Day 4: Moscow-Yekaterinburg
To be 24 hours on the train is not as boring as it sounds. When you travel you always have something to do; read the guidebook, sort out the photos and rename them after the places they were made, or write a blog. And besides, sometimes the train stops and you can get off the train and take some pictures. The landscape along the track is not always very interesting. Sometimes you drive for hours through deep woods ranged with swamp and steppe. The villages we past look very poor and many of the houses seemed to be derelict.
I was very disappointed when we crossed the Ural range. I always thought the Ural would be a big mountain range like the Alps in Europe but I was wrong. The Ural is a wide range but not very high. The highest point is below 2000m and the train track reaches only 500m above sea level. The landscape doesn’t change too much; you don’t see summits or gorges. So you don’t have much of a feeling crossing the mountain.
