Ulan Ude: getting to know the locals
July 18th 2010 Ulan Ude wasn't somewhere I'd always wanted to visit. In fact I probably wouldn't have chosen to stop here but all the guide books say its one of the 3 must-see place on the Trans-Siberian route so I thought I better stop and find out why. Good decision.
From the train Ulan Ude seems like an enormous metropolis, its by far the biggest city we have seen since leaving Vladivostok and comes co
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