Siberian watering-hole
Street water-pumps provide our water. We don't filter it - it's so clear and clean. We just wonder when the pumps freeze up?
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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 Dyna... [read more]
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 Dyna... [read more] Blog: Dangerous Times in the Siberian Wilderness
Date: September 21st 2006
Day 110, 18th September Zamzor - Kamyšet - Nineudinsk I lie in my tent thinking, “What the hell am I doing here”? In the middle of freezing cold Siberia, with only a bike for transport, a friend I only met a few months ago, and a bottle of frozen water. Am I worried? I am - at the prospect of sitting at a desk back home, then, I begin to feel a bit better. Then I start to think of ge ... read more
Date: September 21st 2006
Day 110, 18th September Zamzor - Kamyšet - Nineudinsk I lie in my tent thinking, “What the hell am I doing here”? In the middle of freezing cold Siberia, with only a bike for transport, a friend I only met a few months ago, and a bottle of frozen water. Am I worried? I am - at the prospect of sitting at a desk back home, then, I begin to feel a bit better. Then I start to think of ge ... read more
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“2001 a Bike Odyssey Memorablog”. This blog is a memorial blog to the 2001 bikepacking trip which started out from central England on 1st June of that year. It is being updated every few days exactly five years after the original trip took place, and written word for word from Andy Ganner’s journal. Andy Ganner set out with three people he had only met through the internet to travel completely by bike to Singapore. The planned route was eastwards across Siberia, and then down through Mongolia and China, finally crossing South East Asia to reach Singapore sometime early the follo... full info
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