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THE MONGOLIA-RUSSIA BORDER — In case you were wondering what it is we do all day on the Trans-Mongolian, here’s a snapshot of our second train leg, which took us from Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, to Irkutsk, Russia. 9 p.m. Board train in Ulaanbaatar So far, all of our trains have been remarkably on-time. Train 263 from [...]
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ULAANBAATAR — When we walked into the Gandan Khiid monastery this morning, I immediately felt I was somewhere familiar. The gold-painted prayer wheels, the square, white central building and the many colorful stupas all reminded me of Tibetan monasteries I have visited in western China. L: Gandan Khiid, Ulaanbaatar; R: Ganden Sumtseling Gompa, Shangri-La It [...]
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TERELJ, Mongolia — There were two things I wanted to do when we were in Mongolia: ride a horse across the grasslands, and sleep in a yurt. We weren’t going to be able to do those things in Ulaanbaatar, so for one of our three days in Mongolia, we headed out to Gorkhi-Terelj National Park, [...]
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ULAANBAATAR — We got into Ulaanbaatar at 1:30 this afternoon, a mere 30 hours after boarding train K23 at Beijing Railway Station yesterday morning. Since we’ve only had a few hours to explore the city and change our renminbi for togrogs, the delightfully-named Mongolian currency, I thought I’d share a few photos from the train [...]
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