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This is the car that must bring us to Baikal Lake. Rear traction, no ESP, no ESC, no ASR, just some random ABS, that sometimes is better to disconnect on heavy snow conditions.

The 4-door station wagon must allow us to fit the thermal clothes and some ice cream, just to refresh us in case of hot weather.

This car has huge amounts of experience on his wheels, so many countries, so many worst-road-ever... In fact we hope the reliability of the engine give us the minimum mechanical problems compared with an Italian/Polish car. The idea of fixing problems on a frozen side road ditch is worst than the possibility of having hungry crabs in our underwear.

May the Scandinavian Flick be with us.

The Route

That's the Route, to go: Berlin ,Tallinn, Sankt Peterburg, Vologda, Kotlas, Syktyvkar, Perm', Ekaterinburg, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Barnaul, Krasnoyarsk, Irkutsk, Buguldejka, Severobaykal'sk, Ulan-Ude.

To come back: Kansk, Chelyabinsk, Ufa, Naberezhnye, Kazan, Moskva, Minsk, Poznan, Berlin.

Easy on a map...




See it on Google's link

Approximately 16.000 km.

The trip

This is a trip to Baikal Lake, in Russia. We are two friends, Ilja from Berlin and David from Barcelona. We met in the Caspian Sea, in a ferry from Baku to Turkmenbashi. After three days together, and one month appart, we agree the best way to meet us again is crossing Siberia in February, when the weather is nice and maybe, just maybe, a little chilly.

There are 6.000 km on straight line, which will consist in so much more distance, because there are not straight lines on that route.

We will leave Berlin with Ilja's BMW, and we hope arrive to Baikal Lake in two weeks, because we will need another two weeks to come home. One  month trip. Two routes, one for going, one for comming back.

Who said cold?