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Lake Baikal [ See Baikal on the map ]

For the Russian people Lake Baikal is a natural treasure. Located in Siberia near the Mongolian border, and surrounded by mountains,
forests and wild rivers, Baikal is an immense and breathtaking area of physical beauty. Baikal holds twenty percent of the earth’s
fresh water and harbors more endemic species of plants and animals than any other lake in the world. Fed by 336 rivers and streams
including the Angara, Barguzin, Selenga, Turka and Snezhnaya, the lake holds fifty species of fish including bullhead, sturgeon and omul.
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As adventure travel explodes onto the scene, these hot and steamy volcano exploration trips will keep your heart pumping as you race against time, waiting for the next big eruption.

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For a museum that has never set so much as a toe outside its original footprint, the opening of a new building with 173,000 square feet (16,072 square meters) of gallery, study and restoration space could be considered a major leap.

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Despite mankind’s much ballyhooed “conquest” of Planet Earth, there are an awful lot of things out there still waiting to pounce — and an ever-increasing number of adrenaline junkies bent on getting as close to these creatures as possible and (hopefully) living to tell about it.

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