Chukotka!!! Our Alaskan Neighbors!!

We are heading to Chukotka, far east Russia in this weekend (Orange line)!! Hope we can see Alaska!!

Here is picture taken in 2011 from Little Diomede Island (Alaska) to Big Diomede, Chukotka Peninsula, Russia…we are going to the other way…

The car was parked at small village near Irkutsk!!

Phantom (quad helicopter) was great attraction for school children!)

visiting villages around the Baikal

Southern end of Baikal Lake (not so much drifted ice)20140313-160146.jpg

 

Sunset at Khujyir (Olkhon Island), only one school in this island of Baikal20140313-160202.jpg

SMoon light the Lake20140313-160213.jpg

Kachug school nice spring sunshine with pine trees!

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Ice road on Baikal

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Old (since 1845) town Verkholensk20140313-160311.jpg

Evenki Village Tumr…only accessible in winter

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