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Originally Posted by LessinSF
A friend of mine did the six-day Trans-Mongolian Railway - Moscow to Beijing - and loved it, but he likes trains. You are allowed to get off a couple of times and spend a few days in such hot spots as Irkusk and Ulan Bator, and the old babuskas sell you homemade food on the platforms:

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I think the only thing that could make a 6-day trip across Siberia tolerable is if the train came with its own orchestra.
Then, again, maybe not even
that.