If you’ve never spent 10 days helicoptering around Siberia and dirt biking around Lake Baikal... well, no worries. Neither has any other human, because such a thing has never been arranged.
Well, now it has. It happens next July, it’s called
Project Baikal 2014, and it’s just a little 10-day heli-motorcycling expedition around one of the world’s biggest lakes. Your guides will provide the Soviet-era military helicopter and the 450cc motorcycles. (Which is great, considering luggage fees nowadays.) But as for everything else, make sure you pack this stuff...
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Good socks. To keep circulation flowing during your 30-hour flight to Irkutsk. Plus, Siberia gets kind of chilly.
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A real camera. Not your smartphone’s camera. These helicopter rides—from five-star hotel to Mongolian steppe to lakeside drop point and back again—deserve better.
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Beef jerky. For quick energy while zipping down
pine-forested ravines at 60 mph. Also, you’re in the Siberian backcountry. This is no time for croque-monsieurs.
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A Russian-English dictionary. Better yet, a translator who can talk you around a sharp curve or two.
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19 gifts. To help break the ice with your expedition group of 20. Candy bars work. So does vodka.
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A water bottle. An empty one. Because Lake Baikal has enough drinking water for every human on earth. For the next 50 years.
And yes, you get free refills.
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