We wanted an adventure, and we got one - Part 1

We've been on the road for two weeks now, and I thought it was time for an update. We are currently in Ulan Ude (Siberia), having driven more than 4000km. On the way we've stopped at:

Vladivostok (obviously)







Khabarovsk
A relaxed city on the Amur river, I liked it. Lots of grand turn-of-the-century buildings in the city centre, like in Vladivostok.







Birobidzhan
It's a small town with no particular attractions apart from being the former centre of the Jewish Autonomous Region, when Stalin had the bright idea of resettling all jews in the Far East. My grandparents came here after the war, and my father was born here. However life in this "undeveloped swamp" (as it was then) was too hard, and they went back to Ukraine. I've always wanted to see it.





Chita
Maybe because we spent most of our time there running errands, and the weather was really bad, Chita did not really make an impression on me. But I will always remember it as the place where I got my cotton wool blanket. Ever since then, we've been nice and warm on those Siberian nights!