Double Dipping In Wax

Kama - Ural - Asia

As in the previous year, I was amazed at the width of the Kama, which is only a tributary of the Volga.

located on the Kama Perm, an industrial city and inland port west of the Urals.

At km in 1777, an obelisk marks the border between the continents of Europe and Asia. 01:07:06: passed in the night we Kirov and in the morning we had a Lokwechselhalt in Balesino. By late morning, we finally crossed the Kama and thus reached Perm. Again I was amazed at how in 2005, but for what the Kama is a huge river. Although it is only a tributary of the Volga, it can easily compete with the lower reaches of the Danube. This time I also managed a few photos. Finally

we held in Perm . The city is the train is not overly welcoming. Also on the banks of the Kama it is more influenced by huge inland port facilities as a skyline of the water - at least what one can see from the train like that. The city is in fact primarily an industrial city. The oil company Lukoil is headquartered here.

Perm is on the route, the last major city west of the Urals, and thus also in Europe. We roll on and there it gradually becomes more hilly. These are the first foothills of the Ural what we have achieved. Much more mountainous it is along this route can not be.

Olga seems at odds with the technology to stand. First they had a problem with their Clock - Watch With a newly acquired fitness functions. She had no instructions with it, but wanted time to the new time zone switch. Here I was with a little patience and Probiererei finally getting the hang of it and help her. With her phone it was not me. It was also new. Olga said there would be no provider lock and could be used with any Sim card. Therefore, they had bought in Moscow a cheap Russian prepaid card and then inserted into the phone. But obviously it was a lock, probably set a provider lock in mobile phone firmware and it did not work with this Russian map. Worse was that then the phone was completely blocked and no longer accept the old card. There was then, despite some Probiererei to do anything.


through the rolling hills of the southern Urals, the tracks wind up Yekaterinburg.
purchase food on the platform in Ekaterinburg - Oliver with food in her arms. Ekaterinburg Shortly before the 1777 km we reach the border between Europe and Asia. This time I was also a snapshot of inconspicuous on the edge of the rails stationary white obelisk that marks the border. Soon after we reach Jekaterienburg .

In Jekaterienburg is the last chance for today to buy food and something to stroll on the platform. The city is historically significant, not least because of the 1918 murder of the Tsar's family. She competes in the ranking of the largest Russian cities with Nizhny Novgorod to place 3 Sorry, we can see from the train not too far from the splendor of this city, but a little walk on the platform, at least in it. should

a stop there today, but it will already be in the dead of night. And although in Tyumen and this time we will again (as in 2005), only the nightly light show to get this city presents. The rich Petroleum and natural gas city shows its rise during the night and its neon signs and lavishly illuminated magnificent buildings, shopping malls and high streets. As the symbol of the West Siberian oil production is a brightly lit oversized oil rig in sight of the railway line - designed as a kind of Eiffel tower derrick - where we roll over after we leave the station from Tyumen. But then final night's rest the day.