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Novosibirsk Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Novosibirsk, Russian Federation
Trans Mongolian Express: Day 3
This is a top pick! "Another glorious day on the train. A day on the train is like a day on the farm. Every meal a banquet, every mile a pleasure. I love the train!" By day three, I had started to forget how much time we'd spent on the train. We didn't have things like ...
IN CONCERT, DDT!
This is a top pick! ... N' Roses from rough Los Angeles - seem to me to be incapable of playing a bad note. While in Tomsk, I learned they'd be playing in Novosibirsk on the 31st of August. I hadn't even know there WAS a 31st of August. But, my plans for that day were ...
Caught in a Snow Shaker
This is a top pick! I got of the train before Erica woke and bought her bread and Yoghurt (admittedly I thought it was milk). Weather is beautiful now and the scenery is getting better and better. Today I had a little of a stomach loosening and although the first visit of ...
Train life on the Trans Mongolian/Siberian
This is a top pick! ... berth compartment on some services, or downgrade to 54 berth dorm style bedding (with absolutely no privacy whatsoever) on most Russian trains. Kupe compartments are cramped but are reasonably comfortable all told. Top bunks are hotter (as heat rises, ...
Ever Changing Landscape
This is a top pick! ... 's however many hours ahead or behind. But we are crossing time zones so slowly that we can adjust easily. We stopped at novosibirsk which was -18, and once again had the nostril hairs sticking to each other sensation but also breathing in felt a little ...
Novosibirsk
... playing 'Bingo' :-)) We return to the hotel to try to sleep a bit more. After that, we walked through Novosibirsk, a big city completely different from Moscow and Tomsk, with modern and high buildings. My opinion is that, if ...
Novosibirsk - not the prettiest city in Russia
... is full of large grey apartment blocks and surrounded by big industry. The landscape is predominantly flat and unremarkable. Novosibirsk is an important transportation hub and industrial centre, but that’s about it. It has a really ...
Full day
... , there was a lack of one - just a hole in the ground. Not fun. Well other than that the theater was nice. The Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater is the largest in Russia and situated on the central square of the city. However, in my opinion the Bolshoi ...
The Vodka Train
... or get the train from New Romney or even london to the northern most point in Scotland. The whole of the UK can fit onto Russian 69 times!! Crossing all of the times zones messed up our body clocks a bit and we ended up drinking quite early, met all of ...
Trans siberian train continues
Here we said good bye to Irjee our Czech friend. He was on his way to see the Liger at the zoo . . . yes thats right a cross between a lion and a tiger!!!! Here we all are at ...
Navy Day
... Spontaneous is totally my style so I danced with him. Then I walked around a bit on the embankment watching the rowdy drunk Russian sailors. I decided to ride on the cruise boat along the Ob’ River since earlier we didn’t have our excursion ...
Au revoir l'Asie centrale.Bonjour la Russie!
Spent the day holed up in the hostel, chatting to all and sundry and planning out the voyage through china, well an approximation of where to go. Shortly before leaving, in walked a familiar face. Min. I thought she had left Kyrgyzstan but she had ...
Deep into the heart of Siberia
... Some of the stops barely have anything to buy and pot noodles can get a little tiresome. ·A phrasebook with English to Russian (including Cyrillic) can come in handy when trying to converse with your Russian travel companions. The further into Siberia ...
On the Rails pt.4
Toinen aamu junassa. Nukuin suosiolla jo ylapunkassa pelaten yollista heratysta paikan oikealta omistajalta. Onneksi sita ei tullut ja sain pitaa suuremman tilani. Ongelmallisen alapunkasta tekee se, etta kaytavanpuoleisilla paikoilla ei ole poytaa ellei ...
Tour
Today the international students have a tour of Novosibirsk. The day started out raining really hard. I miss my car for times like these. I meet up with two other girls in my class that live just down the street from me. Since we took their rout it took ...
Novosibirsk (Sibirien)
Nach ueber 50 Stunden Zugfahrt sind wir in der Hauptstadt Sibiriens angekommen und sind nun in Novosibirsk (1.5 Mio. Einw.). Wie geplant wurden wir auf dem Bahnsteig von unserer Gastfamilie in empfang genommen. Mit dem Auto fuhren wir dann in Richtung ...
Ultimate, hearth warming, Russian hospitality!
... , we did not meet this old man in the countryside. But we did find ultimate, overwhelming and hearth warming Russian hospitality; Igor from Novosibirsk! What happened; Natasja (the doctor we met on the train to Yekaterinburg) had called her brother Igor ...
Birch and Beer
Today's excursion was to a unique Russian museum. This museum displays the art made entirely of birch wood. After the tour Dasha (a Russian student) and I went off on our own while we were still in the city to the old airport where there was a beer ...
Three Days on a Moving Bed
... were lucky as the footballers behaved themselves and the rest were just plain sensible. By the last day we had been adopted by our Russian Godfather. He seemed to be looking out for us and would always try to talk with us even though we both knew that we ...
Nice houses
Most of Siberia is forest and fields, but sometimes we came across little villages with these multicoloured ...
Holy Crap That's Cold
... to exchange money - in the domestic terminal of all places! - and caught a cab into the city. I took a day room at Novosibirsk's only international hotel because I wanted somewhere to escape the cold, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise as I ...
La Transsiberienne
... s'endormir: le sachet de graines de tournesol a decortiquer d'une seule main, une activite constante maintenant son attention. Novosibirsk s'est developpee a parti d'un gros village il y a une centaine d'annees a peine pour devenir un important centre ...
Fun
... called me and started yelling that the internet people came and that I needed to come home. I told her that I was in Novosibirsk center and she flipped shit. So another subway ride and marshrootka to Akademgorodok and I came home. The internet people ...
Trans-Siberian Railway
... ;t normal. I surfed through this travel blog website before I left home wanting to read some interesting stories about Siberia/Novosibirsk, but the only entries are by travelers on the Trans-Siberian Railway making short stops through our Siberian cities. ...
Siberia - bit chilly...
... ice and slipping on the pavement with big packs wasn't the best... In the middle of Siberia you wouldn't think that a random Russian on the street would speak English or know where our particular hotel was, except that she did :-) Saw some old trains ...
City Day
... said, "Oh, excuse me" and his friend could stop laughing at that response the rest of the way back. And then it's back to Novosibirsk after zero hours of sleep. We meet up at 11:00am to go to Novosibirsk's Lenin Square to celebrate City Day, our city's ...
Novosibirsk
... 1500 miles. We headed on to Birsk and after a brief overnight halt in a low quality Hotel Vostok, we sped on to Novosibirsk where after a fight we obtained a room which was a great improvemnet over the Vostok. Entering Bjisk the roads became badly ...
Snoring through Siberia
... and snored loudly. The guy got off after a couple of hours and the woman got off at Novosibirsk. 3) Raman - really nice 27 year old Kazakh/Russian IT engineer for Ikea. Has 2 young children (and therefore escaped conscription as apparently if you are ...