Travel Blog Photos from Erlian (52)
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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 ...
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