The Trans-Siberian Railway aboard the Tsar's Gold Train
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Overview
Highlights
- Panoramic train route directly alongside Lake Baikal
- See Beijing’s Forbidden City
- Explore Tiananmen Square
- Enjoy a Mongolian horseback riding demonstration
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- Tour director with pertinent knowledge of the region throughout the journey
- Competent tour guides for each group of no more than 26 guests. (In the Bolshoi / Bolshoi Platinum categories: 12 guests) throughout the journey
- Local travel guides
- All transfers and bus tours according to itinerary
- All excursions and sightseeing according to itinerary, including all entry fees
- All meals according to your itinerary
- Porter service at all railway stations
- A physician on board the train (from the Chinese border to Moscow)
- Shower facilities on board the train
- 2 overnights in a hotel in Beijing and 1 night in Moscow in a 4-star hotel, or in 5-hotels for guests in the Bolshoi categories
- 1 overnight in Ulaanbaatar in a good, centrally located, middle-class hotel
- 1 overnight in Irkutsk in a 4-star hotel or in a higher room category for guests booked in the Bolshoi categories
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Itinerary
Meals: Dinner
You are greeted at the airport by your friendly tour director and accompanied to your centrally located 4-star hotel (guests in the Bolshoi categories stay in the 5-star Westin Hotel or similar quality accommodations), where you have a pause to re...
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Today you visit the Great Wall, the eighth wonder of the world. The giant wall extends for more than 6000 km through the countryside. On the way you visit the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Ming Tombs and the Spirit Way. In the evening you dine on the well-known delicacy of Peking Duck. You spend the night in your Beijing hotel.
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For centuries, the gates to the Forbidden City were closed to the public. Today you have the morning to view its awe-inspiring halls and mysterious temples. In the evening your rail journey begins, as you transfer to the train...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Around noon you reach the Chinese-Mongolian border, where you transfer to the Tsar’s Gold private train. The change of trains is necessary because of the different track gauges in the two countries. In the growing city of Erli...
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Early-risers are treated to central Mongolia’s spectacular scenery. In the morning you arrive in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia. You can leave your large luggage securely in your compartment. During your city tour you see...
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After breakfast you visit the Gandan Monastery, where it is possible to observe a Buddhist religious ceremony. Your bus then takes you to the Mongolian Alps, located some 90 minutes east of Ulan Bator, with their majestic scen...
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You take your leave of the Mongolian steppes today. You travel through the valley of Mongolia’s largest river, the Selenga, You are on the way to Ulan Ude, where your train reaches the main route of the Trans-Siberian Railway. Here you take an informative city tour. You spend the night aboard the train.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Today is spent exploring the remarkable natural phenomenon of Lake Baikal, the largest reservoir of freshwater in the world. In the morning your train travels directly alongside Lake Baikal, on the old route of the Trans-Siber...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
In the morning, you arrive in Irkutsk, the capital of Eastern Siberia in tsarist times. Here you move into your hotel, which is simple, but central and nicely located. You can safely leave your large baggage on the private tra...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After breakfast your train passes through the diverse landscapes of eastern Siberia. Talks on board inform you about the region and a vodka tasting with typical Russian snacks is an opportunity to experience firsthand the Russian festive customs of hospitality and clever toasts. You spend the night aboard the train.
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Around noon, your train arrives in Novosibirsk, the largest city in Siberia. You are greeted with bread and salt in the customary Russian manner and taken on a tour of this most Soviet of cities along your entire route, including the chance to see the mighty Ob River. You spend the night aboard the train.
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Your train stops in the afternoon in Yekaterinburg, the capital of the Ural Federal District. The city is known as the place where the Russian tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered in 1918. During a tour you see the Ca...
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After breakfast you reach Kazan, the Tartar capital on the banks of the Volga. On your city tour you see Tartar mosques and the most famous Russian Orthodox cathedral. You also take a tour of Kazan’s Kremlin, where you learn a...
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Around noon, you arrive in the Russian capital of Moscow, now a thriving, prosperous city, and are accompanied to your 4-star hotel (guests in the Bolshoi categories IV and V stay in the 5-star Hotel Kempinski or similar quali...
Meals: Breakfast
After an ample breakfast at your hotel, your tour of the city takes you to the reconstructed Cathedral of Christ the Saviour, Lomonossov University, the New Maidens’ Convent (Novodevichy Monastery), and Red Square with its colourful St. Basil’s...
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