Three of us traveled to Olkhon: Seamus, from Britain, myself and my classmate , the famous driver Sergey Ermak. We took adventure - tourist gear, three bottles of vodka and two empty baskets for fish. Ermak was suppose d to drive us to the island (around 250km from Irkutsk) in his Toyota, stay with us several days, somehow get the special Baikal fish (Omul) and return to Irkutsk alone. Meanwhile Seamus and I planned to take a boat from Olkhon to reach the beautiful ... (more)