Would you spend 6 day on a train traveling from Moscow to Vladivostok ?
Looks based as fuck.
Virtual tour:
thttp://eng.rzd.ru/vtour/index.html
>>59648119
Looks pretty boring. North-South trains are better than east-west ones.
It's carzy, almos 10,000km.
>>59648322
Like what?
mm hmm
>>59648119
No.
I once traveled to Baikal by train, and it was horrible.
>>59649697
First class or coach?
>>59649773
Dunno proper translation, wikipedia says it's called Couchette car in English.
pic related typical Russian train
I traveled trans siberian railway when I was going to japan
>>59650214
I though it was separated in compartments. Is it usually crowded?
>>59648119
>6 days on a train
no thanks
I once saw Henry Rollins do a spoken word bit about his experience riding it the entire way, it sounded like fucking shit.
>>59650346
Separated places costs more. What I posted is the cheapest (and the most popular) trains.
Yes, usually they are crowded, bad smell and stuffy, especially during summers.
No thanks.
I don't know whether or not Russia has the same train culture as the USA.
When I took a trainride to San Francisco from Anaheim, they had fake robbers ride horses up to the train and get on and pretend they were going to kill everyone if we don't pay them with their pistols on their cowboy get-up so the passengers wouldn't get bored.
I doubt Russia has that.
I took a picture with one of the robbers, it was fun.
>>59650262
Tell us more Finnbro
>>59650732
Do people fugg on the train?
This is my greatest fetish, so much that I want to buy an escort for a one or two days and fulfil this fantasy when I go to visit Russia.
>>59650871
>Do people fugg on the train?
Only if they're drunk.
Or in closed room
6 days? Don't be an idiot, that would mean sitting in the train all those days straight and not doing shit. In that case it would be no different from taking a plane, and planes are way faster.
The idea is to go city to city and do various stuff with train bros if you get any.
I wanna do it sometime and even follow with the transmongolian/transmanchurian until i reach anime land.
>>59651111
Checked Brayan.
Well I'm an autist, but I'd like it for two reasons:
1. To get a feel of what it was like to travel long distances in the old days. Before cars and planes.
2. To get a of grasp the size of mothafackin Russia m8. I mean six fucking days going through the steppe, just and endless landscape. I mean, wow.
>>59650871
Do i have to hire an escort to get some pussy abroad? :\
>>59650847
It went surprisingly fast.
In japan I spent 1 year
>>59648119
I've done this. But I went with the Trans-Mongolian Mocow-Beijing route. Bit more touristy, but would recommend.
>Russia will never build the Trans-Eurasian Belt so I can leave London and go through a Mad Max trek through Siberia to visit America
>>59651512
Did it stink
>>59650871
I had sex in train. But there were locking compartments. Coach cars suck there are always shitloads of bydlos, gypsies and other sucm
>>59650346
>>59650732
The third class thingy that Rusbro posted is only on the Trans-Siberian route to Vladivostok. The route to China only has 1st (2 bed) and 2nd class (Pic related 4 beds) compartments. This is the one me and my buddy shared with randoms.
>>59651614
Well it's 6 days without a shower. But it was mostly tourists and there's fresh water so you can keep yourself clean enough. Tbh with all the drinking it smelled of beer more than anything else.
>>59651390
>To get a of grasp the size of mothafackin Russia m8
Depending on how you plan it you can be like 24 hours in the train until reaching your next destination. I'd get bored to death after 5 or 6, so that would depend on you.
>>59651390
>To get a of grasp the size of mothafackin Russia m8
Don't you think that going to each city, or at least the most relevant ones would expand that view even more?
It just feels like a waste, specially if you take into account that we can stay up to 90 days without a visa.
BTW, do you know russian? Because aside from the casual tourist english won't get you far.
>>59651690
Do the trains have Air conditioned ?
Can you strike conversations with Russkies in the restaurant cart? Or do they just keep to themselves?
>>59652453
>Air condition
no, but just open the window m8. I heard going during the winter is cold though.
There are basically no natives going on the Trans-Mongolian route, and the restaurant cart changes for every country. In Russia it's run by Russians that speaks no words of English and regulalry fight and hit each other (think they were related)
>>59650346
>I though it was separated in compartments
Oh you naive child.
>>59651966
>we can stay up to 90 days without a visa
lucky bastards
>>59652790
Unlike most of the world, we never turned our backs to mother russia, and have kept solid diplomatic relationships for like 70 years already.
>>59652777
IT YOUR FAULT NIGEL. There are no trains in Colombia, the only one I've seen is the Hogwart's Express on movies.
That's kinda stupid. I had to travel on train for 3 days in summer, wouldn't recommend it, even our natives see this as a challenge.
>>59652881
It seems that the further a country is from Russia, the better the relations.
I ended up visiting Russia for free for a week, it's really nice.
>>59652920
Why not fly?
>>59651966
>Depending on how you plan it you can be like 24 hours in the train until reaching your next destination. I'd get bored to death after 5 or 6, so that would depend on you.
Yeah Vladivostok might be a bit crazy, but I definitely want to do it some day at least to Yekaterinburg or Novosibirsk.
>Don't you think that going to each city, or at least the most relevant ones would expand that view even more?
It's not the same. I mean I've been to NYC and San Francisco. I know there are 4,000 km between them, but a plane fligth just doesn't give the feel of distance. Hell a road trip from Pittsburgh to Boston did that trick for me and they are much closer.
>It just feels like a waste, specially if you take into account that we can stay up to 90 days without a visa.
I hope I can visit more than once.
>BTW, do you know russian? Because aside from the casual tourist english won't get you far.
No. I want to learn some day. I just memorized the alphabet and I've been playing with Duolingo. I know it doesn't come close, but I suppose is better than nothing for now.
>>59653052
Because it was cheaper and I was a poor kid.
>>59650737
That sounds fun. Post the pic.
>>59651690
What kind of tourists(nationality and personality-wise)? Did you get to stop at any cities?
Sounds fun. Wish I had the money to travel.
>>59653892
Someday, my third world friend.
Someday.
>>59653769
On 2nd class there were mostly young Europeans travelling independently, (1st class was mostly germans travelling in guided groups).
Stopped in Ulaan-Bator for a day. Very common to drop off in Irkutsk as well (for Lake Baikal), would not recommend dropping off in places like Novosibrisk though. Would not want to be stuck there for days until the next train arrives, no offense.
>>59648119
Not after seeing that Transsiberian train movie.
>>59654093
Can you buy a ticket for the full ride and get out and in out the train and spend the night in many towns as you want? Or do you have to pay extra?
>>59654093
>On 2nd class there were mostly young Europeans travelling independently
noice
oh, so you drop off but the train keeps going? How long does it usually take until the next train arrives? And I assume you don't have to pay everything again, right?
>>59654211
This one?
www.imdb.com/title/tt0800241/
>>59654402
Yes that's the one. Quite a good thriller actually.
>>59654349
No you have to buy tickets for every stretch ahead of the trip. So if you drop off you need to plan and order tickets for the next stretch in advance.
It's usually not that much more expensive, but you usually need a decent planned route if you want a visa.
>>59654402
There are local trains that can take you one or two stops (in Russia). I think the Trans-Mongolian route is weekly or twice a week, while the Trans-Siberian one is daily.
>>59648119
>You spend 6 days sweating in a smelly train
>Bored to death, eating russian train food
>Nightmare of a travel finally ends, you can get out of the train
>You end up in Vladivostok
Wat do? 6 more days to go back to civilization, or wait some more time in this shithole?
>>59654638
How many buddies were traveling with you?
How much $$$ did you spend aprox.?
Did you have any trouble with language?
How did you make it back to Norway from China?
>>59654896
Well I'd like to spend at least a day in Vladi then find my way home I guess.
If I was a rich fag, probably head to Japan or China.
>>59654918
travelled with 1 buddy, so we shared our compartment with 1-2 randoms.
Spent maybe 1500$ for the entire trip.
I grew up next to the Russian border and visited rural places in Russia before, so I know a few phrases and can at least understand the cyrillic alphabet.
In Moscow and St. Petersburg you can make yourself understood with English and many public information/museums/etc use latin alphabet, but for any other Russian city I'd recommend at least being able to read the cyrillic alphabet (super easy).
We flew back after spending a week or so in Beijing.
depends, will i get raped after the passport check ?
>>59655355
Only if you're as cute as Anzu
>>59655084
Cool. Thanks bro. I hope I can do a trip like that in the future.
travelling that long on russian train sounds romantic but is actually shit. DO NOT DO IT I AM WARNING YOU
>>59656113
Thank for the warning m8, but in the end my autism will triumph because
>travelling that long on russian train sounds romantic
>>59648119
>walk into a coach
>see this
wat do?
Ville Haapasalo made a program about it visiointi the citys on the route to.
>>59648119
>Virtual tour
I ended up in a cabine with a French-speaking person. Worst virtual tour ever and the ride didn't even start.
Probably not Moscow to Vladivostok since I don't speak Russian and I can't imagine there's much to do in Vladivostok
I would do Moscow to Beijing because I'm studying Chinese and I would probably attempt to learn a few Russian phrases for the trip
>>59648119
travel by hitchhiking instead, it's more fun + costs nothing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0hurJKOTpU
