Dear Reader,
Thank you very much for reading this! We hope you find it interesting to follow us during our journey from Kyoto to Copenhagen, and especially now on the Trans-Siberian Railways. To help you keep an overview of our journey, we here give you a quick overview of what we have done during the first seven days thanks to the Russian Railways. You can see more details posted elsewhere on our website.
21 Nov (Day 1): Leaving Vladivostok
Distance to go: 9288 km
Temperature: -12 Celsius degrees
WWF waves us off
22 Nov (Day 2): The journey has begun
Distance to go (from Khabarovsk): 8521 km
Temperature: Morning: -25 Celsius degrees
Temperature: Night: -52 Celsius degrees
We adjust to the rhythm of the train and life onboard “ and get to know each other! We are seven people travelling together:
Olga, Ivan and Eugene from the Russian Railways, Rebecca and Roberto from Italian TV and Richard and Margrethe, International Union of Railways
23 and 24 Nov (Day 3 and 4): Slyudyanka, Lake Baikal and Irkusk
Distance to go: 5185 km (from Irkusk)
Temperature: -2 Celsius degrees
Excursion around Lake Baikal, including ferry journey and visit to the scientific institute monitoring the life of Lake Baikal
Meeting with local Russian Railway environmental experts and representative for the Siberian Railway University
Press conference in Irkutsk
25 Nov (Day 6): The journey continues
Distance to go: 4098 km (from Krasnoyarsk)
Temperature: - 5 Celsius degrees
The landscape is changing. It is becoming more flat and there is more forest along the line. All is covered with snow.
26 and 27 Nov (Day 7 and 8): Novosibirsk
Distance to go: 3335 km
Temperature: - 2 Celsius degrees
We welcome Ludmilla from UNEP to our travel team
- Meeting with leader of the local Russian Railway region and local government
- Interview with little Ludmila (10 years old) who won a UNEP drawing competition about climate change
- Visits to a railway mobile emission control laboratory and one of Russia’s 24 railway schools for children.
28 Nov (Day 9): Yekaterinburg
- In Ekaterinburg
Distance to go: 1816 km
Temperature: - 5 Celsius degree
Programme 28.11:
Waste water management, museums, guided tour in the city