Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway - a film by Ann Craig-Cinnamon & John Cinnamon

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Жыл бұрын

Ride along with Ann Craig-Cinnamon and John Cinnamon for 30 minutes as they travel from Moscow, Russia to Beijing, China aboard the Trans-Siberian Railway. The 16-day journey in 2019 took them from Red Square to the Russian countryside, through Siberia with a stop at Lake Baikal, a few days in Mongolia including an overnight in a ger camp, and finally ending in the Chinese capital to see the Great Wall of China, giant pandas, and more. You'll experience three distinct cultures, meet the locals, get to know some fellow international travelers, and discover how much we have in common with people on the other side of the world. Travel is a cultural bridge and an education like nothing else. Sit back and enjoy a Journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway.

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@alfrededgecombe7384 12 күн бұрын

Wonderful to watch

@LuciaMarginean 3 ай бұрын

Thank you so much for sharing your journey with the world. ❤ I loved your comments and your images!

@JohnCinnamon 2 ай бұрын

Thank you for watching. We’re glad you enjoyed it.

@danndann-dec4 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing this. This is my dream to experience in the future, because I'm still young it is still a dream to experience someday.

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and I'm glad you enjoyed it. I hope you get to take the trip some day. Good luck.

@russellnathan250 Жыл бұрын

Sweet, just popped up. One of the better Train rides. Very enjoyable

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Russ. Glad you enjoyed it.

@morzh1978 Жыл бұрын

4:45 - Well, upon arrival to British or US border control, they routinely inspect all electronic memory devices (flash cards, HDDs etc.) as well as your accounts on social networks etc. They would ask you for a password if any files or partition is found encrypted. Apart from that, they would ask you a lot of weird questions that often stuns you into stupor. They can revoke your visa at any moment at whim, deport you, and ban you for any re-entrance attempt later. Whimsically, I mean, and you cannot sue them in a court.

@aussiebloke51 9 ай бұрын

I really enjoyed this video. I did the same trip in reverse in 2008. In 2020 I travelled the full Trans-Siberian - Moscow to Vladivostok in winter with minus 20C temperature. I am so glad you made the point about being a traveller and not a tourist. It is also very true that people want the same things the world over - family, loved ones, dignity, purpose and shelter. Mixing, eating, sleeping, using public transport, talking with locals etc is very rewarding and you experience people and places that are not listed in a glossy tourist brochure.

@JohnCinnamon 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching and thanks for the comments. You definitely got the message of our film: average people around the world are more alike than we are different.

@user-oi3ly5tg3m 11 ай бұрын

This is my dream trip

@toddanderson1402 Жыл бұрын

no matter where you go people are people

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

Exactly!!! Thanks for watching and thanks for catching our message.

@upulpriyanthagunasekara4387 9 ай бұрын

My heartiest thanks for both of you.

@JohnCinnamon 9 ай бұрын

Thank you for the comment and thanks for watching. Glad you enjoyed it.

@junferg7 11 ай бұрын

We did the same trip but from China to Moscow then on to St Petersburg..with another couple of friends..just a wonderful trip..people were just lovely..if you have the chance to go..go

@JohnCinnamon 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. Nice to hear you had a good experience, as well, on your journey.

@Panos835 Жыл бұрын

This is a great mini film - Hope more of these would come in youtube, you have done a tremendous job - Traveling is a way to live and connect with people Subscribed to your channel :)

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad you liked it. As my wife, Ann, always says, "Travel is an education like none other. It brings history alive, it makes geography personal, and it is a cultural bridge. There are so many people that you meet along the way that you learn from."

@user-yc5le1lq6c Жыл бұрын

Great content. Love from India. 🇮🇳

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. So glad you liked our film and that you found it all the way on the other side of the world. We've also visited India and enjoyed our time there, as well.

@dederuhiyat1450 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the nice video,cheers from Jakarta

@user-vm5vv6gr4v 3 ай бұрын

it very beautiful

@zaklinakovace6792 Жыл бұрын

Russia is so beautiful ❤

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! We enjoyed our time in Russia in 2019.

@muhammadkashiffayya5680 2 ай бұрын

Either East or West, people are best 🎉😅

@vendelhausken1751 Жыл бұрын

Lovely video! Have been to Russia and Mongolia, but would have loved to take the Trans-Siberian rail. And China also seems very exciting. Thanks for a nice video. Hugs from Norway

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and I’m glad you enjoyed it. We enjoyed our visit to Oslo some years ago and we’ll be returning to Norway (Oslo and Svalbard) later this year.

@PSPYOUTUBE Жыл бұрын

❤❤ very very nice video

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment. So glad you liked our film.

@sheddybhulji8196 Жыл бұрын

Wonderful thanks

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching.

@oldbagira2192 Жыл бұрын

It is a pity that no one told you that there is a soul in 1st class carriages and you can use it for a not expensive price.

@SomewhereInRussia Жыл бұрын

Your train #100 has outdated Soviet cars and a paid shower in the main car. For the same price, you could buy a ticket for the flagship train #002 "Rossiya", which has modern comfortable carriages with free showers.

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

We booked our trip with a tour company and had little control over which accommodations we could choose. Thanks for watching.

@christopherx7428 Жыл бұрын

4:30: It sounds as if they were making a note of your IMEI number. It is sent to the network whenever you connect so that way they could track you in Russia. You can display this by making a "call" to *#06# and you should really write this down yourself. If your phone ever gets stolen, the number can be blacklisted and the phone is then unusable by the thief. It is all a part of the GSM specifications from the early 90s but not very well known.

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

We figured it was to track our (my) movements in Russia. I assume I'm in the clear now because I have a different phone.

@christopherx7428 Жыл бұрын

@@JohnCinnamon You would most likely have been in the clear as soon as you connected to a network Russia does not control. However, by getting your IMEI number, they make sure that it would not help if you changed to a local Russian SIM card, they would still know it is your phone. The IMEI number identifies the HW.

@MsJoce1234 9 ай бұрын

fascinating video!

@JohnCinnamon 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching.

@Jaqen_Hghar 9 ай бұрын

Good content. Thanks.

@JohnCinnamon 9 ай бұрын

Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching.

@gmicg Жыл бұрын

Ann is a gorgeous lady.

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

I couldn’t agree more! Thanks for watching.

@gmicg Жыл бұрын

@@JohnCinnamon You are great too John. Your travel videos are very interesting.

@cliffwoodbury5319 Жыл бұрын

and to think this same journey will take 2 days in the next decade or so

@sdencik1 Жыл бұрын

Hi..any video about your trip to Tibet?

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

No, I'm afraid not.

@morzh1978 Жыл бұрын

4:40 - not at all surprising. Being a journalist or a "globe trotter" presents a perfect cover for espionage mission, which over-zealous counter-intelligence unit is always happy to investigate. Did not know though they were that hyper active back in 2019 already.

@alkukhta Жыл бұрын

There are trains with showers, why didn't you choose them?

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

The specific tour (and tour company) we chose only offered the "2nd Class" accommodations. And that was fine with us. We feel like it gave us a more authentic experience. Thanks for watching.

@oldbagira2192 Жыл бұрын

@@JohnCinnamon On trains, you are allowed to go into the next class 1 car and take a shower for an inexpensive surcharge. The train conductor should have told you about this.

@Sam_Green____4114 Жыл бұрын

How does a Virgin Train's , West Coast mainline service ( London Euston - Glasgow ) get included in a video about the Trans Siberian express ? @13:03

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. That was most likely stock footage - or "B-roll", as it's known - of a generic train passing by. It's common in documentary filmmaking to use generic images or videos to fill a spot for editing purposes when there wasn't some piece of original footage available.

@Pythoner Жыл бұрын

Sorry to be that guy but you took the Trans-Mongolian. The Trans-Siberian goes from Moscow to Vladivostok.

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

First of all, thanks for watching. Secondly, yes, you are being THAT guy. We do address the various routes within the documentary and make no secret that we ultimately took the Trans-Mongolian route. But from Moscow to Irkutsk, we were on the Trans-Siberian. For comparison, Route 66 goes from Chicago to L.A. But if someone says they drove Route 66 from St. Louis, MO to Williams, AZ, I'm not going to tell them they didn't travel Route 66. They did, just not the whole thing.

@christopherx7428 Жыл бұрын

They were in Siberia from the moment they crossed the Ural mountains.

@margo7059 Жыл бұрын

Начала смотреть. Снобизм авторов зашкаливает. Выключила.

@angietodd-dennis5292 Ай бұрын

It's pronounced Goom.

@Toltexan Жыл бұрын

Really? Col Sanders started in Oshawa, Ontario, not Kentucky.

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

#1, Thanks for watching. #2, No, he didn’t. Born in Louisville, KY, his first restaurant was in Corbin, KY. The first “KFC” franchise was in Utah in 1952. Didn’t expand into Canada until the 1960s. #3, A 30-minute documentary about train travel through Russia, Mongolia, and China and THAT was your takeaway?

@avikingman Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your interesting video. I have been in Russia and China but never on this train. Greetings from Oslo, Norway. ( welcome back to Norway )

@ShaunnUK 10 ай бұрын

These are not normal times so why are you travelling to Russia for tourism purposes?

@JohnCinnamon 10 ай бұрын

We took this trip in 2019.

@ShaunnUK 10 ай бұрын

Sorry, I didn't see that in the description@@JohnCinnamon

@JohnCinnamon 10 ай бұрын

No problem. No, it's not in the description, but it's in the first 3 seconds of the film. @@ShaunnUK

@ShaunnUK 10 ай бұрын

Ha, I wasn't paying attention!@@JohnCinnamon

@postgradsibstud9321 8 ай бұрын

@@ShaunnUKwhat time do you consider as "normal"? The war in Ukraine began in 2014 by the way.

@LatestDesignsJewellery 2 күн бұрын

You guys traveled 100 countries but unfortunately still 237 subscribers 😢😂

@JohnCinnamon 2 күн бұрын

What does one have to do with the other? We're not here to be "influencers". We're travelers.

@ririr2 Жыл бұрын

poor people. i feel sorry for you.

@prodesign8189 Жыл бұрын

I love the Russian lady's question. I believe many of us Americans think the Russian people are just like us and that our governments are corrupt as hell. American more so these days.

@JohnCinnamon Жыл бұрын

We loved that question, too. It was very insightful on her part. Thanks for watching.