Dom Hotel Krasnoyarsk
16 A Krasnoy Armii Street Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, 264200, Russian Federation
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Old town, Volcanic Stolbies
... moments while I was up there.
From here headed back to the hotel. Along the way stopped into a shop and finally managed to find a store where you could pick your own goods without the assistance of the shop seller. Bought a few things for my train trip in a couple of days as well as some junk food for snacks. Am sure I will end up loosing some weight in russia since I cant read the cryllic menus.
Day 8 – Stolby Reserve
Weather is grey and wet ...
Day 4 Trans-Siberian Railway
6304 km to Ulaan Baatar... 4680 km travelled....
It was a very rough night last night with virtually no sleep and the train rocking and shuddering quite violently at times. It seemed as if it was going to fall apart at one stage. We went through Mariisnk at 0500 hrs so I got up and had a look out of the window to the cold and grim scene: austere Russian voices announcing things to a deserted audience and huge cargos of logs on cargo trains.
As daylight broke more ...
Ice road car'ers
... We headed back into town and stopped by at the 'English school coffee shop' whe our host knows the owner, and a murder mystery evening, mostly in Russian but some entertaining moves and acting anyway! Tomorrow we are back on the train, heading to lake baikal, another oxen expanse of water, but apparently because of the high winds the ice is crystal clear, which makes standing on the lake even more ...
Day 2: Murder on the trans-Mongolian Express
... much as any one of the other guys in my carriage.
After the inspection, the Mongolians go back to work again, all the stuff that the Russian customs didn't find magically reappears, gets reallocated to it's original owner and boxed or bailed up again. This takes the rest of the night so very little sleep is had. I eventually manage to get a couple of hours after cracking the sads with the guys in my carriage and suggesting that they may want ...
Krasnoyarsk - snow and -23
... of staff at 9am, asked again and all was ok. Quick change, directions on how to get a local bus (65p) and off to the Bobrovy Log ski field we went. Unfortunately, it was Monday and they're closed on a Monday, so Di couldn't do the death defying zip wire through the forest she had planned or the roller coaster down the mountain or the bobsled (ok she might not have done that as it looked a mite bit scary!)We had a great trudge ...



