The Altai Mountains We arrived into Barnaul station at 6am with pretty special hangovers (due to crossing a further time zone and not the chilli and honey vodka with 8% beer ;) and were met on the platform by girl called Nadia who was to be our guide and stay with us for the next four days. We made our way to the bus station as we had to catch a local bus to take us to the village of Chemal which is right up in the Altai mountains and would be where we would be spending the next few days. It must be the worse journey either of us have ever made. The roads were terrible, bumpy and winding and the bus was so hot and stuffy it was hard to breathe. The six hours
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