The Trans-Mongolian Railway
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
- A video-diary of a journey on one of the longest stretches of rail road in the world, running from Moscow in Russia to Beijing in China. From the sometimes horrible conditions on the trains, to the most scenic mountains and the scorching deserts this video brings you the best of the trip - in 16 minutes. Best when viewed in HD.
Filmed in HD (1080i) on Sony equipment during the summer of 2008. Uploaded here as 720p.
Music: Garageband
Thank you: my mom, my dad, and Caroline
Inuk Jørgensen, September 2011
I have enjoyed watching your video diary of a very adventurous trip. Thank you so much for sharing this. I hope some day to travel on those trains. For now, I have only ridden trains on North American continent.
This trip is on my bucketlist. Seems to be amazing.
Doing it next year and 2 weeks hiking in Mongolia cannot wait.
Lucky you. Have a great trip. Mongolia is beautiful!
Great video. thanks
Definitivamente, una hermosura de video y de sensibilidad para grabarlo; es para agradecer sobradamente el que lo hayas compartido para deleite de todos los que deseamos hacer ese viaje. ¡Muchas gracias, amigo danés!
You are welcome amigo. Thanks for the kind words.
Thanks for sharing, Trans-Siberian Rail is on my bucket list.
Thank you so much for sharing this video. Good luck on your next adventure. Lots love from the Philippines🇵🇭❤️
This video reminds me good memory of my journey on same route but opposite season in 1988. Thank you so much for posting!
what a terrific video you did it very well. Thank you
Great video, nicely shot, edited, perfect music...everything is perfect. Enjoyed a lot. I felt I was travelling. Thanks from my heart for your work. Greetings from India.
Going to do the Trans Siberian to Vladivostok one year. Great video!
Thanks and have a great trip. 🙏
wonderful video - hopefully I'll be doing the trip next year. Thanks for sharing xxx
scenery is very beautiful n pleasure to go once in life time.
Beautiful train .am from Tamilnadu state INDIA.welcome
Something I'm looking forward to do in the future. This trip is so cool!
What a great adventure! Thank you for sharing..
thoroughly enjoyed the upload. thanks
Lovely video. This is one train journey I have to do someday. For now I have to settle for the videos. Well done.
Thanks a bunch for the kind feedback. 🙏
AMAZING Video, amazing journey. I cant wait to take the train myself.
Thanks so much for this.
Astonishing railway.
Just come back yesterday from the same trip! Wonderful experience!
Im ding the trip in November and for second class it is $730 USD or just over $1000 for first class. My friend and I are going from Moscow to Beijing without any stops.
wow....so xtra awesome..thank you so much...lucky traveler!!!!
Very nice. Excellent effort.
Thank you! We will be travelling the same path, great to see this preview. We will bring our own tp! 😉
Great stuff! It is great to see what it was like in the summer. It is interesting that you note the fresh air. I went on the train in winter and it as so cold outside that we preferred the air inside the train. I put together a video blog also which hows what it s like in winter.
Great video guys, it has inspired us to consider the trip sometime.
Какие молодцы ! столько проехать на поезде ! класс
Yeah, you're probably right. The track is called Shogun, and is a royalty free jingle in Apple's iLife suite (Garageband to be more specific).
Great video! I really enjoyed watching it. I've wanted to take the Trans-Siberian or Mongolian for a long time now.
how great to see this! i took trans mongolia in 2008
I remember those Russian trains well. In 2005 I travelled the whole Trans-Siberian from Vladivostok to Moscow with a few days stop in Irkutsk and Lake Baikal. I found the part from Vladivostok to Irkutsk the most beautiful which mostly you don't see if you take the Mongolian route. It's longer too, over 8,000km
Some day, when everything has calmed down again that trip is on my bucket list. :-)
very very enjoyable!!
A wonderful video diary! Only wish it were longer; perhaps an hour or so? While I've been to Copenhagen,( I was stationed in Germany with the U.S.Army), I've never had the chance to travel farther east. Thanks for sharing your trip!
Dan
Thanks
@ 3:45, I couldn't help it but thought that you were gazing the train to transient train hop. LOL!
Great video....I enjoyed it so very much.....
The whole stretch is served every 2nd day or so but there are several trains (day and night) a day running parts of it. e.g. Moscow - Irkutsk. That allows you to break as often as you like, though you need then a ticket for every ride. Like this you can arrange to stay every other day in a hotel/city to have a decent shower apart from deciding where you want to stay how long. There are not really remote towns in Russia where train stops while there are almost no towns in Mongolia...
Very good video! Greeeting from Hungary
really like yours video
Great job!!!
thxs
Thanks for sharing nice video from Your trip to east...i was thought about it as well to go there one day but its hard to find good travel agency with that kind of package from my country...anyway i like it what i seen on this video.
paul
Superb !
Wonderful Inuk, many thanks! Tak! Lovely to hear the sounds of Danish too (I understood some from my German=)). I hope we can do the Irkutsk-Beijing sector one day - don't have the patience for the Moscow-Irkutsk bit!
fantastic video
Very well done! What kind of camera were you using. The sound was very good and also your adding a sound track to this, very nice. Can you stay in any town along the way? Is it expensive buying food and staying in a hotel in the remote towns along the railway? How much did your train ticket cost? It sounded like the air in the train was not good. Can you open the window in your car? I would like to hike and maybe camp too along the way. Are there many restrictions etc. Thanks!
Hi Inuk, - looks like an incredible experience. Would you be kind enough to forward on details of who you booked through please and if possible, any tips that would have made the journey smoother. It's definitely a trip that I'd like to make - just need Covid19 to settle down.
Take Care and Thanks again for sharing your experience.
We ordered our trip through a travel agency in Denmark (Penguin Travel) and paid a premium - I’m sure that if one took the time ordering directly from local vendors there would be a lot saved economically. During the trip we really enjoyed the stops we had, so plan a few of those (we had a few overnight stops were we changed trains in Irkutsk and Ulaanbatar).
Brings lots of biscuits and food ;-)
nice video
a nice video dood
Hey fantastic video. I was just wondering which Mongolian village you visited outside of Ulan Bator? Cheers
Hey. I don't have any recollection of the name of the village, but it's in the Gorkhi-Terelj National Park. Sorry I couldn't be of more help.Thanks for the comment :-)
Hi! Great video! I'm planning on doing the same trip next year, and was just wondering how much you paid? How long did you have on each break during the travel (for example at the Baikal lake)? Any other things I should know before planning the trip? Thanks!
Hey there, I loved some of the tracks you put on here!
What's the band name and song name of the very first one, and the one you used in the Mongolia and Beijing chapter?
now , why would 5 - dislike this.....?
Stiefelknecht13 Hahaa, good one. Thanx! :-)
I will one day make this journey
Hi can you please tell me did you see any children on the train journey actually doing the journey? I will be doing this trip alone with my son who is 9', I am worried..... Any advice?
Hi! Thanks for that answer, it was really helpful! I was just wondering if you could five me the name of the travel agency you went through and how much you paid for the whole trip? Also how did you return to Europe (by plane?). Thanks!
by train from moscow passed mongolia reached beijing
beijing in distance a great wall landmark
landmark the huts mongolia a great view
view the kremlin travel spots great moscow
moscow boarded showers less great journey by train :)
Hi, where did you stay when you stopped at Lake Baikal/Irtusk? Trying to do a similar trip and looking for a chalet on the shores of Lake Baikal. Thanks
Fizemos esta viagem em Agosto /14; realmente os trens Russos são antigos e ruins; muito dificil embarque e desembarque , como tb. o deslocamento com malas nas estações; não existem escadas rolantes, esteiras ou rampas apenas escadarias enormes. O trem Chinês é bem melhor.
.É preciso ter muito espírito de aventura para esta viagem .
Stanislaw Marilia só nessa transiberiana, aliás não existe no mundo uma ferrovia tão grande, agora trens ruins infelizmente aqui no Brasil não existem.
i wanna go baikal lake too!
Are all those dogs strays?
hello friends, actually me too planning to travel by this train. But I want to get down from the train at several locations to visit some where. here is it possible? and if it so what is the frequency of this train in a week. Up/Down.
Next is how to obtain visa, for an uninterrupted journey. I'm Sri Lankan and at present in Saudi Arabia, So is it possible to catch the train some where after Moscow.(Coz , I'm planning to come from Ankara to north by another train via Georgia)
Thank You Very Much and expecting your kindness.
Hi. Visas took a while to get, but we basically contacted the embassies of the different countries and they were very helpful. Back in 2008 the trains were quite frequent, at least a few times a week even in the most remote places. Make sure you get tickets before hand though so you are sure to get on. The trains have different numbers, but the stretch between Moscow/Ulan Ude they all go in the same direction and stop at the same places so it should not matter if you pick different trains (but you’ll have to check as I’m not sure).
@@inukjorgensen thank you very much. it's really helpful to me.
Bol'shiye Koty translates as Big Cats))
How much did you pay for the one-way journey by train per person?
If you want the same comfort like at home you have to stay at home don't travel!!
+camel1945 Hehe, nice one!
+camel1945 stupid?
There's a difference between basic comfort and sleeping in someone elses shit due to lazy cleaning.
Indeed
Well said
Hey mate, u should have shown how is the border patrol procedures on camera.
There is no bathroom on the whole train or it depends on the class/price u pay?
Do u need to change to other train in the mongolian-chinese border as u did there in the russian-mongolian border?
Thanks for the concern!
Lovely trip that one!
Wish u the best
And what about the stops?May u spend for example a day in Novosibirsk if u want and catch the next day transiberian or not? Thanks in advance
Unfortunately, filmning/photography was not allowed at the border. In fact Russian customs wanted to see my camera several times during that evening. I have no idea what they were checking, but they none the less went away with it (along with our passports) for an hour or two. It came back intact.
We had our tickets/cabins booked in advance so we did not have the luxury of missing our scheduled departures. But, I'm sure you can and jump on the next train (but during summer these trains are pretty full so I'm not sure it will work). The crew were not that serviceminded so we never explored the possibility.
Thank u very much, So I can jump, visit a city for a day and catch the same train in another day,I thought it could have dates on the ticket and it had to be followed obligatorily
How do you get permits from all three countries? Did you need visa for each of them or need some special permission?
You have to have VISAs for all three countries - at least if you are European. The only currency you are allowed to bring into Mongolia were US dollars, and we did not encounter a single ATM or a place that accepted our major creditcards. This was back in 2008 so maybe they have laxed the rules a little. Back then they checked how much cash we brought into the country, and how much we had when we left... ;-)
Crazyness I know.
Thanks for the info.
inukjorgensen Wait... You told me some thing... It seems you never call a Russian European.
@@inukjorgensen my friend could you please tell me how much you spent for the tickets. Thanks..
@@Ara-bw3tu To be honest, I can't remember. The tickets were ordered through a Danish travel agency and I am sure they took a cut (of the money). Buy tickets in Russia and you are sure to save lots of money, but it won't be as convenient.
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what's the train ticket cost
The tickets themselves were fairly cheap, can't remember how much tough. Buy them in Russia and you'll definitely save some money.
Um mani badme khum
hiii I am from India I will travel in this train
Russia is a beautiful country!
very beautiful photography. Can I get away with English only?
Absolutely. Except for our Scandinavian, we got by on English. Well, aided by body language at times of course ;-)
10:56 thats how the great Turkic empire's started. 16 empires in 2200 years. Those people are mostly etnic Turkic
Do not dream, idiot!
When did you travel and how much was your package?
The video was shot in July of 2008, a few weeks before the Summer Olympics in Beijing. The trip was quite expensive as we ordered it from a travel agency in Europe and not directly in Russia (that's much cheaper).
Nice to hear that the Chinese train is more civilised than the Russian train. Russians always assuming that theirs i better than the Chinese.
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Here's a website your viewers might be interested in:
trans-siberian-railway-encyclopedia.com/
Kind regards, Robert Walker, Waikiki, Honolulu, Hawaii
Stanislaw Marília os trens russos quer dizer o transiberiano é claro agora se vc for brasileira nem trens ruins tem por aqui.