Ekaterinburg Travel Blogs

Can you imagine spending 10 days in an hostel lost in the middle of the siberian forest, by -30°C ? Well, it's just amazing ! When you feel everything freezing in your nose for your first breath outside, when you then have to walk 20 minutes in the snow to get to the terminus of the tram, and wait…

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arrived today after 26hr train passing through two times zones and entering asia. not but here but went to a chrech on the spot where the tzars were killed. leave tonight for a 52 hr train to lake baikal...-28c, staying with a family next to the lake. should be good! will write in a week xxx

Ekaterinburg is another pretty Russian-Siberian city.  Saw the site where the Tsar and family were killed ... their bodies are now in St Petersburg under fake marble plaques.  Quite shocked at how tackily done when we visited there 3 years ago.  For our homestay here, we were drive…