A closer look
Riding the Trans-Siberian Railway from Moscow to Vladivostok takes a staggering seven days of non-stop travel across eight different time zones, making it the longest single train journey you can endure on earth. You are trapped in a rolling metal tube for a full week, staring at a monotonous blur of birch trees and vast emptiness while slowly losing your grip on what day of the week it actually is. It is the perfect vacation for introverts who desperately want to avoid answering work emails, since the Wi-Fi is virtually non-existent and your only social interaction is nodding awkwardly at a stranger sharing your cramped sleeper cabin. By the time you finally step off the train on the Pacific coast, you will have aged emotionally by a decade and developed an intimate, terrifying relationship with instant noodles and lukewarm tea
