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Fear smells like chewing gum
Our stay in Saint Petersburg finally reached its end: three days of exploration between channels and bridges, monuments and ancient estates, plus the unbroken chain of short storms five minutes after each other were about to leave the stage to the first part of our journey on a train. Even though the „Kilometer 0” of the Transsiberian railway is actually located in Moscow, my group and I were about to get our baptism of fire and spend the first of many nights to come in one of the train’s wagons. It was a scorching summer day like any other, the perfect time to travel from one point of the…
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Transsiberian after: the big Mongolian getaway
Important information on how to organise “the Transsib after: the big Mongolian trip” based on the trip made in August 2016 How did we start the preparation We were taking a more than 2-week-long trip from Saint Petersburg to Baikal lake, finishing it by coming back to Irkutsk after around 4 days next to Baikal lake. We knew that it is not going to be easy to get to know more about Mongolia without a little help, thus I contacted a hostel in Ulanbataar about whom I got the information that they organise different kind of trips all around the country for travellers. It was around 30 of us arriving…
