Novosibirsk
Trip Start
Aug 10, 2007
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Trip End
Sep 04, 2007
Novosibirsk,
Russia
Saturday, August 18, 2007
At 7:45 we were buying the tickets at we got them!! At the same time you won while playing 'Bingo' :-))
We return to the hotel to try to sleep a bit more.
We eat a lot for the breakfast!!!
After that, we walked through Novosibirsk, a big city completely different from Moscow and Tomsk, with modern and high buildings. My opinion is that, if you have enough time, it is a good place to stop in order to see the contrast with Moscow and Tomsk.
A view of Novosibirsk
Novosibirsk
We saw an orthodox church and a boy told us lots of thing about his religion, very interesting.
During the orthodox mass
At 19.00 we return to the hotel to get our luggage and to go to the train station.
We left Novosibirsk at 22.30 pm local tour (3 hours more than Moscow time).
The train, in general, was older.
Our train
The bathroom
The bathroom
Sunday 19-08
The train is full of tourist people (most of them solo travellers) but with so many empty rooms ... I cannot understand why we couldn't get a ticket from Irkust to Ulaanbaatar none of the days ...
Sleeping
Having breakfast
During one of the stops
It was a worried day, the only interesting thing was the food we bought during the stops.
Chicken
Some options
Some sweets
Uff sausages .... but apples!!!
Ummmm
What do you want to eat today?
Women selling food in a train station
Buying some food
and the people we could see in the train stations:
Woman
Woman
One of the train stations during the trip
Monday 20-08
At 8.30 am Fernando woke up to see Lake Baikal while it was raining outside the train. An enormous lake with no end.
I returned to bed because I was really tired and at 11.30 am I open my eyes.
Having breakfast
Close to the frontier
Landscape
We met Janelise!!! And we had lunch meet solianka, a soup made of lemon, meat, mayonnaise, olives, vinegar cucumber and onion with her. It can sound strange but it was delicious!
Meet Solianka, gorgeous!!!
Janelise tasting the soup
Ummm
No shower, but very clean teeth
After having lunch we spent the time looking through the window the last landscapes before arriving at the frontier.
THe last stop before the frontier
The last stop before the frontier
Mongolia is close to us!!!!
Time to prepare everything to cross the frontier
When we arrived at the frontier we could went out of the train during 2 hours. Our wagon was separated from the rest to check all the rooms ... well we cross our fingers and we decided to walk to see the village.
Ups ...
In the russian frontier
The frontier
A woman in the russian frontier
Then we had to go into the train and during 3 hours more, we were waiting but we arrived at the Mongolian frontier and other 2 hours more to wait ...
Finally, after 7 hours waiting, we were in Mongolia!!!!!!!!!!
