Trans-Siberian Railway (Russia) Reviews

I finally got round to carrying out my trip of a lifetime in July this year. Instead of writing about the journey in general, I will stick to tips in the hope this will be useful to travellers doing the same route. I travelled from Moscow to Beijing, stopping off at Irkutsk and Ulaan Bataar. 1) Take a Nalgene bottle. Nalgenes can carry ...  Read the complete review

There are 3 routes on the trans-siberian line, the siberian, manchurian and mongolian, the latter 2 ending up in Beijing. We decided on the trans-mongolian route as it was supposedly the most interesting. After scouring the internet we found that it is near enough impossible now to get tickets by just turning up as they are usually ...  Read the complete review

Yaroslavski Station in Moscow is not the most comfortable place in which to wait for a train. Unsure of ourselves - of our local knowledge, of our feeble grasp of the language, of procedures - we made a point of being there early, two hours in advance of the 23.30 departure time scheduled for the No 10 "Baikal" special to ...  Read the complete review

Before we started our trip from Beijing to Moscow, I think the longest train hourney I had undertaken was about two hours when something (as per usual) went wrong on the trains to work. I was not entirely convinced that a six plus one day train ride was going to be much fun. Our trip took us from Beijing through China for one day ...  Read the complete review

Myself and 2 friends travelled from London to Hong Kong by train a few years ago, which incorporates the Trans-Siberian, Trans-Mongolian and Trans-Manchurian. There are three/four routes that you can take on this epic train journey. We chose to go through Moscow, Siberia, Mongolia, China and down to Hong Kong. There are several classes ...  Read the complete review