Well today has been a far less eventful day thankfully. Spent a few hours passing Lake Baikal which was absolutely stunning, snow covered mountains rising from a sparkling blue lake. We are assuming it was Lake Baikal as we have no idea any more where we are or in fact what the time is! We were helpfully given a timetable in English when we left Beijing but have been unable to match anything on there to our stops. Also when we have arrived in railway stations t...

Well we had been warned before embarking on this train journey that 6 days on the train is extremely boring - oh how wrong they were if today is anything to go by! Our day started at 3 am with a loud knocking on our cabin door, when we opened it there were 4 Chinese Immigration officers peering in, as it was dark they took it upon themselves to switch our lights on and after we had answered a series of questions they went away. They however returned an hour lat...