Leaving Olkhon Island, we headed off for our second leg of the Trans Siberian that would take us out of Russia and into Mongolia.
We had a bit of a sour end to our time in Russia as Iain got pick pocketed on a tram in Irkutsk. Not too much lost, just left with a bad impression of the city, which we’ll remember every time we play Risk.
We had the indignity of downgrading from Lux wagon to second class and shared a 4 berth cabin, which is still very comfortable really. We were lucky to have good room mates, Katja and Robert from Dresden, who had also come travelling with their Yahtzee dice. It was thoroughly needed as crossing the border was an arduous task, 4 hours of sitting on the platform while the train carriages were slowly taken away one by one until only ours was left. Then 3 hours wait on the Mongolian side. Although we had the hilarity of a man nearly missing his train going the other way and executing a proper action film style jump onto the moving train.
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Yahtzee!
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Endlessly waiting
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Check out what this Glaswegian managed to sniff out at the border.
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Food pic #8: first taste of Mongolian food, “beef “ that didn’t taste like beef.
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