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Days 15, 16, 17 and 18: On the train – truly in the middle of nowhere

By Kazimieras May 27, 2013 Leave a comment

KM Marker 5185… When we first boarded the train, I am happy to report that we managed to find our birth with no major difficulties. It was one of the cabins towards the end of the carriage, #8 out of 10 to be exact. Amazingly we were excited at our future trek (this feeling would […]

Day 15: Irkurst

By Kazimieras May 21, 2013 Leave a comment

Today we were driven from Listvyanka to Irkutsk. The driver came by right on time and was also carrying the Canucks into town (it was much easier for them to hitch the ride at a reasonable fare than try the “public bus”, if you can call it that). Before leaving the night before, on the […]

Home time!

By Kazimieras May 17, 2013 Leave a comment

While there is still a lot of the trip to post about, today the actual trip comes to an end. Derek and I are sitting here in the Vilnius Airport, determined to come back to this lovely little country. In fact, many of the places we are happy to revisit: Beijing, Lake Baikal (but not […]

Day 14: Lake Baikal – Day Hike!

By Kazimieras May 16, 2013 1 Comment

After our previously somewhat relaxing day we were to do a hike with one of the locals, Sasha. We had spoken to the Chileans the night before over dinner and they warned us that although Sasha is 59, he is in as good of shape as 20 year old and walks quickly. We were to […]

Day 13: Lake Baikal – Rest Day!

By Kazimieras May 15, 2013 Leave a comment

We hadn’t planned to do anything today, as by now we were expecting to be feeling a bit tired. We were right! After greatly sleeping away the morning we went for a walk into town to explore the rest of the village and see a local art gallery. We walked up two of the 3-4 […]

Day 12: Lake Baikal – the land of ice and snow

By Kazimieras May 14, 2013 1 Comment

We woke up to our provinista knocking on our cabin door. One of the cabin-mates was sleeping when she came by for the third time and it became clear that looks can easily bypass language barriers. We were asked to strip our beds, fold our sheets and bring them to the front of the train. […]

Day 12: Lake Baikal – the derelict

By Kazimieras May 13, 2013 Leave a comment

[categories differences, listvyanka, Russia, photography, travel, trans-siberian] This day’s photo fruit yielding a bit more than we were expecting. We’re posting this one part of the day which was truly fascinating, and I’ll try to get around to writing what we actually did later. A quick bit of background on the photos. So this is […]

The part in the trip where you’re exhausted…

By Kazimieras May 13, 2013 Leave a comment

You know when you are traveling and you get to that point where you are so darn exhausted, all you want to do is sleep and you really start missing things from home? Well that is today. Our last night in Moscow was a late one, having gone to Gorky Park and then Red Square […]

Day 10-11-12: The train, the border and travelling to Irkust/Listvyanka

By Kazimieras May 10, 2013 Leave a comment

After saying goodbye to Ulaanbaatar on the eve of day 10 we boarded the train bound for our next destination, Irkust. Getting on the train was easy, we found our cabin (which we were sharing with the Chileans) and started to settle in. However trying to settle in resulted in a bit of a shock […]

Day 9-10: Ulaanbaatar

By Kazimieras May 9, 2013 1 Comment

The last night at the ger lodge was a good one – we were not being roasted alive in the ger! We packed our things and with our Chilean friends (and a couple from Australia), headed back to Ulaanbaatar. The roads were as horrible as ever and along the way we passed “the black market”. […]