I’m not entirely sure why these cheap railway tickets, that you can get in Japan, have the name Seishun Juhachi Kippu, which literally means “Youthful Eighteen Ticket”, but I think it has something to do with the age eighteen, the implication being that this is some kind of youth fare. But rest assured that you […]
Scandinavia is such a fantastic place to visit, with its vast rural areas, its clean and quiet towns, its vibrant metropolitan areas such as Stockholm, Helsinki, Copenhagen and Oslo, where you can always find a good night out and more besides. But the thing that always puts the budget traveller off Scandinavia is its expense. […]
I have already discussed the Trans-Siberian railway proper, which is the Moscow-Vladivostok route, and the Trans-Mongolian alternative, more popular with the tourists, that goes via Mongolia to Beijing. The third and final alternative for crossing Eurasia is the Trans-Manchurian route from Moscow to Beijing. This train, known as the Vostok, takes just over six days […]
I have already talked about the Trans-Siberian Railway generally, and about what might be called the Trans-Siberian proper, which is the Moscow-Vladivostok route. However, a route which tends to be more popular with the tourists is the Trans-Mongolian. This route is the same as the Trans-Siberian as far as Ulan Ude, where it departs from […]
It is the Moscow to Vladivostok route that is the Trans-Siberian Railway proper, as opposed to the two other trans-Eurasian routes that end up in Beijing. The main route of the Trans-Siberian starts at Moscow, passing through Chelyabinsk, Omsk, Novosibirsk, Irkutsk, Chita, Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, and finally Vladivostok, taking seven days on its 6,152 mile route.
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The original idea to build a Trans-Siberian Railway to connect the then capital of Russia, St Petersburg, with Vladivostok and the Pacific was originally approved by Czar Alexander II. As well as the building of the railway, a lot has happened in Russia since then, and to travel across Eurasia on the Trans-Siberian Railway is […]
If you are a resident of North America you will almost certainly be accustomed to going most places by car, and it might well be that you would only take a bus or train on rare occasions. So you may well be forgiven for thinking that this would also be the case when visiting Europe, […]
