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Mongolia: tundra & tracks

Tundra & tracks, Mongolia

 

Siberian leg of the trip: Our earthly possessions

Our earthly possessions on the Siberian leg of the trip.

Northern China

Entering Northern China

 

 

 

 

Russia: waiting in a fur coat (-19 degrees)

Waiting (-19 degrees, which we were assured was “warm” compared to February temps)

Our dining car friends, drinking vodka

Drinking neat vodka with our new dining car friends. One bottle per 3 people, until it’s drained. This is the Russian way.

Ah, Siberia

Ah, Siberia

Russian trans-si train, we switched to Chinese train later

The Russian train – we switched to Chinese soon after

Lenin in Irkutsk

Lenin gesturing out across Irkutsk

The amazing wooden Irkutsk homes

Traditional wooden Irkutsk abode

Smoking break – in a T-shirt!! brrrrrrrrr

The beginnings of Mongolia from train

An interminable wait. With cold comes patience, it appears. They do say riots always happen on very hot days. . .

Ice piles

Surprised the next morning when the dining cart had transformed. It went from Russian, to Mongolian, to Chinese. But from your carriage, you couldn’t tell. It was like climbing Enid Blyton’s Magic Faraway Tree each morning!

Mongolian livestock

Back to Siberia, from the train

More Siberia from train

Train stop, as abuzz as it gets in such cold

Mongolia

Irkutsk home

Irkutsk home

Irkutsk home

Irkutsk locals

A mystical day in Irkutsk. The trees looked like white coral.

Picknicking in furs at Lake Baikal for Russian New Year

Picknicking in furs

Frozen shoreline of Lake Baikal

Couple at Irkutsk’s Winter Wonderland

Rugged up little’un at Winter Wonderland

It was all about smoked fish at Lake Baikal

Happy Russian tourists

 

 

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