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I swam in the Lake today. It was very very VERY cold - only 5oC. They say if you swim in the Lake it will add 25 years to your life, so I'm hoping that's true. This afternoon we all took a boat across to Port Baikal, which is part of the old Trans ...
It was nice to finally get off the train. Not so nice to experience my first squat toilet at the station. It was an hours drive to Lake Baikal from the station. I stayed in a typical Russian house called an Izba in a little town called Listvyana on ...
... the lake came into view. It's big. There are mountains on the other side. Everything I'd hoped for. The bus stopped outside of Listvyanka at the Baikal Museum and Sarah and I decided to get off and check it out, saying that we'll meet the others later - ...
Stupid alarm clock didn't go off so I missed my bus to Olkhun Island but decided to head for Listvyanka, a small town south of Iirkutsk, located on the shores of famous Lake Baikal. Lake Baikal is the worlds largest and deepest lake, up to a mile deep and ...
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TransSiberian Railway - September 2008
Posted on Apr 20, 2008, 22:04:06
... as follows: Moscow (3-4 days) - Yekaterinburg (2 days) - Krasnoyarsk (2 days) - Irkutsk - Olkhon Island (2-3 days) - Listvyanka - Ulan Ude (2 days). (Severobaikalsk, north side of the lake remains an alternative, depending on the weather, time schedule & ...
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