"All well here. We were greeted by our translator and coordinators. They are GREAT! I felt so gross meeting them when I had not had a shower for 2 days. They were so sweet about it, ..."
"Well, we now have religion and culture! At least, that's what the tour description told us we'd get. We had selected the one tour that didn't offer native dancing or ho ..."
"It's not without a little trepidation that I arrive in Vladivostok; a previously closed focal port city of Russia; to visit my twin penpals whom I haven't seen for a good decade. Q ..."
"Hello, I'm now in Vladivostok, where i will take the bus tomorrow (20/12) to Harbin in China, and then probably to Beijing ( Pekin) My plans are not really definite, maybe find a j ..."
"Well after almost 90 hrs of Trans-Siberian train fun I can confidently say that I am over it! You can log 1/2 of the longest/most romantic train journey in the world in the Nomad l ..."
"Seventy-three hours of mostly lying about in a train compartment along the way, and I've finally arrived. I haven't had the most exciting past three days, but it wasn't quite as ba ..."
"After a rough trip, Vladivostok has been great. It's a hilly city quite like San Francisco set on the Pacific Ocean. I've spent most of the day wandering around town climbing it's ..."
"Well that was quite the experience. I just got off the train after 8 straight days with no shower and getting off for 20 minutes at the most. That having been said it was actually ..."
"After at least 200 hours of train from Murmansk, I ve finally arrived to Vladivostok That`s a long trip but with the sleeping period and the everybody that you met in the train, th ..."
" Here we start. Km 9259 of the Trans-Siberian-Railway. In the 1860, an army squad landed on the bank of Zolotoy Rog (Golden Horn) bay and built the barracks, it was the firs ..."