You’ll have to change services a few times and there will be gauge differences at some points. Plus there are ticketing boundaries so you can’t just buy a ticket for the whole thing. But yes, it’s essentially a single line across Eurasia.
You got me interested. But what share of the journey can be made in sleeper trains? I do prefer a 4 hour train ride than a one hour flight. But 5+ hours seated in a train piss me off. Most of the journey seems like trans siberian and the Paris Moscow train, which I think foreigners cannot board as we are not allowed to enter Belarus by train.
In 2019 you could do Moscow-Pyongyang without a single transfer.
With a single transfer you could do Nice-Moscow-Pyongyang.
Right now the longest single journey is Moscow-Vladivostok, the longest journey with a single transfer probably being Brest[BY]-Moscow-Vladivostok.
Entering Belarus by train wasn't a problem, the problem was crossing the Belarus-Russia border,.
I am ... almost....doing it.
I wish Russia as a country wasn't the equivalent of a drug addict that lives outside your office that you watch get a little more dead and a little more addicted every day. What a waste of land.
June 2024. We are taking 10.5 months so some bigger stops along the way of course.
The original plan was to do it in full, as shown, but fricking Russia happens to the shitbrained country on the planet, so now we are routing down from Poland into Turkey and only getting off the train to cross the Caspian. Then back on the train in Kazakhstan and continuing through Xinjiang down to Kunming to continue the original route down to Singapore. When we get to Asian Pacific we are spending about a month each in Indonesia, Philippines and Taiwan. I can type up a whole breakdown of estimated times we plan to spend in each place along the way if anyone is interested in a blog post.
Sure, if you want to believe that.
Are you mad your cousin got Javelin'd in Bucha?
Did your flight to flee Russian mobilization bankrupt your family or did you send your sister in a seacan to Dubai to be a wienersleeve to fund it? I hope the second, its probably a better life for her anyways.
What's the point of this? I just did darwin to adelaide in Australia by bus, took about 50 hours. Sucked.
Why extend this to like a month? You don't see jack shit just state out the window. Might as well watch YouTube.m videos of the places you'll learn more.
wow why would you do this to yourself? When I was a student I'd take a ferry boat and a bus to travel back home, typically 17-20 hours door to door, but it was once or twice a year and I wanted to off myself at the end of the route.
Are you australian? I'm traveling here and I did cairns to darwin, and darwin to adelaide. I'm literally on a 3 day journey now adelaide by bus to melbourne by ferry to geelong by boat to launsomeshot by bus to hobart
Start losing your mind by 60 hour in my experience. Sleeping in random hours and places. Need to shower badly. Guzzling redbull.
No I'm in europe, but still that's the sort of trip you bite the bullet and buy a plane ticket for.
If you have stuff to send just send them with a moving company or something.
wow why would you do this to yourself? When I was a student I'd take a ferry boat and a bus to travel back home, typically 17-20 hours door to door, but it was once or twice a year and I wanted to off myself at the end of the route.
Are you australian? I'm traveling here and I did cairns to darwin, and darwin to adelaide. I'm literally on a 3 day journey now adelaide by bus to melbourne by ferry to geelong by boat to launsomeshot by bus to hobart
Start losing your mind by 60 hour in my experience. Sleeping in random hours and places. Need to shower badly. Guzzling redbull.
You have a strange way, of proving that the world has grown smaller. So, because you can go round it in three months, it means the world is now reduced in size ?
This. Only eighty days, now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened. Here is the estimate made by the Daily Telegraph:
>From London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi, by rail and steamboats : ................. 7 days >From Suez to Bombay, by steamer .................................................................................. 13 " >From Bombay to Calcutta, by rail .......................................................................................3 " >From Calcutta to Hong Kong, by steamer ......................................................................... 13 " >From Hong Kong to Yokohama (Japan), by steamer ........................................................ 6 " >From Yokohama to San Francisco, by steamer ................................................................ 22 " >From San Francisco to New York, by rail .......................................................................... 7 " >From New York to London, by steamer and rail ................................................................ 9
Total ................................................................................................................................... 80 days."
I love pointlessly long journeys like this and if I had the opportunity I would do this, although I have done most of it already.
Ive done Beijing - Moscow over 3 weeks through Mongolia and it was brilliant, I know some people don't get it but train travel is an experience in itself. The people you meet along the way, the places you go through, I'm not sure why, perhaps it's the old school whimsy of it but I really enjoy it.
>Will anyone do it?
paul theroux maybe
based pauly t. shame he's probably too old to do that now
What? Surely it can be way longer if you add detours? Or is this all on one track?
You’ll have to change services a few times and there will be gauge differences at some points. Plus there are ticketing boundaries so you can’t just buy a ticket for the whole thing. But yes, it’s essentially a single line across Eurasia.
You got me interested. But what share of the journey can be made in sleeper trains? I do prefer a 4 hour train ride than a one hour flight. But 5+ hours seated in a train piss me off. Most of the journey seems like trans siberian and the Paris Moscow train, which I think foreigners cannot board as we are not allowed to enter Belarus by train.
In 2019 you could do Moscow-Pyongyang without a single transfer.
With a single transfer you could do Nice-Moscow-Pyongyang.
Right now the longest single journey is Moscow-Vladivostok, the longest journey with a single transfer probably being Brest[BY]-Moscow-Vladivostok.
Entering Belarus by train wasn't a problem, the problem was crossing the Belarus-Russia border,.
Prior to the botched Ukrainian invasion you could get transit visas for Belarus with not much difficulty. I don’t know what the situation is like now.
Ok how do I book the journey
I am ... almost....doing it.
I wish Russia as a country wasn't the equivalent of a drug addict that lives outside your office that you watch get a little more dead and a little more addicted every day. What a waste of land.
June 2024. We are taking 10.5 months so some bigger stops along the way of course.
The original plan was to do it in full, as shown, but fricking Russia happens to the shitbrained country on the planet, so now we are routing down from Poland into Turkey and only getting off the train to cross the Caspian. Then back on the train in Kazakhstan and continuing through Xinjiang down to Kunming to continue the original route down to Singapore. When we get to Asian Pacific we are spending about a month each in Indonesia, Philippines and Taiwan. I can type up a whole breakdown of estimated times we plan to spend in each place along the way if anyone is interested in a blog post.
Are you mad that Russia banned the queer propaganda you groomers are trying to spread
No it seems like he's mad that Russia invaded Ukraine, if you couldn't get that from his post you might be autistic
Nope I didn't see that. So he's just mad that Russia is defending itself from American aggression? That's just victim blaming and not OK bro it's 2023
I'm mad that Russia failed so hard in their invasion, if they'd invade and win and be done with it I'd have no problems with it.
Sure, if you want to believe that.
Are you mad your cousin got Javelin'd in Bucha?
Did your flight to flee Russian mobilization bankrupt your family or did you send your sister in a seacan to Dubai to be a wienersleeve to fund it? I hope the second, its probably a better life for her anyways.
What's the point of this? I just did darwin to adelaide in Australia by bus, took about 50 hours. Sucked.
Why extend this to like a month? You don't see jack shit just state out the window. Might as well watch YouTube.m videos of the places you'll learn more.
wow why would you do this to yourself? When I was a student I'd take a ferry boat and a bus to travel back home, typically 17-20 hours door to door, but it was once or twice a year and I wanted to off myself at the end of the route.
Are you australian? I'm traveling here and I did cairns to darwin, and darwin to adelaide. I'm literally on a 3 day journey now adelaide by bus to melbourne by ferry to geelong by boat to launsomeshot by bus to hobart
Start losing your mind by 60 hour in my experience. Sleeping in random hours and places. Need to shower badly. Guzzling redbull.
No I'm in europe, but still that's the sort of trip you bite the bullet and buy a plane ticket for.
If you have stuff to send just send them with a moving company or something.
>comparing a bus journey to a train journey
The world has grown smaller, since a man can now go round it ten times more quickly than a hundred years ago.
You have a strange way, of proving that the world has grown smaller. So, because you can go round it in three months, it means the world is now reduced in size ?
>three months
eighty days*
This. Only eighty days, now that the section between Rothal and Allahabad, on the Great Indian Peninsula Railway, has been opened. Here is the estimate made by the Daily Telegraph:
>From London to Suez via Mont Cenis and Brindisi, by rail and steamboats : ................. 7 days
>From Suez to Bombay, by steamer .................................................................................. 13 "
>From Bombay to Calcutta, by rail .......................................................................................3 "
>From Calcutta to Hong Kong, by steamer ......................................................................... 13 "
>From Hong Kong to Yokohama (Japan), by steamer ........................................................ 6 "
>From Yokohama to San Francisco, by steamer ................................................................ 22 "
>From San Francisco to New York, by rail .......................................................................... 7 "
>From New York to London, by steamer and rail ................................................................ 9
Total ................................................................................................................................... 80 days."
But that doesn't take into account bad weather, contrary winds, shipwrecks, railway accidents, and so on.
Nope. All included.
>implying the Hindoos or Indians won't pull up the rails, stop the trains, pillage the luggage-vans, and scalp the passengers
You are right, theoretically, but i doubt it's practically the case tho
Practically also.
kek. I'd like to see you do it.
It depends on you. Shall we go ?
Heaven preserve me! But I would wager four thousand pounds that such a journey, made under these conditions, is impossible.
Quite possible, on the contrary.
Well, make it, then!
The journey round the world in eighty days?"
Yes.
I should like nothing better. I will start at once. Only I warn you that I shall do it at your expense.
Well Anon, it shall be so: I will wager the four thousand on it.
I love pointlessly long journeys like this and if I had the opportunity I would do this, although I have done most of it already.
Ive done Beijing - Moscow over 3 weeks through Mongolia and it was brilliant, I know some people don't get it but train travel is an experience in itself. The people you meet along the way, the places you go through, I'm not sure why, perhaps it's the old school whimsy of it but I really enjoy it.