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Please help.
Somebody travelled across Russia? How There?
I Am going to go here, advise, what route is better for choosing? Of what agency to take advantage? On the internet it is a lot of sites offering these services (gotorussia.com, russia-travel.com, 3btours.com, russia.com, etc.), but it were would be desirable to hear opinion of people which already there.
Thanks
Somebody travelled across Russia? How There?
I Am going to go here, advise, what route is better for choosing? Of what agency to take advantage? On the internet it is a lot of sites offering these services (gotorussia.com, russia-travel.com, 3btours.com, russia.com, etc.), but it were would be desirable to hear opinion of people which already there.
Thanks
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The only way to go is the trans-Siberian railway. Well, it's not the only way but it's the best way. I know nothing about prices etc. but I think it would be best to organise it, if your Russian is ok, when you get there.
Did you know you can get a train direct from Moscow to Hanoi? It takes about a week I think.
There are four classes of ticket on overnight trains: SB (first class), kupay (cabin with four bunks), platzkart (carriage full of bunks, like a dorm), and sidyashi (no bunks, just seats like on a regular train). Depending on the length of journey, platzkart or kupay is the way to go - on a journey longer than 24 hours, the privacy offered by kupay is worth paying a bit extra for. Platzkart is fine for anything less than that, but sidyashi is only a bit cheaper and should be avoided if you possibly can.
Platzkart between St Petersburg and Moscow, an 8 hour journey, will cost you somewhere between £7-10 [350-500 roubles], about double for kupay. I don't know the prices for any other journeys but it's based on the number of kilometres travelled so you can work it out approximately for yourself. Bedding is provided for an extra £1 per journey (pay on board), or you can bring your own sleeping bag. There are toilets but no showers even on long distance trains.
The route of the Trans-Siberian is pretty simple, the main decision you have to make is whether you want to go the whole way along it from St Petersburg to Vladivostok, or whether you want to go off on the Trans-Mongolian into Mongolia, or the Trans-Manchurian into China. If you do either of these then you'll need a second visa (either Mongolian or Chinese), and if you plan to come back into Russia again then make sure you have a multi-entry Russian visa and remember to reregister it once you're back in Russia.
Though i'd totally not recommend that if you have the time to get the train!