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The Ultimate Train Challenge – 30 Days from Lisbon to Saigon

The Ultimate Train Challenge – 30 Days from Lisbon to Saigon

In 2011, I embarked on The Ultimate Train Challenge: a 30 day, 25,000km journey – all by train – from Lisbon to Saigon. I did it in collaboration with two other bloggers, and to date it marks one of the most amazing things I’ve done in my many years of full-time travel.

Ultimate Train Challenge 2011

Would you like to come along from the comfort of your living room? Then join in the journey with these posts about the experience:

Planning and Tools

The Trans-Siberian, from Moscow to Beijing

Using Eurail in Europe

Sleeping on Trains, (and in Beds with HostelBookers)

Europe: Stops I Made Along The Way

Leaving Lisbon

Tapas, Mountains, Flamenco, and Siestas: This is Granada!

Staying off the Tourist Trail (or Not) in Barcelona

Zurich: Rural Urbanity

Naked in Prague at Night

The Very-Fast Train is 1 Hour Late (and Other Ukrainian Paradoxical Experiences)

Flat in Moscow

And here’s a video recap of the 17-day European portion of the trip:

(click here to watch on YouTube)



The Trans-Siberian (Trans-Manchurian) Railway Experience

A Week on the Trans-Manchurian Railway

Here’s a video diary of the week-long Trans-Manchurian experience:

(click here to watch on YouTube)



The Final Leg: China and Vietnam

Beijing: Then and Now

Guilin: River Culture and New Tourism

13 Random Experiences on Asian Trains

And the video recap of this 3rd leg of the Ultimate Train Challenge:

(click here to watch on YouTube)

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I'm Nora Dunn. I traveled the world full-time for 12 years, and I still travel for half the year (pandemics notwithstanding).
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