Day: September 17, 2013
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17 September 2013 – Ulaanbaator, Mongolia
We climbed one steep hill to enjoy (and bring you!) the panorama of UB.
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Yekaterinburg – Transsiberian stop #3
Founded: 1723 Pop: 1.4 million Other names: Sverdlovsk Yekaterinburg Train Station We had just 6 hours in Yekaterinburg, which wasn’t a great deal — but enough to see memorials to the town’s somber history. Russia’s last tsar and his family were shot and then bayoneted to death in Yekaterinburg in July of 1918. The building […]
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Kazan – Transsiberian stop #2
Founded: 1005 Pop: 1.1 million Gleaming Kazan train station. We were most impressed with Kazan from the moment the train pulled into the station. Clean, modern, even slick. Beautiful city, colorful, interesting people (and many of them). Budget friendly too – we paid only 100 rubles for bag storage at the train station, whereas in […]
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