Product Description

The only guidebook you'll need on this epic train journey. Ride the rails through Russia in a week, or take a month to explore Siberian outback towns, learn throat singing in the wild Tuva Republic or meet Mongolian nomads. This inspirational guide will help you to make the most of every moment during this trip of a lifetime.

Talk Like A Local - Russian, Mandarin and Mongolian language guides including helpful phrases and extended food glossaries.

Never Get Lost - with 65 maps of major cities and regions, train routes and coverage of the BAM for the truly adventurous.

Travel Smart - new trip-planning and itineraries chapters to help you devise your route.

Keep Good Company - our expert authors have been everywhere and done it all to help make your journey more rewarding and hassle-free.

Be In The Know - in-depth history, culture, environment and cuisine chapters will keep you informed (and entertained) en route.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #122625 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

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Customer Reviews

Very comprehensive.
This gives a very comprehensive account of the various routes on the trans siberian, i'v chosen vladivostok to st petersburg! will have my guidebook close at hand during my trip!

When was this LP updated?
I was overall disappointed.
The guide was useful to plan the trip, but much less once on the spot. Quite a bit of information is erronous or outdated (e.g. restaurants/hotels do not exist or are priced over double of what stated, museums have been closed or moved), which especially in Moscow and Yekaterinenburg led to cross-city walks and travels at the end of which we found nothing. This is especially for what concerns the Moscow to Yekaterinenburg part; pages on St. Petersburg, China, Mongolia and the Irkutsk area were much more useful.
Train and bus info: there is quite a lot of information if you are heading in the St. Petersburg to Beijing direction, but no special indications for if you are taking the opposite direction.
Last point: guide suggestions are generally targeted to a welthier-than-backpacker budget (though Galina in Moscow was great!).

very useful guide
As the title says, I found the book a very useful guide. Since I currently live in China, I was mostly just using the portions for Mongolia, and Russia.

My only complaint is the switching around of currency used. Sometime in the Russian portion prices would be listed in US dollars, other times Rubles, and sometimes in Euros. It would have been much better to pick one currency and stick with it. A minor complaint.