Following this you will also be taken on a tour of the Moscow Metro and its ornately decorated stations before boarding the Imperial Russia train where you will be treated to welcome drinks before departing on your epic adventure.

The highlight of the tour here is a visit to the Kazan Kremlin, a UNESCO World Heritage Site alongside a grand city tour taking in the best featues of this religiously, and ethnically, diverse city.

You will be treated to a very special lunch that includes a master class on Tatar Cuisine.

The day will finish with dinner aboard the train while heading off towards your next port of call.

The city tour will be based around the Romanov family, with visits to the cathedral built specifically to commemorate this event, the Cathedral of the Saviour on the Spilled Blood and a local Russian Othodox Monastery that is considered to be a fantastic example of Russian construction.

Following lunch in Yekaterinburg, the tour will move to the Europe/Asia border, where you can place one foot on each continent at the same time.

The train will depart Yekaterinburg that evening to head further east.

You will be guided around Novosibirsk and will see many unique locations on your journey, including visits to the Railway Museum, the Ballet and Opera House as well as the embankments of the mighty Ob River.

Alternatively, during the morning you could attend one of the lectures on Russian and Trans-Siberian history, before listening to a live musical performance, accompanied by champagne, during the afternoon.

Taking in visits to the places such as the Decembrists House, a house dedicated to the aristocrats who were exiled to this, at the time, far flung, corner of Siberia after the failed Decembrists uprising of 1825, Karl Marx Street and the beautiful cottages adorned with beautiful wooden ‘lace-like’ designs, you will find plenty of beauty in his corner of Siberia.

Later in the day you will be taken to the open-air Taltsy Ethnogrpahical Museum along the right bank of the Angara River, chronicling the history of Siberia from the 17th century onwards.

You will round out the day with free time to explore the ‘130 Quarter’ and view the reconstructed 19th and 20th century buildings.

The programme for today includes a short boat trip to Listvyanka, time for photos at Chersky Stone observation point, a location with stunning panoramic views of Lake Baikal and a visit to Baikal Museum to find out more about the local flora and fauna found around the lake and the local region.

The tour will finish with a picnic on the shores of the lake.

You will be taken on a tour of the most famous of its many religious buildings upon arrival, including the Buddhist Ivolginsky Datsan, and the Russian Orthodox Odigitria Cathedral and Holy trinity Church.

Following this you will be welcomed by a local Buryat family to experience several Buryat traditions, including cooking the Buryat dish Pozy, playing dice, using a bow, trying on traditional tradition Buryat clothing as well as assembling, and dismantling, a yurt.

Today, you will explore the picturesque Gorkhi-Terlj National Park and sleep under the stars. On arrival at the park, you will head to a remote Ger camp where you will be spending the evening before embarking on a hike to a nearby Buddhist temple. Your day will end with a traditional Monglian dinner before spending an evening beneath the stars, sleeping in an authentic Mongolian Ger.

That lunch time you will be treated to a traditional Mongolian BBQ before a unique folk show is put on for you.

With stunning views it is the perfect day to relax and just enjoy the view, while socialising with your travelling companions and talking about your experience so far.

Upon arriving you will be met by a tour guide who will take you around the legendary city’s most famous locations, including the Forbidden City, and its many temples and palaces as well as Tianamen Square, where you will find the Mausoleum of Mao Zedong, the House of Peoples Meetings and the National Museum of China.

That evening you will enjoy a dinner of local favourite, Beijing Duck.

UNESCO states that the Summer Palace is, ‘a masterpiece of Chinese landscape garden design. The natural landscape of hills and open water is combined with artificial features such as pavilions, halls, palaces, temples and bridges to form a harmonious ensemble of outstanding aesthetic value.’ It is here that you will spend your afternoon.