Have you ever lived on a train for four days? It's a pretty wild experience! The first two days we were the only passengers in our cart. On the third day, an older Russian miner, Boris,  and a Mongolian student,  Tmka, joined our cart, two berths down. Tmka spoke English and Russian and was our translator while we drank cheap Russian vodka and cruised through Russian backcountry. Our last day the train filled up, but we were lucky enough to have no one else join our berth! So much room for activities!! The Siberian landscape was beautiful and vast. It was fascinating to see the little towns that would pop up along the way. Most homes had their own gardens, growing massive heads of cabbage. We were delightfully gross after not having a proper shower for so long.