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Irkutsk Slideshow
Irkutsk
Travel Blogs from Irkutsk, Russian Federation
Livin' the Island Life in Kuzhir
... just hung over from a night of drinking and was sleeping it off! All of the travelers we met (including the Aussie couple in Irkutsk) had plans to lodge in the same homestay (Nikita's Homestay). Our agent told us it wasn't good and instead booked us ...
Goodbye China, Hello Siberia
If only I had followed John Collier's wise words in his comments to my last blog and blogged at a more frequent interval and I might not be kicking myself now at having lost most of my china pictures!! These were in my camera which ...
Irkutsk
... , apres que j'aie depose ma demande de visa a obtenir en 24h. Un coup de bus et on s'echappe d'Irkutsk. S'echapper d'Irkutsk n'est d'ailleurs pas une fin en soi. Cette ville est tout a fait agreable apres l'enfer de Moscou (ou ...
Vodka Train to Irkutsk
... expected they are four birth compartments with a lockable door there was even a tv not much use to us as it only played Russian movies but a surprise non the less. There are two carriage attendants who look after each carriage they work shifts one in the ...
The way to Irkutsk
... after Ho-Ki and I departed the train. After dinner we were invited to the Swedes compartment, where beer, wine, Russian champagne, and, of course, vodka flowed rather freely. We also answered the age-old question of how many people can you ...
Trans Mongolian Part 2. Long train running.....
A very strange thing happens to time on the Trans - Mongolian. The entire Russian train network runs on Moscow time, despite the fact that Vladivostok, the eastern-most station is a full 7 time zones ahead of this. By the middle of day 3 the ...
Trans-siberian journey
... we get tired. In the meantime we try to keep ourselves occupied by reading, listening to music, etc. Dinner consisted of the Russian equivalent of pot-noodle and instant mash potato. Which gave us a years allowance of salt in one sitting. The scenery ...
Irkustk, la Pacifique
Le voyage en train de Iekateringburg a Irkustk s'est effectue dans la douleur. Nous avons decouvert la 3eme classe, ses sauts d'humeurs et ses odeurs. Le principe est simple: un grand wagon a espace ouvert, plein de russes, des lits rikiki et surtout ...
Lounging at Lake Baikal
... heat on the Trans-Sib from Ekanterinburg, -17 was even more of a shock to the system when we disembarked the train at Irkutsk. Irkutsk was our one and only stop in Siberia. At some point during our train voyage we had passed through the Ural ...
Probles with memory
... ). Buoyed by having uploaded photos (hope you like them!), we went for pizza and were bizarrely befriended by a tartan suited russian whose opening line was "Margaret Thatcher has problems with memory". Spoke to him til the block had a powercut and ...
PHOTO LINKS
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Last day in Siberia
... I was squeezed in the back seat of a minibus with one girl and 2 most annoying pushy, loud, monotone japanese men. Back in Irkutsk for more internet/shopping admin. Got some Lenin cigarettes (for souvenir only, not that i smoke but these are the worst ...
Back to the city
After 2 days freezing our ass off by the lake, we packed up and caught the early bus into Irkutsk. The bus dropped us off in the middle of town and we had no idea where we were. We soon realised we were on the completely wrong side of town so ...
Crossing to Mother Russia
The Train from Mongolia to Irkutsk Only a short distance on the map. But there was plently of pointless stops and a border crossing that lasted 6 hours, that made this a 2 night tiring train journey. With forms to fill out all in Russian and a lady ...
Lake Baikaal
... and the back of the naked body meant that we all retired for dinner some hours later, exhilarated and exhausted for a hearty Russian meal of pork and rice with vegetables and spices. Each and every one of us thoroughly sated and relaxed completely. It's ...
Siberia
Arrived in Irkutsk which in the stop closest on the Tran Siberian route to explore the Lake from. Stayed in a nice place (which was a womens house) and done a bit of reaserch to find out the best way to see the lake at this time of year as the ice was ...
Well, I suppose we could go to Mongolia...
... back at the hostel, and did a lot of email address swapping. The following day we found out about the Mongolian consulate in Irkutsk. Hmm.. very interesting... We'd given up on Mongolia as we didn't have time to sort the visas out before we left the ...
Ulan-Ude
... were doing the same thing. Anyway, it turned out much better than previous experiences I've had with Russian police. We took the train back to Irkutsk today, this time during the day instead of on the overnight train so we could experience the ...
Bowels - Preparations for a 2 Night Train Journey
Am beginning to feel decidedly ropey and after the meal have an intensely unpleasant bout of diarrhea in the seatless internet cafe bog. Sophie & Tom are really suffering and Carl is unsure one way or the other. Beth is smug. ...
Quick stop in Irkutsk
13-14/7/2011 Irkutsk Arrived in Irkutsk which is the capital of Siberia at 1pm after leaving our homestay a hour earlier. Checked into Hotel Irkutsk and after some playing on the pc went out into town. It was HOT, probably 32C. We wandered around the ...
A Country Boy Can Survive!
... my expectations. I am excited to say that of all my travels Siberia has been one of the most exotic places I have ever experienced! Russian winter is very cold but beautiful at the same time. Everything in eye site is covered in snow and ice. It took me ...
Don't Talk to Strangers
... one of the rooms, when a young man walked up to me. "This is beautiful, just beautiful. Are you from Irkutsk?" he asked me in Russian. Thinking I had misheard - I don't look Russian and I certainly looked like a tourist - I replied back, ...
Trans Siberian Express
Thats me just off the train. What a fantastic experience and so many characters on the train. Claudia and I must have been the only foreigners on this train so we ended up doing plenty of sign language to communicate with the Russians. ...
Husky Sledding
We awoke fairly late to magnificent clear skies and bright sunshine and despite the -25 degrees weather there was little or no wind so the extra layers I had put on to compensate for yesterdays experience soon had to come off. After a simple breakfast of ...
Irkutsk... finally a bed that doesn't move!
... woke the woman up, cos she was grumpy... it was 7am i suppose so she had every right! We've just done the preliminaries of Irkutsk and it seems a really nice town, much more my kind of place, and whats more the forecast is for 30 degrees later in the ...
Our first contact with the outside world
... at 5:45am and off to Mongolia. We can't download any photos as I forgot the cable - plus I don't think I can explain in Russian that this is what I want to do - maybe I will be better at Chinese! For those of you wondering I have managed ...
Coming back to Irtkusk
... very warm welcoming and also very interesting time to share the feeling of these teachers who are in direct contact with the Russian life and culture everyday. They have also the chance to be in contact to student who must share their feeling about ...
Getting Acquainted with the Irkutsk Area
... it sits -- in the forest, right by a river... Really nice. I'll attach some pictures. After getting back to Irkutsk (we caught a minivan heading there with a really friendly Buryat driver -- I talked to him in Russian for a while, long ...