Russia (click here for the video)

This post was extremely long when I wrote it out in my diary, but I decided that this may be a better way of doing it. So, for those of you with a short attention span (myself included) here are the highlights of my Russia trip, and challenge:

Lots of vodka.

Lake Baikal (world's largest body of fresh water, found in the heart of Siberia).

4 day drunken train journey on the Trans-Mongolian (it was my hospitable Mongolian host's fault).

Large Mongolian lady having an extremely bloody fight with young men (and winning).

Lots of vodka.

Crooked customs officials.

Mongolian traders/smugglers selling all their goods at every station we stopped at.

Crazy Russians charging the train to buy all their goods.

Lots of vodka.

Largest and fastest market on wheels.

Lots of vodka.

Moscovite con-men.

Almost dying of heat stroke in a Russian Banya (similar to a sauna); then hyperthermia whilst swimming naked in an icy lake.

Lots of vodka

My favourite country so far, and not just because of the vodka.