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Top ten places – June 20th->June 29th. From June 20th to June 29th I’ve travelled in Eastern Siberia from Krasnoyarsk to the beautiful Irkutsk and then on the lake Baikal and in the republic of Buryatia. Here is the ranking of the top ten things I liked the most, as usually in reverse order. By …
Best of SmallTravelGuides on Social Networks. Here I am with one more issue of this weekly post, the last about Russia. In my 13th week I’ve been in Irkutsk, Ulan Ude and on Lake Baikal and from there I post some of the most successful Instagram picture ever (for me, of course). Let’s review the …
A place that is hard to describe. Khuzhir is the main village of island of Olkhon on the lake Baikal. I could tell you that there are no paved roads here, that most of the population is Buryat, that shamanism is widespread and many other things but nothing would be better than these pictures. I …
That end-of-the-world feeling. I didn’t made the rank of best places I’ve seen during my trip around the world but I’m sure that if I would, Khuzhir would be surely in the top 5. Why? It is very hard to say. The atmosphere here is incredible. Life flows slowly and the contemporary chaos seems so …
Getting to Olkhon Island on Lake Baikal. Olkhon is one of the biggest islands within a lake and this is not surprising knowing that the lake is Baikal, most voluminous fresh water lake in the world. In most of Europe, when we think about an island in a lake it comes to our mind the …