Baikal Lake and Irrkutsk

We were quite glad about going to Baikal as this would have been our only time to relax on our journey. After arriving in Irrkutsk, we straight went to Olchron, an island in lake baikal. The cool thing about it: it's like every backpacker is speaking about this one island as it's really fantastic over there. So it realy reminded us of the movie 'the beach', lol

Again we 'tried' to camp in our tent but a thunder storm didn't want us to stay any longer so we escaped to next hotel where we stayed in the lobby for one night ;)
We actually liked that place so we decided to stay there for the rest of our nights on Olchron aswell. We met some really great guys from england over there, who stayed in our room. I guess you can say that we had a good time with those lads ;)

We met again in Irrkutsk, which is the biggest city near Baikal. Esa, Carl and me just spent there one night, we travelled to Ulan Ude were we are now.

Tomorrow morning we go to Ulan Baator, so we will leave Russia after a long long journey which lasted for 3 weeks.

Hope to upload more frequently in future but this will depend on the www-conections in Mongolia ;)

cheers!

Baikal Lake