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Travel Articles 2010 – 2014

Irkutsk

Rattling sound coming from under my feet? Front end of the bus bouncing up and down like a ship on … Read more

Olkhlon Island

Okhlon Island is the largest island in Lake Baikal and after more than a month of driving our first few … Read more

Ust’-Ordynskiy

Leaving Irkutsk and driving towards Lake Baikal, the landscape has changed dramatically, becoming much less forested and more open grassland … Read more

Krasnoyarsk

It’s becoming something like the Groundhog Day driving this section of Russia. The hundreds of kilometres between cities always seem … Read more

Kemerovo

We’re pretty much in the dead centre of Russia, the heart of Siberia. The middle of nowhere. Miles upon miles … Read more

Novosibirsk

The fifth largest city in Russia – the designated capital of Siberia – we’d had big hopes for this city … Read more

Ishim

Here we are on the detour round Kazakhstan, a lovely section of road that we’d been concerned about before we … Read more

Urals

We’re out of the Ural Mountains which were neither almost impassable nor full of bandits – both things we’d been … Read more

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