Mongolia

Russia at last

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July 13th 2005
Hi Everyone.. Hopefully i can get some photos up today / tomorrow on this! Well we have done 2 border crossing in a couple of days, spent some long hours on the train and we have reached the town of Irtuksk in Siberia. We stayed with a Russian family, our host was a lady called Rita and her house was near Lake Baikal which is the largest fresh water lake in the world. Ate great seafood and the ... read more

Europe » Russia » Siberia » Irkutsk

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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