Lake Baikal eastern shores

As you can see K was at the window excitedly taking photos for most of the trip along the south and eastern shores of Lake Baikal.
The autumnal colours were breathtaking the whole way.
Sadly the phone photos don’t do the scenery justice in the slightest.
We arrived in Ulan Ude at 16.22 bang on time but then spent an hour negotiating road works and traffic as our “5 min from the train station” accommodation was on the wrong side of the tracks!
To top it off we kind of found the address but not the apartment, then when we tried the number on booking.com the person didnt speak an ounce of English. Anyway some time later a random woman turned up with her son, took us in to this dodgy looking building and let us in to our apartment ... then demanded a “deposit”! Whether she will be back with it tmrw remains to be seen!!Read more