Best Eastern Hotel Angara Irkutsk

Wir kamen pünktlich in Irkutsk an und ich wurde von Alexander empfangen, von Aqua Eco. Dieser Name assoziierte ich mit Wasser und fragte gleich, ob es möglich sei, im Baikalsee zu tauchen. Volltreffer! Er brachte mich ins Hotel Angara, wo ich nur eine Nacht bleiben durfte, da am nächsten Tag das Baikal Economic Forum anfing. Nach einer erfrischenden Dusche zog es mich in die Stadt. Es war sehr schön und warm. In einigen Bahnhöfen im Norden war es kälter. Ich wandelte durch die altertümlichen ...

After breakfast, we headed back to Irkutsk. Another 5 hour drive later we arrived back. After about 30 minutes, Jenna and Matteus arrived (they had top take the public bus). We managed to ditch Matteus in an internet cafe and were just getting ready for our 'date' when he turned up and invited himself along with us. Great. Just because we've had a 'threesome' he thinks he can join in! Walked around looking for food. Found a pizza shop with no English-speaking staff. After 10 minutes, Matteus ...

Irkutsk is basically a town to take a break from the train. The town does not have too much to offer, but we got to see great friends and meet new ones!!! Mike Hermann, a guy Jana went to A&M with, Amit, a guy I met through Hermann, Ali, and Allison, both friends of Amit's from Wharton MBA program, were on their way on the train too, just the opposite direction finishing in Beijing. They were cool enough to plan to meet up. We had given up seeing them because our schedule was a little dif...

Irkutsk is the station from which we based our journey to Lake Baikal. It was Krystyna's birthday here so we went out for dinner to a very good Uzbekistan restaurant near the Trud Stadium in town. The name of the restaurant? "Uzbekistan" how imaginative, food was excellent though. Not a great deal to see in Irkutsk, the city is on the Angara river, the only one to flow out of Lake Baikal. There are some pretty churches but our real purpose for this stop was Lake Baikal and onwards to Ulan Ude...

Wide and free, the vast landmass of Siberia lies behind the Ural mountains. For many centuries not only for foreign travelers but also for Russian themselves Siberia seemed to be "unknown ground", unsafe and barbaric. And even now some people who come from the West and Big Satan still seem to regard Siberia as a god-forsaken hole or "the gigantic building site of the century". And there are things and places to be astonished at. I flew on Khabarovsk - Far East Airlines ( DALAVIA, TU - 154 ) w...

Heute mussten wir Olchon leid** wied** v**lassen. Wir sind um 12 Uhr wied** mit dem UAS zur Fähranlegestelle gefahren und von dort weit** mit dem Minibus, d** 400 Rubel gekostet hat. Diesmal hab ich mehr von d** Fahrt mitbekommen, weil es so kalt war, dass ich gar nicht schlafen konnte. Dafür hab ich auf Olchon den Ausblick genossen. Die Landschaft ist zwar schon etwas eintönig, ab** durch den Sonnenschein und die Farben sehr schön. Auf dem Festland ist es noch eintö*****. Schnee und Birken. ...