Unique Tsar’s tour from Moscow to Beijing 16D/15N

Travel on board of Tsar’s Gold Luxury train to see the whole Trans-Siberian route with comfort

Active, Cultural

16 Days

14 Excursions

8 Cities

Minimum 1 persons

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on demand

Short program

Detailed program

Day 1: Moscow

After having arrived in Moscow, your tour guide welcomes you at the airport and accompanies you to your hotel. The Russian capital presents itself in wonderful illumination on your "Moscow by Night" city lights tour. Afterwards you may stroll across the famous Red Square with your tour guides and experience Moscow’s Metro stations in all their splendour and beauty. At night, the beds in your first class hotel will shroud you in comfort.

Day 2: Moscow

Your grand city tour starts in the morning with the Kremlin, including one of the magnificent cathedrals remaining from the time of the Tsars. Towards the evening, your train will depart from the Kazan Station.

Day 3: Kazan

After breakfast you arrive in Kazan, the old Tartar capital on the banks of the Volga. Plenty of history here: on a guided tour of the Kremlin you will learn about the wild and often bloody relations of the Tartars, Cossacks, and Russians. Your Private Train resumes its journey in the evening.

Day 4: Yekaterinburg

In the afternoon, halt in Yekaterinburg and short tour of the city centre which has just been restored in 2009. In the course of the city tour you will see the newly erected Cathedral-on-the-blood, built in memorial of that tragic historical event. Back on the train your journey through the vast steppes of Western Siberia continues.

Day 5: Novosibirsk

You reach Novosibirsk, heart of Siberia, where you will be welcomed in the traditional Russian manner with bread and salt. Your city tour includes a visit of the Trans-Siberian monument and the mighty Ob River. After dinner, the train continues its ride eastwards.

Day 6: Across Siberia

Your Private Train, by now your second home, proceeds onward over the Yenisei River through Siberia. It takes you through the landscapes of Eastern Siberia with its mountains, crystal-clear rivers and verdant slopes. Aboard the train you may enjoy entertaining lectures about Siberia. The on board restaurant chefs once again demonstrate their skills with the speciality meal "Tsar’s Feast". Enjoy Russian hospitality during the vodka tasting while passing by impressive landscapes.

Day 7: Irkutsk

Today the train reaches Irkutsk, capital of Eastern Siberia. During a city tour you will see beautiful Siberian wooden cottages, the new statue of Alexander III and the lively market hall. After lunch, you undertake an excursion to the open-air museum "Life and Work in the Time of the Tsars”. Spend the night in a centrally located hotel in Irkutsk.

Day 8: Lake Baikal

Today you will visit a Siberian village by bus. A boat takes you across the deep waters to Port Baikal, where your Private Train awaits you. On ancient tracks it takes you directly along the shore of Lake Baikal for several hours. Dinner is served in typical local style as a picnic on the shores of the lake (weather permitting).

Day 9: From Lake Baikal to Ulan Ude on to Mongolia

This day takes you along a different part of the shore of the mystical Lake Baikal, and then onwards through the magnificent valley of Selenga passing by wild and lonely mountain steppes of Eastern Siberia. On the way to the Mongolian border the train will stop in Ulan Ude, where you attend the city tour. Afterwards the train departs for Mongolia.

Day 10: Ulan Bator and Gandan Monastry

In the morning you arrive in Ulan Bator. In the course of a city tour you will see the impressive Buddhist Gandan Monastry and the Lama Museum. In the evening, your tour guides show you the best beer garden in the city. You spend the night in a centrally located hotel in Ulan Bator. On request we can organize,instead of your hotel stay, an overnight stay in a yurt in the beautiful Mongolian Alps. Please contact us for details and price!

Day 11: Ulan Bator and the Mongolian Alps

Today you attend a tour to Mongolian Switzerland. After breakfast, a bus trip will reveal the beautiful countryside. You have lunch within the typical tent settlements of the nomadic herdsmen. A Mongolian horseback riding show will be performed especially for you. In the evening your Private Train will travel onward to the Chinese border.

Day 12: Through the Gobi desert

Towards noon, you will reach the Chinese border, where due to the different Chinese track gauge your Chinese train will stand ready for departure. The Chinese train has no Nostalgic Comfort and Bolshoi cars, only two bed or 4 bed cabins. Single occupancy is not guaranteed. You will reach China’s capital, Beijing, in about 16 hours.

Day 13: Beijing

After beholing impressive scenes of Chinese rural life from your compartment window, you arrive in Beijing in the morning, where you will spend three nights in a first class hotel.

Day 14: Beijing

A four-hour city tour will show you through the Temple of Heaven and its park as well as Tiananmen Square. A guided tour of the interior of the Forbidden City follows in the afternoon.

Day 15: Beijing

Today you enjoy a day trip to the Great Wall. Your program also includes the Ming Tombs and the avenue of the spirits. In the evening you enjoy a meal featuring the world-famous Chinese dish, Peking Duck.

Day 16: Beijing