October 2021 – Traveller's Nest Overland

TEN INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT TRANS SIBERIAN RAILWAY

By the time, we left Irkutsk, Siberia, Russia at 4.14 pm on that Thursday afternoon on Train 001MA and boarded carriage 10 for another 48 hours in the train, Siberia had us both so intrigued, but why? There is just something about this beautiful landscape. Ulan Ude and Irkutsk were both as towns so different. UlanContinue reading “TEN INTERESTING FACTS ABOUT TRANS SIBERIAN RAILWAY”

PARIS OF SIBERIA

There are endless reasons to visit “Paris of Siberia” : it is a city lined with cobblestone streets, wide boulevards, a cultural city, some of the best food in Russia, very walkable with great sights, including one of the most beautiful Russian Orthodox Churches in Russia, even if it only gets to daily high ofContinue reading “PARIS OF SIBERIA”