Yue Jia Business Hotel Linhe

Things are going swimmingly. We're due to arrive in Jining in an hour where a man from an agency is supposed to be standing with a sign with our names on to give us our tickets for the Beijing train. And then at the station before Jining a manic guy gets on telling us to get off the train, now! He's so adamant that we rush all out stuff off into a heap on the platform. The train pulls away and our comparment pals are trying to throw us our forgotten ...

De trein naar Peking hadden we samen geboekt met onze Franse vrienden Francois en Julie (van couchette 4). Zoals al gezegd heel leuke mensen (vrienden intussen), dus hadden we ook voor Beijing hetzelfde hostel geboekt, zodat we dit deel van de reis samen lol konden tappen. De treinreis duurde zo'n 34u, waarvan we er 4 aan de grens met China hebben doorgebracht. Hier moet elke trein namelijk van wielen verwisselen, wat op zich wel spektaculair is ...

The day where we find an underground market, eat at Mr Lee's California Beef Noodle King and make a friend at the train station who thinks Andrew is beautiful! After getting up lazily late we decided to have a last look around Hohhot to get some provisions for our 21 hour train journey ahead. Curious as to what the giant glass pyramid we could see from our hotel rom was all about we went to investigate. It turned out to be the entrance to a huge underground market ...

The day where we go on a whistle stop Chinese tour, have very attentive waiters and Chinese prostitutes call our room. I had the most amazing nights sleep in the yurt, I think the best all trip! It must have been the fresh air doing me good, or at least thats what my mum would have said. We had another Monolian feast for breakfast, strange soupy stuff with lots of bits to dip in it, dumplings, fried donughty bread and something that was too spicy for David ...

The day where we don't ride camels, Andrew wrestles a mongolian, we eat strange spicy food and sleep in a yurt. Whilst we were on the train we were approached by a girl with incredibly long hair touting tours of the Inner Mongolian Xilamuren grasslands. We took a flyer and had a look. According to our LP it seemed to be quite a good price, so we signed away 400Y each, and then instantly wondered what we had let ourselves in for... terrifying images of following a ...