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

We pass the ‘taiga’ forest, the unusual combination of cedar, pine, larch, birch and spruce, estimated to cover over half of Russia. During his travels across Siberia, the famous poet Anton Chekhov wrote “It’s strength and magic lie not in the size of its giant trees nor in the depth of its deathly silence, but rather in the fact that perhaps it is the migrant birds alone of all living creatures that know its limits”.