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Day 13: Lake Baikal – Rest Day!
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
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. […]
In which I am glad to be in Canada…
So today was brutally cold here. We have just come off a nice warm spell in our fair neck of the woods, with temperatures hovering around -1ºC to +9ºC. Lots of ice (which sucked) but it was a warm break. This morning I checked my phone weather app and it told me it was 0ºC. […]
Let’s learn about: Lake Baikal
So cruising videos over the last few weeks, and going to share a few. Today’s location: Lake Baikal… 1. Some of the wildlife around the lake 2. Ice we may see in May 3. Why we aren’t going in the winter (no matter how fun this looks) Next up… Go-Pro videos of the trip (we […]
Lake Baikal – deep depths!
So wow – Lake Baikal is insane!!! It holds an estimated 20-30% of the world’s fresh water. It is the same square kilometer surface area as Lake Superior but holds twice as much water. xkcd.com has the best comic showing just how deep this lake is. Random Factoids as I have learned from xkcd: Apart […]
Rails Across the Curtain 