31.07.2019: Halfway in Krasnoyarsk

Time flies incredibly fast. Half of the journey is already over.

Today we visited Krasnoyarsk and its surroundings in full power mode. The city itself doesn't have much to offer. However, the surroundings are very beautiful and completely different from what you would imagine Siberia/Taiga to be. Familiar landscapes, sometimes like the Loreley, sometimes like the rocks in the Palatinate, sometimes like German low mountain ranges dotted with socialist, mostly run-down prefab architecture. But most of the year it's freezing cold.

Our local guide Irina talked about her homeland with such enthusiasm that one had to wonder why they hadn't emigrated here long ago.

The dam (135m) of the second largest hydroelectric power plant in Russia, not far from here, was impressive.

The local ski resort has a total of 14 slopes and doesn't lack anything (including après-ski bars).

Dinner was romantic (or at least supposed to be) in a restaurant on the banks of the Yenisei River, with a sunset (and of course vodka).