Rich and Kel

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Asia » China January 30th 2010

Asia » China » Beijing January 30th 2010

Asia » Mongolia » Ulaanbaatar January 28th 2010

Asia November 2nd 2009

Now this is more like it. Fact file : Lake Baikal is the deepest fresh water lake in the world (1 mile deep). It has the same surface area as Belgium ! Got the bus up there with a bunch of Aussie back packers. Leah's mum was Russian so she'd been tasked with buying a mink hat for her mum, so we started the first day with a trip to the local mink farm. Not the most PC of venues but after they had bought a few things the staff were happy to show us around. Cute little things all lined up in cages ready to be skinned. Just don't put your fingers through the bars ! The lake is beautiful, our homestay looked over the lake and made for a peaceful few days chilling out, ... read more
Lake 2
Local Transport
shoreline

Asia November 1st 2009

Next on to Irkutsk. Joined by 4 fun Russian girls one of which spoke good English, and kept us entertained with Vodka and their card game which made no sense as the rules seem to change every hand. They stopped off half way to allow Olga and Andre on to join us. Olga was a grumpy witch straight from the Russian shot put team, she spent the whole journey in the corridor ignoring us. Andre was a good lad though and joined in the card games and had a few beers with us a shared his fantastic meat balls his daughters had made for the journey for him. Sadly he smelt and snored like Shrek adding to Olgas farting which made for a very pleasant night. Irkutsk similar to Novosibirsk didn't have a huge amount for ... read more
old shack

Asia October 28th 2009

Another long train journey. This time we were joined by two Russian girls. As mentioned before these trains seem to be the preferred trading route for Russians and the like. The girls came into the carriage with a couple of bags, not much to mention. Then as soon as the train started moving they left the carriage and came back with two enormous bags full, we thought Jeez how much stuff do they have they then proceeded to to repeat this three or four more times and completely filled our compartment. Then they started emptying them out of clothes and hanging them up pretending they were just their clothes then they took some to hang in other peoples compartments and returned with boots from someone elses. Turns out they make this trip evry 2 weeks sticking ... read more
cold station
lenin
stil cold

Asia » Kazakhstan » East Kazakhstan » Almaty October 28th 2009

After a brief stop back in Tashkent in Uzbekistan to finish our Silk Road detour we headed off through Kazakhstan on the way back to Russia. The journey started well with the guy drving us to the border getting stopped by the police twice for speeding before getting lost and having to ask the cops who had just booked him where the border was. Various dodgy looking people on the Uzbek side helped us fill in the forms then we were happily adopted by a couple of ancients who walked us through the border very slowly (not so nice with hefty backpacks - could have carried them on our backs too and got there faster) finally lost them as they queue jumped and got through the border after 3 hours to be met by every taxi ... read more
police




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