October 15th, 2013

Overall, the Trans-Siberian railway is very monotonous. From Moscow to Tayshet (4515 KM from Moscow and about half way between the capital and the Pacific ocean), most of Russia is surprisingly flat with few landscapes capable of fueling the imagination.

October 1, 2013

We were only really in the Russian capital for about a day and a half... Our plane arrived on the 25th of September around 3:00 in the afternoon and our train pulled out of the train station at 9:30 at night on the 26th. In other words, we only had time to do a few of the main sites and pick up a few tips about surviving in Moscow...