We were driven the seventy kilometres back to Irkutsk from Lystvyanka for a tour of the centre. This city on the Angara river is famous because the Decembrists who revolted against Tsar Nicholas l in 1825 were exiled there.
Russia
Moscow to Yekaterinburg by Spagny Vagon
First impressions of our spagny vagon or first class carriage were good.
Through Siberia to Lake Baikal
Now we were travelling further into Siberia on the way to lake Baikal, the worlds deepest lake.
Yekaterinburg in the Urals
Eight hundred and eighty nine miles from Moscow Yekaterinburg is in the Urals on the border of Europe and Asia.
Trans Siberian from Moscow
A journey on the Trans Siberian Express is a once in a life time adventure.
It has to be, doing it once is crazy but you would have to be completely nuts to even contemplate doing it twice.