"But do not forget this one thing, dear friends: With the Lord a day is like a thousand years, and a thousand years are like a day. The Lord is not slow in keeping his promise as some understand slowness. He is patient with you, not wanting anyone to perish, but everyone to come to repentance."- St. Peter. "And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world as a testimony to all nations, and then the end will come." - Jesus.

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Ergaki State Park- Krasnoyarsk Krai

I'm posting in reverse order so that when the latecomers look, the Tuva trip will be in order. Towards the end of our trip we went to a state forest with our new American friends and their Summer team. I felt so alive as we crossed the border in to Krasnoyarsk Krai. It was weird, the tree line was quite abrupt and almost exactly at the border. It was a bit of a relief to leave the desert behind. (Kyzyl has annual precipitation of 223 mm- below 250 mm qualifies as desert).


The border between Tuva and Krasnoyarsk Krai.



The cabins where we stayed in Ergaki park. There was a generator at night for light, other than that we used an outdoor dunny.




While staying in the forest, three of us decided to go for a hike. The map clearly showed a road to the lake. But the owners of the cabins insisted we take a paid guide with us. Like many a crazy guide he insisted in taking us over the road and through waist high thick wet vegetation and then a marsh to reach the lake. It was a very beautiful hike, but less than comfortable in some points. All the way he pointed out signs of bears to us. Oh joy, maybe it was worth having a guide after all.


The end destination point on our hike was this lake. It took us about 1.5 hours to get there. On a hot day I was quite thirsty, and my jeans were quite dirty.

Some of the rewards of the hike:








And my favourite pic:
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