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Main, Detailed Itinerary & Expenses, Statistics, The Russia Experience

The trip cost us each around $6,000 US. For the first time in our lives, we engaged a professional travel agent to book our train tickets and some hotels, and arrange our visas. It was difficult enough to arrange the entire trip because of extremely tight start and end date ranges of both Will and I, worked around affordable British Airways flight possibilities for Will.

Items booked or handled ourselves, links included:

• Will's flights, Beijing-Amsterdam flight, Amsterdam-London flight, and Amsterdam hotel

• my visa for Vietnam

• Will's visas for Belarus, Russia, and China

• the Eurostar train from London to Brussels (and from Paris to London for me)

• the train from Brussels to Moscow

• the hotel in Beijing

• the hotel in Hanoi

• my Hanoi-Paris flight on Vietnam Airlines (this web site has changed, but if you find a reachable number in Vietnam, call it instead of any of their useless overseas offices)

Items handled by our travel agent, The Russia Experience:

• my visas for Belarus, Russia, and China

• Moscow: hotel for the day and a 4-hour "buddy tour"

• train from Moscow to Irkutsk, car from Irkutsk to Listvyanka

• car from Listvyanka back to Irkutsk

• hotel in Irkutsk

• train from Irkutsk to Vladivostok, car pick-up to hotel

• car to station, train from Vladivostok to Harbin

• hotel in Harbin

• train from Harbin to Beijing

• my train from Beijing to Hanoi

Items we specified, but were booked by The Russia Experience:

• the hotel in Listvyanka

• the hotel in Vladivostok

Our experience with The Russia Experience

Feel free to contact us if you have any further questions: Eric, Will, or both of us.

Eric - from London