| Day 1: Moscow |
| Group flights are met at Moscow airport and passengers transfer to a five-star Hotel near Red Square, for a one-night stay. Welcome reception at St Basil's Cathedral. Dinner in a city restaurant. |
| Day 2: Moscow |
| A full day touring Moscow, including Red Square and the Kremlin. Evening departure of the Trans-Siberian Express private train. |
| Day 3: Kazan |
| We spend the day in Kazan, the beautiful capital of Tatarstan on the Volga River. |
| Day 4: Yekaterinburg |
| We cross the Europe/Asia divide before arrival in Yekaterinburg, capital of Urals. Our city tour includes the Romanov execution site and the Urals Mineralogical museum. |
| Day 5: Novosibirsk |
| We stop in this modern “Soviet” city where we visit the famous Opera House, Lenin Square, Railway Museum & River Ob, which flows 3,500 miles from its source to the Arctic. |
| Day 6: On Board |
| As we head east you can relax, spending another day on board our Trans-Siberian Express train. |
| Day 7: Irkutsk |
| Morning arrival in the “Paris of Siberia,” Irkutsk. Our day-long tour includes a cultural immersion of the major sights and museums of this fascinating city. We also see the classic wooden architecture that this area is renowned for. |
| Day 8: Lake Baikal |
| A fantastic day’s adventure as we wind our way through tunnels and round cliffs along the shoreline of the world’s largest freshwater lake, Lake Baikal. We stop at one of the bays and have a barbeque off the train at the water’s edge. We then visit Listvyanka, a small Baikal village nestled at the base of the surrounding hills. We return to the train for dinner and an evening departure. |
| Day 9: Ulan Ude |
| Morning arrival in Ulan Ude, capital of the Buryat Republic. A fascinating change of people and faces greet us as we tour the area’s colorful Buddhist Temple and travel by coach to the Village of Old Believers. The day’s attractions include a concert featuring local dancers and musicians. |
| Day 10: Ulaan Baatar |
| Morning arrival in the capital of Mongolia, Ulaan Baatar, where we visit the National History Museum. Lunch in a Ger (Yurt) restaurant. Free time in the afternoon or an optional visit to Gorkhi-Terelj National Park. We board the train in time for dinner as we head back into Russia. |
| Day 11: On Board |
| Enjoy the peaceful pace on board our train as you have a choice of attending the various lessons/lectures we offer, enjoying the warm atmosphere in the Bar Car, or viewing the beautiful scenery as we pass through this vast country. |
| Day 12: On Board |
| Following the Shilka and Amur rivers, we are never far from the Chinese border. Siberia at its most remote here and the beauty unfolds before us as we enter the region of permafrost. Here the vast distances and forbidding geographic and climatic conditions render the entire region a difficult environment for human existence. |
| Day 13: On Board |
| Our last full day on board our Trans-Siberian Express private train. We are now north of Seoul, Darwin, and interestingly, Osaka. We reach the most easterly point of the journey passing through Khabarovsk, where we cross the river Amur. Final dinner on board the train. |
| Day 14: Vladivostok |
| Morning arrival in Vladivostok and the end of the Trans-Siberian line. Our city tour includes the principal military attractions of this once ‘”closed” Russian town. We transfer to the Hotel Hyundai for a one-night stay and our final farewell dinner. |
| Day 15: Vladivostok |
| Breakfast in the hotel with transfers being provided to the airport for departing international flights. |
