MONGOLIA | Thursday, 11 Sep 2014 | Views [470]
Crossing the border to Mongolia was a hum drum affair, enlivened only marginally by the changing of the train's wheels for the wider Mongolian tracks. A young, cheerful Chinese lady collected our passports, a few people bought cheap booze, and ... Read more >
Tags: ger, grassland, mongolia, nomad, steppe, train, ub, ulaan baator
CHINA | Wednesday, 10 Sep 2014 | Views [516]
We've passed through fifty four tunnels on the way out of Beijing. Rumour has it that we will psas through over sixty in total before we are out into open country.
The sky is blue, with only a hint of grey-ish smog overhead. ... Read more >
Tags: beijing, china, hebei, train, trans-mongolian
CHINA | Tuesday, 9 Sep 2014 | Views [463]
11:22. The departure from Beijing. Train K3. 847 miles. Twenty Eight hours. The real adventure begins. Through the great wall, into inner mongolia, the Gobi desert and across the border into Mongolia, over the vast ... Read more >
Tags: beijing, china, mongolia, train, trans-mongolia trans-siberian, ub, ulan bator
CHINA | Friday, 5 Sep 2014 | Views [668]
If a journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step, then perhaps a seven thousand mile train journey should start with a metaphorical one hour hop from Hangzhou to Shanghai.
It was arguably a Chinese train that brought me to Singapore, ... Read more >
Tags: china, hangzhou, shanghai, train
