Best Eastern Baikal Hotel Irkutsk

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44 Gagarina, (formerly "Intourist") Irkutsk, Lake Baikal, Siberia, Russian Federation, 3952-250168

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Happy Birthday to ME!

I had so much fun in Mongolia, it was sad to leave but I had to move on. The next stop on the Trans Mongolian voyage would be Irkutsk. An interesting city it seems, its main attraction is Lake Baikal. This is the world's largest fresh water lake, containing 20% of our planets fresh water. Reading up on Lake Baikal was interesting. It measures over 600 km in length but is only around 60 km wide, and is shaped like a banana. The lake was created by the opening of 2 tectonic plates below the ear...

Irkutsk, Russia globetrotterjas
Irkutsk

Nach einer abendteuerlichen Minibusfahrt und einer anschliessend rassanten Taxifahrt von Listvyanka nach Irkutsk kamen wir, zu unserer Ueberraschung, heil in unserem Hotel an. Irkutsk gefaellt uns ausserordentlich gut. Die Stadt hat viel Gruenanlagen und schmucke alte Holzhaeuser. In der ganzen Stadt scheint eine Aufbruchstimmung zu herschen, ueberall wird renoviert und neu gebaut. Heute Abend gehts dann weiter Richtung Ulan Ude.

Irkutsk, Siberia, Russian Federation irismarcel
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not until Irkutsk that it all seems different. The Central Market occupies a large area in the city centre. This is not a European style, once a week, morning market but a daily hive of commerce where you can buy everything you can possibly want. The shops around the market area are filled with fur, real fur, boots, hats, jackets, coats of every colour and
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We're all told to get off the train. We'd gotten onto a 26 carriage train at Irkutsk and now our carriage was one of only 2 carriages on the entire train and it was 99% tourists.

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Sunburnt in Siberia!

... night came around again the drinking which had been going on all day continued and so I thought if you cant beat them join them and had a few beers with them which worked out well as they bought all the beer. So things started to look up until it came time i needed ...

Irkutsk, Siberia, Russian Federation richardlodge
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... woman didnt speak english and just kept shouting the same thing over andd over again at us, so we smiled turned around and went to look for one of these 'official taxi service' men! cost 4 times the amount of the train but at least we were dropped off at the door of the hostel. On the 22nd, we walked the 20 minutes to Red square, which was really majestic. we got there early ...

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Russia wins Eurovision

... their souls so they couldn't get to heaven. Ah well. I will be going back for some proper Kremlin action of course, I've been reading about the churches and my favourite is 'The Church of the Deposition of Our Lady's Veil'.. perhaps next door to The Chapel of the Ironing of Our Lady's Nightgown.. There is also a painting called Our Saviour of The Fiery Eye which I've become a bit obsessed with. His eyes really do look fiery ...

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WEVA Commences

... excellent English but was otherwise a little hazy on the specifics of what was going on at the Congress - she had come home to help because of her English skills but had apparently not be fully briefed on the weeks events. Eventually we worked out how much I owed - student registration for me, guest registration for Belle. The next problem was the fact that they had no credit card facilities and I had virtually no Roubles. Anna, a horse Vet from Moscow who is ...

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Die Rentner tanzen - aber beim falschen Wetter

... Restaurants, ein paar Cafes, ein paar Discos, ein paar Schönheit- und Nadelstudios. Die Rentner tanzen tatsächlich am Sonntag, es gibt alte sowjetische Lieder und Sprühregen. Das Orchester versteckt sich unter einem Baum, drei Dutzend Besucher "Des Sonntagsboulevards" stehen singend um den Harmonika-Spieler. Das Wetter ist aber so schlecht, dass kaum jemand von den Passanten dazu kommt - und so stehen die Rentner auf einem ...

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