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6 hours in ManZhouLi
... coach was stopped again to check our documents. In all situations except for HKSAR and Macau SAR citizens, the boarder control would have stamped on the passport; for us, they do that digitally so that there is another complication that the officer had to collect our Home Return Permit and to ask for higher rank officers for permit to "release us". At that point, the driver was so annoyed and stolled to us and told us to show the officer ...
2 hours in Zabaykalsky
We arrived at Zabaykalsk at about half 5 in the morning. It was the 3rd day in a row we saw the sunrise. After getting off the train, we followed the stream of passengers and arrived at a bridge which crossed the railway station to the coach station. We took the coach where most chinese chose (we could speak Mandarin). Everything was so swift and was in a rush. The coach to the boarder line costed 100 rubles, then ...
A 12 hour border crossing.....
... the border station and again our passports are taken off us for an hour or so. We sit on the train, then our passports are given back and we are able to get off the train if we want. I did my first black market transaction - changed my leftover rubles into yuan! We have no idea why the train has to stop for 6 hours at the chinese border post too but it did!
12 hours later - we have crossed the border, travelled maybe 2 or 3 kilometers and its ...
Life on the train
... vodka on the train. When we asked our various carriage mates they all shook their heads vehemently when we asked if they drank vodka. Perhaps the older generation drank vodka, but the people we met didnt. And they had a couple of beers, but there was no major drinking going on on the train. The train was also very family friendly, there were lots of families travelling platskartny, so no major parties.
The people we met were intrigued as to why we were doing a ...
Borderlands
... att se. Precis som resterande Ryssland antar jag. Jag vill fotografera gränsporten in i Kina och valsar därför en bit ut ur staden och in i ödemarken. En gäng militärer verkar tro att jag ska göra ett försök att springa till gränsen och börjar ilsket marschera mot mig med sina Kalashnikovs i färdigställning. Såg framför mig en scen ur "plutonen". Vi får en sista inblick i det ryska sinnet då jag hittar den ...
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