Our 'taxi'

Lake Baikal - Listvianka

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July 25th 2004
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 ... read more

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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 Dynas... ... read more