Getting ready
Welcome to Moscow! my green suitcase never arrived, luckily I was ready for this eventuality with the essentials in my hand luggage.
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| @@#%#&£&&&!!!! |
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| Don't worry, be happy and keep on going |
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| Yaroslavsky Train Station |
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| The waiting |
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| Departure time: 23,45 (Moscow time) |
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| 4 hours to go and counting! |
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| My cabin, shared with Jean Philippe from Genéva |
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| Jean Philippe was going to Vladivostok |
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| This is the first class |
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| 24 hours hot water dispenser |
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| I am going through Mongolia to Beijing |
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| The time-table always Moscow's time |
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| Our Carriage Attendants, Andrei and Olga |
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| Olga |
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| Andrei, the one with a white shirt next to the door |
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| and this was their cap |
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| Mike, German living in Canada, going to Vladivostok |
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| With Jean Philippe |
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| Ishim, 2431 km from Moscow - Time zone + 2 (fm Moscow) |
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| In Siberia most of the houses have windows with light blue frames |
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| Cres & Jen from Singapore, they made me laugh so much!! they were going to Beijing as well, with a stop of two days at Irkutsk |
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| People from the Restaurant offering russian pizza! |
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| This South Korean man was so funny, he was next to my cabin with his wife and was all the time singing and laughing hihihi! the face of happiness! (going to Vladivostok and from there to his home, South Korea) |
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| Omsk 2712 km from Moscow - Time zone +3 |
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| At the restaurant playing UNO! |
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| Kranoyarsk 4098 km from Moscow - Time zone +4 (after 3 days you get lost into a limbo of time/zones/days, you don't understand anything anymore!!) |
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| Changing landscapes |
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| Lake Baikal |
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| Laike Baikal, is the largest (by volume) fresh water lake in the world 20% of the world's unfrozen surface fresh water and at 1.642 m (5.387 ft). The deepest |
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| We went all around it, direction Ulan-Ude |
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| Andrei & Olga cooked very nice pancakes |
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| Ulan-Ude Train station - 5642 km from Moscow - Time zone +5 |
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| Naushki - Russian Border Post - 5895 km from Moscow - Time zone +6 Here took place a scary russian style passports control (for my sorprise, the drog-detection dog was a little bit bigger than a Chiguagua!) couldn't believe it!! |
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| Bienvenidos a Mongolia |
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| ...and everything change... |
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| Ulaan-Baatar - Guest house Golden Gobi (my place for 1 night) They organize itineraries with very good prices |
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| In the meantime I received good news about my suitcase |
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| Left after 2 hours without resting to the Terelij National Park |
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| This is a dream coming true, to be with the Eagles |
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| Wanted to kiss it! |
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| to touch it (and so I did) |
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| A Vulture |
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| Lunch in a yurt with a nomad family (they live in the park) |
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| Visit to the Chinggis Khaan statue |
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| I feel very Chinggis |
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| I slept that night in a yurt on the floor, after 5 nights sleeping on the train... no toilet and in the middle of nowhere, as a guest of a nomad family |
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| My guide and my now friend Khishgee |
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| Thank you family for having me here! |
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| The yurt where I slept, the morning after... |
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| From there we went straight to the airport to pick up my suitcase |
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| Hello my darling! how nice to see you again! |
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| It is the 2nd time that happen this thing with my green suitcase, it is the only suitcase I know that doesn't like to travel. Promise I will never use it again. |
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| Gandan Khild Monastry - Ulaan Baatar |
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| Back in Golden Gobi with my mates for almost two days |
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| Center of Ulaan Baatar |
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| Spent the rest of the day with Emma, I was exhausted, That night, in a real bed, I couldn't sleep well because of the noicy people around in the hostel and the excitement to get back on the train again very early the next morning |
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| Good bye Ulaan Baatar!! |
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| This time a chinese train |
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| Different |
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| Leaving the city |
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| The stops another 24 hours to Beijing |
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| Lady selling drinks and food at the station |
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| It was so windy, that after 5 minutes I have sand in my eyes, mouth... everywhere! |
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| The carriage attendant & me |
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| My mate in the cabin, Odd from Norway |
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| The restaurant before chinese border |
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| Diana and Will from Scotland |
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| Rainbow in the Gobi Desert |
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| In the Gobi Desert, It is very easy to see camels, wild horses, antilopes (I couldn't take even 1 pic of none of them) every time I was ready with the camera, they were already far away.... |
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| Mongolian Border Post |
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| Bienvenidos a China |
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| At the station, the wheels of the train are changed to fit the Chinese tracks. The stop is approximately 4 hours. |
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| Next morning, sorprise! i found a new restaurant! |
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| Finally Beijing! Sun was waiting for me at the station i could not stop crying |
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| Sun and her husband at home |
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| The Nest |
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| Beijing Zoo |
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| Visit to Giant Pandas |
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| Lama Temple |
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| Confucius Temple |
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| Even if is not a religious temple, many students come and pray here if they have to do a difficult exam |
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| Please Confucius, give me just a little bit of your wisdom |
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| Sun's car plate.... |
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| Met Yaou Liu for dinner! how nice to see him again!! |
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| Yaou liu became the most important chinese MRI expert for Multiple Sclerosis diagnosis |
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| ...arriving to Moscow after only 7,30 hours flight! Adventure ending |
