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Thursday, 21 July 2011

Day 16 - 18 July 2011 Irkutsk Layover Day

We are all keen for a bit of shopping and wander down the hill to the markets. There is a chinese market with the same stuff as home markets. A fresh produce market and some large covered markets. Just like a supermarket but individual sellers sell the different things. Ie one sells cakes, one drinks, one pastas and rice etc.
There are some beautiful fur coats and jackets. We are looking for fur hats and maybe a blanket or a wolf skin. The shopkeepers are surly and seem to scowl. A few are friendly. Greg our guide says they soften up if you spend some time buttering them up – I can’t be bothered. Sell it to me or I walkout. Needless to say we don’t have our coveted furs……… yet. The boys go looking for a military market that has AK47s etc but can’t find it. Shame, we would have liked to have a look at that.


We have a lot of driving the next few days. One day is 800+km. But after each long driving day we have a layover day. 

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