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Irkutsk downtown

Base-camp for visiting Lake Baikal (Irkutsk, Russia)

May 25th 2008
(Day 51 on the road)I love my blog. Not so much because I think it will win me the Pulitzer Prize, but because it helps me to reflect on my travels. It actually makes me stop and think back what I have experienced and what of it is worth noting down. When I first started the blog the main intention was so that friends and family could keep track of me and take part in my journey. The furthe ... read more
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Russian Flag Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more
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