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collecting tickets in beijing.

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katmonty Just Starting Joined: 11 May 2005 Posts: 1	Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 2:51 pm    Post subject: collecting tickets in beijing. i am planning to buy trans-mogolian tickets from beijing to moscow online. is there anywhere i can collect the tickets or do i have to send them to where i'm staying?
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wavetossed WayToRussified Joined: 27 Jun 2004 Posts: 339	Posted: Wed May 11, 2005 11:01 pm    Post subject: You can't really buy Russian train tickets online. What you can do is to get an agent in Russia to buy tickets for you and they can take care of shipping them to whichever location you need. If you go to the train tickets section of this site and do a search, it takes you to their partner site. There, under the Customer Support menu, you can find email addresses to send your inquiries. Tell them exactly what you want to do and they will be able to explain what is possible. By the way, there is no such thing as the Transsib or the Trans-mongolian. There are just lots of trains running short haul and long haul journeys on lots of tracks that connect lots of cities. You might like to take a direct train from Beijing to Moscow. But check the routes on your map. It might be more fun to take a train to Outer Mongolia, stay a couple of days in a yurt, then take a train to Irkutsk, spend a couple of days at Lake Baikal, then take a train to Ekaterinburg, tour the mafia graveyard, historic village, Gary Powers U2 spy plane, and then continue to Moscow. Trains are for transport, not for holidays. Get out of those trains and meet the people and the countryside.
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