There is no rail line between Banff and Jasper but there is a great bus tour along the Icefields Parkway Highway stopping off at key points of interest. The first important stop was Lake Louise. The smoke from the 700 […]
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A gray cat slinks past a wooden house.
There’s something a little intimidating attempting to describe.
Sue and I boarded the Rocky Mountaineer in Vancouver on route, over two days, to Kamploops and Banff. Our onward journey to Jasper was by road coach along the Icefields Parkway Highway (go to page). From Jasper we again travelled, […]
Most of our first few days were spent in and around Victoria, capital city of British Columbia. Victoria is a city of some 84,289 people with a vibrant downtown area and large suburbs. The population of the greater metropolitan area […]
Moscow bound on S7 Siberian Airlines, followed by a 6 hour layover and transfer to British Airways for London. My Prayer for Siberia and the Baikalsee: That your economy and the many sub-cultures of your people be allowed to flourish […]
Today we went by bust through a National Park to a small harbour at Tschivirkuiskij where we boarded a boat to take us across the Bay to a place of hot springs. The crossing was a pleasant ride but the […]
The crossing of the Baikal from Khuzir to Ust-Barguzin had to be resheduled onto a larger boat because of a large swell in the open part of the Lake beyond the North Cape. The new boat was not very large […]
Back into the robust Russian minibuses for a tour of the Island. Firstly to Cape Burkham and the Shaman Rock. Some views around Cape Burkhan and Shaman Rock. Onwards along rutted, sandy roads through thick forests, up and over the […]
Our first, distant, view of Olchon Island. Our coach trip across the steppes and forests ended at Maloje More (Little Sea) for a short ferry crossing to the Island. On the Island we boarded Russian, 4×4 minibuses which sped down the […]
The area between Irkutsk and the Baikalsee has many religions which were either exiled or in hiding after the 1917 Revolution. They all survived and are thriving here. The photos in the gallery below are of an Orthodox Christian Church, Shaman […]
Lake Baikal is the largest and deepest freshwater lake in the World: 636km long and 27 to 80km wide. It’s volume is equivalent to 22% of the World’s fresh water resource. If it were in the UK it would stretch […]
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