The Tsar’s Gold Eastbound to Beijing: Trans-Siberian Railway
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Highlights
- Tours of Moscow’s Red Square and cathedrals.
- Daily lectures about countries, people and cultures.
- Visiting Cities like Ulaanbaatar, Ulan Ude, Irkutsk, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg and Kazan.
- Trans-Siberian Railroad along Lake Baikal with exclusive photo stops and 40 hours at Lake Baikal
- Pristine Siberian villages and nature Mongolia horse Show.
- Great Wall exploration, Ming Tombs and Sacred way
- Beijing’s Forbidden City, Temple of Heaven,Tiananmen Square.
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- Tsar’s Gold private train ride on the Trans-Siberian railroad.
- Transfers on arrival and departure (valid during specific arrival/ departure times.
- All accommodations based on double and /or twin occupancy (on board the train and hotels)
- All excursions,entrance fees, and visits as described in Itinerary.
- On board educational lectures about local culture, people and history.
- Extensive pre-departure Travel Guide, reading list, important information about your trip, maps and luggage tags.
- Services of knowledgeable and dedicated tour director as well as local guides.
- $250,000 medical evacuation insurance (coverage details will be sent in our first mailing package.
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Itinerary
Meals: Dinner
After having arrived in Moscow, your tour guide welcomes you at the airport and accompanies you to your hotel. The Russian capital presents itself in wonderful illumination on your "Moscow by Night" city lights tour. Afterwards you can stroll acro...
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Your grand city tour starts in the morning with the Kremlin, including one of the magnificent cathedrals still left from the time of the Tsars. Towards the evening, your train departs from Kazan Station.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After breakfast you arrive in Kazan, the old Tartar capital on the banks of the Volga. There is plenty of history here to learn. On a guided tour of the Kremlin you will experience the wild and often bloody relations of the Tartars, Cossacks, and Russians. Your private train resumes its journey in the evening.
Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
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Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Today you reach Novosibirsk, heart of Siberia, where you will be welcomed in the traditional Russian manner with bread and salt. Your city tour includes a visit of the Trans-Siberian monument and the mighty Ob River. After dinner, the train continues its ride eastwards.
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Your private train, by now your second home, proceeds onward over the Yenisei River through Siberia. It takes you through the landscapes of Eastern Siberia with its mountains, crystal clear rivers and verdant slopes. On board the train you can enjoy entertaining lectu...
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Today the train reaches Irkutsk, capital of Eastern Siberia. During a city tour you will see beautiful Siberian wooden cottages, the new statue of Alexander III and the lively market hall. After lunch, you undertake an excursion to the open-air museum "Life and Work in the Time of the Tsars.” Spend the night in a centrally located hotel in Irkutsk.
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Today you will visit a Siberian village by bus. A boat takes you across the deep waters to Port Baikal, where your Private Train awaits you. On ancient tracks it takes you directly along the shore of Lake Baikal for several hours. Dinner is served in typical local style as a picnic on the shores of the lake (weather permitting).
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After observing impressive scenes of Chinese rural life from your compartment window, you arrive in Beijing in the morning, where you will spend three nights in a first class hotel. (Hotel; B, L, D)
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A four-hour city tour will show you the Temple of Heaven and its park as well as Tiananmen Square. A guided tour through the interior of some of the Forbidden City’s buildings, which house over 10,000 rooms complete with furniture and works of art, follows in the afternoon.
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