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Irkutsk Slideshow
Irkutsk
Travel Blogs from Irkutsk, Russian Federation
Lakeside in Russia
... (and I was equally as unsuccessful with some leftover Chinese currency) we were dropped off at the bus station. Trying out our newly-learned Russian phrases we managed to grab a seat on a “mini-bus” (read: shitty old van) to Kuzhir, the main ...
Irkoutsk, Siberia
... came true and i finally made it to Siberia :) I took the train Saturday night from Chyliabinsk and i arrive tuesday morning at Irkutsk. 56 hours train... In the wagon we were about 60 people and i'll say about 59 from Uzbekistan and Azerbaidjan...the ...
Paris of the East
After another 36 hours on a train, I finally arrived in Irkutsk and it's quite disorienting...all signs in Cyrillic and no English - it sucks to see all these English looking words and not be able to make them out straight away! It's also a bit difficult ...
On Golden Pond
... ;t figure out what to do, and ended up trying Liverpool again. After walking for 10 minutes down unlit streets in a Russian neighbourhood (nearly crapping bricks by this stage) we finally arrived. The place was filled with 20-somethings chain smoking and ...
Trip to Olkhon Island
... to Irkutsk, which was a smoother ride than the bus we had taken to the island. We also made better time, getting to Irkutsk a little after 3pm (including a stop for lunch). It started off slowly though -- after we got in at Nikita's along with ...
Lake Baikal
... as he refuses to move to let the crutches man on. Finally they resolve their differences and we set out. The trip from Irkutsk to Listvyanka is about an hour and a half. About ten minutes into the trip, I hear a wet coughing noise. ...
Irksome Irkutsk
... so nice, such a luxury. Trying to put off the sleeping and get into the new time zone we headed out to explore the city. Irkutsk is a grey, concrete, dull, seedy city of 600 000 people. You can stroll across the centre of town in less than 20 minutes, ...
Paris of Siberia
... , Russia (Country Name in Local Language: Rossiya) Local Time: 1PM, Thursday US Central Daylight Saving Time: 11PM, Wednesday Irkutsk, the capital of Eastern Siberia, was the largest city in this region of Russia. Partly an academic center filled ...
In Siberia :D
Dopo 3 giorni in treno siamo arrivati ad Irkutsk. Questo viaggio rimmarra' sempre nella mia memoria :) paesaggio autunnale meraviglioso, gente simpatica e curiosa, buona wodka ;) e al nostro arrivo tutta la gente sul vagone e' scesa a ...
Walking on water
After a 56 hour journey we arrived in Irkutsk, we were happy to be on land. Got off to a stunning view with the sun rising over the tracks with the city in the background. We heard a desperate voice in the background and met our first english traveller! ...
Leaving the Lake Baikal Area
On the train again, I just wait to get off the train again. It's gonna be quite a long ride from here to ...
Irkutsk still... and Baikal plans
... to buy a map of the Lake.The lake is pretty huge, and we're only staying on the west side about 6 hours drive away from Irkutsk. should be great tho, sure i will have lots of photos to put on here after that! Next entry will probably be monday or tuesday ...
The Paris of Siberia-or as it was once known.
... the snow, crossing over the Angara River the city was dead quiet and still by 8am the sun was only just starting to wake up. Irkutsk is probably what you would expect of a Siberian frontier town – Bleak. With its street lined log cabins, rotting and ...
Ritorno alla civilta'
... giornata in questo Internet cafe', cercando di leggere tutte le mail e di raccontarvi un po' gli ultimi giorni, anche perche' qui a Irkutsk non e' che ci sia proprio un granche' da fare, a parte le escursioni sul lago che si trova ad una settantina di ...
Irkutsk
... but instead we were greeted by Russia Number 2 - the famous Moscow to Vladivostok train. Think French Bourgois meets Russian functionality (see photo). This brand new train boasted such luxuries as warm water, ridiculous curtains complete with gold ...
Mengi
... to the church railings for good luck. we saw some topiary giraffes too, but that's by the by. Boarded the next train - to Irkutsk, 1087km, 1 time zone, 18 hours. Lots of people on here, including a troop of boy scouts, mongolian traders and our 2 ...
Day 7 Arival at Irkutsk and on to Listvyanka
Day 7 Thursday 8th January Listvyanka (Siberia) The train arrived at Irkutsk station at 9.07am and our tour guide Leaner was waiting for us on the platform. We then had an hour drive to a small village called Listvyanka which is situation ...
Lac Baikal Orkhon Island
... Orkhon Island in the middle of the lac Baikal In the evening, I went to festichant the festival of french music in Irkutsk where some Russian are singing songs in french (garou and co.) and with the special guest Corbier !!!!(the french know him, ...
Irkutsk in no time at all
... zones, three and a half days about the same amount of bottles of vodka, lots of smoked sausage and cheese rolls and I`m here. Irkutsk!. I disembarked from the Train and Ged, Sue and myself made our way from the train station into the main town over a ...
Irkutsk, Listvyanka and Lake Baikal
Our train brought us into Irkutsk at 6:45 AM and it was a balmy zero degrees Celsius when we stepped off. Irkutsk is the most popular stop in Siberia for Trans-Siberian train travelers (and would be our last Russian city). It is very close to the world's ...
3 jours de Transsiberien et enfin du soleil
Deux nuits et trois jours dans le Transiberiens a fraterniser avec des eleves-officiers russes, qui possedaient quelques notions d'Anglais et arrivee sous le soleil a Irkoutsk, ou il me reste a faire faire un visa pour la Mongolie et preparer un sejour ...
siberiaaaaaaa
... long lost family members. then we spent 77 hours on a train non-stop on our way to Moscow, where we drank with crazy soldiers and shared a room with a russian man who fed us and entertained us. Cabin fever was inevitable. We're alive though! ...
Moscow time
... for another train to collect us, quite a long break as they lock the toilets when the train isn't moving! We arrived at Irkutsk at 1 am, according to our train, luckily this is because the trains all run on Moscow time so it was actually about 6 ...
Siberia to Mongolia - Transsiberian Express
... train journey to Mongolia from Irkutsk started simple enough. Firstly you'll be pleased to know that Kristine's mastery of the Russian language (aka shouting profanities at the Russian tour guide) worked wonders! Instead of top bunks we found ourself back ...
Longest Ever Train Journey
... may have been a different story. The train does somewhat appear to have been segregated by nationality, whether intentionally or not. Russian countryside has not been wildly exciting from what we've seen. It's barely changed in two days from flat ...
Irktusk and Listvyanka on Lake Baikal
... at all but I didn't stay awake later than 1am so who knows. We spent our third day on a walking tour of Irkutsk - taking in the Annunication Catherdral on Ploschad Kirona, Catholic polish church Polskaya Kostyoli which is across the road from Siberia's ...