We left Vladivostok on 8th July and travelled west back to the UK and we found no real problems finding hotels - just 3 days rough camping in Siberia. We found that by asking locals about hotels often found us tucked away places that we would never have found plus we were invited to stay with people as well (we speak no Russian but managed to get our message across by using a phrase book but I did learn how to read cyrillic before I went - best thing I did).
Russian people - especially in the east - were particularly welcoming and it was so humbling to be given so much by those who had so little - a truly life changing experience.
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