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"going through countries like North Korea..." Your geography and politics are slightly incorrect :)
by chrisb 17y ago
"going through countries like North Korea..."
Your geography and politics are slightly incorrect :)
- stingraycharles 17y agoHmmm, now I might be completely ignorant, but care to explain why? As far as I understood, the train splits in China with a connection to Pyongyang.
- mseebach 17y agoThe Trans-Siberian railway goes across Siberia, north of China and Mongolia, and is entirely in Russia. A popular variation, though, is the route that branches through Mongolia and terminates in Beijing. This route also connects to Pyongyang, but that's not the TSRW. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_Trans-Siberian_railway.png http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Map_Trans-Siberian_railway... EDIT - wikipedia says it better than I: The Trans-Siberian Railway is often associated with the main transcontinental Russian train that connects hundreds of large and small cities of the European and Asian parts of Russia. At 9,259 kilometres (5,753 miles),[1] spanning a record 7 time zones and taking eight days to complete the journey, it is the third-longest single continuous service in the world, after the Moscow–Pyongyang (10,267 km, 6,380 mi)[2] and the Kiev–Vladivostok (11,085 km, 6,888 mi)[3] services, both of which also follow the Trans-Siberian for much of their routes. The route was opened by Tsarevich Nicholas Alexandrovitch of Russia after his eastern journey ended.
- jbm 17y agoReminds me of this article I read a while back. http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/ http://vienna-pyongyang.blogspot.com/ Someone actually did the Moscow-Pyongyang trip. I have no idea how they bought the tickets though.