http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Europe , Russia , Siberia , Krasnoyarsk en-us Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:25:00 +0000 Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:25:00 +0000 I forgot to add hostel information for Krasnoyarsk on my last blog so here it isI stayed atSib Tour Guide HostelKrasnoyarsk Mira street building 85 apartment 72. . 85 . 72httpsibtourguide.comaccommodationhostelanatoliy14yahoo.comAnatoliy and co. are very helpful and a wealth of information on local stuff to do and the Stolby pa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-791002.html Our Russian dumplings with pepper sauce were a success so much so we made them again the following night. With the help of our 39hello we don39t speak russian please can we have a bus ticket to KUngar write the price here and the time here 39 messages we were successful in catching a 2hr bus and heading to Kungar next a taxi to the icecave. The taxi driver laughed at http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-784195.html After a quick cab ride we arrived at the station in Omsk and next thing we knew we were on another train heading in the direction of Krasnoyarsk. This time we had a 40something guy as our roomie. Suspiciously or not he had already taken up all the overhead luggage storage with lots and lots of boxes. This meant we had to fit our rucksacks into the smaller space under the bunks. When we got on http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-770819.html Spent a few days in Krasnoyarsk in between 2 weeks around Lake Baikal and an upcoming planned 2 weeks in the Tuva and Altai Republics. I liked Krasnoyarsk and it39s perfectly situated to break up the trip between the 2 far apart regions. Last night I left on the train for the 10 hour ride to Abakan. At the train station there is a beater bus leaving for Kyzyl at 750 am for 600p. and arriv http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-726591.html Krasnoyarsk City.The summer in the Republic of Yakutia was very hot for me the said your are Colombian you are used to that believe me it was very hot. It was hot and it was weird because Yakutsk is the coldest city in the world with and average of 55c on winter but this summer was around 40c that39s why this http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-641314.html In order to get back up from Kyzyl to Krasnoyarsk I was told to take a minibus apparently it is way faster than the normal bus. Yes that might be true but it meant leaving Kyzyl at 5pm for a roughly 12h drive until 5am the next day. The little hiccup with that there is no chance you can sleep in the full minibus for more than like 20min without knocking your head to the window or not fee http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-630471.html A small introduction to the Evenkia.5 day in EvenkiaThe mysterious edge big fish the edge of mystery and magic. District soaked reindeer.My friend calls me.Hello Sergey how are you Well work.When you arrive in Russia I want you to meet with the Evenki.You'll have free time2010 10 March I was going to go to Moscow a tourist exhibition.Yes I am one of those edges I was born there b http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-532023.html 14th August 2010KrasnoyarskThe train got into Krasnoyarsk at 11.30am. We jumped on a public bus which brought us into town. We popped into a posh hotel and used their WIFI to find a hostel for the night. Unfortunately there are no hostels in Krasnoyarsk I dont think its on the tourist trail yet so we ended up renting a luxury apartment for 60 a night. The office to pick up the k http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-525935.html Day 47Ok so we just ticked over 2800Kms this morning from moscow and now Moscow time 3 getting there but gosh what a night. At around 1am I think we had 2 women and baby of about 18 months join us. What the heck how unlucky could we possibly be Baby was crying away but I guess at that age you get a free ticket For most of the next day I was camped out in the corridor as the baby was roami http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-504139.html Writing this short piece Im starting a small series of sotosay travellers notes describing places which Ive visited and which left a pleasant impression on me both in Russia and Europe. To tell you the truth no single place so far has left a negative impression on me. What Im not quite accustomed to yet is Moscows whirl of life. Frankly speaking I wouldnt like to spend a w http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-501753.html The people who got on the bus at Cheremshanka airport had hard weathered humourless faces. The small planes and helicopters there irregularly serve a range of settlements in the Extreme North many of them closed Arctic towns and cities inaccessible by road and off limits to anyone who doesn39t live there places where the extreme weather and pollution from industry keep life expectancy as lo http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-497225.html The Trans Siberian railway is a long way. There is no way around it. Our portion of it by no means the whole length was 83 hours 5193 kilometers and 79 stops. At least for this journey we were in second class which meant only 4 of us in a compartment a door that we could actually close and beds that were just long enough to fully stretch out.While most of the people on the tour decided to buy http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-433783.html Hola a todsEsta vez he tardado mas en actualizar el blog...pero mas vale tarde que nunca noEn el blog anterior nos quedamos en Novosibirsk la capital de Siberia una ciudad gris y de grandes avenidas donde pasamos unos dias con Valentina Semion y su pequea Sonya.De Novosibirsk partimos hacia Tomsk que se desvia un poco de la ruta pero que es una ciudad universitaria y agradable donde pa http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-395095.html The scenery has become more rugged it is starting to get more mountainous and a lot colder. Ive been talking to the Chinese girls in our Carriage and have found that they had gone to Moscow to work and were now heading home to China they had been there 5 months and the one I spoke with had about 350 to take home after the cost of living in Moscow. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-346491.html Hello allWe've arrived in Krasnoyarsk yesterday. Having spent the night in a very dodgy location we have relocated to a nice hotel today and explored town. We are leaving for Yekaterinburg tomorrow.As some of you will know I lived in Moscow for 5 months back in 1995 and have been to Russia twice before that spending three weeks at a time in Kirov Vyatka as it is now known to do a summer course http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-318485.html Russia was a whirlwind of experiences tastes and sites. From the mighty Red Square and magnificent St. Basil Cathedral to the clackety clack of the Trans Siberian Railroad to standing on the border of Europe and Asia in Ekaterinburg to teaching English at summer camp in Novosibrisk to standing on the bluff overlooking the Yenisi River in Krasnoyarsk to flying Aeroflot to St Petersburg and spendi http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-316814.html We are leaving Krasnoyarsk today and heading to Irkutsk to check out Lake Baikal. The past few days in Krasnoyarsk or K Town as we find that slightly easier to pronounce has been great.We had a fairly lazy afternoon the first day off the train thoroughly enjoyed our shower. With a few of us dealing with tummy bugs it was an interesting start to our time on land.We headed down to the river http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-303863.html Well after about 56 hours on the train we made it to Krasnoyarsk. The train was very comfortable Jules Tan Laura and I all in one cabin with Greg next door. Linda a Canadian lady we met at the hostel in Moscow was a few carriages down.Our beds were simmple benches with a mattress on top the first night was the best sleep ever the following ones were not that great We quickly met loads http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-303073.html Out of concern for my beloved companion who had been sleeping on the lower bunk I peered down below me to see what was going on. Two men sat on the bunk opposite her one wielding a bottle of vodka and a glass in a cheaplooking decorative steel holder. Laura had politely accepted a drink and she and the man with the glass and bottle clinked glasses and saluted one another. Cheers he sai http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-274109.html With the Russian rail network covering some 8 time zones the least confusing option available to the railway administrators was to pretend only Moscow Time existed so timetables are all in Moscow Time and the fiction even extends to station clocks throughout the country. Thus it was disconcerting to drag my bags to Irkutsk station with evening pretty much nigh but the station clock was proclaim http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Russia/Siberia/Krasnoyarsk/blog-223115.html