Lost in Vladivostok
At the unfashionable end of the Trans-Siberian railway line, Louise Southerden loses all sense of direction.
Travellers beware: local laws can make you an accidental criminal
Wherever you're travelling, it pays to find out much as possible about a country before visiting.
Food file: Moscow
Ute Junker finds there's much more on the menu than cabbage, potato, bread and fish.
Wild on the peninsula
Among the oversized bears and birds of Kamchatka, Louise Southerden hears stories of war and adventure.
Plane v train across Siberia
How would you suggest we get from Mongolia to Moscow without flying on either Aeroflot or Air China?
Naked planet: going nude around the world
Maybe it's something in the water, but when Ute Junker heads overseas her clothes seem to fall away with her inhibitions.
In step with visa rules in St Petersburg
We are booked on a cruise and one of the ports of call is St Petersburg, Russia. We have Australian passports and have been unofficially told that if we take the ship's organised shore tours, no visa is required.
Express to the abyss
Louise Southerden skirts bubbling lakes and gushing geysers in a region once strictly out of bounds.
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The largest country in the world has a lot to offer the intrepid traveller. Start with the unparalleled candy coloured spires of Moscow and the surrounding Red Square. Diverse landscapes, strange old resort towns and the most desolate place on earth, Siberia, beg to be explored. Don't miss sweating it out in a public banya (steam bath), sailing across Lake Baikal, or a trip to the ballet.
