Jaroslavskaja, Moscow: The Train Station
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Train No 4 to Beijing at 21:35 PM
Moscow - Ulan Bator: 5 days; UB-Beijing 2 days !
The Train Corridor in First Class ...
... Jean-Pierre and Annie in their Compartment
Beer for the Guests ...
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Second class
The Samovar
The first morning ...
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... and it is clearing up
Breakfast at the Restaurant
We arrive at a train station ...
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Beijing-Ulan Bator-Moscow
Vladivostok
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‘Dachas’ along the way ...
... and magnificient snowscape ...
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Birch Trees
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Babushkas Selling in the Cold
Fish anyone ?
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Sledges are practical ...
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More beer ...
... and Vodka as well
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A Window with a View
‘Goods for the trip’
Somebody is Looking Through the Window
Perm: It gets colder and colder ...
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Thus coal is needed ...
... at every Station ...
... and ice must be removed
Between the Wagons ... on the Inside !
Night stop
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It snows at Lake Baikal ...
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... and the ice folds ...
... above the waves
Champagne to celebrate Baikal !
Away from freeze-up and fog ...
... the sun shines again
Ulan Ude
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The Landscape Changes
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Smoke and pollution ...
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... and Beautiful Lake Gusinoozersk ...
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