Reporting from Moscow — Beyond Irkutsk, a city along the Trans-Siberian Railway, my neighbor plunked a sausage and a bottle of Cognac on the table. I dug a Route 66 shot glass from my stash of small ...

American author Lisa Dickey has ridden the famed Trans-Siberian Railway four times over four decades, seeing the train — and the country — transform over time. Her new book about those journeys, Bears ...

One train journey takes a staggering 167 hours to complete, with the railway spanning eight time zones to make it the longest ...

"I thought it was our best trip yet!" confided Reba Nolan as she sat in my office at Monroe Travel Service. Her husband, Freddy, was a bit more circumspect with his reply, "It's hard to say. I liked ...

The Trans-Siberian Railway isn’t run like Eurail — you can’t buy just one pass and hop on and off the train. If you’re traveling from Ulan Bator to Moscow and want to get off to see Lake Baikal as I ...

PLEASANT HILL, Calif. -- Most travelers who take a journey through Russia via the Trans-Siberian Railway find it a great way to explore the vastness and diversity of the country, said Tim Todd, ...

A Trans-Siberian train can feel like a lonely place. One night, on hour five of a 24-hour leg from Yaroslavl to Yekaterinburg, I stood in the corridor outside our cabin, looking out at peaceful ...

A journey on the Trans Siberian Railway is often hailed as the trip of a lifetime, mostly because the 6,152 mile route between Moscow and Vladivostok is believed to be the longest you can take on just ...

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