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Irkutsk locals
... alone. An older gentlemen drinking a clear liquid from a shot glass ... From this I deduce he is Russian ( do you concur Holmes?)
Day 9 of my adventure finds me back in Irkutsk before boarding the no. 1 train bound for Moscow tomorrow. It is an epic 3 night, 3 day journey. I arrived here at 1 pm and checked in to the Hotel Irkutsk. Quite a nice hotel on the Angara River that feeds into ( or is it from ) Lake Baikal. Across the river is the station. My room is ...
Train of thought
For a change and just because it fits the journey better, I decided to document the Transsibirian/Transmongolian journey in a diary form. Day 1 (Oct. 14th, 2012) Since the time of our departure was 23.45 on Oct. 13th, I just start with the following day. My cabin mate is actually Russian, not Ukranian as Alex told me. And he actually knows some English. I am very surprised about the "newness" of the compartments, it looks nothing like the pictures I saw online. It still is for First ...
Final part of the TransMongolian, Irkutsk - Moscow
... than we were expecting. After more book reading it was snooze time.
I was woken up at 3.30 Moscow time as the people in the cabin next to us were getting off and new travellers were joining. I managed to find a wifi spot and download the news and was able to see that our Mongolian theme tune Gangnam Style which our driver had played repetitively whilst driving through the Gobi and singing along, had reached number one in the UK. We both laughed as ...
Иркутск
... second leg between Yekaterinburg and Krasnoyarsk. We also noticed that we are now again much closer to China and Mongolia, by having lots of Chinese and Mongolian fellow passengers.
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89;к (Irkutsk) - the (former) Paris of the East
In our travel guides we read that Irkutsk is by far the most beautiful city in Siberia (so a welcoming change from ...
Baikal meer
... Poetin hebben gestemd om hun te verlengen of te verbeteren, alhoewel ze hem niet ondersteunen. Hij krijgt een steeds veelomvattende grip over het gehele land. Het nieuws op TV wordt door velen niet bekeken gezien het feit dat dat toch een spreekbuis voor hem is. Het toppunt is dat Rusland een eigen CNN/Al Jazeera in het leven heeft geroepen (check RT.com), inclusief Britse en Amerikaanse journalisten, die behoorlijk Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt (FUD) verspreidt over alles wat uit ...
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