A Picnic on the Shores of Lake Baikal, Siberia
It is a land of superlatives — the deepest, purest, oldest and biggest freshwater lake in the world, so large that all the rivers in the world combined would take a year to fill it. There is enough water here to supply the world’s freshwater needs for 40 years as 336 rivers flow into the lake but only one — the River Angara — flows out. Surrounded by mountains covered in birch, pine and larch trees, green and golden in…