Sunday, June 21, 2009
Seliger - the pearl of the Tver region and one of the great lakes in Russia.
Seliger - a system of lakes, is located on the border of Tver and Novgorod regions, where over a gradually rising plain sineyut wooded hills Valdai Hills. Seliger is an alternation Pleso and Protocols, and consists of 24 Pleso and lakes, the biggest - Polnovsky, Ostashkovsky, Kravotynsky, Selizharovsky, Trinity, Sosnitsky which are interconnected by a short straits - mezhtokami and long straits - rivers.
The coastline of Lake severely cut. The area of - some 260km2, including under the islands - 38km2. The lake stretches for 66 km from north to south and 37 km from west to east. In general, the coastline is more than 500 km. The average depth of the lake - 5.8, maximum - 24 m. Seliger lies at an altitude of about 205 m above sea level. The volume of water in the lake - 1.3 km 3. Basin Area - 2 275 km2.
One of the strongest impressions from the edge Seliger - full of poetry and the rest travel on the lakes. All visitors to the Seliger, enjoy here the two main modes of transport - road and waterways. Ships and buses connect Ostashkov many settlements on the shores of the lake .
Traveling by Seliger, you can choose various routes and means of movement. First of all, tourists are usually familiar with Ostashkovo, then sent to travels on the lake and its surrounding areas.
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