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trans siberian explorer
silk road to samarkand via kashgar
IMAGE: St Basils Cathedral, Moscow
23 DAYS 12 NIGHTS HOTEL 4 NIGHTS
GER 6 NIGHTS TRAIN
IMAGE: The beautiful city of Khiva, Uzbekistan |
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26 BREAKFASTS, 13 LUNCHES AND 15 DINNERS
• Undertake an epic train journey, traversing China, Mongolia & Russia
• Explore Tiananmen Square, Forbidden City and Summer Palace in Beijing
• Day trip to remote section of The Great Wall
• Delight in a traditional Beijing Duck dinner in Beijing
• Overnight with a local nomadic family in Ger camps in Mongolia
• National Park visits in Mongolia including Khustain National
Park home of the takhi (Mongolian wild horse)
• Venture to Lake Baikal in Siberia
• See the sights of Moscow's Red Square, St Basil's Cathedral & Kremlin
• Experience The Hermitage & Nevsky Prospect
• Marvel at The Great Wall at Mutianyu
• Explore Tiananmen Square, the Forbidden City and Summer Palace in Beijing • Visit Xian and the famous Terracotta Warriors
• Cross the Torugart pass in the Tian Shan mountains on one
of the world's most remote high altitude roads
• Take in the magnificent Labrang Monastery and Jiayuguan frontier fortress • Venture to the Mogau Caves & Dunhuang
• Immerse yourself in the Sunday Markets in Kashgar
• Drive spectacular mountain scenery & visit Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan's capital.
• Journey to the fabled Silk Road cities of Samarkand, Bukhara & Khiva
ITINERARY | DAY 1 | Join Beijing 2/3 | In Beijing 4 | Train to Ulaanbaatar 5 | Arrive Ulaanbaatar 6 | To Khustain Nuruu National Park 7 | To nomadic family home 8 | To Terelj National Park 9 | Terelj National Park 10 | Return to Ulaanbaatar 11 | Board train to Irkutsk 12 | Arrive Irkutsk, to Lake Baikal 13 | Lake Baikal 14 | Lake Baikal, return to Irkutsk 15 | In Irkutsk, board train to Moscow 16/17 | On train 18 | Arrive Moscow 19 | In Moscow 20 | Overnight train to St Petersburg
21 | Arrive St Petersburg 22 | In St Petersburg 23 | In St Petersburg, trip concludes
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ITINERARY | DAY 1 | Join Beijing 2 | Visit Great Wall 3 | Visit Forbidden City 4 | In Beijing, overnight train to Xian 5/6 | In Xian 7 | Bullet train to Lanzhou, transfer to Linxia 8 | Boat trip to Bing Ling Temple, afternoon drive to Xiahe 9 | Visit Labrang Monastery, transfer to Lanzhou, overnight train to Jiayuguan 10 | In Jiayuguan 11 | To Dunhuang 12 | At Mogao Caves, bullet train to Turpan 13 | In Turpan 14 | Drive to Urumqi 15 | Heaven's Lake, fly to Kashgar 16 | Sunday markets in Kashgar 17 | Cross
Torugart Pass 18 | Drive to Bishkek 19 | In Bishkek 20 | To Tashkent 21 | Fly to Urgench, transfer to Khiva 22 | In Khiva 23 | Transfer to Bukhara 24 | In Bukhara 25 | Transfer to Samarkand 26 | In Samarkand 27 | Transfer to Tashkent, touring then trip concludes
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