{"id":7292,"date":"2011-01-08T08:29:23","date_gmt":"2011-01-08T13:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=7292"},"modified":"2010-10-17T12:30:21","modified_gmt":"2010-10-17T17:30:21","slug":"bur-what-tiya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiawheeling.com\/?p=7292","title":{"rendered":"Bur-What-Tiya?"},"content":{"rendered":"

It was even colder in Ulan Ude than it had been in the other Siberian cities that we visited. It was also the crack of dawn and the coldest part of the day, when our train hissed into the station. We climbed off, put on the leather jackets, and began the gray early morning wheel into town.<\/p>\n

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We reached the city center in no time, but finding a hotel was more difficult. We had heard that Ulan Ude was a cheaper and more backpacker-filled Siberian town. It was cheaper, but we saw no signs of tourists, and most of the hotels were still the usual Siberian business traveler-fueled, inflated price. We did get a chance to wheel by the largest bust of Lenin in the world, though, which helped to fuel us on in the search for lodging.<\/p>\n