After our horrible day we decided to cut back on spending but our honcho (Alex) decided that he wanted to try and get our money back, so he came with us to the tea house. After a lot of angry gesturing the women agreed to give us half of the money back (what a legend Alex is!) As it was Chinese New Years Eve the day consisted of a soundtrack of fireworks (we are in China afterall). When we met the group that evening (we had gone our seperate ways that morning) J...

We all got on the train at 8 in the morning looking like zombies, so the second that it set off and we had had our tickets checked we all went back to bed for a few hours. I know it was lazy but we weren't missing anything. We awoke to find that we were in the Gobi desert which turned out to be at least 7 hours of exactly the same scenery. Once at the border we were met by an army of customs officers who took our passports. The train then was moved into a shed (w...