Bent and Bram are on their way to the lake Baikal and its Olkhon island situated right in the middle:

01 Июль 2011

- 8:33 am

Hi Sergey! How are you?
I’m Bent from Belgium, Antwerp and this summer in July and August I’m going to do the Trans-Siberian railroad and take train or bus further to Mongolia, China and Japan, with a really good friend of mine, Bram Van Houtte (see my friends), for the trip of our lives.

Our first stop is Riga (we’re landing the 3rd of July),from there we’re taking the train to St. Petersburg, Moscow, and so on... (we have not prepared anything, no reservations, tickets so we have to do it on the spot) Between the 17th and 19th we're visiting Baikal Lake and because we're travelling a lot based on couchsurfing, this spot really seems nice to camp, stay the night, couchsurf or just find our peace and learn some new things. We saw your profile, the photos in Olkhon and it looks amazing! We're really looking forward to visit and learn about the olkhon culture. The people look very friendly and interesting, so we certainly want to take part of keeping up the spirit.
I’m a musician, play the guitar. My friend Bram plays the guitar as well and is sound engineer for a Belgian band.
I'm studying at the school of visual arts in Antwerp. Painting is a really important part of my life, and the island would be so perfect to make drawings, sketches,...

Really looking forward to meet you.
We don’t want to do extremely tourist things. We just want to have fun on a different way and it would be great in combination with you and your stories!

 Anyway, we arrive at Lake Baikal around the 17th of July and will probably stay for 2 days maybe on Olkhon island too, but this is flexible as we're travelling by train. Bram and I were wondering if you have a couch, floor to sleep on or a place outside for our tent?

Really looking forward to your answer.

Thanks a lot in advance and all the best,

Bent and Bram