While modern travelers often value speed and efficiency, train journeys offer a slower pace with a unique blend of nostalgia, ...

Embark on an epic journey across the Trans-Siberian railway, the longest train journey in the world, spanning over 9,000 km ...

Editor’s Note: This story was originally published in May 2024. It was republished in February 2025 to mark the launch of CNN’s Chance Encounters podcast Marie-Claire Martineau couldn’t stop thinking ...

In the cramped train compartment, our knees brush against each other. I exchange a smile—my first in the two weeks since I’ve been in Russia—with a stranger across my seat. Russians are wary of ...

"I thought it was our best trip yet!" confided Reba Nolan as she sat in my office at Monroe Travel Service. Her husband, Freddy, was a bit more circumspect with his reply, "It's hard to say. I liked ...

Waiting to board the Trans-Siberian Railway at a stop in rural Russia. Riding the Trans-Siberian Railway is one of those trips that elicits two distinct responses from friends and family. The first, ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Once considered the preserve of scruffy backpackers, hardy adventurers, and vodka swigging businessmen, a new train on Russia's Trans-Siberian route aims to lure wealthy tourists ...

On the shore of Lake Baikal, deep in eastern Siberia, one of the most ambitious feats of modern Russian rail engineering is nearing completion. The Baikalsky tunnel, carved through 7 km of mountain ...

The new thriller “Transsiberian” has its share of implausible moments, but it gets at least an extra half-star from me just for its mode of transportation: Most of this movie is set on a train. With ...

On the shore of Lake Baikal, deep in eastern Siberia, one of the most ambitious feats of modern Russian rail engineering is nearing completion. The Baikalsky tunnel, carved through 7 km of mountain ...