Old houses in Irkutsk, and onto another rail adventure, straight from my diary!
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Border Crossing Experiences – the Good
One part of travelling still gets me a little excited is crossing borders. Although you know that an imaginary line on the ground that divides two countries really can’t bring that much difference, somehow it’s all pretty exciting stuff – especially when you are going into new territory - country you have never been to …
Train Journeys – Ekanterinburg to Moscow (Final Leg Trans-Mongolian)
My final journey which completed my trip from Beijing to Moscow began early morning in Ekanterinburg. Luckily my hotel was just opposite the train station, and I was there around 7am in the morning, an hour before the train left. In all cases I was advised to get to the station an hour before the …
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Train Journeys – Ulaan Baatar to Irkutsk (Trans-Mongolian Leg 2)
After four days in Ulaan Baatar and Terelj, it was very quickly on again by rail travelling a further 1114km to the Siberian city of Irkutsk, not far from Lake Baikal (around 60km). This, it turns out, was the shortest journey of the four legs of my Trans-Mongolian as far as distance covered. However, it …
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Train Journeys – Beijing to Ulan Bataar (Trans-Mongolian)
Okay. Well here I am ready to start reviewing the four segments of my journey from Beijing to Moscow, around 8000 kilometres away, via Mongolia. The trip to the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bataar was 1426 kilometres, crossing the border at Erlian (China) passing through Jinignan, Zhurihe and Dzamynude and other towns that perhaps I …
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Ekanterinburg. Yekanteringburg. However You Spell It!
Howdy all. Well, a whirlwind visit to a city to the east of the Ural mountains. And wind is appropriate, my goodness me it's been blowing like crazy since... well pretty much since I left China. But you really feel it when there's a bit of snow thrown in for good measure. I'm guessing it …
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Irkustk to Yekanteringburg on the Train
Well. There you go. 50 hours on a train. The only thing i can say is, I guess, I'd rather 50 hours on a train over a bus or plane any day! It's been a marathon experience which began back on Friday afternoon leaving Irkutsk shortly after 4pm. It's a journey that not only tool …
Irkutsk
​So, I've been here in the Siberian city of Irkutsk (bar half a day at Listvyanka), since Tuesday. Tuesday I did the bulk of my sight seeing on that day. That cold, blustery day where the mercury hovered just above freezing and I encountered quite a few flurries of snow. Today it's time for the …
From Mongolia to Russia
Howdy all from Russia. I've been on another long train journey. A very long journey - I left in the evening of Monday to get to Irutsk, near Lake Baikal, on Wednesday morning, so that's two nights and one day on the train. I boarded in Ulaan Baatar at around 8pm. The train was much …
Terelj and a Night in a Ger
Greetings and so forth from Ulaan Baatar! I've just had a day of seeing the sights as it were, and finally have enough free time to blog about stuff I've been doing. For now, I want to take you back to Friday. My second day in Mongolia, I decided to take a tour to Terelj. …
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