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A TripAdvisor™ TripWow video of a travel blog to UlaanBaatar-Beijing, China by TravelPod blogger Peacefrog. See this TripWow and more at tripwow.tripadvisor.com Train 11 – UlaanBaatar to Beijing “Go to the Summary Page ___________________________ After a long last night in UB with Herve, Angelique, Liv, and Andy, I managed to have 2h of sleep and to get up feeling sick. Had a shower, finished packing, kissed goodbye, and left to the train station. I found myself in a compartment with a Mongolian lady speaking perfect english. I swapped seats with her husband, because he was booked in another compartment. The Mongolians in the second compartment spoke englich too, and were just as friendly. Mongolians sleep in the morning, and that’s just what I need. I slept from 9 to noon, missing the station of Choir and its statue of the first Mongolian cosmonaut (whose wife was in my first compartment, by the way). When I woke up we were in the Gobi, under a terrible heat. In Sainschan, capital city of te Dornogov Aimag, I met Herve and we spent some time chatting in the restaurant wagon. The hangover gradually replaced the fatigue, and I realised I had caught a cold again. We travelled past vast desert land, made up of rocks and sand. On the horizons some hardened dunes, sometimes hosting an Ovoo (pile of rocks dedicated to the spirit of the summit) on 20 meters high dunes. In some places a little bit of grass, and camels counting the wagons. In the evening we passed the borders, in …
