Follow this route and you will see all the historically important places of Irkutsk. The route starts with the place where the first cossacks stepped on the shores of the Angara River. Yakov Pokhabov and other cossacks built Irkutsk Ostrog which is cons…
Year: 2021
Irkutsk Routes: Tram Route Number 1
«Around the streets, which faced to the lights, Through winter and summer it’s sailing like craft, in red-colored autumn and rose-colored May Through city adventures is riding a tram» These are line from Ekaterina Kirolova verse «…
Irkutsk Routes: Along the main streets
Irkutsk is situated in the Eastern Siberia on the shores of the Angara River. Historical Center of the city begins near the walls of Spasskaya Church. Epiphany Cathedral’s domes are near this church, as well as the monument to city’s first p…
Aalsterheide Hike (IVN Waalre)
The heath lands were vital for agriculture for many centuries. Sheep that provided fertile fertilizer could graze there. The heath stretched as far as the eye reached. By the invention of artificial fertilizer, however, the heath became redundant and th…
Heath land hike
The “heath land hike” is about ancient farm land and former heath lands, that have been massively planted with softwood for the past 100 years. The heath lands were vital for the agriculture for many centuries. Sheep that provided fertilizin…
On the edge of Aalst and Waalre.
Welcome to the walk on the edge of the built-up bowl of Aalst and Waalre.The two villages, Aalst and Waalre and the surrounding area together form the municipality of Waalre since 1928.The town is clamped between two meandering streams, the Tongelreep a…