Lake Baikal
Pictures: Craig's / Mary's
Our first day in Irkutsk was a tiring day of finding ATMs, exchanging money and buying tickets to Moscow without knowing more than 3 words of Russian.
The next day we took a tour of Lake Baikal with a group from the Hostel. It's the deepest fresh water lake in the world (and we thought the Great Lakes were big...). Craig and I were accompanied by Tuomo (a fellow from Finland) Ollie, Scally, and Ruth for a train trek to the southern tip of the Lake. We had a Russian guide, Oksana, for the hike from the train station to the Lake and walked along the old train tracks that followed Baikal.
We were amazed by the beauty of the Lake; and even though it was quite cold for September, we enjoyed the hike, lunch, and views that we experienced yesterday. It was a tiring day though and an even more tiring train ride home - not arriving back in Irkutsk until 11pm. It's amazing what positions you can sleep in when extremely tired......
Our first day in Irkutsk was a tiring day of finding ATMs, exchanging money and buying tickets to Moscow without knowing more than 3 words of Russian.
The next day we took a tour of Lake Baikal with a group from the Hostel. It's the deepest fresh water lake in the world (and we thought the Great Lakes were big...). Craig and I were accompanied by Tuomo (a fellow from Finland) Ollie, Scally, and Ruth for a train trek to the southern tip of the Lake. We had a Russian guide, Oksana, for the hike from the train station to the Lake and walked along the old train tracks that followed Baikal.
We were amazed by the beauty of the Lake; and even though it was quite cold for September, we enjoyed the hike, lunch, and views that we experienced yesterday. It was a tiring day though and an even more tiring train ride home - not arriving back in Irkutsk until 11pm. It's amazing what positions you can sleep in when extremely tired......
posted by Mary | 1:39 PM
1 Comments:
Amazing! I'm just speechless.. You never know how much I envy you guys. Try not to get a cold!
Everything's fine here. Tia and Jim seem like getting used to here. We had Chusok (do you remember?) and it was 4 days off!!!
p.s. Craig.. I think I don't remember German thing you mentioned. I must have forgotten...(What's wrong with me???)Can you remind that for me, plaese?
♡,
Julie
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