"5 days on a train! Everyone should do it! Being on the trans-siberian is strangely similar to the time you spend at uni. You arrive all exited, a few butterflys in the st ..."
"As it is taking Si a long time to upload photos I have been handed the baton of writing the travelpod, which wont be too hard as I will copy it direct from my travel diary....yes s ..."
" I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience and laughter - Susan M. Watkins · Ulaan Baatar, Mongolia. · Prague time +7hrs ..."
"We were woken at 6.45 by the guard who was very keen to have our sheets as we were departing at 7.35. We got our things together and got off the train. It was still a bit dark but ..."
"Sain bainuu! After a sleepness night in Beijing last Monday (I had forgotten to pack an alarm clock and didn't trust myself to wake up at 5am without one) I hopped on the train to ..."
"After breakfast and doing my daily chore of packing the backpack, I met the rest of our group in the hotel's lobby ready for our huge trek out to Inner Mongolia. It is kind of conf ..."
"Hey, Apologies for taking so long to produce my next update, I've been so busy in Mongolia I haven't had chance to get a decent amount of time on the net. But here it is, update fo ..."
"(Em here) Got the train from Irkutsk on 4th Feb. Were in a 4 person compartment this time and hoped we would be on our own which were were until the Mongolian border. Scenery still ..."
"We arrived at the train early but when we boarded we were surprised to find every available storage space in our cabin full of bags and boxes. Where were we supposed to put our stu ..."
"Then train stopped opposite another train at around 5 in the evening. Whether this was 5 in the evening by Moscow time, Beijing time, Ulaan Baator time or British summer time is an ..."