Leaving Nikitas Ho’estead after two very lazy relaxing days off, heading back to Irkutsk by minibus and then by train on to Ulan Bator.
Hoping there’s Internet in Mongolia so we can update our status from there.
Tag: Baikal
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Day 9: Off to Mongolia
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Nikita’s homestead
Por fin encuentro un ratito para escribir en el blag!
Tres días seguidos en el tren, hacen que una ducha y un wc de porcelana sean valorados como el puro oro, pero las risas y la gente nueva que conocemos a lo largo del viaje, hace que todo merezca la pena.
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Siberian tiger
Rare sighting of the Siberian tiger (endangered species)
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Day 7: Khuzhir / Olkhon / Baikal Lake
Three days on a train in a small compartment, crossing three more timezones, can be a long time, but not with Telman from Azerbaijan, who is a professional wrestler. Not the fake American kind or the Mexican variant with funny masks. Classic wrestling where anything goes as long as it stays below the waist. Telman or short Timur or Mr. T as we called him is a huge fella.
Then there was Pavel “call me Pasha” who coined the line “I don’t need beer, it’s the beer that needs me”. A Russian engineer. Go figure…
The ride from Irkutsk to the Island was one of the scariest things I have ever witnessed. A minibus “marshrutka” with loose axles, just hammering down on dirt roads with the needle in the red zone… But we’re here. In one piece.
