Hello Tripsters! Welcome to another video! We're about to start our
second part of our trip, we are leaving Yekaterinburg.. I'm reading
the sign up here! Yekaterinburg and we're going to Irkutsk!
Irkutsk (Irkutsk) Language is not my forte, as you guys can tell!
So, this is gonna be about two and a half days on the train and we're pretty
excited about that; she's saying two and a half. I'm saying three, but you know....
We'll see, but we're pretty excited! We're about to get on the train it's about
to leave, so we really need to get on and we'll take you (with us again and show you again what
it's like) and hopefully this train will be a little different.
But, its starting! (I really don't want to miss it! Here we go!
Off we go! Leaving Yekaterinburg!
Ready for another stop and this time we have about half an hour. So, nice and long.
Time to get off the train, because this time the train is super hot, super hot! So, hopefully it is
a little bit cooler outside. It was raining just a little bit ago.. So, should be cooler.
Oh, I can feel the breeze already!
We're out here! our train just stopped. (Yes!) We're in the mad dash. There's a bunch
of little shops here selling, cokes and noodles, and ice cream...
Ice cream, noodles and there's a few ladies walking around. (Selling fish).
Yea, I think they sold, oh no, she's got a... there's some fish over here.
Like she has a bunch, I think it the famous fish. (I think it's the famous fish in Irkutsk.)
Maybe, looks kind of like a mullet. I forgot the name of it.
But this is what it is like on the Express! So, far we have seen a lot fields and a lot of forests.
Not too many different landscapes. But still enjoying it!
Still exciting right? Yea, we are already at 3 pm on the first day. Time is going by pretty fast.
Time is going by reading our books, Maybe, we'll get a sausage!
Time to go back in!
Oh these are our carriage friends.
Times up!
where you get your hot water comes out right here and you can make noodles make
tea do whatever you want it's just a big thermos that keeps everything hot and
then as we continue down the hallway we actually have a bathroom and I'll show
you what the bathroom looks like so the bathrooms are not very nice I would say
compared to other trains may be compared to the Chinese trains or compared to
other trains. yeah but will it here and you actually have to push like pushing
the lever down with your foot and then you have a window you look out
paper towel and draw the paper down here
but gets the job done that's not as much as you can say about the bathrooms so
this is pretty much what the trains look like you have your four bunks on the one
side if we go all the way through I was told that we could probably make it into
the third class where they have six bunks and it's not closed
down and see if I can see that
also looking for potentially a food car if we can find one
Yvon and i have noticed that there are a lot of Dutch on this train and
they seem to like to travel everywhere
so train looks pretty much the same all the way through seems and there's
nothing too special walk a little bit more but if we come across something
I'll show you if not this all looks about the same
oh this might be first-class it feels air-conditioned
so this area is air-conditioned which might mean it's first class but the bed
setup is still the same here.
hello
so there is a menu here and
they serve different things I'm not sure we got salads and
sandwiches
so this is the dining car as you can see you could sit here you could order
something maybe if you want to drink or if you wanted to just sit you come sit
more making friends yeah all over the world yeah but I think Russian
American yeah what happened I don't know we stopped moving
and we gave some treats to our new friends sure I like to but
they were not too sure about the dope I don't know why
so on train there's a super useful timetable with all the stops the train
passes by and the red lines indicate different time zones and you see on the
left you can see it here on the left it's like the arrival time in ending low
so and that's a departure time so as you can see for example here you arrive and
18 plus 10 and then you depart a tenth left for so you stop for 26 cents in 26
minutes and 26 minutes on the train station journey 26 minutes you can get
off the train and you have time to just walk around a platform get some food
from the booth or booths on this platform and the latest setting things
so this is super useful schedule to see exactly when you are riding the train
will be at the platform
it is now day two like an afternoon three o'clock for something and now we're
still going strong I was joking at Miguel almost lost it lately
I'm just confused on our schedule we got off schedule for some reason yes we were
supposed to be here like 20 minutes ago yeah yeah just got off on the last like
three stops let's two or three stops we're off by
like five or ten minutes and so far we've seen Department so ahead of me is
our new friend we met her in was in it got the America what was your name again
yeah Lara she lives close to Moscow and she's showing me now her third class
third class bunks to the top the beds and then more beds bottom and that's
what the whole carriage looks like done here on the side of two more beds
oh yeah
it is now
we Gala or just
everything
getting ready to get on the train
pull into Irkutsk
we are now in a field in Russia what are we doing in the field and Russia Yvon?
we're having a break from our six hour trip journey to the island the local
island in the middle of the baikal lake