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Now here's a great train trip: month long trip from Wigan to Pyongyang, North Korea

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A whole month on a train for £3,195

Wigan to Pyongyang tour 25th April - 24th May, 2020 £3,195
Wigan-London-Berlin-Warsaw-Moscow-Irkutsk-Ulaanbaatar-Beijing-Pyongyang

Sections can be booked independently, for example, if you wish to avoid Wigan for security reasons you can instead start in London.

Part 1: Wigan to London: 25th-26th April: 25th April - Arrive into Wigan; the home of Lupine Travel. Day at leisure and check in to your hotel. 26th April - The following morning we’ll meet at Wigan North Western train station. For your packed lunch we’ll have the local delicacy of a “pie barm” and a can of Vimto all ready to go, before boarding the fast train to London.

Part 2: London to Berlin: 26th - 28th April: 26th April - We will all meet at London Euston station in the morning as the rest of the group arrives from Wigan. We will take the tube up to Highgate Cemetery in North London to pay our respects to Karl Marx; the first of the communist figures we will visit on this tour. We’ll then travel down to St. Pancras station to board the Eurostar service to Brussels, arriving late afternoon. Free time in the evening and overnight in Brussels. 27th - 28th April - After breakfast we will catch the train to Berlin. We arrive in the late afternoon and spend two nights in the city. The 28th is free time in Berlin, or your tour leader will help to facilitate a tour to see the city’s highlights, by public transport.

Part 3: Berlin to Moscow: 29th April-2nd May: 29th April - After breakfast we will board the train to Warsaw, arriving late in the afternoon. The evening is at leisure with overnight stay in Warsaw. 30th April - The following morning we will get to see the Stalinist architecture of the Palace of Culture and Science. Afterwards, we will catch the overnight sleeper train to Moscow. 1st May - We will arrive at lunch time then we will take a tour of Moscow in the afternoon, before staying overnight in the city. 2nd May - In the morning we will make a pilgrimage to visit Lenin lying in state in Red Square. Be sure to catch a glimpse of Stalin’s grave as we queue.

Part 4: Moscow to Beijing: 2nd-17th May: 2nd - 15th May - Widely regarded as the world’s greatest train journey, we will take in some breathtaking sights including: the Ural Mountains; Ulaanbaatar and finally the Great Wall of China. This part of the tour will initially follow our standard Moscow to Beijing itinerary seen on the following page: Lupine Travel - Trans Mongolian Moscow to Beijing tour
15th, 16th & 17th May - After arriving into Beijing on the afternoon of 15th, we will also include 2 nights in Beijing, with a tour to the Great Wall and Forbidden City and a visit to the Chairman Mao’s Mausoleum.

Part 5: Beijing to Pyongyang: 17th - 24th May: 17th May - We will depart Beijing in the afternoon by sleeper train arriving in Dandong the following morning. 18th May - Today the day will be spent visiting the city on our Dandong day tour: Lupine Travel - Dandong Day Tour 19th - 23rd May - We’ll head into North Korea for our classic 4 nights tour, seeing the sites in Pyongyang, visiting the DMZ and travelling over to Mt Myohyang, before taking the overnight train back from Dandong. Lupine Travel - North Korea tour 24th May - Arrival to Beijing in the morning. Here the tour ends. Options to extend your time in North Korea available.

https://www.lupinetravel.co.uk/Wigan-to-Pyongyang.pdf
 
I think I'll make do with one of their more time and budget friendly options


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Visit the site of the world's worst ever nuclear disaster.

On 26th April 1986, reactor number 4 at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant exploded, killing many people at the plant and led to massive radioactive fallout (thirty to forty times the amount released at Hiroshima). The fallout spread over a massive geographical area, killing and harming thousands more in the following years.

...

We also arrange two day tours of the exclusion zone, including an overnight stay in the Chernobyl hotel with all meals included (cooked with food brought from outside the zone!).

2-day 2019 Tour dates Tour name Price
11-12 May Duga 3, Prypyat and Chernobyl tour *TOUR FULL* £339
24-25 August Duga 3, Prypyat and Chernobyl tour *TOUR FULL* £339
26-27 October Duga 3, Prypyat and Chernobyl tour £339
2020 Tour dates Tour name Price
2-3 May Duga 3, Prypyat and Chernobyl tour £339
24-25 August Duga 3, Prypyat and Chernobyl tour £339
 
editor said:
A whole month on a train for £3,195

Wigan to Pyongyang tour 25th April - 24th May, 2020 £3,195
Wigan-London-Berlin-Warsaw-Moscow-Irkutsk-Ulaanbaatar-Beijing-Pyongyang

Sections can be booked independently, for example, if you wish to avoid Wigan for security reasons you can instead start in London.

Part 1: Wigan to London: 25th-26th April: 25th April - Arrive into Wigan; the home of Lupine Travel. Day at leisure and check in to your hotel. 26th April - The following morning we’ll meet at Wigan North Western train station. For your packed lunch we’ll have the local delicacy of a “pie barm” and a can of Vimto all ready to go, before boarding the fast train to London.

Part 2: London to Berlin: 26th - 28th April: 26th April - We will all meet at London Euston station in the morning as the rest of the group arrives from Wigan. We will take the tube up to Highgate Cemetery in North London to pay our respects to Karl Marx; the first of the communist figures we will visit on this tour. We’ll then travel down to St. Pancras station to board the Eurostar service to Brussels, arriving late afternoon. Free time in the evening and overnight in Brussels. 27th - 28th April - After breakfast we will catch the train to Berlin. We arrive in the late afternoon and spend two nights in the city. The 28th is free time in Berlin, or your tour leader will help to facilitate a tour to see the city’s highlights, by public transport.

Part 3: Berlin to Moscow: 29th April-2nd May: 29th April - After breakfast we will board the train to Warsaw, arriving late in the afternoon. The evening is at leisure with overnight stay in Warsaw. 30th April - The following morning we will get to see the Stalinist architecture of the Palace of Culture and Science. Afterwards, we will catch the overnight sleeper train to Moscow. 1st May - We will arrive at lunch time then we will take a tour of Moscow in the afternoon, before staying overnight in the city. 2nd May - In the morning we will make a pilgrimage to visit Lenin lying in state in Red Square. Be sure to catch a glimpse of Stalin’s grave as we queue.

Part 4: Moscow to Beijing: 2nd-17th May: 2nd - 15th May - Widely regarded as the world’s greatest train journey, we will take in some breathtaking sights including: the Ural Mountains; Ulaanbaatar and finally the Great Wall of China. This part of the tour will initially follow our standard Moscow to Beijing itinerary seen on the following page: Lupine Travel - Trans Mongolian Moscow to Beijing tour
15th, 16th & 17th May - After arriving into Beijing on the afternoon of 15th, we will also include 2 nights in Beijing, with a tour to the Great Wall and Forbidden City and a visit to the Chairman Mao’s Mausoleum.

Part 5: Beijing to Pyongyang: 17th - 24th May: 17th May - We will depart Beijing in the afternoon by sleeper train arriving in Dandong the following morning. 18th May - Today the day will be spent visiting the city on our Dandong day tour: Lupine Travel - Dandong Day Tour 19th - 23rd May - We’ll head into North Korea for our classic 4 nights tour, seeing the sites in Pyongyang, visiting the DMZ and travelling over to Mt Myohyang, before taking the overnight train back from Dandong. Lupine Travel - North Korea tour 24th May - Arrival to Beijing in the morning. Here the tour ends. Options to extend your time in North Korea available.

https://www.lupinetravel.co.uk/Wigan-to-Pyongyang.pdf
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I can't decide if most of these should be on some unachievable bucket list...

or on a much easier 'fuck that' list of things to absolutely never do.

ETA though that trip to Socotra looks fabulous.

Day 2 After breakfast we will head to Ayhaft Canyon National Park. In the canyon we will visit large freshwater pools where you can swim and relax. All around can be seen a huge variety of endemic plants such as desert rose, tamarind trees and cucumber trees; plus a wide variety of birds such as Socotra sparrows, Socotra sunbirds and both Socotri and Somali starlings. Dinner and overnight at Dihamari campsite.
 
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Sod the pier, Wigan should have a cruise liner terminal these days, they’re all the rage.
 
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