Kruiz Krasnoyarsk
Vavilova ul., 1, stroen. 2 Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, Russian Federation
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Old town, Volcanic Stolbies
... to do stuff on the computer this morning til about 12pm. Besides that I had checked in at 3pm the day before and my checkout for this day was also 3pm. Was hopingthat if I paid for the room later I would get a later checkout time. Unfortunately not to be. Seems that the 3pm checkout is for mid week days and that the days near the weekend have a 12pm checkout. Oh well guess I will have a 4 hour or so wait at the train station the following day.
Had wanted to ...
Day 4 Trans-Siberian Railway
... and hostility: blustering snow and wind outside and buried village after buried village. The houses looked bare, fragile and cold. From the comfort of a nice warm train it was hard to imagine how anyone could survive there.
We passed through Krasnoyarsk at 1100 hrs and stopped for half an hour. In my naivety I never realised there could be cities out here of 1,000,000 people but that is the population of Krasnoyarsk.
We then crossed the spectacular Yenisey River ...
Deeper into Siberia!
We had our longest train journey yesterday, with 20hrs on the train. We settled in with a cuppa tea and coffee, a good start. We had seen that the dining car was one along from our carriage so headed along for some lunch, and were pleased to find that the menu was also in English, quite a surprise as nothing else to do with the trains are in English. This had been the first time we had to get ourselves to the train station and figure out which train was ours and what ...
Day 2: Murder on the trans-Mongolian Express
... team building/fleece packing meetings in anyone of the other 7 cabins in the carriage that don't have me in them.
In the morning I went walkabout to find buffet car again. I eventually found it eventually behind and it was a little oasis of calm run by an elderly Russian guy and his wife. Got a really nice omelette and a cup of decent coffee for breakfast as we start passing Lake Baikal. This is the largest fresh water lake in the world but ...
Krasnoyarsk - snow and -23
... place, very impressive, caught the bus back to town(after trying to go the wrong way) and next job was to find food. The food has been great, lots of it and yum. We also found a great coffee/cake place right next to our hotel – just wot you need when it's -15 (with wind chill its -23). 3 and a half hours out in the low temperatures tested our kit and we were both warm and happy that we had lugged all the merino and coats.
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