Fancy a 6 day Trans Siberian train journey?
by ThomasCovenant 7 Replies latest jw friends
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bulgogiboy
I considered doing this when I was working in Korea. I still might one day. Some people have said they really enjoyed this trip, while others have said it was a bit boring, being stuck on a train for the best part of a week. At one point I had the idea of starting the trip at Vladivostock in Russia(which is a short plane ride from Seoul in Korea), and taking the train all the way back home to Scotland. That would see you cross the whole length of Asia and Europe by train! On the whole though, a round the world plane ticket would be better, you could visit every continent instead
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stillajwexelder
I really fancy doing this one day -yes
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artemis.design
I went on a bus/truck from the UK to OK. It was amazing. Obviously a bit more time required - 9 month. Now I'm all grown up with a mortgage, job and responsibilities I don't get to have much of an adventure anymore. I wpuld love to do trans-Siberia. Can't imagine my partner being up for it though.
Would you get much time to see stuff if its only 6 days?
check out the London to OZ
www.uktooz.com
sorry don't know how to link
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artemis.design
UK to OZ that should read. Doh!
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moshe
Back in 2003 my wife and I were eating at a fast food chicken restaurant near the main train train station in Ekaterinburg, Russia and we noticed all the travelers from the trains coming in for a fast meal. Many of them had big bags of clothes they had purchased in China and were bringing the goods back for resale. I wished I was fluent in Russian so that I could have talked to some of them. I seem to remember that public transportation was cheap in Russia. It's hard to believe that Russia has no major east/west highway across their vast country.
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stillajwexelder
I also want to travel across Australia by train
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fokyc
I have done the first 36 hours and 10 minutes, Moscow to Ufa several times, interesting but quite boring.
Plane from Ufa to Beloretsk was a bit hair raising with grass runway there.
Never managed to get across the Urals though, KGB wouldn't let me visit Magnitogorsk
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