291 The Big Siberia Overland Trip

  • May 23rd Flew from KL Malaysia to Macau
  • travelled through China
  • June 8th crossed the border to The Russian Federation to Siberia.
    Instead of travelling non-stop I stopped off in Siberia towns during the day for a day or so even so Siberia is so big that it took 10 overnight train journeys to cross Russia (I only had 14 daytimes when I wasn't travelling)
  • July 5th Latvia a little sightseeing and a plane to the UK
Highlights and conclusions
- China Vastness, it's economic miracle
- Siberia an even bigger magnitude of vastness but behind China economically
how imperialist and colonising they both are. The domination of Moscow and Beijing cultures and the destruction of others
- saw many different cultures
- met and stayed with many very kind people, slept in a yurt, got bitten by an infected tick etc..
- experiecing how life is there. Russian culture schizophrenic and contradictory - kind and frustatingly rude and bureaucratic .. river beaches, oil money and economic progress .. see the Russia and CIS Conclusions page
- History- seeing the old wood and log buildings everywhere and the old Kremlins in Europe

before this Malaysia Index

BEIJING GOVERNED AREAS (China)
- 292 Macau, Wuhan to Beijing
- 293 Arrive in Beijing
- 294 Shengyang City & Haerbin City
- 295 Mongolian Plains

MOSCOW GOVERNED AREAS (CIS)
- 296 Russian Federation Tips etc
- 297 Siberia - Arrival in the Council Estate
- 297a Siberia - Chita
- 298 Sat - Ulan Uday staying in a Yurt
- 299 Sat - Lake Baikal
- 300 Sat - Irkutsk
- 301 Sat - zizagged Zima etc
- 302 Krasnoyarsk
- 303 Tomsk
- 304 Train Disasters
- 305 Sun - Kazan Republic of Tatarstan
- 306 Cheboksary - Chuvasia Republic
- 307 Nizhny Novgorod
- 308 Fri- Moscow Quick
- 309 Novgorod Old City with Misha
- 309b Pskov, Izborsk and out of Russia

- 310 Russia Conclusions

LATVIA
- 311 Latvia - the Feeling of Europe and Freedom
- 312 Ancient Island Fortress
- 313 Fri - Cesis and Segulda
- 314 Rigas capital city old town
- 315 Tue - Wooden Building Museum
- 316 Western Latvia

- 317 Fri - Knackered and back in the UK
YOU CAN CLICK MOST PHOTOS TO SEE BIG PHOTOS

Latvia - a good scandinavian country to visit : Latvia Conclusions page

Russia Tips and Background - Russia is kind, but difficult language, bureacracy, and often a Ptz-di-etz - Complete fucking fuck-up etc.
Zdrast-vo-teh - Hi, Ps-yal-ta - Please, Kagda - When ?, Gd-e-ye - Where ? .. see the Russia Background and tips page

This trip was made possible with the support of Joseph at SpanishPanama.com School

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