Days 31-34 Gorkhi-Terelj national park

Day 31, road to the park and finding accommodation

Days 20–25, Khuzir, Olkhon Island, Lake Baikal

The road to Olkhon Island

Days 28–30, Ulaanbaatar

Day 28

Choijin Lama temple

Days 14–17, Krasnoyarsk

Krasnoyarsk is a working class city. The contrast is strong with Kazan or Moscow. Countless rows of ugly flat blocks and a dozen factory chimneys polluting the air do not make for picturesque views.

Days 12 - 13, The Trans-Siberian Express: from Kazan to Krasnoyarsk

Days 18-19, train to Irkutsk & Irkutsk, part 1

Days 27-28, train to Ulaanbaatar & crossing the border

Day 11, Kazan: buying stamps & long walk under the sun

Days 25–26, Irkutsk, part 2

Our bus arrived at our hostel towards 09:30, and the driver then spent an hour driving around the village collecting more passengers. He picked up the wrong passengers, so they had to get off the bus and that was a situation.