I took Kazakhstan's BRUTAL 63 hour CROSS-COUNTRY Train! 

You do a terrific videos Mr. Anderson! The footage is intimate and your narration is informative and very easy to enjoy.

The best thing about this train is that it takes you from dry Caspian climate all the way to Siberia. Semey is a city heavily populated by Russians and they call it Semipalatinsk. It's in actual forest-ish Siberia, and you can take a night train from here to Novosibirsk which actually will bring you there in like 12 hours.

This is a great video. The longer journey the better for me. I did 6 days on the Trans Siberian in 1986 from Moscow to Khabarovsk. That was in the days when it was the Soviet Union. Loved every minute of it.

13:44 Degelen is the station serving the city of Kurchatov, the centre of Semipalatinsk Polygon, the place where Soviet nuclear bombs were developed and tested. I took this train one year ago in the opposite direction from Degelen to Sputnik. Great time.

Great video again mate! Seems Latvians have sold their ex Riga - Moscow waggons to KZ. At least it looks like so 2:43 😎

Very interesting. I did not even know there were such trains in Kazakstan. I am going to do that one day. Thanks a lot.

I would rather spend 13 hours on a train then on a bus.

Nice video.

A lot of these carriages remind me of the Chinese Long Distance sleeper trains, very similar in bedding configuration between classes. I really enjoyed this, and all your other videos as well, taking train rides off the beaten mainstream European lines, nicely done! 😁

Nice video. Watching your channel for the first time.

Useful one. I am Planning to travel in May from Astana to Aktau. Not much info about this route and trains. Thanks again for sharing. In India we used to travel in such long distance trains. It will be fun to travel in 3rd class and we can interact with local people ..

I'd definitely do it , looks a great journey

Nice video I have a dream travel from coast to coast in Canada I think that trip takes longer time but it is more like a train adventure

I loved this video, and at the same time I'm very sure I am not built for such a long train journey. 😂 I'd be curious to see how much of a difference a dining car would make, though. Thanks for taking us along on a beautiful trip!

I have ridden the Indian Pacific in both directions. 68 hours each way, but the long servicing stops were broken up with off-train excursions at reasonable prices.

Klasse "Kupej" ;-)

It looks neat but for a train trip that long you'd probably need more stuff onboard the train itself. Of course at least one dining car, maybe even multiple if for nothing else some variation and better capacity. Of course working internet access, and maybe some cars with other less conventional ammenities like an arcade or a small gym or just some commonspace. Amtrak kinda manages to make something of a commonspace with the lounge cars on their long distance services with a small cafe downstairs for light snacks.

I got off the same train you were on 3 hours ago

Yeah, through-running a sleeper train over more than two days doesn't make much sense, that's why Amtrak break up many trans-continental services in Chicago. Kazhak Railways could probably do a similar thing with a hub in Astana. ÖBB could theoretically run a through train from Hamburg to Rome, but it makes more sense for them to run two separate routes out of Vienna.

I rode Trans-Mongolian/Siberian trains from Beijing to Moscow/St. Petersburg with touring stops along the way. I would have gone crazy if I had ridden one slow train all the way.

That looks like a lovely, long journey. If you wish to experience the longest of them all in top-line comfort I invite you to travel on an SV car on the Trans-Siberian railroad all the way from Moscow to Vladivostok. Would be a journey of a lifetime for sure!

Класс

проедь на поезде Москва - Владивосток. Он в пути 7 дней

Did you have a chance to swim in the Caspian Sea ?

Did you fly back out of there?

Average speed roughly 30 mph.

How can you reduce a trip like that to 16 minutes??

Are you spaghetti road? The voice is so similar

You're probably used to European distances, or maybe you're not happy with the speed