Church near the Angara River

October 30th 2011
So, we travelled another 45h to get to Irkutsk and we happened to take exactly the same train as Cyril - the guy we met in Novosibirsk. What are the odds??? Train ride was fun – this time in the 3rd class - and we really enjoyed it. First we met some Ukrainian guys (60 of them all together) who were going to Irkutsk for 6 months work contract. Why travel so far and leave the families behind?? T ... 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

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Our RTW lasted 583 days = 1 year, 7 months, 5 days. That means 83 weeks/13,992 hours/839,520 minutes/50,371,200 seconds of LIVING THE DREAM We love to travel. It is as simple as that ;-) 30.09.2011 we embarked on the trip of our lives ;-) in 2007 we got inspired by our friends (Monique and Nigel who constantly travel and have been on the RTW) and since then we have been thinking about it all the time. We finally set up a date, started to save up and focused only on preparation ;-) We could not just stay at home all the time so we traveled a bit in between but ... full info

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