Lake Baikal is the biggest lake around and there are recreational trips on the trains going around it. Some prefer to go around by foot, it said to take 3-5 days to complete the picturesque route. But some, like Evgeny has took a train ride. It’s a much faster and easier way to enjoy all the landmarks around the Lake and get everything done in a matter of a day. They deliberately make some more continuous stops for people to walk around and enjoy scenery, local meals being cooked by the babushkas etc.
The trip is called roundtrip with a purpose – the route makes a circle around the lake (or something more like a stretched oval around it). So the first stop is the last stop. Let’s follow Evgeny and see some things he has seen and photographed:
Evgeny says that the trip costs 2,700 rubles for a person, which is roughly $77 (summer of 2014).
You see the train on the left? This is the train that takes people on the trip.
Here is it, arriving.
Evgeny says that the railroad station building where his trip has started is a landmark by itself: that’s the only building in Russia that is made of unpolished red and white marble, and even being that a unique building it’s been said that the name of the architect who made it was lost in the matter of history course.
That’s a monument for the guy who controlled the construction of the Round Baikal Rail Road.
And that’s the town around the station.
After the train leaves the town the lake shore starts.
This rail road was called most expensive rail road in the country (with all its tunnels, projects made by Italian engineers etc) it was called a “Golden Buckle” at time of construction.
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