Lonely Planet Trans-Siberian Railway

by Simon Richmond, Robert Reid, Mark Elliott

Book Overview

Including maps covering routes as well as major cities, this guide provides all the details for enjoying an epic journey on this classic rail route. It also has special features on the history and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 174059536X
• ISBN13: 9781740595360
• Release Date: January 2006
• Publisher: Lonely Planet
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 0.77 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 7.7"

Customer Reviews

Very comprehensive.

This gives a very comprehensive account of the various routes on the trans siberian, i'v chosen vladivostok to st petersburg! will have my guidebook close at hand during my trip!

very useful guide

As the title says, I found the book a very useful guide. Since I currently live in China, I was mostly just using the portions for Mongolia, and Russia. My only complaint is the switching around of currency used. Sometime in the Russian portion prices would be listed in US dollars, other times Rubles, and sometimes in Euros. It would have been much better to pick one currency and stick with it. A minor complaint.

Excellent guide book

This LP was all i needed for the russian leg of my trans-siberian trip, It offers more than enough to keep you busy for the standard one month tourist visa. (The people above must have never gotten off the train between Moscow and Irkutsk!) If you intend to branch out in mongolia or china then you will obiously need to supplement this guide. It is a short compact guide focused specificly on the train routes, and it covers them remarkably well.

Good, but fast outdated!

We've used the book in july/august 2002 for a trip from Beijing to Helsinki. Much information in the book, but a lot of it is copy-past'ed from the country guides.Another reviewer remarked on the rapidly changing circumstances in the countries... no guide can outrun those.We visited Beijing, Irkutsk, Listvanka, Jekaterinaburg, Moscow and Saint-Peterburg. Most of the time we found accomodation from the book. At that time, the Trans-siberian handbook (Thomas Bryn - ISBN 1873756704) was older.We had both books: LP fresh of the press and Thomas Bryn's book - THE guide to have. Thomas' had a new edition in february 2004. Best to take the most recent editions of guidebooks. The handbook is more interesting to read, so that's a must. You'll have plenty of time to read!The trip is recommended to anyone: we found a british couple with 2 kids doing it! Don't be too easily discouraged, try to take the east-west trip (to avoid wagons full of tourists!).