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Month: October 2011

From Beijing to Ulaanbaatar on the Trans-Mongolian Express

From Beijing to Ulaanbaatar on the Trans-Mongolian Express

Beijing’s railroad station is a milling sea of people when we arrive in the evening to board a Chinese train, on the Trans Mongolian Railroad. This is the start of our 5,000 mile adventure that will connect us to the Trans Siberian Express and carry us through eight time zones to our final destination, Moscow. But first, we have to cross Inner Mongolia to the Chinese Mongolian border and the Gobi desert, before reaching the Mongolian capital of ÜlaanBaatar. The first…

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