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Beyond the Horizon: Part 3 pp126-169from outside Ust Nera to Irkutsk, alone
(the cyclist below is actually Tim Harvey)
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Colin bicycled 750km along the “Road of Bones” to get from Ust Nera to Yakutsk
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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
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More images from Yakutsk:
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Leaving Yakutsk:Bicycling 1150km on the M56 “highway,” south to the Trans-Siberian
Highway
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Two stops between Yakutsk and Tynda (the end of the M56): Aldan(left – the town and the river) and
Neryungri(right)
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Tynda: the end of the M56 and a major hub on the BAM rail line
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More images from Tynda:
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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
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Chita, Russia: 1100km from Irkutsk
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More images from Chita
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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
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The “road” between Chita and Ulan-Ude:
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Siberia: the land of rivers and bad roads?Crossing the Selenga River, the primary tribuary of the
Yenisey River
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Ulan-Ude, Buryatia Province, Russialate April
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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
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Rounding Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world (bottom right is a satellite photo of the lake, frozen)
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And finally…Irkutsk, where Colin planned to wait for Tim and Yulya
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As with all Russian cities, Irkutsk has Orthodox churches and a statue of Lenin
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Irkutsk to Moscow:Colin formally breaks with Tim, but will meet Julie in
Moscow