Tuesday, 27 March 2007

Frozen

Hello from Irkutsk, Siberia.


I have been going non-stop since I left Beijing, and have just returned from 4 days on Olkhon Island, situated on Lake Baikal. I don't have much time to describe everything that has been happening, I need to go get another train soon. Lake Baikal was fantastic, it is hundreds of kilometers long, and holds 20% of the worlds fresh water. It was also frozen, so we drove out to Olkhon Island in a 1960's Russian army van that supposedly was designed to remove bodies from battlefields. The place I stayed had a sled, so later on we hitched that behind the van and drove around on the ice.
I am off to Tomsk tomorrow, and from there will be making Moscow on the 2nd of April. I will be staying with a friend for a while in Moscow and should have time to write a bit more about what has been happening.


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