Before I come to the Savannah, I just wane give a short summary of the last days.
At 29th we met Valerie and Valentine, and they explained us why it is 200 USD. Anyway there where a lot of excuses and finally they said it is because they paid already 130 USD to the Tax office just because of the lot of luggage we had and everything over 35 kg we should normally pay 4 EUR/kg. Anyway this is nonsense since other people also did by their self and they also had a lot of luggage and did not pay anything, so it was just cheating. Finally we paid 150 USD. Next time I know that I never ask someone’s friend for something without asking for the price. Anyway now we are free and next time we can do by our self since we are independent having our home our car with us and time is not a problem.
At the 30th we started from Vladivostok or better from the seacoast at the Northeast of Vladivostok where we always stayed over night, having a much cleaner air than in the city. The next day is a national holiday that means due to traffic jam we need almost two ours just to leave the city. Did I told you they drive really crazy, most of the cars are really big and I had the feeling every third is a Landcruiser. If you imagine that for the Landcruiser we have 24 years old they normally need to pay just for the import tax 7000 USD, then it is hard to understand how so many people can afford this and how?! But it seems they try to make the fast money basically with trading and it is impossible that everybody of them is mafia (:). 25 km before Ussurisk at the route M60 we decided to make a camp somewhere and we found some kilometres away from the main road a river where we made our camp.
First of May national holiday and everybody how has car goes out for a pick nick. So when we had our breakfast more and more people came. We decided to stay there one more day since we still needed to arrange a lot of stuff in the car and I prepared the Russian Navigation maps with each small village. Really nice vector maps but a little bit tricky to run this Russian maps on a English notebook. Anyway I found a really big lake on the map and we decided to go there next day. Some people came to us and were really interested in our roof tent most people are really nice.
Second of May we made our way through small villages going to the Lake. Since we learned already that the eggs in the supermarket are really bad we were really glad to buy in the small village where they but the egg in a glass with sand as a sign that they sell eggs. For Kotomi this is really a different world. Cows’ walking over the street is really amazing for her. Now everything is getting green and out of the mud it looks like thousands of black guys with green hair want to come out but they just managed to get out the head of the mud.
At the evening we arrived at the Lake Xanka at the small village Troizkoe. Sand beach like at an ocean and actually we can not see the other side of the lake. Behind the beach it looks like Savannah it is really wonderful place but I guess you can not find it in a guide book since most people just visit the cities and want to go fast to the east or west. I asked some guys for the weather forecast for the next day and promptly they invited us for Schaschlik, Plov and Wine and everything. Anatoly, Jury, Gennady and his Son Vladimir coming from Nachodka and were here also for the first time. In the night Jury was playing guitar and Kotomi drum. Surprisingly they were Kitesufers and next day we enjoyed together this sport. A little bit cold but really nice wind and in the night we were a little bit scared about our roof tent. The place is so magic that we decided to stay one or two or three more days. That are our coordinates for now if you want to check in Google (:):N 44.82615°, E 132.04793° .
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