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Trans-Mongolian: Stopping off seems so expensive..

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elgor Just Starting Joined: 02 Feb 2009 Posts: 1 Location: London	Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 9:25 pm    Post subject: Trans-Mongolian: Stopping off seems so expensive.. Hello everyone.. I am planning a trip from St. Petersburg to Beijing by train (starting by train from London first of all) - around late May/early June this year. I've found a route with stop-offs that I like via Lonely Planet: St.Petersburg - Moscow - Nizhny Novgorod - Kazan - Yekaterinburg - Tobolsk (via Tyumen) - Omsk - Tomsk - Krasnoyarsk - Port Baikal - Ulaan Baatar - Beijing. I've got a quote from 'real russia' agency, which couldn't do all those stopovers but could do most of them for a very expensive £650 (GBP). Other websites, including 'way to russia', only allow you to make up to 4 stopovers and often don't feature the ones written above. Has anyone done the above route? Do people think its too much to do? And for this kind of complex route, should I book the first leg of the journey between St. Petersburg and Moscow (to secure the visa) and then buy the rest when I get there? I'd appreciate as much as advice as possible! Thanks everyone.
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YellowMelon Frequent Guest Joined: 28 Nov 2008 Posts: 67	Posted: Mon Feb 02, 2009 10:18 pm    Post subject: But, if you know a bit of Russian or use the "buy train tickets" form in Thomas Bryn's Trans-Sib handbook you could always buy tickets as you jump off the train in each city.
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greg222 VIP Joined: 15 Feb 2005 Posts: 599	Posted: Tue Feb 03, 2009 3:40 am    Post subject: It's just a limitation of the form. You can order those tickets through WayToRussia by going here: http://support.waytorussia.net/ And following the "Send a Request" link. One of our vendors should be able to handle all those stopovers. But the price will be pretty much the same as what Real Russia offered. But probably you'd be ok buying those tickets as you go. It might be a good idea to book the legs to and from Ulan Bataar in advance for visa purposes.
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gaijin Lounge Lizard Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 155	Posted: Wed Feb 04, 2009 6:20 pm    Post subject: Why not buy your tickets at the central kassa of the Russian Railroad (near Nevskiy prospekt metro station) when you get in Piter? However you must be aware that many (most?) trains to and from Moscow are booked weeks in advance. I wanted to check how many trains go to Novgorod from Moscow on the site rzd.ru, but it is so horribly designed that I gave up after trying N. Novgorod, Novgorod, Nizhniy Novgorod, Nizhniynovgorod, it just tells me that there is no such station, Novgorod corresponds to Velikiy Novgorod. They don't have suggestion for the name as on any normal site, and no way to choose from a list. But anyway I assume there should be at least half a dozen train per day from Moscow to N. Novgorod, so you will have at least one seat for any day.
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