2008: A Trans-Siberian Odyssey

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June 5th 2008

Published: June 7th 2008

Part 3: Walking in a winter wonderland. Pre-blog: Welcome, dear reader, to another belated installment in our travel blog. In this post we are trialling a slightly different format. We will start with our usual eloquent prose, razor sharp wit and high brow humor, but this time, when we post photographs of events or places we have visited we will only briefly mention those events and places in the... Read Full Entry

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Angel of peace

Or something like that!

More rocks, snow and trees

This one had a really cool orange mossy stuff though!

Kerry & the guide...

leaving Lee way behind (amongst the trees & snow)

Poor little tree

struggling with it's heavy burden of snow.

Supposed to look like a horse drinking from a stream

among the trees. And snow.

A pointy little toilet in the snow...

with tree.

Water!

Trees, snow and water!

Crossing the rope bridge

Old Russian rope bridges don't worry us... until we're told we could only cross one person at a time...

And what could we see from the bridge?

Yeah, you know the rest!

Bunny tracks!!!

Trees, snow and bunny tracks! But no bunnies :(

Broken tree...

and snow... and not broken trees. Still no bunnies.

Icicles!

We don't see much of these in Oz.

Rivulet

A very sweet little rivulet of water flowing down under a rock and then frozen in time forever. Or until it melts.

Grot.

As a part of this hike we visited an "ice cave" - a cave that was supposed to be covered in ice crystals inside. Being late winter and the cave being not much of a cave the ice crystals were already gone so it was more like a grubby hole. Then we visited this. The guide called it a 'grot'- it was kind of like a small gorge about 50m deep...

Half way down

This is looking into the other side of the gorge from about half way down. Hard to get the scale of it here - the area of shadow above the rock in the middle is a cave that we could walk around in!

on the way down

Cave in the gorge...

with trees... and snow.

Most of the way down...

Inside the cave

Hey... We got our ice crystals after all! In fact pretty much the entire area of the walls of this gorge were covered in them making all the rock look white.

More ice crystals

Still no bunnies.

And more...

8th June 2008

Steve
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Urals guys, Urals
Like the format and the piccies are great. But then again I like snow...and trees...and...snow......anyway it's good! An especially nice shot Lee, so to speak, of your piss-hole; but it's Urals, mate, Urals. Hope all's triffic where you are; things continue to be good here. Think of you every day. Love to ya both. An email is imminent.

21st June 2008

Quyen
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Part-3
Hi Kerry and Lee, So great to see another update from you two again. It looks like the trips is so much fun. Looks too cold for me though...LOL. Your camera skills are getting much better - the photos are great...All the places you've been where are all the other people ? Look forward to the next chapter. Take care and travel safe. Quyen.

27th June 2008

Shon
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Love the piss hole in the snow!!! You are a class act Lee Jones. It was great to chat to you the other day. I hope that treading trodden trails is working out for you. We got your Paris postcard last week. It's on the cork board of honour. I have booked in Scarlett's 1st birthday for the 31st of August at Carisbrooke reserve. Lock it in! Well my eyes are like the proverbials so I am going to say au revoir and go to bed...yes at 7.42pm on a Friday night - times they are well and truly a changing! Stay safe guys. Mwah!!!

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