This journey goes across 13 countries, and is 11,654 miles or 18,755 kilometres and takes 14 days assuming no connections are missed.
This journey goes across 13 countries, and is 11,654 miles or 18,755 kilometres and takes 14 days assuming no connections are missed.
I’m pretty confident that you could make a longer journey on train. That route looks suspiciously straight.
It’s not that straight, it goes northeast for a while, then east, then south, then southwest.
But the article defines the longest possible train journey as needing to be the shortest possible route between the start and end points. So detours don’t count as part of a journey.
Sadly this journey can’t really be completed. Kinda hard to get into Russia for most of us. And for those in Russia, kinda hard to get into the EU.
I could see myself completing parts of it separately though. Maybe the European part one summer (with day trips in some of the cities the trains stop in) and then the South-East Asian part another. Maybe also the China part before SEA if they let me into the country after all the comments I’ve made online lol, would be cool to see their high-speed rail in real life
The max-min!
That makes sense, otherwise you could do all types of crazy detours to get a longer journey.