<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 3 September: The morning sun woke us around 07h00, the man and his son were already awake and sitting on the lower bunk. We cleaned up as much as you can in a train and sat down, receiving hot water moments later with which to make coffee. A while later a youngster appeared selling noodles, the man bought one for himself and then proceeded to buy two for us also. I tried to pay him bac...

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 2 September: Ulanbataar We were up before 07h00, wanting to be at the bus station at 08h00 to buy a ticket to the Mongolian boarder. We showered, packed and headed out for breakfast, we stopped at a restaurant next to the one of the previous morning. That which others had ordered didn't appeal to us much, so we settled for what we knew to be good, dumplings. We asked for the milk tea,...

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 1 September: Erlian I was able to remain awake until just after 04h30, when I dozed off until 05h00 when a grim thin line appeared on the horizon. At least now I would be able to look out over the countryside and it's grasslands. This section of the country was known for its grasslands, almost like the Russian steppe. Leanne had also awoken and we watched as the sun rose and images of ...

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 31 August: Erlian We had another early morning! We finished up and headed to the Mongolian embassy, we had no other alternative than to take a taxi since we didn't know the way nor which bus went there. We arrived just after 07h30, the embassy was scheduled to open at 08h30, but we wanted to be first in line to get our visas, we had waited in embassy lines before and it hadn't been fun....

<!-- @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.08in } --> 30 August: Hohhot Up just after 08h00, our best sleep in ages! We had a lot of work to do today, both of us were far behind with our writings and it would take the better part of the day just to catch up on most of it. We sat on our beds listening to music, discussing the events of the past few days and confirming it to our daily summaries before starting with the mammoth task. We...