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Lena, my favorite guide who met me at the train and took me to the Buddhist Monastery and the Outdoor Cultural Heritage Museum
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Ivolginsky Datsun/Temple (where the offshoot of the tree Buddha was enlighted was in a greenhouse and the old but new corpse of a Buddhist monk came out a few times a year)
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Ivolginsky Datsun/Temple (where the offshoot of the tree Buddha was enlighted was in a greenhouse and the old but new corpse of a Buddhist monk came out a few times a year)
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Ivolginsky Datsun/Temple monk housing
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The monks bred and sold these dogs to make money
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Me at the Ulan Ude Ethnographic Museum in front of a Russian church
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Typical Siberian wood building at the Ulan Ude Ethnographic Museum
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Me in front of an Eventki house at the Ulan Ude Ethnographic Museum
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Lenin's head in the main square
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Lenin's head with these two hilarious women in front
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Me with a woman I just met who I spent 10 minutes getting my picture taken with
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The photo a woman who did not know how to use a digital camera took
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Me with my new friend in front of Lenin's head
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Wedding car - there were a lot of weddings in Russia when I was there (all very young couples)
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Traditional wood lace
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Traditional wood building
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Traditional Siberian wood house
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Traditional Siberian wood home
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Blue shutter so when the window was closed in winter it feels like you can still see the sky
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Dancing around the fountain to live music in Ulan Ude on a Saturday night