Russia

Perhaps the world’s most famous and inspiring rail journey, the Trans-Siberian Express, traverses from Europe, east to the Orient. Beginning in Russia’s capital Moscow, it climbs through the magnificent Urals, across the majestic Russian steppes and the wild, barren and windswept tundra. Continuing beside the shores of beguiling Lake Baikal, passing beyond Asia to the Sea of Japan as it terminates in Vladivostok.