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
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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
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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
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