Russia impressions during a morning before going out of the hotel
1) At the end of the breakfast we leave the bill with the payment over the table and leave. A waiter comes behind asking if we did not forgot to take the receipt with us. Ok, this could be the case. Anyway, we took 3 times the breakfast there,the waiter that takes the orders never […]
Read MoreKomsomolsk-na-Amure
We are in Komsomolsk, in very eastern Siberia. It’s a so-called “BAM-town”. The BAM is the “Baikal-Amur-Mainline”, a railway line that goes further north than the transsiberian, built during soviet times, mostly by Gulag workers doing very hard work. Before this, there was not much here, so all the towns along the line have been […]
Read MoreSiberian Food
Typical Siberian (or rather, Buryat) food: Pozy (kind of stewed meat ravioli) and beer.
Read MoreChannels availableon our black-and-white TV of the Tynda hotel room
1 – Russian Channel 1 – they are making fun of someone2 – Channel Russia – series3 – REN4 – NTV – “crime”/”police” type program5 – Sport – Ragueby (today was synchronized swimming)6 – DTV – russian movie7 – TNT – “crime” type program8 – Sport “flash back” – old american sports channel (from the […]
Read MoreAround Lake Baikal
There’s only time for a short post between trains for now. We’ve just spent 2 days on the eastern shore of Lake Baikal, staying in an old-fashioned “sanatorium” hotel, enjoying lazy time by the beautiful beach (as shown on the photo) and watching a wonderful sunset. We got back to Ulan-Ude in a minibus on […]
Read MoreUlan-Ude
This must be one of the cities where we’ve stayed the longest. We arrived on the 18th June, in order to prepare and relax before going to our volunteering “project” in the deep countryside (we will leave tomorrow early morning). So we’ve had quite a lot of time to spend here. The weather has been […]
Read MoreUlan Ude market
SSCN0086Originally uploaded by eva_p This is our first day in Ulan Ude. Raining, cold, windy (it could almost be snowing). This picture was taken at the end of the day, when the market sellers were already preparing to pack up and go.
Read MoreTrain ride with Buddhists
In order to complete our “train marathon” to get to Ulan-Ude in time, we took another 24-hour train trip from Krasnoyarsk to Ulan-Ude. I was already very tired from two bad nights on an uncomfortable couch in a dirty flat and somehow regretted having bought 3rd class tickets again. During one of our last trips […]
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