Escape To Xi’an
It was a nail-biting 5 hours of booking last minute hostels, flights, and a 5am car service after our group missed our overnight train from Beijing to Xi'an by a frustratingly mere minute. We ended up at Chinese Box Hostel for the...
Finishing The Trans-Mongolian: Beijing, China
After yesterday's shenanigans on 2 trains, we slept in for about 3-4 hours before having to wake up for a 7:10am arrival at Beijing Railway station, thus formally and sadly concluding our Trans-Mongolian Railway journey. After picking up our...
Through The Gobi Desert From Erlian To Hohhot
After a quick and yet harrowing stopover in Erlian at the border between Mongolia and China, we spent the next 8 hours on the train passing the time by mostly eating, talking, looking out the window into the Gobi desert, and engaging in depth...
Crossing From Mongolia To China By Train
After a bit of too much drinking on the train last night and sleeping in at around 2am, we woke up at 9am for the border crossing from Mongolia into China at Zamin Uud. Although it was a lot less serious than the crossing between Russia and...
Ulaanbaatar In One Day
After streaking in -20ºF weather and sleeping in by the fire last night, we woke up to a beautiful sunrise in Terelj National Park. After breakfast we headed out for about an hour out for the long way east . ....
Going Streaking In A Mongolian Winter
Photo credit to Melissa Weinmann for the photo above. Hello from a balmy -15ºF (-22ºC) in the coldest capital city on the planet: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia! After chugging along from Irkutsk, Russia, our attendants woke us all up at 6:15am, giving us about...
From Russia (To Mongolia) With Love On The Trans-Mongolian
This morning we woke up early for our 7am pickup for Train #004 from Irkutsk to Ulaanbaatar departing at 8:12am. And there our train stood waiting for us, emerging from the hazy mist of an early morning fog as if out of a dream -- this is...
A Christmas Eve In Siberia: Irkutsk & Lake Baikal
Merry Christmas Eve from Siberia!And so begins our Trans-Siberian experience. A number of itineraries had been devised, discarded and replanned over the past year for this trip -- Russia's railway system had a habit of cancelling and rescheduling...
Where Are We Now?
Where Are We Next?
