1 Arrive Moscow and transfer to hotel.
2 Breakfast, walking tour of Moscow (including places connected with the story in “Dr Zhivago” and its author and times). Free afternoon and evening.
3 Breakfast, walking tour of Moscow (including places connected with the story in “Dr Zhivago” and its author and times). Free afternoon and evening
4 By train across the Urals to Perm’ early evening arrival, transfer to hotel, overnight.
5 SPECIAL WALKING TOUR OF YURI ZHIVAGO’S “YURYATIN” (Perm).
6 Full day Excursion to the Gulag Museum, housed in the only surviving* soviet-era Gulag now visitable in Russia.
7 Free day in Perm to explore the rest of this pleasant Urals city – then evening transfer to the station for departure eastwards
8-12 On board the Trans-Sib eastwards via the Chinese Manchurian frontier with Russia.
13 Arrival in Beijing very early morning.
