Jul 29, 2011 - transmongolienant

transmongolien OUI!! mais "fake" transmongolien chinois alors la !!! le principe est de s'arreter a la frontiere chinoise (erlian), passer la frontiere en jeep et rejoindre la premiere gare mongole ( zamyn Uud )pour un train direction Ulaan bataar ... meme ligne de train que le transmongolien mais qqs 150 euros en moins...et qqs fatigues en plus ... le passages de la frontiere chinoise a ete folklorique , tous les cents metres 5 yuans de plus ( 50 ct d'euros) pour des raisons diverses et variees : pas de justificatif officiel de la nuit...

Jul 26, 2011 - Next stop Mongolia

6am and we were on our way to Beijing Railway for the Trans Mongolian leg of our trip-thus begins the Trans Siberian experience! First task: find the platform, correct carriage AND berth then cross fingers that you're not sharing the teensie 4 bed cabin with a large, odorous Chinese man with a propensity for spitting and hoiking every five minutes.  At precisely 7.47am the train rolled out with Boris and I smugly cocooned in carriage 7 with our only cabin mate a great Finnish guy named Arttu who a had none of the offensive personal habits I...

Jul 6, 2011 - 4 July - Hohhot

On Monday we set off for a 600km drive to Hohhot, the capital of Inner Mongolia. It's a large town of over a million people. Hohhot apparently means 'Blue City' in Mongolian, which is supposed to be a reference to the wide blue skies over the grasslands. This is quite an industrial area and the skies are not blue any more but instead covered with a grey haze. We stayed one night in a hotel then headed out to a yurt camp up on the grasslands. The yurts were quite an experience. We have stayed in them in other areas, real yurts made of felt...

Aug 15, 2010 - Salaqi

10 august Today we woke up and went down to eat breakfast. The next thing we did was pack to go to mongolia then me and dad went to a model shop and the we went back to the hotel then we went to beijing railway station to go to mongolia… 11 august Today we arrived at baotou deng station and met mum's friend to go to her house to stay and on the way we went to a temple and we also went t a place where we climbed on some rocks then we went to mum's friends house. The next thing we did was go swimming in a pool near the house then we went...

Aug 14, 2010 - Salaqi, Inner Mongolia

We are now back in Beijing after 3 days at my friend's house in a very small village near Salaqi in Inner Mongolia (Nei Mongol in Chinese).