Product description

Trans-Siberian Handbook (Trailblazeer)

Price: £7.50
RRP: £12.99
Average customer rating: 4.5

Author : Bryn Thomas
Binding : Paperback
EAN : 9781873756706
ISBN : 1873756704
Label : Trailblazer Publications
Manufacturer : Trailblazer Publications
Number of pages : 448
Publication date : 2003-06-01
Publisher : Trailblazer Publications
Title : Trans-Siberian Handbook (Trailblazeer)
Languages : Array
Number of items : 1
Studio : Trailblazer Publications

Customer reviews

review by: date: 2008-05-07 rating:

Absolutely invaluable!
If you are planning to take a trip on the Trans-Siberian, Trans-Mongolian or Trans-Manchurian railway, I URGE you to purchase this book! I cannot express how invaluable this book was to me during my trip.

The book contains a wealth of important information. It helps you to book your trip with suggestions of companies to go through as well as informing you of any complications that may arise such as visas, vaccinations. It has a stop-by-stop guide of the entire length of the railway for all 3 journies as well as kilometre markings and places of interest along the route outside of stops, for photo opportunities and such.

Inside of stops, for the bigger towns along the way it contains a map (very valuable) marking out places of interest such as hotels, Internet cafes, restaurants and places to see. For each place listed it even contains a small review of it and a rough price guide. Such minute detail is astounding and helps you to pick the best choice given your budget.

Throughout the book tips are given from the writers and also from travellers themselves who have submitted advice related to your journey, from warning you of for dodgy areas to train etiquette. The history of the Trans-Siberian Railway is included which makes for an interesting read and it also contains accurate (at least for the ones I went on) train time tables for each individual stop along the way.

I thoroughly reccomend this book to anyone taking a journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway.

review by: date: 2006-08-11 rating:

A useful guide for the TS Railway traveller
This guide was much better than the the Lonely Planet, both in its mile-by-mile descriptions and mini-maps and in its historical background content.

We found this book more useful on the train than off it though, as the city guides could have had a bit more information about what was interesting to do.

Don't miss the Trubetskoy house in Irkutsk - the old ladies there are charming and very enthusiastic!

review by: spinneywood date: 2006-01-11 rating:

Trans Siberian Adventure
A comprehensive and up to date guide to a journey on the Trans Siberian Railway. Beginning with planning your journey, timetables, how to buy tickets, prices, booking and visas, route planning and what to take. There's a useful background reading list with internet resources, practical information about food and drink, money, health, and safety tips from other travellers. There are good maps with time zones marked, lovely colour photographs, historical facts, city guides and information about crossing the borders. An excellent book which should be read thoroughly before embarking on the journey then kept in your back pocket throughout.

review by: date: 2001-11-25 rating:

Great book: the definitive guide to the Trans Siberian
I took this book with me when I travelled on the Trans Siberian last year. It really gives a mile-by-mile accurate and detailed of the route. There are also some invaluable tips + a description of some of the major cities you pass + a history of Russia and the raildroad.

review by: date: 2001-11-08 rating:

Not as good as I thought
Most of the information in this book is really useful, but the major problem is that It does not tell you how or where to buy the train ticket by yourself, not from a ripped-off travel agency.

In fact, everyone can buy the ticket buy themself with no more than USD$300 for the fare from Moscow to Beijing with stopover in Mongolia , rather than paying more than USD$600 to a travel agency in the U.K

I strongly feel that Lonely Planet: Russia, Ukrain and Belarus is much better than this Handbook because at least it will tell you where you can get the cheapest ticket rather than misleading you to buy more expensive ticket from a travel agency.

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