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One after another… several recent letters to the travel pages of Australian newspapers have recounted upsets caused by Russian officials’ rigid enforcement of visa expiry times and dates. Typically, hapless...

Ulaanbaatar, the capital, is a city of around 1 million people – half of Mongolia’s entire population – and an obvious stopover on the epic Trans Mongolian rail journey from...

Any tour operator is only as good as its ground operators.  The people on the ground must do their damnedest to remain knowledgeable, capable and tireless, sometimes working long hours...

One of the quirks of the Russian system is that you can sometimes stave off the tedium of re-registering whenever you leave a gateway city like Moscow or St Petersburg....

As you’d expect in a country which reaches right across the Eurasian continent, Russia boasts a very generous share of the great wonders of the natural world. The good news...

  It has been our dream to visit St Petersburg for many years but Moscow was never on our radar. Our perception of the Russian capital was of decrepit Stalin-era...

Imagine travelling back in time to the Russian Empire before the First World War and the maelstrom of the 1917 Revolution, before the ruthless

We have just received a ‘selfie’ from one of our private guides in St Petersburg. She (in centre) is pictured with 2 of our transsibers. We are often asked, ‘what...

Reading a typical Russian rail ticket is not easy for the uninitiated.  Here’s an explanation:

A nun chants at a lectern as others watch from the back of the whitewashed Russian Orthodox chapel, warmed by the slanting sun. Through the