From Beijing, China, through Mongolia,
and across Russia to Moscow
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| The Trans-Siberian Railway From Beijing, China, through Mongolia, and across Russia to Moscow |
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| After packing up everything once again and stocking up on food we headed off to the train station for the 7900 km journey to Moscow. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Kendra with tickets in hand. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| On the first day we passed 4 more sections of the great wall as we left China. We arrived at the Mongolian border around midnight. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| As the track gauge changes, the train cars were individually hoisted up by hydraulic lifts as the Chinese wheels were rolled away and Mongolian/ Russian wheels were rolled in. We were in the car for the whole 45 minute procedure | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| We slept after the border control procedures and woke up in the Gobi desert! It felt like the moon, with hundreds of kilometres between settlements. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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