Thomas Bryn, Daniel McCrohan

Trans-Siberian Handbook

The Guide to the World's Longest Railway Journey with 90 Maps and Guides to the Route, Cities and Towns in Russia, Mongolia & China

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Tenth edition of this long-running guide includes 90 maps and km-by-km route guides covering the entire routes of the Trans-Siberian, Trans-Manchurian, Trans-Mongolian and Siberian BAM railways. Plus 32 city guides.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Trailblazer
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 37112
• 10. Aufl.
• Seitenzahl: 532
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 181mm x 123mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 521g
• ISBN-13: 9781912716081
• ISBN-10: 1912716089
• Artikelnr.: 54756723

Autorenporträt

By Bryn Thomas and Daniel McCrohan

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION (1) PART 1: PLANNING YOUR TRIP – Routes and costs (Route options
Costs
Breaking your journey
Internet resources)
When to go
Bookings and visas
Organized tours or individual itineraries?
Route planning
Visas
Making a booking (in Britain
in Continental Europe
in North America
in Australasia
in South Africa
in Asia)
What to take (Clothes
Gifts
Money
Background reading)
Health precautions and inoculations (Inoculations
Medical services) (2) PART 2: RUSSIA Facts about the country (Geographical background
Historical outline
Economy
The people)
Practical information for the visitor (Documents
Crossing the border
Where to stay
Tours
Local transport
Buying rail tickets
Electricity
Time
Money
Post/telecommunications
Magazines and newspapers
Holidays
Festivals
Food and drink
Buying your own food
Where to eat
What to do in the evening
Shopping
Crime) (3) PART 3: SIBERIA AND THE RAILWAY Historical outline (Early history
The nineteenth century
The exile System
Early travellers)
Building the railway (Plans for a Trans-Siberian railway
The decision to build
Railway construction
The first rail travellers
The railway in the twentieth century)
The Trans-Siberian today (The train
Life on the train
Steam locomotives in Siberia
Other railway lines (4) PART 4: CITY GUIDES AND PLANS St Petersburg (History
What to see
Excursions from St Petersburg
Local transport
Orientation and services
Where to stay
Where to eat
Moving on)
Moscow (History
What to see
Excursions from Moscow
Local transport
Orientation and services
Where to stay
Where to eat
Moving on)
Sergiev Posad (History
What to see
Practical information)
Rostov-Yaroslavski (History
What to see
Practical information)
Yaroslavl (History
What to see
Practical information)
Vladimir (History
What to see
Excursions from Vladimir
Orientation and services
Where to stay and eat
Moving on)
Suzdal (History
What to see
Practical information)
Nizhny Novgorod (History
What to see
Practical information)
Vyatka (Kirov) (History
What to see
Practical information)
Perm (History
What to see
Practical information)
Yekaterinburg (History
What to see
Practical information
Where to stay
Where to eat
Moving on)
Tyumen (History
What to see
Practical information)
Omsk (History
What to see
Practical information)
Novosibirsk (History
What to see
Practical information
Where to stay
Where to eat
Moving on
Excursions from Novosibirsk: Akademgorodok
Tomsk)
Krasnoyarsk ((History
What to see
Practical information
Where to stay
Where to eat
Moving on
Excursions from Krasnoyarsk)
Irkutsk (History
What to see
Practical information
Where to stay
Where to eat
Moving on)
Lake Baikal (Getting to Lake Baikal
Listvyanka
Port Baikal
Bolshie Koty)
Other Siberian excursions (Bratsk
Severobaikalsk
Nizhneangarsk
Yakutsk)
Ulan Ude (History
What to see
Ivolginsk Datsan
Orientation and services
Local transport
Where to stay
Where to eat
Moving on)
Chita (History
What to see
Practical information)
Birobidzhan (What to see
Practical information)
Khabarovsk (History
What to see
Practical information
Where to stay
Where to eat
Moving on)
Vladivostok (History
What to see
Practical information
Where to stay
Where to eat
Ferries
Moving on)
Ulan Bator (History
What to see
Practical information
Where to stay
Where to eat
Moving on
Excursions)
Harbin (What to see
Practical information)
Beijing (History
What to see
Practical information
Where to stay
Where to eat
Moving on) (5) PART 5: ROUTE GUIDES AND MAPS Using this guide
Trans-Siberian route (Moscow – Vladimir – Nizhny Novgorod – Vyatka – Perm – Yekaterinburg – Tyumen – Omsk – Novosibirsk – Krasnoyarsk – Irkutsk – Ulan Ude – Chita – Bureya – Birobidzhan – Khabarovsk – Vladivostok (Maps 1-27))
Trans-Monglian route (Ulan Ude – Naushki – Sühbaatar – Darhan – Ulan Bator – Erlyan – Datong – Beijing (Maps 28-30))
Trans-Manchurian route (Chita – Zabaikalsk – Manzhouli – Angangxi – Harbin – Changchun – Shanhaiguan – Tianjin – Beijing (Maps 31-35)) Siberian BAM Route (Tayshet – Bratsk – Severobaikalsk – Severomuysk – Tynda – Novy Ugal – Komsomolsk-na-Amure – Vanino – Sovetskaya Gavan) (6) APPENDICES Alternative route via Yaroslavl
Timetables
Siberian fauna
Bibliography
Phrase lists) (7) INDEX *