TransMongolian - Blogabond

Last moments in Russia ! After 10 days of intense train-ing in Russia, we are arriving at the end of this first journey and we're now fully ready for Mongolia desert country.

Oh ! And last bit of Cyrrilic lesson (i really love that alphabet):
- Y = oo (like in "food")
- Ш = sh
- И is still I

NAYШKИ = Naushki ("na-oosh-ky")

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Sly on September 20, 2010 from Naushki, Russia

from the travel blog: Jumping Around

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Alagiin Sume, Mongolia

And back in the TransMonglian, this time, direction China !

The picture below was taken at one of the few Mongolian stops, in Sain-Shanda (aka Sainshand sometimes). Thing is that BlogABond doesn't seem to know that city, so I picked the closest I found, Alagiin Sume.

Jumping in front of the Mongolian locomotive

Anyway, in Sain-shanda, we stopped enough time to buy some water, as well as some lyophilized Korean spicy noodles (just add some boiling water, and that's ready). Quite good... when you're hungry !

Korea and Mongolia seem to get along quite well. We saw an impressive amount Korean shops in Ulaan Bator. Maybe it is because both countries are surrounded by huge and powerful countries that they feel it is easier to deal with countries of their size ? Just a thought though, i'm not an expert in koreo-mongol politics.

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Sly on September 26, 2010 from Alagiin Sume, Mongolia

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Datong, China

Finally ! After 5 hours at the Chinese border to change again the carriage boggies as we did back in Belarus (which seemed ages before !) and after a last night in the train, finally we arrive in China for a first trop in Datong.

There, they changed the chinese orange coal locomotive we had had at the border for a blue electricity powered one. At least we feel we save some more trees running on electricity rather than coal.