The Round-Baikal Railroad |
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26th June, 3rd day out, 69 km from Irkutsk. Cape Baklany. First day on Baikal. The lake met us with a glorious calm. |
27th June, 4th day out, 109 km. Cape Kirkirey. Still quite cold, so there are practically no tourists. |
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28th June, 5th day out, 127 km. View from Cape Malaya Krutaya Guba. |
29th June, 6th day out, 147 km. Cape Shamansky. The southern end of Baikal. Enormouse numbers of tourists and no firewood. |
The south-eastern coast of Baikal |
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29th June, 6th day out, 169 km. Railroaders defend from Lake Baikal. |
30th June, 7th day out, 196 km. The Baikalsk Pulp and Paper Mill is hidden in mist, but the monument to suppressed nature is here on the shore. |
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1st July, 8th day out, 215 km. Tan Bay - still winter here. |
1st July, 8th day out, 232 km. Mamay Bay and River Osinovka (on the right). |
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1st July, 8th day out, 247 km. Sunset at Lake Baikal. |
2nd July, 9th day out, 247 km. View from camp at Sosnovka River and bay against. |
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2nd July, 9th day out, 292 km. Sunset at Lake Baikal. |
3rd July, 10th day out, 325 km. Misty and gale at Lake Baikal. |
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4th July, 11th day out, 379 km. The thrown nest of a herring gull at Karga peninsula. |
5th July, 12th day out, 379 km. Posolsky cloister. |
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5th July, 12th day out, 383 km. It's going to rain. |
6th July, 13th day out, 378 km. Circumventing the sandbanks near the Karga Babyya Islands. |
The delta of the River Selenga |
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6th July, 13th day out, 391 km. Irises in the Selenga delta. Something like an hour was spent on the search for channels. We have begun the journey upstream. |
7th July, 14th day out, 420 km. In the Lobanovsky channel. We will move down this channel to Baikal to the north of the Selenga delta. |
