October 2-4, 2001 – Aboard the Trans Siberian Railway

We rejoin the Trans Siberian Express and travel via Novosibirsk and Omsk, booming over the steel bridges spanning Siberia's nerve system of 5,000 rivers. Through the Ural mountains and, on the far side of the Volga, the flickering silvers and greens of the birch forests speed past. On past its suburbs and into the heart of Moscow the train arrives almost casually on time.