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The great Trans-Sib experience
SIBERIA-RUSSIA, JUNE 2002 - Four days non-stop on a train, from the far east in Siberia , near the Mongolian border, to the the high north of St-Petersburg. It is truly the experience of a lifetime. A fellow traveller on the … Continue reading
Three nights on a Siberian train
IRKUTSK – MOSCOW , JUNE 2002 - ’So where did you say you go on Holiday ? Siberia…? ‘, a remark often heard when I was talking about my travel plans…. ‘And for how long are going to sit on the … Continue reading
Lake Baikal Mysteries
LAKE BAIKAL, JUNE 2002 - It’s early in the morning when our train arrives in Irkutsk station, the first city of importance in East-Siberia we approach after two nights. But before we visit this beautiful city we go straight onto the … Continue reading
Fun in the bogey shack !
ERLYAN – DZAMYN UUD, JUNE 2002 - We are in the Chinese train on our way from Beijing to Ulan-Bator in Mongolia, and approaching the border. The sunset in the Gobi desert is fantastic, and we hurry to take a couple … Continue reading
Living like a nomad…
TERELJ N.P., JUNE 2002 - We arrived in the early afternoon in Ulan Bator (UB) with a Mongolian train, coming from Beijing. We had travelled for a full day and night, with an almost endless stop on the Mongolian border in … Continue reading
The bullet train
JAPAN, JULY 1998 - On my travel through Japan, I’ve used the shinkansen (or ‘bullet train’) for large distance travel. This is an expensive way of travel, but there are many advantages : it’s very fast (it runs 300 km/h to 450 … Continue reading
On the night train
BEIJING, SEPTEMBER 1999 - Traveling by train is always interesting. In China it is a real experience. Not only the buying of the ticket is a challenge (I had the tour company doing this for me), finding out how train travel ‘works’ is as … Continue reading