After a 24 hour train I was ready to stretch my legs and to get fresh air. Although, I had a great time on this train. Met a young electrical engineer from Moscow who barely spoke english and is sent to the far east to built up some transmission lines. To translate our conversation we found a girl from Siberia who was ok to translate the conversation.
And once more I had to say Russians can be crazy! Some of them Travel 6nights and more to Moscow to catch a flight to Europe where they spent 10 nights on a tour. And later on all the way back home. So for 10 nights holiday you spent another 12 nights on a train! I guess you need another holiday just to recover from the train journey.
Novasibirsk is considered to be the capital of Siberia at least since the railway was built. Therefore it is quite an industrial place and like Ekaterinburg more like a typical soviet place. Lots of apartment buildings and concrete all around the centre. But the first thing I realised after I left the station was an accident between an ambulance and a taxi! A second ambulance just approached the scene to pickup the patient. Welcome in Russia, sometimes it feels nobody cares about others!
The city is also home to a really nice Opera house in the centre. And right in front of it is a massive monument of Lenin placed. It might be even my favourite Lenin monument. Nearby its also a really nice park with many trees in it but beside that there was not too much to see.
Everybody might think Russians are in love with Vodka – which is a stupid stereotype – but the truth is they like Kvass. Looks like one of those huge tanks you keep water for cows but in those you will find a non alcoholic bread based drink. Quite popular and you can find them everywhere.
After another two nights I made my way back to the train station to get to the 12h away Krasnoyarsk. As usual I had to queue to get a ticket and as usual it took some time. And for sure there was someone jumping the queue. I also almost ended up to wait longer because of those stupid break times the counters do. Lucky me the girl in front of me and her boyfriend waiting in another line and I could take over her spot. Takes a lot of patience to get a ticket in Russia except you buy it at midnight!