trans-siberian strawberry sunset
From Moscow’s ornate GUM retail mall to the incredible Central Market of Irkutsk, Russia can be a shopper’s delight. Not necessarily because of the goods on offer, but it’s more about the real life experiences of buying food from beaming babushkas, drawing smiles from stall holders when you try to speak Russian and as Intrepid’s Tara Kennaway discovered, taking time out to watch traders in Khabarovsk going about their business…
“We’ve travelled over 8500 kilometres (5280 miles) from Moscow and yet we are still in Russia! Travelling across the country on the world-renowned Trans-Siberian railway you certainly believe that this is the biggest country on the planet. And today we have arrived in the Far-Eastern city of Khabarovsk. While the Cyrillic writing all around us as we stroll through the city lets us know we are still on Russian soil, there is most definitely a different and very multicultural feel to this far flung city.
