Long term solo travel on a budget.
I was pretty nervous about arriving in China... there are few places so utterly different from England, and from most countries I've visited! The language, the culture, the food, everything about it would be a brand new challenge to me. But I love a good challenge.
If you only have a short time in Irkutsk, make sure you see Lake Baikal by riding the Circumbaikal Railway!
Depending on your route, time schedule and goals, you could spend anything from a few hours to 7 days on the train. My longest was a 57 hour journey from Vladimir to Krasnoyarsk, followed immediately by a 17 hour journey to Irkutsk, and thankfully I was well prepared. Here's everything you need to know, and …
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If you take the train regularly at home you might not even have to think about planning your journeys past choosing your departure time and destination. If only it was that easy to ride the Trans Mongolian. I first had the idea to ride one of the longest railways in the world while I was …
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