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LOVE DR ZIVAGO’s LARA? NOW YOU CAN FOLLOW HER

Mar 14th, 2007 10:48
Harish Kohli, http://www.awimaway.com

The Trans-Siberian is not a train but the longest railway in the world 
covering 9001 kms from St Petersburg, in the northwest of Russia, to 
Vladivostok, a port on the coast of the Sea of Japan that is home to 
Russia’s Pacific fleet. The ‘Trans-Sib’, as it is nicknamed, crosses 
no fewer than seven time zones. Little has changed since it first 
began operations in 1904.
A number of operators offer tours based on travel on the Trans-Sib, 
with diversions and detours for trekking, rafting, riding and camping 
with the nomads or stopovers in cities along the way, such as 
Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. Most trips can be taken west-east, starting 
from St Petersburg or Moscow, or in reverse, starting in Beijing or 
Vladivostok.
Love Dr Zhivago’s Lara? Now you can take a tour to commemorate the 
50th anniversary of the publication of the novel Dr Zhivago by Nobel 
Prize winner Boris Pasternak. Along the way you explore Perm, renamed 
Yuriatin in the novel, the place where Yuri meets Lara; and travel the 
route along the Chinese border on which the villain Komarovsky 
kidnapped Lara in his private train. 
Relive a fictional fantasy while you live a real one.  UK-based tour 
operator AwimAway.com is organising Dr Zivago tours. You can contact 
them on 020 7430 1766, www.awimaway.com. 
Harish Kohli
http://www.awimaway.com