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RUSSIA
   Moscow 
   Suzdal & Vladimir
   Yekaterinburg
   Irkoutsk
   Listvianka
   Krasnoyarsk
CHINA
   Beijing (2)
   Xian
   Tianshui
   Dunhuang
   Xiahe
   Great Wall
   Beijing (1)
   Dafo & Emeishan 
   Dazu 
   Chengdu
   Hangzhu
   Suzhou
   Shanghai
INDIA
   Mussoorie
   Auli
   Rishikesh (2)
   Haridwar
   Rishikesh (1)
   Chandigarh
   Dharamsala & McLeod Ganj
   Amritsar
   Delhi
   Agra - Taj Mahal 
   Agra - around
   Jaipur
   Pushkar
   Jodhpur 
   Ranakpur
   Udaipur
   Ellora & Ajanta
   Nagarjunakonda
   Hyderabad
   Bangalore
   Tiruvannamalai
   Puducherry 
   Trichy 
   Madurai
   Kanyakumari
   Trivandrum
   Munnar
   Backwaters
   Fort Kochi
   Hampi
   Goa
   Mumbai
LAOS
   Leaving Laos
   Vang Vieng 
   Luang Prabang 
   Phongsali to Luangprabang 
   Phongsali 
   Phonsavan to Phongsali 
   Phonsavan (Plain of Jars) 
   Around Vientiane
   Vientiane
   Tham Kong Lo & Tat Namsanam
   Phou Hin Phoun
   Thakhek
   Hue (Vietnam)
   Katang Trail
   Savannakhet
   Don Det
   Bolaven plateau

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Saturday 4/5

Train from Nice to Marseille St Charles (TGV,1 0:57AM-1:29PM, 26.50€).

Bus from Marseille St Charles to Aix-en-Provence (~40 minutes).

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Moscow

Wednesday 01/05/2013 to Friday 03/05/2013 - MOSCOW.

The last destination of this unique 11 months travel. 

Orthodox Easter is coming.

The empty Red Square.

1st of May parade by the unions.

La Fontaine's "The fox and stork", the storks revenge.

The cosmos monument.

The Bolshoi Grand Theatre.

The Bolshoi Grand Theatre (Opera and Ballet).

The Bolshoi Grand Theatre lobby.

The Bolshoi Grand Theatre, from inside.

The Goulag museum and the and the museum of contemporary Russian history.

The Goulag museum.

In front of the museum of contemporary Russian history.

Museum of Contemporary Russian History.

Covers the period between  the industrial revolution (well before the Russian revolution)

and the Glasnost-Perestroïka, observed with Russian eyes. Very interesting

A Russian space dog, Belka?

The world according to Ronald Reagan.

The Kremlin and a city walk.

The Tsar Cannon (1586).
The decorative projectiles in front are too large to fit the caliber!

Russian Air Force AWACS watching.

Read as 'BURGER KING'.

Sometimes Moscow has a Paris look!

 

The Moscow metro.

Station names are displayed with Cyrillic characters only.

Leaving Moscow for home.  End of the 11 months travel.

 Airport express train, heading for Moscow Domodedovo airport..

 Moscow-London and London-Nice flights.

Surprised to find a familiar Russian train at the railway station of Nice! 

Means that I could have travelled by train?

No, five days of Transsiberian were definately enough for me !

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Suzdal & Vladimir

Monday 29/04/2013 and Tuesday 30/04/2014 - SUZDAL and VLADIMIR.

Suzdal.

The obelisk indicating the Asia-Europe border

(picture taken through the train window).

Vladimir.

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