Vytegra

July 14, 2009

A ruined wooden little church on the road along the southern shore of Lake Onega.

Ruined church

A bus stop in Podporozhye.

Bus stop

In Vytegra, neatly designed lists of residents hang in the entryways. And above the mailboxes it says "Our postal code is such-and-such."

List of residents

After arriving in Vytegra and drinking a cup of coffee each, we immediately headed to Yugozero. We did not make it there, though; after wandering through the rain on bad roads, we stopped at Lake Syarevo.

Map of Vytegra and Syarevo

Turning a backpack full of tubes into a kayak.

Assembling the kayak

Assembling the kayak

Untangling the nets.

Untangling the nets

The nets were hard to untangle, so we had to oil the process.

Vodka

Cooking lunch.

Lunch outdoors

Pot on the fire

After lunch, the world looks like this.

Lake Syarevo

A church in a little village on the way back.

Church

In Vytegra we only had time to visit the submarine.