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Crazy Things On the Trans Siberian Route: My Highlights

Russian only grants 30 day visas, and considering the train itself takes about 7 solid days, it doesn’t give you a lot of time to do what you wanna do as you make your way along the journey. That combined [...]

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Riding the Trans-Siberian a journey from East to West

EDITOR: Today, Ian, a good friend of mine has written a guest post about our awesome journey through Siberia, Mongolia, Kazakhstan and Russia – he blogs about his travels at borderlesstravels.com    The Trans-Siberian from Beijing to Moscow is by [...]

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What to See in Almaty, Kazakhstan

I had planned to dip in to Kazakhstan, visit Astana in the north, near the Russian border and then nip back to Russia a couple of days later. But after telling people I was coming to Kazakshtan, the (very) few [...]

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What to see in Astana, Kazakhstan – The City of the Future

My first stop in Kazakhstan was Astana, aptly dubbed ‘The City of the Future’. Astana was declared the new capital in 1997, with plans to make it a city of the future, a gleaming beacon proudly boasting of Kazakhstan’s success [...]

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Backpacking in Kazakhstan – the Lo-Down

After Borat well and truly put Kazakhstan on the map, people drew misconceptions about the country, their people and the level of development within. Nowhere highlights the radical progression Kazakhstan has made more than their new Capital city, Astana know [...]

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Getting from Russia to Kazakhstan: Omsk to Astana

I don’t like to follow people’s paths, I always have a burning desire to blaze my own trail, to find my own way to when I subscribed to taking the Trans Siberian railroad from China to Russia, 1/3 of the [...]

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Hiking in Almaty, Kazakhstan

I’m still kicking around Kazakhstan and it’s still awesome! I’m in South Eastern Kazakhstan, in the former capital of Almaty. It’s one of the nicest cities I’ve ever visited and along with Beirut it’s certainly one of the cities that [...]

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What Visas You Need to Get in Advance to Take the Trans Siberian Railway

I’m almost in Beijing already, from there I’m gonna jump on the train to Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, and my trans Siberian train adventure will have finally started. It took quite a lot of work, and a fair [...]

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