Budget Hotels in Irkutsk
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Irkutsk
On the banks of the Angara River 72 kilometres from Lake Baikal, Irkutsk is today the tourist gateway to the Baikal region and the wilds of Siberia surrounding it. Lake Baikal is the deepest freshwater lake in the world, and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and has 2 national Much of the history of Irkutsk, though, revolves around the Decembrists.
From the Irkutsk Travel Guide
Irkutsk Discussions
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Has anybody visited Russia (not St. Petersburg ar Moscow)?
Welcome aboard, Namowami! I think a lot of people on this board have been to Russia, actually. I myself took the train from Moscow to Irkutsk, spending some time in Irkutsk before heading down into Mongolia. It was only for 5 days, but lots of time spent hanging around and trying (poorly) to communicate ... -
Prague (Praha) to Moscow (Moskva) and further afield...
get tickets for about $250 (that's like £100, right?) 1st class to Irkutsk and it's about $300 ... -
Moscow to St Petersburg by train
-Mong anywhere in Russia (most stop in Irkutsk, even if nowhere else), you can buy them there easily enough. ((in Irkutsk it's ticket office #2 - i think - which is the left most door on the long station building ... - More Irkutsk Discussions from our Europe Travel Forum
Irkutsk Blog Entries
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Melancholy at leaving our Siberian island
Olkhon Island – Irkutsk, Russia With bags stacked on the roof and a minibus largely consisting ...
Posted in Overland from Europe to China and beyond by jamesh1066 -
Waiting for ever for a chocolate milk shake
But worth waiting for... ...
Posted in Trans Siberian 2011 by mkmp -
Wild, wild east...
It's good to be off the train. Irkutsk, Russia has a feeling of a wild west town. Siberia has often seen itself as Russia's answer to the USA's wild west. Siberia is the wild east of Russia ...
Posted in Greg Wesson's Esoteric Globe by GregW - More Irkutsk Blog Entries
