Continuation of Lake Area

Shore

The internet seems to working better in the bigger city, so here is the rest of yesterday’s tour.

We took a chair lift up to a scenic point. There is skiing here in the winter. As you see, the majority of tourists here are Chinese. They have more money than Russians now. 

Then we went to see a “beach” - a narrow, stony strip at the edge of the one street of a strip town on the side of a ridge - and a market, the latter filled with stall upon stall of dried, smoked fish, and souvenirs, including gem stones found only here. 

This market stall had pine nuts. Ooooodles of them. Everything has pine nut or pine sap or pine something flavor, honeys, ice cream, drinks, foods, and it is the local favorite snack: grab a cone, pull off a piece, crack out the seed, , spit out the shell, repeat steps two through four.

Now, let’s see if this works to post.

By the way, please excuse the lack of editing on yesterday’s post. I couldn’t touch it again.

Nope. Try again.