{"id":564,"date":"2016-08-26T17:09:09","date_gmt":"2016-08-26T16:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shonak.com\/?p=564"},"modified":"2017-02-02T23:44:42","modified_gmt":"2017-02-02T23:44:42","slug":"sailing-baikal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shonak.com\/?p=564","title":{"rendered":"Sailing Baikal"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n\t\t\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-564 gallery-slider'>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<ul class='slides'><li class='gallery-item'>\n<img width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shonak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-6.jpeg?resize=600%2C400\" class=\"attachment-blog-image size-blog-image\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shonak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-6.jpeg?w=6000 6000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.shonak.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/image-6.jpeg?resize=300%2C200 300w, 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Recently Baikal\u00a0has evolved to become a key vacation destination for Russians. With the gorgeous summer weather, it&#8217;s hard to believe that the whole thing freezes over in winter and is used as a highway by the locals.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s difficult to describe how clear and still the water is. I&#8217;ve never seen anything like it. Even being knee deep in the cold water, I looked down below at my toes as if there was nothing in between. It tastes great too, it&#8217;s a little sweeter than regular mineral water (probably due to all the seaweed and caviar) but still wonderfully refreshing.<\/p>\n<p>-S<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.shonak.com\/?p=575\"><em>Next: A nomad in Mongolia<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check out the photos above as I stopped beside Lake Baikal in Siberia at a town called Listvyanka. The 25 million year old lake in the world covers an area larger than Belgium and is deeper than 5 stacked Eiffel towers. 400 streams and rivers flow in from the\u00a0nearby mountains, which\u00a0supports many endemic species of fish and other wildlife in the surrounding national park. 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