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Barnaul Hotel

24 Lenin Barnaul, Siberia, 00185 , Russian Federation

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And into Russia

A travel blog entry by argieuk

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Set off from Semey after the usual checks.
Got to the border and went through Kazak exit, which involved the usual load of checking and questions. Never understand just what they are looking for. Eventually got through.
Went to the queue for Russia, which wasnt moving, and we were told that the queue would be for 5 hours. No explanation. So we started putting the head lamp guards back on. Of course, after an hour, the queue suddenly starts ...

From Russia, with love...

A travel blog entry by valaryr

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... is apparently similar to the Eastern orthodox church, which is vaguely like the Greek orthodox church. This means that the walls of the cathedrals are plastered with wooden carvings painted with the images of various different religious icons, with Jesus Christ himself peering down at you from the ceiling-- about as opposite as you can get from catholic churches but no less interesting. As an added bonus, all of the old Russian tzar's ...

Day - 4 Panoramic & Iconic Moscow

A travel blog entry by egokhan

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... When I checked in I have realized Kilroy has charged me 30 euros per night for a dormitory room which is actually 16$ dollars. Thanks to Russian bureaucracy. Everybody travelling to Russia require a invitation from the hotel and it is usually arranged thru agencies.

Anyways, Katya picked me up around the corned of the hodtel around 15:00. We have drove to two iconic small churches with a the smell of ...

I see Red...Square

A travel blog entry by joesjourneys

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So we left Irkutsk and Costa, our helpful honcho behind and rolled from Platform 7 into the Siberian night. This was the beginning of the longest leg of our journey from Beijing to Moscow, 5191 kilometres away. The journey would take around 81 hours in which time we would see three sunrises, three sunsets, cross five time zones and one continental line, consume more packets of instant noodles and suspiciously tasteless Chinese sausages than any one should have to. We would play countless ...

Moscow

A travel blog entry by taylor.cornwall

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... and the Kremlin

Despite the work on applications, I did make time each day to venture out into the city. For years, I’ve studied about the Cold War and the names of the Kremlin and Red Square were often used, but still, I had no idea what to expect. Even if I had heard better stories, thought, it is hard to believe I could have been fully prepared for the experience of walking into Red Square. As you approach, the tall, ...