Wednesday 2nd August 2017 We woke up in the train, and still saw forests, wooden houses and lakes from the window until we arrived at the train station of Nizhny Novgorod at 9.23am. Nizhny Novgorod is the fifth biggest city of Russia with 1,250 million inhabitants, shortly behind the size of Yekaterinburg. It was … More Nizhny Novgorod Day 1
Tuesday 1st August 2017 We had a chilled breakfast, packed the bags, did a bit of cleaning of the airbnb flat, had an early lunch, waited Victoria to give her back the keys and headed to Yekaterinburg train station with an uber. There we did some last minute shopping of magnets, saw a photography exhibitions … More Yekaterinburg to Nizhny Novgorod
Saturday 29th July 2017 I woke up in the morning in the train still going from Novosibirsk to Yekaterinburg. For breakfast, I ate fruits I had brought and then walked all the way to the back of the train and passed through the third-class wagons in which each ‘compartment’ had 6 sleeping beds but no … More Yekaterinburg Day 1
Wednesday 26th July We arrived at 7.13am sharp local time in Novosibirsk. Transsiberian trains are always perfectly on time! Here was the 760km train journey we did over about 12 hours. From there, we went to the hotel with an Uber, dropped our stuff there, had a rest and some breakfast and then went for … More Novosibirsk Day 1
Monday 24th July 2017 It was a rainy day and we stayed indoors, catching up on readings and emails, a holiday day chilling within the holiday itself. Tuesday 25th July 2017 We had breakfast at the hostel in the kitchen area where we met Somendrah Singh, an Indian photographer from Jaipur who was going on … More Krasnoyarsk & Stolby National Reserve
Sunday 23rd July 2017 – Krasnoyarsk Here are some photos from the train getting closer to Krasnoyarsk in the morning. After 18 hours of train and 1,050 kilometers, we arrived in Krasnoyarsk around 12pm. Here is a map to give an idea of the journey. Not a single train station has lifts in Russia which … More Krasnoyarsk Day 1
Saturday 22nd July 2017 Khuzir to Irkutsk to Krasnoyarsk The Krasnoiarsk group got picked up around 7.30am, and us around 8am. Right before to leave, there was the cat of the hostel who was playing with a field mouse. In our mini-bus this time, there was a Chinese couple, a Russian girl, a Swiss-German couple … More From Khuzhir to Irkutsk to Krasnoyarsk
