photos taken of the retro churches and monasteries in the city center have a very Russian feel.

After getting off the plane, find a Russian restaurant and experience the food concept of the fighting nation: - super high-calorie food. It’s best to try Baikal whitefish, a specialty of Lake Baikal. The reason why local people’s food is high in calories is closely related to the local cold weather. If you come to Russia, you might as well do as the locals do and feel the warmth of high-calorie food in your stomach.

The Kazan Notre Dame Cathedral, the most gorgeous Orthodox church, has an eye-catching appearance and is a frequent sight in travelers' photos. In winter, ice sculptures will be erected outside the church. The colorful church shape is very exotic.

Sparka (Savior) Church, also a cathedral in eastern Russia, has beautiful white walls and green roofs. Although green hair is a bit emm in our culture, the white snow in winter matches well with the white walls of the church, and the photos taken will have a crisp beauty.

Znamenski Monastery is a historical building built in 1762, the color of the top is still green. It is said that the monastery contains the remains of Siberian missionaries, which have survived for many years and are regarded as holy objects by the Orthodox Church. Therefore, Orthodox believers travel thousands of miles to come here on pilgrimage.

Listvyanka

The second stop is to the town of Listvyanka at the confluence of Lake Baikal and the Angola River. Because the name is too long, our people like to call it Cheng Xinting Town.

The town is not big, with only more than 2,000 local residents. The houses that residents live in are primitive log cabins, which are covered with a thick layer of snow. It blends into the hills and jungles behind it, as if it has broken into a fairy tale world~

Walking on Gorky Street on the side, next to the frozen Lake Baikal, a vast white snow field unfolds in front of you, which is extremely Shocking.

If it’s not too late, consider participating in some ice entertainment projects. You can take a hovercraft to visit Lake Baikal, and drift all the way around Lake Baikal with the superb skills of the fighting nation captains.

Dog lovers can experience a tour of Lake Baikal with ten adorable sled dogs.

You can also drive a snowmobile and rent it between the town and Lake Baikal~

You can also experience the lake caves dug by the locals, jump into ice diving, and explore the mysterious Underwater world. If the weather is clear, the sun will shine directly on the water, and the plants on the bottom of the lake can be clearly seen through the ice. Lively shrimps and fish swim around you, and you may even see baby seals. So dreamy~

After landing, take off your diving equipment, put on warm winter clothes, drink the vodka of the fighting nation, and your whole body will warm up quickly~ It should be noted that you must have at least a junior diving certificate for diving, otherwise you cannot To get into the water, your diving certificate must be at least OW or AOW.

Drink vodka and put ice cubes all over the lake.

When the sun is getting dark, you can sit down in a coffee shop by the lake, order a cup of hot coffee, and wait for the sunset on Lake Baikal. At around 6 p.m., the Huihui Society will illuminate half of the sky orange-red and dye the White Lake red. The sparkling water is very beautiful.

Olkhon Island

Olkhon Island is the largest island in Lake Baikal and is known as the heart of Lake Baikal. It is the best place to visit Lake Baikal. Here you can see the most beautiful and pure blue ice world!

The means of transportation to the island in summer is a large boat, and even cars can be transported there. This is an Ice Age hovercraft. If it's icy, you can drive there.

There are many scenic spots on Olkhon Island, divided into north and south lines, each line takes one day. Tourists will choose to sign up for local one-day tour groups.

The cars on the island are all very distinctive tile cars, which look very cute and cute, much like Volkswagen's mini buses. It is a four-wheel drive off-road bus produced by the Ulyanovsk Automobile Factory in the former Soviet Union. It is used to go to the island.

Southern route attractions: Wooden House Museum - Heart Lake - Pagoda Island - Binggua Cave - Stone Forest, climb to the top.

Northern line attractions: Face Mountain-Three Brothers Rock-Love Mountain-Habai Point-Harlands.

The most important thing, please remember, what are we doing in Lake Baikal? Of course, this is blue ice.

Due to its geographical location, the southern route is suitable for viewing crushed ice and bubble ice, while the northern route is suitable for viewing pendant ice. Meanwhile, the ice on the northern route is the bluest.

On the southern route, there are criss-crossing pieces of broken ice everywhere. Spider webs often lay thickly on the ice. If you wrap it tightly enough, you can clearly hear the sound of ice cracking when you lie down or lie down, and you will be scared and excited.

The bubble ice not far away is a little more cute. A bunch of cute little bubbles are frozen in the lake, big and small, like stars, very beautiful. The bubbles are formed because the biogas released by the plants at the bottom of the lake floats to the surface but is blocked by ice, forming a bubble spectacle.

The hanging ice on the northern line is domineering and stunning, usually in caves on the shore or on the shore of small islands in the lake. It forms because waves crash in the cave and condense into hanging ice at low moments. Even if the cave is full of ice picks, tourists can still go in and take pictures, because the background is so shocking, and it is a casual photo shoot, so be careful not to be hit by the ice picks.

The entire blue ice of Lake Baikal can be seen, crystal clear and extremely bright, while the northern line looks bluer because there are very few traces of human activities~