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Our mind Blowing Trans-Siberian Rail Journey Autumn 2019 - Route 3 ( Lake Baikal, Listvyanka & Irkutsk)

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  Emily taking a shot at Lake Baikal We arrived at Irkutsk Train Station at about 7.00am, woh! the station were very crowded, we quickly came out of the train station and start asking around which direction was the Central Market. Luckily, an English speaking tourist answered me, saying he was also going to that direction. We crossed the road and wait for our electrical tram #1, from here we need to go to the Central Market stop@ 15 RUB then cross the Timiryaseva street to autoparking with siagbaun and look for 15 to 20 sitters mini buses going to Listvyanka. There are quite a few mini buses there waiting for Listvyanka, the system works like; once the mini bus is full the driver will take off. We choose one that are almost full and quickly sat ourselves inside. Within 20 minutes our minibus took off, the fare was 200 RUB ( SGD$3.70) each. The ride was about 1hr 45 minutes, we arrived at Listvyanka at about 9.45am   Ok, a little of information on Lake Baikal, this is an ancient, massiv
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Our Mind Blowing Trans-Siberian Rail Journey Autumn 2019 - Route 2 ( Ulan Bator to Ulan Ude)

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  Statue of World biggest Lenin's Head at the City Square, Ulan-Ude After a few restful and 'in-touch' with nature stay at the Gokhi-Terejl National Park, we are looking forward and eager to continue our Trans Siberian Journey. We arrived at  Ulaanbataar Train Station at around 11.30am, almost 4 hours early for our train to Ulan-Ude, so we walked around the train Station to look for food-stalls to replenish our provisions for our train ride of about 14.4 hours, we will arrive at Ulan-Ude early next morning about 6.20am.  You guys might be wondering by now, what have we prepared for our train journey?  Yes! we brought along; 50 sachets of Campbell soups  in assorted  flavors, instant sachets of coffee, tea & Milo. 20 sticks of mixed nuts/ fruits energy bars. We planned at every stops, we will  replenish or add in with fresh breads, fruits and local pastries, ok almost forgot local Beers too. Our train arrived on time! took a nice selfie with our pretty Mongolian 'Tra
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