25 July – 27 July
Day 242 - 244: Tomsk-Novosibirsk-Zelenyi Dol - Kazan
We had breakfast with Denis and Masha and went to the station to catch the train to our next destination, Tatarstan Capital - Kazan. The most difficult journey so far on the whole our route in Russia.
It was impossible to find a direct route from Tomsk to Kazan at the reasonable price. All of “kupe” tickets cost around 7,500 rubles (210 Euro) per person and it was too much for us!!
So the solution was to break the route in different segments:
From Tomsk to Novosibirsk – plazkart cheap ticket (6 hours)
From Novosibirsk to Zelenyi Dol (I have found a train going to Adler and stopping at a station just 30 minutes from Kazan. The stop was just 1 minute :-D – plazkart (36 hours)
From Zelenyi Dol to Kazan – sitting place in a short distance train (40 minutes)
Total cost of the route in the end was around 3,000 rubles (80 euro).
We arrived to Kazan at 8 am, dropped the bags in luggage store room at the train station and went to walk around the town.
a combination between mislim and christian religions, mixt population and culture :D
We loved the Magnificent Kazan Kremlin (World Heritage site), central Baumana street and churches around.
Later we met our hosts Farida and Mansur and cooked a Spanish dinner at their place :-)
