Beijing, and China is over for this time, going to bed now, then straight to airport, and heading for Bali! Our first day in China was spent not doing much, after we'd checked into hotel and everything, as I felt pretty ill.. Saturday, I woke up feeling all fine again. So we went out sightseeing around Beijing. Luckily we live close by most of the attractions in town, so we walked down to Forbidden City. First we took a walk in Jingshan park, a beautiful park, ...

We have arrived safely in Beijing, China. I don't feel so well today, and hoping I haven't caught the swine flu. They are so paranoid about it here in Asia, the conductor even came to check our temperatures last night, before we crossed the border over to China. I didn't have a fever then, but I think I might now. I am never ill for long anyways, and it will probably all be over when I wake up tomorrow. So Wednesday was spent doing Ulan-Bator, Mongolia's capital...

We are back in civilization again, after having spent 4 days, 5 nights on a train, and then straight onto sleeping one night in a Mongolian ger. So we go to Moscow's train station to catch our train. The train arrives, and it is full chaos with all the Mongolian tradesmen and all of their stuff trying to get on the train. We somehow manage to get into our wagon, the hallway is so narrow, only one person can fit at a time. A Mongolian man comes towards me, then y...

We are ready to go on the train in only an hour and a half, just a last update from Moscow, before we probably won't get online until we are in Mongolia. Today we have been real tourists and done all the sightseeing, seen Lenin's dead body in the mausoleum, seen St. Basil's cathedral, Kremlin and Gorky park. Russians are still not that friendly, we have only seen two people smile so far, and they still keep talking Russian to us even though we tell them we can't...

Til dere Norske, så kommer jeg til å skrive denne bloggen på Engelsk for det meste, slik at alle kan forstå den :-) We have arrived safely in Moscow now. Everything so far has gone very smoothly, and our hotel is really nice, probably the nicest we'll have on the whole trip! We are really tired, and haven't gone outside the hotel at all, just had a buffet dinner, and I am very soon ready for a good night's sleep. My first impression of Russia is that it is ...