Irkutsk, the Decembrists and Olkhon Island on Lake Baikal
November 12th 2009 Irkutsk! I've heard of that place somewhere before. But its not a country is it? Oh! Risk! Playing the board game Risk, way back when. It was a country or region or whatever - in Risk! Well, now I'm on a train. And going there!
The open steppes of Mongolia have been morphing into gently rolling hills with more and more trees - the taiga ecosystem of Siberia is starting to pass by out the
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