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Sunday, July 6, 2008
Lake Baikal & Irkutsk - Siberia
We arrived in Irkutsk (Siberia) early in the morning and headed straight to a village called Listvyanka at the shore of Lake Baikal. It's an amazing lake in many senses. With over 1600m depth the deepest on the planet, with over 20% of the world's sweet water massive in size, incredibly transparent (apparently 20m sight) and even in July something like 5 or 6 degrees Celcius "warm" (the swim was really short). Around the lake are mountains making it difficult to travel in summer - in winter it's easy as you can drive on the lake (frozen from January to May).
We stayed with a local family in a nice little wooden house, a toilet in the backyard and an amazing "banya" (Sauna) - felt great. Our "host mum" cooked for us. Food is delicious, be it smoked Omul fish, pelmeni or blini - delicious.
Irkutsk is a nice city but there is not much to write home about (probably we're still impressed by the lake).
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At the moment the time isn't verry good to come home. The waether is qutie strange, even in the south part of switzerland. Anyway, i will miss your text and information on the net, its was allways interesting to see what are you did. See you soon
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