Become a sponsor of the Great Baikal Trail
Adopt a part of the 1800km long (more than 1100 miles) Great Baikal Trail - the hiking trail around the deepest lake on earth - either for yourself or as a present
An ambitious project in a fascinating and unique region of our planet needs sponsors! We're looking for people, who want to take up a sponsorship of small segments of the Great Baikal Trail in order to support soft tourism around Lake Baikal and to protect the biggest and most beautiful lake on earth.
The Great Baikal Trail (GBT) is a hiking trail all around Lake Baikal, which - with its planned length of 1800km/1100 miles - will be one of the longest and most impressive trails in the world. The trail connects 6 national parks and preservation areas, and it also functions as a link between the eastern Russian Steppe and the Mongolian highlands. A complete hike around the lake would take about 100 days - that is more than 3 months and you will get the chance to experience a landscape whose flora and fauna are unique throughout the world.
The goal of this project is to find a way to enable people to explore the region by foot as 'soft tourists', and to provide the people living in that area with an economic perspective that doesn't include irreparable exploitation of Lake Baikal. Only if the interest in the preservation of the 'blue pearl of Siberia' with its intact wilderness remains strong do developments threatening the environment, such as the construction of power plants, pipelines and factories along the shores of Lake Baikal, have a hard time gaining ground.
Soft Tourism is the only way to bring economic interests in line with conservation and environmentalism. The GBT is an international project which was initiated by Russian partners with worldwide support. And you can be a part of it, too!
You can acquire this unique sponsorship for yourself or your company or even as a present for friends and acquaintances. With your sponsorship donation, you purchase a symbolic part of the Great Baikal Trail, and as a little thanks you will get a high-quality colour certificate with 'your' part of the GTB on a map, including your name or the name of the person the present is for.
The money from your sponsorship will be used for creating and marking the trails as well as for the compilation of map material and the building of simple refuges. Of course, we will write out a receipt for the tax-deductible donations if necessary.
Of course, we will write out a receipt for the tax-deductible donations where necessary.
