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Photo © David Gilkey- Courtesy NPR I rarely post on Russia! On the map that shows where The Travel Photographer blog readership comes from, ...

Photo © Evgenia Arbugaeva-All Rights Reserved I think featuring Evgenia Arbugaeva's photo essay Following The Reindeer is timely in vie...

If Yakutsk, Russia, ever gets a pro basketball team, can I suggest the name Yakutsk Cats?

Ian Frazier spent about 17 years researching and writing 'Travels in Siberia,' about the same time Axl Rose took for 'Chinese D...

SIBERIAN INTERVIEW, 2005 During my first crossing of Siberia, in 2005, I was smitten by the kindness of Russians on trains, the beauty of La...

Episode #023 F E A T U R I N G * 3 2 * B O N U S * S E C O N D S Some of the reasons why virtual travel , while a nice aid, will never repl...

Did you hear you can 'ride' the Trans-Siberian Railway on Google ? Last year a team spent 30 days on the six-day ride from Moscow t...

Ah, the "following the footsteps of" article. I'm guilty. Last year, while updating Lonely Planet's Trans-Siberian Railway...

Many Trans-Siberian Railway travelers cross Russia from Moscow, passing Lake Baikal, then cut south through Mongolia to Beijing. The fools. ...

Twenty years ago, I was a quarter way through my first Eurail check-the-country-off-the-list trip across Europe -- London to Rome in 20 days...

I've gone a few miles over the years. And here are 44 little things about travel I picked up on the way. 1. Wash your hands before you...

Yakutsk is the coldest city in the world. In winter, temperatures can fall to 70-below Farenheit. Locals (split evenly between Sakha and Ru...