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Alex Mumzhui with his Brompton on Silk Route to China.
Silk Road
Alex Mumzhiu2006-03-20 17:44:21
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better, but they do not think of returning to those times. Those times are gone forever and will never return. They also don't have much sympathy to communists. One of my neighbors jobs was an installation the electrical generators in villages and small towns. He described a gloomy pictures of dying places where people usually have no work and at the same time are not able to do any business and still wait until government will provide for them. I had day long stop in Ekaterinburg, which didn't impress me. Unlike Moscow and St Petersburg, Siberian cities are pretty much still in Soviet time. Even places where the Tsar's family was murdered located near intersection of Rosa Luksenburg and Karl Libkneht streets. For some reason all Siberian cities have major streets named after these German Social Democrats having nothing to do with Siberia. I spent most of time at train station drinking beer and visiting that restroom, the picture of which I sent you before I did not stay in Irkytsk and take bus to Baikal lake. I stay there in the village Listvianka in the guest house (tyrbaza) for $0.60 per night in 50 bed dormitory, but I was alone there. Tourbook said that they even don't have running water in this dorm. It is true. Dorm manager show me there is the basket and few steps down is the biggest mass of fresh water on the earth. 1/7 of all fresh water on the earth, to be precise, is in the Baikal lake. The water is crystal clear and very cold. Listvianka is funny village. It is normal Siberian village, but with paved streets and many street advertisement in English. On the Baikal shore local people smoke the omyl (fish known only in Bailal). It was pretty good smoked, but salted even better. I do not remember anything interesting in Ulan Ude except for unusually pushi personnel in hotel Baikal where I stay.
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