We arrived in Beijing during Golden Week, a national holiday and probably the worst time to visit China’s capital city
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From Russia with Love: Riding the Rails from Moscow to Beijing
In the age of air travel, taking the train is a pretty retro way to cover the 6,000-plus kilometers between Moscow and Beijing.
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Today, Irkutsk is showing her age: the roads are a mess, and some of the quirky wood cabins are sinking into the ground. Still, the town has a lively, frontier feeling, maybe because anything goes when you’re thousands of miles from the capital city.
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