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RE: Help Needed to Plan our trip

by jaoto 23 May 2012

>add Veliky Novgorod I think it is a strange destination for a Trans-siberian journey. With the *very* limited time they have available…
RE: Help Needed to Plan our trip

by jaoto 18 May 2012

>This does not have to be purely a train trip the hydrofoil across lake Bailkal, or along the Angara from Irkutsk to Bratsk are other…
RE: WTF? The European Civil War?

by flobster 20 April 2012

>the fact that the war raged in Asia I suspect that the proponents of the European Civil War hypothesis would point out that there were…
RE: 12 Days in Russia (May)

by everbrite 16 March 2012

>I would like to have an itinerary that is more nature-oriented, which includes activities such as trekking, wildlife spotting and horse-rid…
RE: Trans Siberian on Transit Visa

by jaoto 13 March 2012

>I wanted to find the cheapest way across to europe travel though Ukraine instead of Western Russia will for sure be less expensive.…
Re: Why did the Soviet Red Army engage in so much RAPE during World War II?

by Mel_L_Ellenmellen_Jr 17 February 2012

#3: It was World War 2, but not perpetrated by the Koreans. Korea and Taiwan were already part of the Japanese empire when the war…
Re: Transmongolian express. Info about stop in Irkutsk

by jaoto 05 January 2012

>The big question for me is, how many days I will have to plan between arriving and leaving Irkutsk Well, first this is a question like…
Re: Kazan or Nizhniy Novogorod

by jaoto 17 October 2011

On a trip to Siberia as a rule of thumb the longer east the more interesting. This is especially true if you travel from the west and…
RE: An American’s nightmare with Russian visa

by EddyV 20 September 2011

Just a couple of things I'd like to point out: 1. It's MUCH harder for Russians to get visas to America, UK or Australia than it is for…
Re: The Ultimate List - Eastern Europe's Top 200 Destinations

by WildRoo 16 September 2011

Hi Assif, I put this together a couple of years ago and I can see that it's getting a bit out of date, I've been to a number of places…
RE: Off the beaten track in Russia

by WaterhazardJack 11 September 2011

+Well, there are plenty of off-the-beaten-track places in European Russia, some of them several hours from Moscow. One does not need necessa…
RE: Off the beaten track in Russia

by yblanter 29 August 2011

Well, there are plenty of off-the-beaten-track places in European Russia, some of them several hours from Moscow. One does not need necessar…
RE: The Ultimate List - Eastern Europe's Top 200 Destinations

by Assif 16 August 2011

Hi WildRoo. Great job indeed! It's a nice idea to have such a list although I would rather have it without the internal ranking. If you…
RE: the places worth to see in belgorod

by iexela 13 August 2011

4 hours is too much for Belgorod. There are nothing really interesting there. A pair of churches from XVIII-XIX cent (by Russian standards…
plans for a trip to Siberia III

by jaoto 12 July 2011

Since last time I have digged mostly into Western Siberia (among other sources I have read up on Anna Reid's "The Shaman's coat", Thubron's…
RE: Interesting sights along the Trans Siberian railway?

by ChristopherCulver 24 May 2011

If you're interested in European Russia, Cheboksary and Kazan' are well worth seeing, and the former gets all too few tourists for the…
RE: Need Help with 18-day Itinerary for Trans-Siberian and Moscow!

by everbrite 08 April 2011

I would probably skip either Tomsk or Novosibirsk and spend more time in the Lake Baikal area or make a stop in Kazan because it is very…
RE: Overland Urumqui to Ulanbaataar

by aqsaqal 28 March 2011

If you're "only going (to Ulan Bator) to get the train to Irktusk and beyond to other parts of russia", then why even bother going to…
RE: Russian Artic

by EddyV 10 March 2011

The only parts of Arctic Russia that are easy to travel in (in terms of infrastructure, transport connections, etc) are those in the far…
RE: Itinerary for China > Central Europe (8 weeks)

by everbrite 10 March 2011

I assume that you mean your train trip across Siberia, not Serbia. Tomsk is an interesting university town but it is off the main route…
RE: The Russia Experience /

by everbrite 21 January 2011

They have been around for many years. One of their products is the Beetroot bus, a backpacker bus trip primarily in European Russia. …
Kaliningrad questions

by danielsprague 16 December 2010

Two questions: 1) Are fuel (specifically diesel), prices in Kaliningrad comparable to European Russia, or are they especially high? …
Quest for info on Russia (European) route logistics + added hints

by lusowallabie 25 July 2010

Greetings Eastern Europe fellow posters/advisors, In about a week time i'll be travelling through a (slight) bit of European Russia regio…
RE: Travelling overland Ukraine - Russia - Kazakhstan - Uzbekistan

by everbrite 19 July 2010

Without knowing where you are starting from, it is difficult to make a recommendation as to whether your route will take you through Kyiv…
RE: Russian Visa Questions

by Firehazard Jack 01 June 2010

+I know it would be awesome to get off the train and explore the places between Moscow and UB, but neither money nor time make this possible…