Ulan Batar, Mongolia
Wednesday, June 8, 2005
It was a 48 hour train ride from
Beijing to
Irkutsk, which involved passing by the great wall (which I missed), changing the rail gauge at the Chinese-Mongolian Border, passing through the Gobi desert, and hanging out at the Russian-Mongolian border in my train car hoping that the russian border officer wouldnt kill me ( He was pretty scary). It was a beautiful train ride, but when it was over I was coated in a layer of sand from the desert, which made my hair stiff and my body a bit grimey, and made me appreciate the next shower I could take.
