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Irkutsk to Listvyanka seeing Lake Baikal and trying to catch a fish

Irkutsk is around 70km away from Lake Baikal. I wasn’t really aware of that fact because I expected to come to Irkutsk and walk to Lake Baikal from there. This was not possible. On the first day I haven’t felt

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Stolby Nature Reserve in Krasnojarsk – Photoblog

I expected to write about my adventures on the long and never ending train journeys. Turns out I hardly had time to write all the blog posts on the train as I am always meeting people and get talking to

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Yekaterinburg

Yekaterinburg was ruled by some mafia bosses in the 90’s according to Wiki entries. Today the town is booming and does well in preparing for the Worldexpo in 2020. Lots of companies have set up their offices here and it

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Trans Siberian Railway – Transsib Adventures from St. Petersburg to Yekaterinburg

The route from St. Petersburg isn’t the actual historic Transsib railway but it’s part of the Russian train network that connects Russia with Siberia. Some parts of the journey is spent on the original Transsib tracks. There are various trains

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St. Petersburg, the last city before my TransSib adventure

7:55am I arrived in St. Petersburg and made my way to the Admiralty Hostel, which I have seen online but didn’t book the day before. I walked to where I thought the Hotel was. It should have been close to

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Moscow Metro Museum

Arrival in Moscow at 6:43 in the morning, it is still dark outside. It is snowing heavily and it is -11 degrees. This time I was lucky to find a working ATM straight-away. Also the metro wasn’t very far away

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