Ice Love: Lake Baikal

A Thai Girl Winter Adventure in Siberia

Meet May

Sawatdikha! This is May from Bangkok, Thailand. Businesswoman, photographer, traveler and occasionally photo model.

May, Lake Baikal

“Travel Is The Most Valuable Thing To Do” – May

May has just returned from an amazing trip to Siberia, Russia, where she explored the frozen Baikal Lake – “the largest freshwater lake by volume in the world, containing 22–23% of the world’s fresh surface water. With a maximum depth of 1,642 m (5,387 ft), Baikal is the world’s deepest lake. It is considered among the world’s clearest lakes and is considered the world’s oldest lake – at 25-30 million years. It is the seventh-largest lake in the world by surface area.” (Wikipedia).

• Starting point: Irkutsk, Siberia
• Temperature: -25 degrees C.
• Ice thickness: 1 meter

Icy Photos of Lake Baikal

“It reflects like an optical instrument and responds to changes in the weather so sensitively that it seems like a part of the sky rather than of the land. And along with all that, Baikal is distinctly Asiatic: if a camel caravan could somehow transport Baikal across Siberia to Europe, and curious buyers unwrapped it in a marketplace, none would mistake it for a lake from around there.” – Ian Frazier, Travels in Siberia

Fun in & on the Ice

Cocktail in the Ice

Fish Soup

до свидания (Goodbye)

Map

May’s background: Businesswoman, photographer and traveler. Dreaming to explore the world. Discover the culture. Enjoy the Nature. Visited 30 countries.

Photos are copyright © Pundarick Poocharoen (May).