Thursday 5 November 2009

Trans Siberian 3

ulanbator-beijing train (17) The final leg of the Trans Siberian train was a two day journey taking us out of Mongolia, into China and onto Beijing.

It had perhaps the most varied landscape of the whole train journey – crossing the Gobi Desert, before passing through North Chinese farmland and mountains with distant views of the great wall.

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Beijing might be the end of the Trans Siberian but we’ve got lots more trains to come before we reach Hong Kong. Woo.

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Food pic #11: “Big Bon” pot noodle. Our staple train food.

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Swapping fat Russian/Mongolian bogies for skinny Chinese ones.

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Our first class cabin actually had a shower on this train! It didn’t work but we didn’t mention that to all the 2nd class passengers we were gloating to.

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