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Forever heading east

Siberia and the view from the train
Siberia and it's 35 degrees! Above zero!

June 17th 2011
Well, we made it. Four nights and four days on the Trans-Siberian Express, (I know, not so express). It was the train that made 44 stops along the way. So we have left Europe and we are now in Asia, we went through five time zones, travelled 5,185km, (will have to work out for yourselves what that is in miles) and we are still in Russia, blimey! Does this country never end? On the whole ... read more
Europe » Russia » Siberia » Irkutsk

Russian Flag 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
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