Wednesday, August 08, 2007

Lake Baikal in a nutshell (Vodkatrain part III.a)

Since I haven't got much time to properly update my website, I'm going to write a small story about what happened since last update. First thing, we are in mother Russia! After a 2 night traintrip we arrived in Irkutsk from Ulaanbatar. The bordercrossing took an amazing 11.5 hours but eventually we got through. After arrival we were awaited by our honcho that brought us to the bus that took us to Lake Baikal. We stayed in a guesthouse. The first day we walked around first and went on a boat on the lake. There we jumped in the lake which was freezing cold. It was really good. After that we had dinner and went back. The next day we went for a walk again and some people went swimming again. that evening me and Steve went to find an observatory point up the hill, which eventually we did find. We climbed through the fence and wanted to make pictures when a dog came running towards us. Scared as we were we run for it, but luckily the dog was chained to a fence. This could have been quite nasty, but afterwards we couldn't stop laughing. After that we had dinner again and me and Dave did some nightphotography. The next day we took the bus at 11.30 back to Irkutsk where we are now waiting for the train that will bring us to Moscow. This will take us 3 days, since it is now wednesday afternoon and we will arrive on saturday afternoon. Big trip!

Next time I will try to go more into details, but now we have to go, so I can't

thank you, bye bye!

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