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Olkhon Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Olkhon, Russian Federation
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Chillin on the island
Exploring an Olkhon Island, in the deepest lake in the world in Siberia Russia ...
Olkhon, l'auto-suffisante.
Nous venons de passer un week end sur une ile remarquable et remarquee: Olkhon. En quelques mots Oklhon est une ile de 80km de long pour 10km de large situee en plein milieu du lac Baikal. Sa population est tres majoritairement mongole. On y trouve de ...
Olkhon; What a paradise!
... Vaz (pronounce; Wazz) 4x4 minivan! It compares a bit to the classic VW transit vans you see now and then in Holland, but then Russian style. The excursion is nice, and the views and scenery are simply stunning! 07-07 Last day on Olkhon, and come to think ...
Lake Baikal and Olkhon Island
... the scenery along our way. On another day we booked a seven hours excursion to the North of the island. Driving in a Russian “van” across unbelievably bad roads, we had the chance to see the difference between the rather gentle west-coast of ...
Beautiful Baikal
... pictures which the monk commented on in Chinese, his friend translated into broken English and another willing volunteer translated into Russian. The Germans and us got the giggles and decided to avoid ourselves more embarrassment by sneaking out of ...
Culinary delights: Traditional Russian Food
... it would be a good idea to photograph the scene in front of us as it captured the essence of the village we were in. A Russian jeep on one side, a cow right behind it and a stretch of non-tarmacked road. As I took the shot someone came from behind ...
Beautiful Baikal
... 300 people, but as it's low season we were 2 of the only 5 guests there! Fortunately that meant no queue for the 'banya' - russian sauna - so after settling in and drinking plenty of tea (i'd not drunk anything all day for fear of needing a wee en route ...
Strenge Russen?
... is en bevriest volledig gedurende de lange wintermaanden hier. Jaja. Een dagje wat rondgekuierd, niets echt speciaals, en het busje op naar Olkhon Eiland dat in Baikal ligt. De ferry moest zich op het einde al door het vormende ijs breken, als we hier ...
Olkhon Island
Hello Just a quick entry on very dodgy internet connection...... Having fun....unexpectedly camped one night when we had to bunk in with 2 English guys we'd made friends with...4 of us in a 2-man tent.....very ...
The deepest lake in the world...
Lake Baikal is the deepest (1642 m) and the oldest (25 million years) of all lakes. Lying over the fault line between two tectonic plates, whose separation is gradually dropping its floor level, the waters plunge to a depth of over one mile. It ...
Driving On THIN ICE
... turned up to pick us up I what looked like a tough version of an old VW camper but turned out to be an old 4WD Russian military van. The view of the Island form the ice was breathtaking as the tall magestic cliffs rose from the ice. There were also alot ...
Attractive Olkhon Island and Lake Baikal
... (sauna) of our guest house, the village didn't offer much to do on the evenings, so we helped ourselves by drinking cheap Russian red wine and chatting about travelling and just about everything else as well. It came to me as a surprise that so many ...
Baikal Banya
On the advice of the hostel lady in Irkutsk we headed for Olkhon Island in Lake Baikal, a small island half way up the lake and a mere 5 hours by minibus and ferry. Khuzhir, the main village, seems to be booming with tourism, espec since it got ...
An Uphill Struggle
Cycling today after a huge breakfast of bread, doughnuts with meat and cheese and porridge. Just as well, cycling on sandy roads takes a lot of energy, nevermind getting a facefull of it whenever a car goes past. The lake was spectacular but what a ...
The Blue Eye of Siberia
... eggs and tea. The team set off with the addition of a French girl to the northern most tip of the lake. Lake Baikal, which Olkhon Island is located on, is in Southern Siberia and is also known as the Blue Eye of Siberia. It contains more water than all ...
Biking on Olkhon
We (the group of teacher and I) ve rent bicycles to cross the Island from West to Est. Just the time to discover one more time this beautiful island with terrific view of the tundra, the forest, the secret lake and the shore. It was a ...
La Perla di Ghiaccio
... cercavo e di quello che mi aspettavo prima di partire: avventura e, perche' no, un po' di poesia. Quest'isola e' poesia. Olkhon, una striscia di terra di una settantina di chilometri adagiata nel lago Baikal, la perla blu della Siberia. E come chiamare ...
Couchsurfing on lake Baikal
... island, the locals (the Buryat people who have surprisingly large heads) and their religion (shamanism), but unfortunately it was all in Russian and we didn’t understand a word. For lunch, the driver made us fish soup over a camp fire in the ...
We can walk on water! Lake Baikal - Olkhon Island
... with an impressive beard and even more impressive odour. We enjoyed a 6 hour ride to the island together in our first experience of a Russian minivan. At first we thought it was really rough and then we went off road. The four of us chose not to eat and ...
Middle of Nowhere
... eat that though). So it was always something to look forward to, and we would stock up on Ramen noodles and wierd homemade Russian pastries. I almost got left by the train one time, when I wandered off too far. The train pulled into Irkustk (about ...
Siberian Island??
... good food! After showing us to our cabins we were ushered into the canteen and provided with copious amounts of hearty Russian foods - homemade breads, some kind of strange round rice with a giant meatball and sauce on top, freshly caught fish filets, ...
Irkutsk und Baikalsee
... - und teilweise auch Schafherden weideten. Ein paar richtige Cowboys konnte man auch sehen. Sehr spannend! Dann angekommen auf Olkhon suchten wir ca. 1,5 Stunden unser bereits gebuchtes Hostel und konnten es partout nicht finden. Bis wir einer ...
Truck visite on Olkhon Island
We did a visit of the island with old Russian 4 wheels truck and in the evening a initiation of the Russian bania. Hopefully the truck were able to progress in all the very bad roads full of holes and sand to bring us to the north ...
Shaman island
... couple traveling with their 2 boys since 2 years and also a group of teachers from Spain which where doing an exchange with Russian teachers of Irkutsk. We them I did most of the activities and I could practice my Spanish, everybody in the bus was going ...
Nikita's Hermitage
Russian Visa................................$130 Russian Pre-visa Invitation.................$45 Russian Visa Registration...................$5 Train to Siberia............................$50 Train from Siberia..........................$80 ...
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