We managed to have our fair share of duck before we left Beijing..well worth the hunt and cycled on our trusty chinese steeds around the hootongs to find wierd stuff to eat and look at. Our duck meal was accompanied by 12 percent beers that were 750ml...the Chinese sure know how to get drunk. Fortuntely we only had one each because we didn't want it to affect our mono skills on our most awsome bikes. Had an early start for the train yesterday and didn't have too much trouble finding the right train which was nice. Alan gets credit points for remembering the bogroll for the wait at the train station and subsequent trip on the train. What a genius. The trip from Beijing to Ulan Bataar was somewhere around 34 hours with a 6 hour stop at the border to check passports, change the wheels on all the carriages (different gauges between countries) and most importantly change the dining carriage from a Chinese one to a Mongolian one! Alan and me were smart enough to get off the train while they were doing this because they locked all the toilets while they changed wheels which took four hours. All this while keeping the
passengers locked in who didn't get off. Holding onto wee for 6 hours....not good. The train trip was spectacular. The variety in scenery is amazing. My favourite part of the trip i think was when we were passing through the desert and the train would kick up heaps of dust and fill the carriages with dust and then you would breath the dust and try to sleep. Yes that was definately my favourite part. We just Arrived in Ulan Bataar, unknowingly paid way too much for a taxi (i now have a hitlist of people who have scammed us...i'll show them and think REALLY BAD THOUGHTS about them tonight....haha..suckers). We have hired an interpreter tomorrow to help us find motorbikes, going to check out a couple of bike shops and the blackmarket (that is what is called...i'm serious). Hopefully we can sort something tomorrow. >>Matt
We managed to have our fair share of duck before we left Beijing..well worth the hunt and cycled on our trusty chinese steeds around the hootongs to find wierd stuff to eat and look at. Our duck meal was accompanied by 12 percent beers that were 750ml...the Chinese sure know how to get drunk. Fortuntely we only had one each because we didn't want it to affect our mono skills on our most awsome bikes. Had an early start for the train yesterday and didn't have too much trouble finding the right train which was nice. Alan gets credit points for remembering the bogroll for the wait at the train station and subsequent trip on the train. What a genius. The trip from Beijing to Ulan Bataar was somewhere around 34 hours with a 6 hour stop at the border to check passports, change the wheels on all the carriages (different gauges between countries) and most importantly change the dining carriage from a Chinese one to a Mongolian one! Alan and me were smart enough to get off the train while they were doing this because they locked all the toilets while they changed wheels which took four hours. All this while keeping the 
passengers locked in who didn't get off. Holding onto wee for 6 hours....not good. The train trip was spectacular. The variety in scenery is amazing. My favourite part of the trip i think was when we were passing through the desert and the train would kick up heaps of dust and fill the carriages with dust and then you would breath the dust and try to sleep. Yes that was definately my favourite part. We just Arrived in Ulan Bataar, unknowingly paid way too much for a taxi (i now have a hitlist of people who have scammed us...i'll show them and think REALLY BAD THOUGHTS about them tonight....haha..suckers). We have hired an interpreter tomorrow to help us find motorbikes, going to check out a couple of bike shops and the blackmarket (that is what is called...i'm serious). Hopefully we can sort something tomorrow. >>Matt
2 comments:
That country looks wicked!!!!!!!!!! I am well jealous.
Did not realise you had already left on your travels, how exciting.
Have an awesome time
Elly
:)
No one at home can you believe you ate those scorpions...ew! Nice dual commentary going on, and the pictures are superb...
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