Erlian, China

Travel Blogs from Erlian (9)

Entering China, Erlian, China travel blog
Entering China
Jun 28, 2006

... it takes ages to get it packed well enough to get it to close!! After all of that our driver took us and the family to Erlian, the Chinese border town, where we got a taxi to the bus station. An english speaking guy booked us tickets on a sleeper bus to ...

A travel blog entry by helz_on_tour
On board the trans mongolian express part 1, Erlian, China travel blog
On board the trans mongolian express part 1
Jul 3, 2007

... to the flat land of the gobi desert (which is only 4% sand) and we saw a dinosaur park in the distance. We stopped at Erlian at 20:45 for border cross and passport & visa check on the Chinese side and then had to have the wheels changed on our carriages ...

A travel blog entry by danskgirl
Mongolia/China border, Erlian, China travel blog
Mongolia/China border
Oct 18, 2006

... about Mongolian/Russian rails and Chinese rails, they are approximately 2mm different so our train had to have its wheels changed. (China was worried about invasion via rail....)We were warned that this process would take about two hours in which we could ...

A travel blog entry by amandaroberts79
They do _what_ to the train?, Erlian, China travel blog
They do _what_ to the train?
Sep 17, 2007

Tuesday, September 11th Erlian, China isn't much to write home about. It's a border town in a desert, and if the train didn't go through here, it'd be even more of a nothing. It has one interesting quirk, though. Because Erlian is on the border ...

A travel blog entry by scottk

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