Hotel Imperia Irkutsk
143397 Moscow Irkutsk, Lake Baikal, Siberia, 88046, Russian Federation
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Wasting time with Sushi and Pool
... three big statues of Irkutsk – Yuri Gauguin, Alexander III and Lenin. For lunch we ate Japanese – I was in heaven!! Gareth and I shared noodles, vegetable tempura and prawn sushi for desert we had apple walnut and maple syrup spring rolls. It was so good that we even got some to take away and have for dinner. We strolled down to the centre of the city, Maddy left to go find a friend she had been facebooking to meet up with for the ...
Trans-siberian
... vivement déconseillé par nos colocs). Les escales dans les gares sibériennes étaient l'occasion d'acheter quelques spécialités locales aux babouchkas: poissons frits, poissons séchés (très bon avec de la bière vendue en bouteilles plastiques de 2,5L!) gâteaux, beignets, graines de pin à grignoter (passe-temps favori des sibériens) et même des fourrures.
A notre surprise, il n'y avait presque pas de touristes à bord, seulement 3 espagnols dans notre wagon avec qui on ...
Seen one Lake you've seen them all?
... door and after a minute a young woman, bleary eyed and in pyjamas, opens the door.
ADMIRAL HOSTEL
We apologise for waking her but she says, in good English, "No problem, happens everyday when train arrives." The hostel is in a three bedroom apartment. The kitchen is the communal area with the usual, hostel-like decorations such as tour details, local maps, foreign flags and photos of smiling backpackers making V-signs at the camera. One bedroom is ...
Siberian Time
... steel and the lamp casings are made of Bakelite. Our sheets (which come clean laundered in sealed plastic bags) are of a coarse linen material similar to tea towls; they even have the same pale blue patterns along the ends that you find on old style tea towels - I think they may indeed be giant tea towels. After dark, the faint glow of our cabin lamp imbues the compartment with a warmth that you don't normally get from ...
Bilzzard In Deepest Darkest Siberia!
... The road has been cleared with snow ploughs"
Would we ever!! Lake Baikal is UNESCO World Heritage listed and although we glimpsed it through the blizzard we would like to have a better look. It is the deepest lake in the world and has so many amazing statistics.
So we are off now in an hours time for another trip to the village of Listvyanka and Lake Baikal.
Blizzards, however are good for one thing........we are now totally up to date with our ...



