Sadly one of the latest recordings of the trip, this choir was recorded in a Church in the Kremlin and I find it quite powerful. It was also a message that Europe and Christianity replaced Buddhism and the pantheon of Gods that for six months was our traveling canvas
Along the Transiberian, at every stop, merchants gather by the train trying to sell/buy any kind of stuff. It's the moment when Chinese mix up with Mongolians and Russians and some tourist who tries with body signs to buy some food and cabbage pie!
We have been in a compartment with four beds and also a more luxurious with two. But in all there was music that changed according to the country and the taste of the conductor. Here's a Chinese sample.
Seven days on a train are a lot, even if you get off every now and then or stop to visit a city. I did not listen to much music and turned off the train speaker quite often. Instead I read a few books and looked a lot at the landscape, being it a desert of a snow Siberian forest
I tried to avoid dining cars, me being a vegetarian and being the menu quite poor. But it was a good place to observe the passenger and drink a watery Chinese lager
Not very clear recording but the ice of the Baikal lake is doing a creepy noise. After sometime we gathered some strength to walk on it, it was the beginning of April and the ice was still one meter thick but quickly melting
In Ulan Bator I heard this chanting in a monastery. It doesn't come clear from the tape but it was one of the most impressive atmosphere, people chanting in the middle with people moving round turning their prayer wheels
Obviously as in every train you get someone who's snoring louder than the others
Junk pop music as a company along the 6000 km in Russian territory
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