ARE YOU A TRANS-SIBERIAN TRAVELLER?

The Trans-Siberian adventure is emphatically not a tour, we can't stress that enough. It runs as an independent package combining the train journey(s), stopovers and accommodation (if any) and accompanying ground arrangements.  You will not be travelling in a group and will not have a group tour leader with you. 

If stopping at intermediate points en route, you will be met on arrival and transferred to your respective accommodation. There will be no included sightseeing so you should arm yourself with a suitable guide book for use at intermediate points en route. In many of the remote places on the journey, you won't find many English speakers to help direct and advise you on where to go, so you'll need to be armed with some initiative and a trusty travel guide!

Aboard the train, all our programs are based on 2nd class 4 berth mixed-sex compartments. If travelling as a trio, duo or solo, you will be sharing your cabin with one, two or three fellow travellers. Your fellow male or female travellers could be Western foreigners, Russian, Mongolian or Chinese.

There will be no GOBUS representative on the train. This truly is a semi independent adventure! If you like everything to happen like clockwork, for everyone you encounter to speak English on command, if you are a 'hilton and hairdryer' traveller where nothing but a 5 star establishment will do, or a room service king or queen hell-bent on a cheeseburger to room 224 within 15 minutes and absolutely cannot work out which way to go without 24 hour continual assistance on the ground, then a Trans-Siberian adventure is probably not for you! Our Trans-Siberian adventures are suitable for independent travellers, who enjoy mixing with people from all walks of life, absorbing themselves in different cultures and are happy to do without the creature comforts of home. This really is a once in a lifetime experience and if you fit the bill, then what are you waiting for!

Are you ready for the time of your life? Your train is departing!