2002 Baltic-Baikal Tour
May - August 2002

2002 Балтийский-Байкалский Тур
Май – Август 2002

161 Watching the Selenga river

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001 Chaos in my flat before leaving 002 Before boarding the Stockholm-Tallinn ferry 003 Arriving in Tallinn 004 First banana break in Esonia 005 First eve
006 Affi and bicycle 007 Balti kett 008 Estonian-Latvian border area 009 With Adam and Iilze 010 HEC Kegums
010 Syttene maj 011 First flat tyre 012Last Beer in Latvia 013 Russian-Latvian latborder 014 Pustoshka means little emptyness
016 First thousand km - 8 to go 017 First thousand km - 8 to go 018 Vadstena buss samarbetar med Smalandsbussar 019 Smolensk Assumtion Cathedral 020 Affi arriving in Somlensk
021Smolenska also has an Anatonov aircraft factory 022 Smolensks own Lenin pamyatnik 023 The road to Moscow - we are not going there 024 Smolensk kreml at night - great view 025 bicyclers dream
026 Smolensk sauna 027 Assumtion cathedral close-up 028All Smolensk was FULL of young people celebrating end of the school year 029 Tenting in a cafe backyard 031 Follow the road to Kursk
035 Roadside cafe with nice drunkards 036 In the bush 037 Just another road pamjatnik 038 Bryansk hotel room view 039 Long long upward hill
040 Met by Marshall Zhukov when entering Kursk 041 Kursk City 041 Kursk pamjatnik 042 Affi just as wet as me 042 Wet and trying to undress before entering inner tent
043Russkaya priroda 044Arriving Voronezh after two days of rain 045 Voronezh church 046 Voronezh river 047 Six times Affi biking - maybe I should not smoke that yellow stuff
048 Anna - the only Russian village cafe with no tea 051 Having shashlik at roadside cafe 052 Volgograd oblast 053 Volga should be straight ahead 054 Volgograd - here I come
060 Stalingrad memorial park Mamaev Kurgan - 72 m high Mother Russia 061 Mamaev Kurgan Stalingrad memorial park 063 Eternal flame at Mamaev Kurgan 064 and uncle Vlad 065 Affi watching Volgograd
065 Find ME if you can 066 not so cold at all 067 Affi watching old planes 068 Bicycle club Strelnik after helping us servicing our bikes 069 Of course we stay at Best Eastern - Castro Honecker and plenty other bigwigs had dinner here
071 Affi softing and dring beer 072 me 081 Yura on Volga beach 082 Volga beach stop on our way to Samara 083 Affi Lena and her Yura
084 Affi Lena and Mathias 085 Samara is where Sayuz rockets are made 086 Meeting Fritz Kaufamann cycling from Baikal to Europe 087 Arriving to the Republic of Tatarstan 088 so now we made three thousand km - 6 to go
089 Ahmed and Mahmoud eating and drinking with local tatars 089 Ahmed and Mahmoud swapping t-shirts with local tatar biznizmen 090 Dinner at Julias and Rails place 091 Affi drinking bruderschaft vodka with Olesya 091 In the datcha after a fantastic sauna
092 Affi sleeping again 093 Ufa skyline 094 Church near suphur bath 095 Healthy but smelly and cold bath 096 After three times of healthy but smelly and cold bath
097 Church near suphur bath 098 Shashlik and swimming with friends outside Ufa 099 Shashlik and swimming with friends outside Ufa 100 Arriving in ASIA 101 Talking with our excellent guide in Ishim
102 Truck driver Anatoli after helping repairing Affis front roller 103 Hot hot day passing Dolgie which is and means far away 104 Novosibirsk evening after sauna 104 Three cyclists taking a break 105 Fredrik arrival and assembling his bike
106 Affi and two Tolstyak in Kemerovo 107 On arriving in Krasnoyarsk a sign informed us that it is only 7370 km to Paris 108 Krasnoyarsk cinema 109 Affi Lenin and a bank 111 Maybe THIS is the famous TransSiberian Railway.
112 Krasnoyarsk skyline 113Lenin under repair in Ujar 121 Buying raspberries on the roadside 123 Fredrikcycling through village 124 Fredrik cows and a Kamaz
125 The Soviet state gave priority to guns and rockets rather than running water 126 Siberian gravel 127 Siberia 128 Coca Cola is THE sport drink 128 Six thousand km - yes it is a grapefruit
129 Two Austrain bikers going from Mongolia to Kirgistan 130 Dolgoe is far away 131 So this is the road Fritz talked about 132 Police cycling from Ulan Ude to Moscow 133 Picnic where Affi concentrates on large amounts of blueberries in his mouth
136 After TV interview in Nizhneudinsk 137 Gravel on the road to Irkutsk 137 Yipieee - asphalt starting 138 Church and ruin in Irkutsk 139 Church in Irkutsk
140 Another Irkutsk church 141 Irkutsk old gastromija 151 Leaving Irkutsk towards Baikal 152 First glimps of Baikal at Kaitun 153 View from the mountains south of Baikal
153 Wooden church in Vydrino 154 Evening at the shores of Baikal 155 Baikal blueberry breakfast 156 Baikal blueberry breakfast 157Morning at Baikal
159 Resting after Baikals longest upward hill 160 View on the Selenga river 162 Seeing the worlds biggest Lenin head in Ulan Ude again 199 The End
 

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Pictures from the trip not published before (23 jan 2003) - Click for big photo!

volgogradoblast  arriving at the Volgograd oblast

affiontheroad Affi on the long road though Siberia

bananas  banana break again

landscapeaffi  Affi enjoying the landscape

roslavl  What have I done?!???

samarachurch Samara church

telefoneramera  No mobile phone around?

well  Countryside well