Nongken Hotel Jiamusi

... the old blocks of flats dominating the city, its historical buildings all of stone, have been renovated and they are beautiful. The streets are full of happy people at any time of the day. I have often asked myself if they do not have jobs. However, it is not unusual to leave your job in the middle of the day to do some shopping. There are several new hotels, so the choice is no longer the Intourist, which has not changed since perestroika.

When ...

... fonte des neiges, mais les rues sont aeres et c'est donc agreable de s'y promener. Le fleuve Amour est immense ! Le train passe sur un pont de 2.7km de long (le + grand du transiberien) L'Amour est encore majoritairement gele mais fond petit a petit, nous n'allons pas trop loin sur la glace... Le temps est encore une fois au beau fixe...decidement quand est-ce qu'il pleut par ici ??? d'ou vient toute cette neige ?! enfin on va pas se plaindre.

... i artilleriet i Ural-fjellene. Han er også ranket som nr 2. i MMA(Mixed Martial Arts) i 75kg klassen i Russland. Tredje mann og eneste som følger meg helt til øst-russland er grensevakt mellom Russland og Kina. Også meg, HV for life! Neste dag sitter vi å drikker russisk vodka og de graver etter alt fra våpenspesifikasjoner til treningsmetoder. Russisk vodka må være den beste avhørsteknikk... Etter noen timer med faktautveksling faller vi til dyp søvn. Russerne er flinke til ...

... se sicer od tretjega razreda loci le po tem, da so v njem kupeji s 4. posteljami od hodnika loceni z vrati, medtem ko v tretjem razredu nimajo vrat. Ker so vlaki relativno prazni to niti ne igra posebne vloge. Je pa bistvena razlika v ceni obeh razredov, saj sva za 56 ur voznje iz Vladivostoka do Chite placala vsak 100 evrov, medtem ko sva za naslednjo vozovnico za 20 ur voznje iz Chite v Irkutsk odstela vsak po 26 evrov. Zivljenje v kupeju skupaj, s se enim ...

... e' che sia strettamente necessario in fin dei conti! Il treno attraversa un lunghissimo ponte sull'enorme fiume Amur ed entra a Khabarovsk; dopo 51 ore di treno sono un tantino stravolto, ma chissa' perche' appena esco dalla stazione sento gia' che mi manca il treno: in effetti la prima notte in albergo non sono nemmeno riuscito a dormire. Ero ormai abituato a dormire quando il treno viaggiava e a svegliarmi quando si fermava. Mi sorbisco la solita scarpinata in ...

... of birds nests one can see perched in the birch trees. However, as we get closer to Khabarovsk, I noticed factories and garbage. We arrive at Khabarovsk train station at 8am local time and again are met with dreary Siberian weather (damp and clammy). We decide to walk to the hotel which was a bit challenging but we found it after about 30 minutes. We are staying at the Hotel Amethyst which is considered a boutique ...

... what the Russian traditionally drink, not coffee) we go back to the hotel for our bags and get ready to go to the station from our first leg of our Trans-Siberian railroad trip. Although our train did not leave until 20:00, we decide to leave the hotel at 18:00 just in case (its only a 15 min walk). We decide to walk with our heavy backpacks. Mine must have weighed 60 pounds as I'm carrying a lot of food and books. While walking ...

. Km 8493 of the Trans-Siberian-Railway. More information: http://wikitravel.org/en/Khabarovsk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khabarovsk

Hello, The 06/12, i was leaving Irkutsk to Khabarovsk, more than 60 hours trains. After dozens of hours of Taiga, and the isolated soviet towns of Eastern Siberia finally i arrive in the place where i was coming to get my visa for China. The bad news is that i lost my camera with more than 700 pictures of Mongolia, Russia, and the trip on Baikal lake :( I arrive saturday night in Khabarovsk and i had contact to somebody who ...

Lesson of the day, there are all the stops of the train written on the wall with the time of each stop (Moscow Time), I did not see it before... By now, I can read or at least pronounce the Cyrillic, and it is a lot easier to know where, when and for how long the train is stopping in each station. At each stop I was thinking of the experience of my dear friend Adrien ( a pinch of adventure) who ve ...