With all the climate talk you actually don’t need to be “flight-shamed” even if you travel to Asia—it’s possible to travel to Asia without flying. It’s possible with freighter ships but trains are the most practical.
![](https://i0.wp.com/orien.asia/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20190417-eurasia-trains-v20190528.png?fit=685%2C685&ssl=1)
Seat61.com gives a lot of information on how to do that. For example you can travel from Stockholm to Hong Kong in 9 days. That’s not counting the departure day from Stockholm as one day. And not staying overnight in Moscow and Beijing as the “man in seat 61” advises.
- Day 0-1: ferry to Helsinki, 1 night
- Day 1-2: RZD train “Tolstoi” to Moscow, 1 night
- Day 2-8: train to Beijing (via the Trans-Siberian Railway and Mongolia, 6 nights)
- Day 8-9: high speed train (with beds!) to Guangzhou, 1 night
- Day 9: train to Hong Kong. You’ve arrived! NOTE! There’s a direct high speed train from Beijing to Hong Kong every day, but you won’t arrive until evening on Day 9.
![](https://i1.wp.com/orien.asia/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20190301_115436.jpg?fit=685%2C514&ssl=1)
It’s not so easy to book the Moscow-Beijing-train (you should find a travel agency like kilroy.se, very expensive ~12000kr, or Google for any website that sells tickets). For the rest of the trains and ferries, it’s very easy to book online (for Helsinki-Moscow, rzd-online.ru; for trains in China, trip.com).
![](https://i0.wp.com/orien.asia/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20190302_1354201-1.jpg?fit=685%2C514&ssl=1)
I took the trip one day in the opposite direction (Hong Kong to Sweden). I must say it feels very strange to stay on the same train for a week! If you have a month or more, you might want to make stopovers in Russia, Mongolia and China (taking local slow trains on the way).
![](https://i1.wp.com/orien.asia/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/20190228_120700.jpg?fit=685%2C514&ssl=1)
It’s also nice to continue to Southeast Asia via Nanning and Hanoi, all the way to Singapore and Indonesia (some sections must be done with buses)!