An early start today, a very early start indeed! Bad times! We were up
at 5:30am for our supposed 5:50am bus to the station which is put on
by Golden Gobi. However, it didn't show up until 6:30am! It didn't
matter too much as our train to Beijing wasn't until 7:15am.
Whilst waiting for the bus we chatted with an older couple who had
also stayed at Golden Gobi as wel as a Swedish girl called Lena
(spelling may be wrong!) who is our age and whom Laura has spoken to
around the hostel before. I was also getting attacked by a mosquito
outside, I only noticed on the 3rd bite, when he was on my arm - by
then it was too late and he had flown off before I had time to kill
him - the bastard.
Anyway, we eventually did get the lift and it turned out we were
sharing a cabin to Beijing with Lena - and there is no 4thperson in
our cabin! Room! Space! Yay! I've had 2 naps already today, and have
been listening to my Zune non-stop. I'm still only on the letter C -
"Cy" with a few songs left before onto D! (For those who don't know my
challenge was to listen to all 3800 songs on my MP3 player on this
trip, in alphabetical order - it's not going to happen!) I've also
finished my book, the Long Way Round, finally! I hope there is an
English book shop somewhere soon though - more than likely HK so not
too long to wait!
That's pretty much it for now, nothing of interest to report - the
Gobi is rather vast but not "true desert" - there is still quite a bit
of plant life. The hot water tap on the train is also lethal - the off
and on parts of the tap are not positioned logically, that's about it
in terms of reporting!
Dreading more border crossings tonight - we are scheduled 1.5 hours at
the Mongolia border and bloody 4 hours in China! Great!
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