Like us , shayna and her boyfriend hans were taking the trans-siberian to irkutsk and then taking the trans-mongolian to ulan bator and beijing .
夏娜和她男友像我们一样乘坐横贯西伯利亚列车到伊尔库茨克，然后转乘穿越蒙古的列车经乌兰巴托到北京。
The city of irkutsk , located about 70km northwest of the southern end of lake baikal , is the gateway to the region for most travellers .
伊尔库茨克坐落在贝加尔湖南端西北方向70公里的地方，是大多数游客进入贝加尔湖地区的通道。
Dozens of ufo sightings are reported every year in the area , and only last month there were reports of an unidentified object hurtling into the nearby irkutsk region of siberia .
As our third day drew to a close , many of us due to get out at irkutsk the next morning were almost sad not to be going all the way to vladivostok ( by now only another three nights away ) .
Travelling with two teenage children , my wife and I decided to vary the itinerary to take the classic route as far as irkutsk , deep in siberia , before dipping south towards the plains of mongolia , the gobi desert and down to beijing .
