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Day 07 - 4th September 2010 - Tyumen

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September 4th 2010
Tyumen Woke up and departed our train at Tyumen. We cautiously jumped into a taxi and gave the driver our hotel name. We agreed on a price and he took us to the hotel. The staff at the Olympic-5 hotel were very friendly. None of them spoke a word of English but they saw the language barrier as funny, as did we. We had to answer a series of pointless questions like the ones we answered when app ... read more

Europe » Russia » Siberia

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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy, was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new Romanov Dynas... ... read more