Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia

All aboard!

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February 14th 2007
This is my second time writing this (I managed to delete the last one) so I hope I manage to sound enthusiastic this time but we will see! Our first day on the trans siberian was pretty much taking in the beautiful chinese countryside which included more and better views of the Great Wall than we had seen before and miles and miles of industrial towns. Each was more bleak than the last, coal mi ... read more

Europe » Russia

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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