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Tuesday, May 24. 2011
Irkutsk
I'm still lagging behind a lot with blogging my trip. So I'll try to keep up a bit.After Yekaterinburg and a more than two day long train trip, we arrived in Irkutsk (Иркутck) near lake Baikal. Irkutsk is a much more tourist dominated city, which you suddenly notice by the larger number of english speaking people.
What I found noteworthy: At the beginning of our trip, I didn't see much of extreme poverty. This changed in Irkutsk. Large parts of the city are very small houses often in very bad shape. There are very rough breaks - in the same street, you see very modern buildings and a few meters further you see barracks. Also, there were a lot of burned down houses.
I took the opportunity in Irkutsk to visit the water power plant. It seems not many people consider it an interesting sight, as i was completely alone when I walked on and beside the dam.A nice thing to visit was the market in Irkutsk, however, one should be prepared to be spoken to permanently by people trying to sell something to you.
After a short stay in Irkutsk, we went on to lake Baikal and the village Listvijanka (Листвянка).
Pictures from Irkutsk
Pictures from water power plant and dam in Irkutsk