After seeing such a steep increase in the amount of traffic my blog had around the New Year holiday, I couldn't help but think a lot of people out there either have plans to travel or have made a New Year's resolution to travel in 2013. Maybe you are thinking to take off a week or two or maybe you're considering…

After leaving from a weekend trip to Listvyanka, we arrived back in Irkutsk for my second full week there. While I would say that things were much the same as my first week spent in this city, it was far from it after randomly working in Siberia later that week. However, things started off with a dinner at my friend's grandparent's…

With a few hours spent out at the Taltsy Museum 'Village', we were once again on our way to Listvyanka to spend the day and night. I would have rather spent at least three days in the Listvyanka area however, I knew the weather would be turning tomorrow and would be the start of the Siberian winter weather that would fall…

Since it had been almost two weeks since we'd gone to Arshan for a weekend, it felt time again to take a road trip out of Irkutsk, Russia. This time we were headed to Listvyanka but had plans first to head to the Taltsy Museum. Well, I guess you could call it a museum but it was more of a small…

With about five days spent in Irkutsk, Russia so far, it was time to head out of the city and the next destination was a place called Arshan which is located within about 50 miles north of the Mongolian border. I had been told about Arshan before, even when I had traveled out to Siberia nearly a year earlier. However, with…

As promised on my last post, I am going to introduce you to Siberian life after spending it with locals for nearly a month. We're going to go bit by bit though as my experiences here were so varied and different from one day to the next. To start things on this Siberian adventure, I was headed with my friend out…