So close and yet so unkown
Greatest adventures are by train
Train travel was the first really comfortable way to cover big distances by land. Although its better days are behind us, mostly because airplanes now connect even the most remote places on hearth, train travel is yet to deliver its swan song. The pleasure to “steam” across the landscape, cutting through villages and towns, meeting the locals and arriving right in the heart of the city is something not possible when travelling by plane
What we, at Iron Curtain Tours, propose is to revive train journeys as a form of immersion tourism. Be it the mythical Transsiberian or the unique Chernobyl workers’ train.
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Transsiberian
Alternative Chernobyl
Belarusian Polesia
Starting and finishing in Minsk, to allow the usage of the visa-free program for those entering and exiting via Minsk international airport, and visiting also the cities of Gomel, Pinsk and Brest, this circuit will take you on 1300Km railway journey during which you will visit the Polesia State Radioecological Reserve and the Bialowieza Forest.
This circuit will allow you to get in touch with the most unique landscapes of Belarus - the marshes. And do this by languidly steaming through it on a train.
About us
As a travel agency our job is to prepare the ultimate vacation for you, so that with just the necessary details from your side we can use our contacts and expertise to provide you with a comfortable and feasible package.
As a professional of the hospitality business once put it:
“It is surprisingly difficult to plan some types of vacations, and the travel agent is a time saver in this respect. Could you research and book it all? Yes, you could. But at what cost to your time working in an area that is very likely not your core competency? Travel agents are skilled salespeople who also use many of the products they sell, and in addition they are usually people who have been there and done that, quite literally. This leads to a degree of familiarity that you cannot achieve from Googling alone. You are paying for that experience. You are paying for the notion of expert on the ground knowledge. Has every agent been everywhere and done everything? No, of course not. But if you have a bias toward a certain part of the world, you may want to find a subject expert to do your travel planning for you.”
“In the end, the agents of the next generation will be destination or regional specialists, and the marketplace may reach the point where you talk to two different people for trips to Europe and Asia, or you may have an agent that deals exclusively in one or two given verticals of worldwide tourism.”
At Iron Curtain Tours we do our best to present you with exclusive railway circuits in the post-Soviet space. Hope to give you the journey you'll never forget.
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info@IronCurtainTours.eu