So, I ended up in Siberia. It wasn’t too bad. It was very nice actually, except for the beginning
The jetlag is bad when going 7 time zones eastward. It’s still bothering me a little bit.
I arrived at the airport in Irkutsk a 4:30 in the morning. I
traveled together with a colleague from our Moscow office. I have seen the city only in the dark. But it
looks very nice, with all the old large log houses in the city center.
We have been working all day, and only went down to the city
center to eat after work. I’ve eaten lots of good food, mostly fish from the Lake
Baikal. It was species of fish I’ve never heard of before, such as sig and omul. They are species that live only in Baikal.
We have been
effective at work, so today we finished at noon and went for a trip to Baikal. It’s
the lake of the lakes, 1600m (5300 feet) deep, and contains 20% of the (liquid)
fresh water on earth.
I really liked Siberia. I think I would like to go here for
vacation some time,
Tomorrow Aeroflot will take me back to Moscow.
my image of Siberia is ice and snowbound all the time.
ReplyDeleteWith super-continental climate, Siberia can be increadibly cold (and very hot in the summer). Right now it was very nice and pleasant, just a few degrees below the freezing point. I enjoy the cold and frozen world >:)
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