A journey on the iconic Trans-Siberian Railroad is one of the last great travel adventures. Take this journey of a lifetime on Tsars Gold and experience Russia, Mongolia and China while enjoying comfortable surroundings. This exciting journey delivers three of the world’s largest countries directly to your compartment. Sit back and enjoy the dramatic changes of scenery as you savour Europe and Asia’s superb and varied landscapes.
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The Journey
DAY - 1 Welcome to Moscow
On arrival to Moscow, your tour guide will welcome you at the airport and will accompany you to the hotel. After check-in there will be time to relax before setting off on this evenings tour "Moscow by Night". This tour will then continue with a stroll round the famous Red Square with your tour guides. During this evenings tour you will also experience Moscow’s Metro stations in all their splendour and beauty. This evening your overnight accommodation is at a first class hotel.
DAY - 2 Sightseeing Moscow
Your grand city tour starts in the morning with the Kremlin, including one of the magnificent cathedrals still left from the time of the Tsars. This evening, your train departs from Moscow “Kazan Station”.
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DAY - 3 Kazan
This morning you arrive in Kazan, the old Tartar capital on the banks of the Volga. This historic city tour includes Kazan’s Kremlin where you will learn about the wild and often bloody relations of the Tartars, Cossacks, and Russians.
DAY - 4 Ekaterinburg
This afternoon Tsars Gold makes a scheduled stop in Ekaterinburg. You will enjoy a short tour of the city centre which was restored in 2009. In the course of the city tour you will see the newly erected Cathedral-on-the-blood, a memorial erected to mark the assassination of The Romanov Family in 1918. Then back on board to continue your journey across Western Siberia.
DAY - 5 Novosibirsk
Arrival to Novosibirsk, the heart of Siberia, where you will be welcomed in the traditional Russian manner with bread and salt. Your city tour includes a visit to the Trans-Siberian monument and the mighty Ob River. This evening Tsars Gold continues eastwards towards Krasnoyarsk.
DAY - 6 Across Siberia
Tsars Gold, by now your second home, proceeds onward over the Yenisei River through Siberia. It takes you through the landscapes of Eastern Siberia with its mountains, crystal-clear rivers and verdant slopes. On board of the train you enjoy entertaining lectures about Siberia. The on-board restaurant chefs once again demonstrate their skills with the speciality meal "Tsar’s Feast". Enjoy Russian hospitality during the vodka and caviar tasting while passing by impressive landscapes.
DAY - 7 Irkutsk
Arrival to Irkutsk, the capital of Eastern Siberia. Your city tour will include traditional Siberian wooden cottages, the new statue of Alexander III and a lively market hall. After lunch, you will take an excursion to the open-air museum "Life and Work in the Time of the Tsars”. This evening your overnight accommodation is at a first class hotel in Irkutsk city.
DAY - 8 Lake Baikal
Travelling by local bus to a Siberian Village, you will then board a boat which takes you across Lake Baikal, the largest fresh water lake in the world. During two long photo stops on the ancient tracks running parallel to the shore you will have the chance to capture the beauty of the lake and explore the wonderful scenery. Take a moment to have a dip in the lake or visit a picturesque Baikal village. If the night is warm, your dinner will be served as a picnic on the shores of the spectacular lake before re-boarding the train. Here you will re-board Tsars Gold, travelling on ancient tracks, circumnavigating the shore of Lake Baikal.
DAY - 9 Lake Baikal to Ulan-Uday on to Mongolia
Travelling onwards through the magnificent valley of Selenga passing by the wild and desolate mountain plains of Eastern Siberia. Tsars Gold makes its last scheduled stop in Russia, in the city of Ulan-Uday. Here there will be a city tour of the Buryatian capital.
DAY - 10 Ulaanbaatar and Gandan Monastry
Morning arrival in Ulaanbaatar. The highlights of today’s city tour will be the impressive Buddhist Gandan Monastery and the Choijin Lama Museum. This evening you will be staying at a centrally located hotel. However for a real Mongolian experience we highly recommend you take the opportunity to overnight in a Yurt, located on the Mongolian Steppe. Please contact us for details.
DAY - 11 Mongolian Countryside
This morning you will take a bus trip out into the picturesque Mongolian countryside. Lunch is served in a typical nomadic herdsmen settlement. Followed by a Mongolian horseback riding show. This evening you will re-board Tsars Gold and will travel onwards to the Chinese border.
DAY - 12 Through the Gobi desert
Early this morning the train makes a scheduled stop in the Gobi Desert. Around noon you will reach the border town of Erlian. Due to the different Chinese track gauge you disembark Tsars Gold and board your Chinese train, which will be ready for departure. The Chinese train has no Nostalgic Comfort or Bolshoi carriages only two bed or four bed cabins are available on this 16 hour journey. Single occupancy is not guaranteed.
DAY - 13 Welcome to Beijing
Don’t oversleep today as it’s possibly some of the most spectacular scenery of the entire route, as you leave the desert scenery behind and pass by mountains and rice paddy fields. Morning arrival in Beijing, where you will spend three nights in a first class hotel.
DAY - 14 Temple of Heaven and the Forbidden City
This morning a four-hour city tour which will include the Temple of Heaven and Tiananmen Square. This afternoon a guided tour through the interior of the Forbidden City.
DAY - 15 The Great Wall and Peking Duck
The Great Wall of China is the 8th Wonder of the World; this is your chance to experience it up close. On your way there you stop at a pearl farm as well as at the famous Ming Tombs (a UNESCO World Heritage Site) and the Sacred Way, a boulevard lined with carved stone animals. Wrapping up the day is a feast featuring what is surely the world’s best-known Chinese delicacy, Peking Duck, at one of the city’s most famous restaurants.
DAY - 16 Beijing and back home
This unique and unforgettable experience comes to an end and you start your return journey home.
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