After lunch, you will continue you tour with a visit inside the Moscow Kremlin, a treasure-trove of magnificent relics and fine art, Arbat Street, one of the oldest streets in Moscow and the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour.

At the end of the day you will be taken to Moscow Railway station and welcomed aboard the Imperial Russia train. Welcome dinner will be served.

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 Tartar Cuisine.

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

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. Tonight, you will be served your evening meal onboard the train.

In the Novosibirsk Railway Museum, you will find a collection of locomotives and rolling stock from the 1800’s up until the present day. Of particular interest are the collection of carriages that were in use by the Tsars themselves.

In the evening you will depart Novosibirsk.

You will visit such places, 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 Ethnographical 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 the River Angara before a visit to Baikal Museum to find out more about the local flora and fauna found around the lake and the local region.

After lunch you will visit to local fish and souvenir market.

You will be taken on a tour of the most famous of its many religious buildings upon arrival, including the Buddhist Ivolginsky Datsan.

Following this you will be welcomed in a Buryat yurt: excursion includes a traditional Buryat folklore program. Hospitable Buryats will teach you how to cook the traditional Buryat dish pozy, how to play dice, use a bow, wear a traditional Buryat costume, assemble and disassemble a felt yurt.

After lunch you will take a boat trip on the river with a folk concert and enjoy a master class of matryoshka painting.

Today, you will have a city tour around Vladivostok which includes main attractions of the city. You will cross the two enormous bridges across the Golden Horn Bay and Eastern Bosporus Strait, the latter is the largest cable-stayed bridge in Russia.

Now you have a chance to watch the large international business centre, Far Eastern University’s campus, which has united Vladivostok’s four largest universities, viewpoints to see local shores with fantastic hills, relict forests, beaches with picturesque coastal landscapes, azure bays.