| Wellcome to my gallery! Some of the pictures that you see were taken with a 40-years old camera - a Praktica that belongs to my father. Nothing odd about that - if only the lenses would have functioned normally. Unfortunately, most of the time the aperture on my lens was deeply frozen, although we never experienced temperatures below ... -22Celsius! However, the Canon Powershot of my friend, Augustin, was not so picky about the cold, so we were able to return with sufficient photos. This collection contains both Augustin's and my photos.
About the trip: For many years my friend and I had dreamt about going to Siberia. What seemed to be a faint dream became reality lin 2003, when we were finally mature and independent enough to embarked on this trip! We took a flight from Bucharest to Moskow, spent two nights in a student dorm with some joung and very friendly Russian students and then we took a Tupolev that flew us to Listvijanka, a little village not far from Irkutsk. Listvijanka is some 5200 km away from Moscow, and a deal further from Bucharest, my hometown. It's still unbelievable how wonderful everything about this trip was! Not only the pristine forests surrounding Listvijanka from three sides and ending at the blue waters of the Baikal, but also our return journey, tacking us back by train through a white, snow-covered Siberia! In Novosibirsk the parks were decorated with ice statues and children were sliding on huge ice-slides. Fire-crackers were ... exploding everywhere next to you, but this is something you get used to if you live in Bucharest. The people we have met were extremely kind and helpful, yet, our English was of little help. All in all, the trip was wonderful and hopefully I will return (soon enough) to see those unspoiled places again. Enjoy the pictures! |
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