Beijing railway station. The start of an amazing journey. But you really do have to take a rain check on what you are actually doing. We
ARE sitting on a train about to leave for a 30 hour journey to Outer Mongolia. This is not what you do every day, and yes, how exciting is that?
The Delux cabin was nearly new and very comfortable; soon made home from home.
Once you have cleared the suburbs of Beijing, the first real significant land mark is passing through the Wall of C K at Badling. At this stage the train has picked up an additional engine at the back to push you up the foothills onto the Steppes.
Then follows a lot of flattish, brown arable land, broken by some weird looking hills
At the border there is 4 hour stop for customs etc and a change of wheels. Each carriage is jacked up in the air and the whole boggie replaced for the wider Russian railway gauge.
Beijing railway station. The start of an amazing journey. But you really do have to take a rain check on what you are actually doing. We ARE sitting on a train about to leave for a 30 hour journey to Outer Mongolia. This is not what you do every day, and yes, how exciting is that?
The Delux cabin was nearly new and very comfortable; soon made home from home.
Once you have cleared the suburbs of Beijing, the first real significant land mark is passing through the Wall of C K at Badling. At this stage the train has picked up an additional engine at the back to push you up the foothills onto the Steppes.
Then follows a lot of flattish, brown arable land, broken by some weird looking hills
At the border there is 4 hour stop for customs etc and a change of wheels. Each carriage is jacked up in the air and the whole boggie replaced for the wider Russian railway gauge.
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