MONGOLIA Word of the day: эрхэмсэг - (him-lic): Gracious Highlight: never-ending, spectacular winter landscape. Lowlight: Realising we're part of a tour group, and having to push back at every chance when the guide uses every opportunity to spend everyone elses money. Basically coming off looking rather tight fisted. Weather: - 30°C, balmy. My first impressions of Mongolia were through a train window. Watching the vast snow covered landscape gradual...

Train trip to Mongolia: The next leg of out trip would see us travel from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. This is the first leg of our multistage train journey on the trans-Siberian railway from China to Russia. Sunrisesaw us boarding train K23 on a snowy platform in Beijing's Central Train Station. Krissy and I shared a four berth cabin with two young Australian lads, for this 28 hour passage to Mongolia. Space was certainly at a premium in these cabi...

Train trip to Mongolia: The next leg of out trip would see us travel from Beijing to Ulaanbaatar in Mongolia. This is the first leg of our multistage train journey on the trans-Siberian railway from China to Russia. Sunrisesaw us boarding train K23 on a snowy platform in Beijing's Central Train Station. Krissy and I shared a four berth cabin with two young Australian lads, for this 28 hour passage to Mongolia. Space was certainly at a premium in these cabi...