Tuesday, July 17, 2007

Lake Baikal night 2 and Irkutsk

The next day it was raining and overcast all day. We had planned to go on a boat trip and hike up a hill but all this went by the way side. Instead I played Mahjong most of the morning with Emma and Chris. We then went for a walk down to the deck restaurant again with Maryanne and Jenny for lunch. Daniel came and joined us after he had tried fishing in the lake all morning with no success. He was dripping wet!

After lunch we watched a DVD and meet another Vodka train group who were traveling the other way. That night we had a "picnic" dinner inside which involved a very over price smoked fish. After dinner we played some drinking games and talked to the other group for a bit.

In the morning we were leaving for Irkutsk at 11am so I went for a quick walk around town before we left. Lake Baikal reminded me of early 1980 Country Australia. There are lots of kids riding around on bikes too big for them. Everyone is wearing really bad 80s clothing and has 80s hair cuts. It was a really cute little town!

The bus ride how was crazy. The bus driver took every corner at 120km and would change sides of the road without warning. I thought that after china I would not have to worry about being in a car again but I was wrong! After an hour of thinking we were all going to die we reached Irkutsk. Alex revealed that we no longer had a day in Irkutsk but instead 1,5 hours. Jenny, Chris, Emma, Daniel and I set off on our walking tour of Irkutsk.


Raising of the cross church
Saviours Church
Saviours Church- from the other side
Bogoyavlensky church


After our walking tour and a 5 min look at the web for the first time in ages. So sorry to everyone for not being in contact of updating this blog for so long!!! We then went to the supermarket and got our supplies for our 3,5 day train trip to Moscow!

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