Seb35, 17/01/2013 23:53:
Hello, Добрый день,
Three years ago some crazy Wikimedians (whose I was) travelled by train through Europe to join Gdańsk for Wikimania.
This year I intend to join Wikimania Hong Kong by train from France, mainly with the Trans-Siberian Railway and the Chinese trains. The travel can take a minimum of about 2 weeks (of intensive train :), but it would be more comfortable to take more time; the price seems to be about 300-400 € (+food, visas, etc…), so probably less or similar than the airtravel of ~800 €.
Visas are very expensive, as far as I know. Also, I suppose you're talking of tickets bought separately for each section locally? People I know that did the travel in the cheapest way possible four years ago spent more like twice as much, but I don't remember exactly.
Does anyone is interested to join me? You have time if you want think about. If we are some people interested in Europe, we could join in Deutschland before continuing the 10k km :)
No wm2013 for me I'm afraid, although the wikitrain alone would make it worthy.
Nemo