Ulaanbaatar After our little adventure around the wide open spaces of the Gobi desert it felt strange to be confined in chaotic, noisy Ulaanbaatar. In the two full days left in Mongolia we saw an excellent cultural show, with traditional throat singing, I had and...
We certainly arrived in Ulaanbaatar on an auspicious day. At 5am, all bleary-eyed, we stepped off the train from Russia in to the shivering darkness of a Mongolian morning and were informed it was a national holiday. It was Chinggis Khan’s birthday. The train, number...
Crossing Siberia by Train The pleasure of standing in the corridor of a sleeper carriage watching the world pass by the window is one of the reasons I adore long distance train travel, being rocked to sleep by the rails, I could rhapsodize forever. For...
Yekaterinburg has a number of claims to fame, for the Trans-Siberian traveller the most considered point is that it straddles the imaginary line demarking Europe and Asia. Crossing the vastness of Russia it seemed a good place to pause, to break up the train journey,...
We arrived into Moscow on the 003 overnight train from St Petersburg. Walking into Red Square on a cold October morning has to be one of the most thrilling, iconic things I’ve done, I had to pinch myself to believe I was actually here! We...
