The first Saturday in Autumn.....freezing this morning but warmed up during the day. Sveta our honcho for our short stay took us to the BIG Lenin head in the centre of Ulan Ude, such a small city but it definitely has a lot of character and a story to tell. We also visited this huge outdoor museum with an unfortunate zoo that really had me upset but they also had to scale models of traditional houses in Russia prior to the soviet era, it was a beautiful place and the surroundings were those pine forests you see in the movies.
We visited Lenin Street, without knowing we had arrived on 'Education Day' even though it was a Sunday all the kids were out in full school uniform celebrating the freedom to learn, pony rides and performances and even later on that evening we saw fireworks and could hear a concert from our room.
We visited Lenin Street, without knowing we had arrived on 'Education Day' even though it was a Sunday all the kids were out in full school uniform celebrating the freedom to learn, pony rides and performances and even later on that evening we saw fireworks and could hear a concert from our room.
In the afternoon we took ourselves to an Irish pub on Lenin street and had a snack and a beer, we were lucky to find ourselves aided by the interpreter who worked at the pub. He was very excited because he wasn't a waiter his sole job was to assist english speaking visitors, his name was Sava, he was so nice and he sat down and had a chat with us while we drank and were entertained by an extremely drunk homeless man and his dog who was apparently a regular out the front of the bar. The man attempted to serenade us with freshly plucked flowers from the nicely manicured flower bed nearby, he thought we were German at first and when we advised him otherwise lovingly shouted "I LOVE YOU!" . After our evenings entertainment we chilled out in our hotel room until 10pm when we were picked up by our driver for our overnight train to Irkutsk.........Lake Baikal awaits.
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