Back from Olkhon island, we had three days in Irkutsk before we needed to catch our onward train to Ulan Bataar. Irkutsk was once ca... Continue reading »
The journey to Irkutsk wasn't quite as pleasant as the journey to Ulaanbaatar due to having to spend basically all day at the Mongolian-R... Continue reading »
We arrived into Irkutsk after a mammoth 30 hour journey from Mongolia. It wasn't so much the journey as the wait with us arriving at the... Continue reading »
It was a long trip on the train from Mongolia to Russia not helped by the over nine hours that we spent going through the border procedur... Continue reading »
After a long border crossing, we made it into Russia. We sat for several hours while they changed the wheels(?) on the train as the train... Continue reading »