The Big Trip
In May 2017, I undertook the trip of a lifetime - travelling Moscow to Beijing on the train. The trip took 6 weeks; the first part in St Petersburg and Moscow, I shared with my wife; the remaining 5 weeks were traveled by train. There was a 5-day stop-over in Chernobyl and 10-days in Mongolia
Church in Moscow
Red Square - May 8th - Snow
St. Basil's Cathedral - Moscow
St Petersburg Metro
Writing Home - Avoto Station
Ploshchad Revolyutsii Metro Station
Moscow Metro
Arbatskaya Metro Station
Komsomatskaya Metro Station
The Trans-Siberian Railway
The Trans-Siberian Railway - a busy rail system
Sunrise
Nothing to do for hours except look at the other trains!
Perm 36 - Gulag prison
Another station in the middle of the night
Listvyanka Museum Retro Park
Listvyanka Museum Retro Park
Chernobyl Reactors 1 - 4
Gas Masks Store
Pripyat Phone Box
Hairdressing Salon - Pripyat Services Centre
The Swimming Pool
The Ferris Wheel
Pripyat Amusement Park
School #3 Kindergarten
The Gas Masks Room
Kindergarten sleep area
Surreal image posed by another photographer
School of Music
The Music Hall
Pripyat Cultural Centre
Cooling Towers Grafitti
Pripyat Central Square Grafitti
At the Hospital
Vehicle Graveyard
Industrial Left-overs
Mongolia Storm Clouds
Car travelling through Gobi at sunset
Gathering the herd at sunrise
Herding - what Mongolian nomads do
Moving them along
Female Goat Herder
Relocating herd to summer pastures
Taking a break
Getting the water
The Water Hole - a place to meet
Camel Shearing
Goats at play
"Will ya look at yer man with the camera!"
Mongols at play with incoming sandstorm
More herding
Young rider
Children at play
Horses at Khangoryn Els Sand Dunes
Nomad Family
"There's still work to be done!"
Milking the Yaks
Herding the horses
More herding the horses
Lasooing a horse with he Urga
Herdsman with Urga
Catching a horse
Still trying to catch that horse
And the chase continues!
Picking up the Urga while at full trot
Oops!
Never mind the man - is the horse OK?
Oops - again
Another Oops
And another oops
The last oops - I promise!
See! It can be done!
Horse refusing to be mounted
Volleyball
Time for tea
Father and daughter
The naughty boy!
Gobi Mirage
Dead thing in the desert
Chinggis Square - Ulan Bator
Changing wheels on the train at the China border - photography prohibited
The Great Wall at Badaling
The Forbidden City
Another part of the Forbidden City
I got there before anyone sat down!
The Forbidden City in the centre of Beijing
The Long Walk
The Birds's Nest
