From Moscow to Beijing by train. Part Two : Across Siberia

[Nantais]

So here is the second thread where I post some of the pics that I took during the transcontinental trip I did last summer.
As a reminder, the link to the first thread about Moscow :http://forum.skyscraperpage.com/newt...ewthread&f=321

The train journey from Moscow to Irkoutsk lasted four nights and three days. It was very strange because as we went on towards east, we crossed five time zones, so each day, we changed of time zone. Nevertheless, in the train and in the stations all along the Transsiberian, the time is always fixed on Moscow.

The train left Moscow at night (at about 01:00AM).
After a terrible first night in the train, I woke up and all I could see was... forests. Birch forests :
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2- Forests !


3- And some other trains :


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6- My room for four nights. I shared it with a French-Swiss man and a Russian family. I slept on the top left bed.


7-Vladislav, my russian roommate, showing me his dinner :


8- Outskirts of Perm :


9- Night is falling on our first day in the Transsiberian. Here is the Kama river :


10- Stopping at Perm :


11- A dog (sabaka) in the Perm train station :


12- Our Provodnitsa :


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14- Second day in the train. We've crossed the Oural muntains during the night. We're officially in ASIA !!!!!!!!


15- First impression of Siberia behind the dirty windows of the train :


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17- Skies of Siberia :


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21- Arriving at Omsk :


22- Crossing the Irtych river :


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26- Along the transsiberian we see a lot of industrial buildings or huge silos which seem more or less abandoned :


27- The vast emptiness of the siberian prairies :


28- Houses :


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31- Stopping at Novossibirsk in the middle of the night, after nine vodkas. We were not very clear anymore...


32- Third day on the train :


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35- Arriving at Krasnoyarsk :


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37- Me, taking the pose at Krasnoyarsk :


38- Our train :


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43- Leaving Krasnoyarsk... it's raining !


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46- Blue sky is back !


47- Another stop in some city of Siberia... here are russian militaries :


48-Buying some food for the end of the journey :


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50- Another stop again... in the middle of our last night in the train before Irkoutsk


51- Fourth day in the train, we're approaching Irkoutsk :


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53- Irkoutsk train station :


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56- Welcome to Russia !


Next step : Irkoutsk and the Baikal lake !