Jul 23, 2008 - Crossing the Border

Day 9-10 - Getting to Mongolia We feel that Naushki, Russia deserves its own journal entry. A stop in this tiny town on the edge of Mongolia is truly EPIC. Dogs are running everywhere, cows are loose in the park, litter is strewn everywhere ... and yet we are forced to wait here for SIX HOURS while the Russian authorities do their thing, and the train gets reorganized. To make matters worse, the washrooms on board the train are locked and we are not allowed out of the train for three hours. Add to that a rather heavy rain, and we are going...