It's 30 days since the XPD Beyond Asia- Trans Siberian 2019 left Coimbatore to St. Petersburg carrying a thoughtful awareness message on prevention of cervical cancer.
It's 30 days since the XPD Beyond Asia- Trans Siberian 2019 left Coimbatore to St. Petersburg carrying a thoughtful awareness message on prevention of cervical cancer.
The team has drove 9268 kms, so far and are presently at Jilin, a North Eastern City and Province in China, bordering North Korea and Russia. With just one more day to go before we enter Russia, they are almost at the half way mark in terms of the distance meant to cover.
Meenakshi Sai narrates their Day 30 and their local touring, "When we left Panjin it was raining steadily.
The plan was to go to this place called 'Red Beach' about 30 Kms from Panjin. Well, it’s not a beach like the name suggests but a natural phenomena caused by a type of sea weed called 'Sueda'.
The weed that starts growing during April and May of every year, stays green during the summer but starts turning vividly red in autumn."
"Bedazzled after seeing the spectacular pictures of the phenomenon in the web, we were super excited to see the Red Beach. But, however in contrast to the pictures we saw in the web, we were left hugely disappointed, as the weeds were yet to turn colour and there was no sign of Red Beach, at all", avered Meenakshi.
"After seeing many stupendous monasteries and temples, the team were looking forward to see the one-of-a-kind phenomenon and were 'super' disappointed", she added.
She also described that the roads were very good that the drive to Jilin was a 'breeze'. She even posted some pictures of the Red Beach from the web to make the readers have a better idea of their 'Super' disappointment.
Meenakshi apprised that September 6, Friday will be the last day they would be driving in China in this aspiring trip. And would be entering Russia, thereon.
"Just can’t wait to drive the Trans-Siberian Highway", expressed Meenakshi.
About the Trans-Siberian Highway
The Trans-Siberian Highway is the unofficial name for a network of federal highways that span the width of Russia from the Baltic Sea of the Atlantic Ocean to the Sea of Japan. In the Asian Highway Network, the route is known as AH6. It stretches over 11,000 kilometres (6,800 mi) from St. Petersburg to Vladivostok. The highway became fully paved on 12 August 2015.