The train arrival to Irkutsk was scheduled quite early so we had to get out of bed before 7am, eat quickly and pack all our stuff. Less than an hour later we were walking out of the Irkutsk station and were litteraly assaulted by locals offering 'taxis'. We picked one of them randomly to take us to the bus station and we ended up in a terribly shapped van with a guy who didn't understand a word of English or German. The whole communication is down to our best friend: phrasebook. At the bust station we had really hard time understanding which bus we needed to take. With lots of struggle we did buy some bus tickets to Listvianka only to find out later that that particular bus leaves in three hours while there were
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