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Monday, 24 June 2019

Preparations

Using nakarte.me to plan my trip, very useful and lot's of cartography options.
It's an old idea, a wish, a place to see. Since my dad and my mom told me stories about the region, I always felt: "I really have to go there" Than I've checked a lot, on youtube, on forums, on google maps. And finally decided I'm going there! At first I wanted to make a trip by bicycle, around lake Baikal. Than starting to check the map for roads around. I saw pretty soon that north-eastern region of Baikal are very wild. Roads are scarce, and there are no actual road only gravel paths, which will be awesome for cyclists. Except a little detail. Russian people started to ask me: "How will you sleep at night alone?", "It's dangerous,...