As with all destination in Russia Arriving at Irkutsk was easy but the taxi driver couldn't find our Hostel, so we spent the morning searching around the back of old soviet blocks in the center of town for the. One note about the Taxi, larders are rickety things but this was amazing with the passenger seat not fastened down, in the back luke looked like he was in a sun lounger, the boot didnt work, the screen was cracked and he had no lights, but the price was go...

We were getting picked up by Anatoly's wife from the station so we waited on the platform for a bit until someone came and asked if we were the famous Luke and Adam ;) It was early in the morning and it was very very cold, this was mainly due to the humidity in the air making the temperature feel a lot lower than it was. We threw our stuff in the car and drove back to Anatoly's house on the edges on Krasnoyarsk.We were going to do as much as we could in Krasnoya...

After an 18 hour train trip we arrived at Novosibirsk at around one in the morning, we soon hunted down a taxi which was no problem but finding the Hostel was as no one had heard of it. We charged about the town center, down different streets and eventually called the Hostel and got met by someone who worked their a few streets away, he jumped in the taxi and guided us in, we dumped our bags and got some sleep. Natasha from st petersburg had arranged for us to m...

Arrived at Perm in the evening and was met by a chap called Michael who was taking us round for the next few days, as it was late we grabbed some food at the supermarket and crashed out. The next day Michael picked us up early in his 4x4 with an interpreter that would be coming with us for the day as his English was not that good. Our first destination was Kunger ice caves about two hours outside of central perm. The drive to the caves was interesting as t...

Catching the train from St Petersburg was the beginning of our first train trip and a sign of what was to come over the next month. We thought we would turn up 30 mins before giving us plenty of time but no... we had to find the ticket office and then find the track, sounds pretty simple you might think but when everything is all in cyrilic and no one understands you its not that easy. Anyway after running around like crazy people, calling up Natasha and asking n...