Train friends

Trans-Siberian

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August 18th 2009
On the evening of 18th of August, we left Tolyatti by bus for the near by city of Sumara. From there we climbed aboard a train bound for Novosibirsk, capital of Siberia. It was a very hot evenning, and as we walked down the platform to find our carriage, everyone had piled-off of the train to get some air, most stripped off to the waist. I began to suspect that another 'banya'-like experience wa ... 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