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Beyond the Horizon: Part 3 pp126-169 from outside Ust Nera to Irkutsk, alone (the cyclist below is actually Tim Harvey). Colin bicycled 750km along the “Road of Bones” to get from Ust Nera to Yakutsk. Yakutsk, Yakutian Province, Russia. Colin has been in SiIberia for 6 months - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Beyond the Horizon: Part 3 pp126-169from outside Ust Nera to Irkutsk, alone
(the cyclist below is actually Tim Harvey)
Colin bicycled 750km along the “Road of Bones” to get from Ust Nera to Yakutsk
Yakutsk, Yakutian Province, Russia
• Colin has been in SiIberia for 6 months
• The first major city since Fairbanks, Alaska
• Pop. 200,000• A chance to send mail
and repair his bicycle• Along the Lena River, the
10th longest River in the world
More images from Yakutsk:
Leaving Yakutsk:Bicycling 1150km on the M56 “highway,” south to the Trans-Siberian
Highway
Two stops between Yakutsk and Tynda (the end of the M56): Aldan(left – the town and the river) and
Neryungri(right)
Tynda: the end of the M56 and a major hub on the BAM rail line
More images from Tynda:
Outside of Tynda, Colin met another world-traveller: Rosie Swale-Pope who was on her journey to be the first person
to jog around the world unassisted
Chita, Russia: 1100km from Irkutsk
More images from Chita
Crossing the Yenisey River
• Familiar ground for Colin: in a previous adventure he rowed the Yenisey from its headwaters to its delta in the Arctic Ocean
• The photo is of Colin• The Yenisey is the 5th
longest river in the world
The “road” between Chita and Ulan-Ude:
Siberia: the land of rivers and bad roads?Crossing the Selenga River, the primary tribuary of the
Yenisey River
Ulan-Ude, Buryatia Province, Russialate April
More images from Ulan-Ude:note the Selenga River again, as well as the world’s largest bust of
Lenin, one the USSR’s founding heroes
Rounding Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world (bottom right is a satellite photo of the lake, frozen)
And finally…Irkutsk, where Colin planned to wait for Tim and Yulya
As with all Russian cities, Irkutsk has Orthodox churches and a statue of Lenin
Irkutsk to Moscow:Colin formally breaks with Tim, but will meet Julie in
Moscow