The Great Train Bazaar: Trans-Mongolian Railway
Five days and 6,266 km from Ulaanbaatar to Moscow, in a carriage turned into a travelling bazaar of jeans, blankets and shop mannequins.
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Beijing and the 798 Arts District
Although we'd already taken the high-speed train for a brief stop-over from Shanghai to Hangzhou, our journey to Beijing would be our first long distance travel on China's fast expanding high-speed rail network ( reported to be the smoothest and fastest train ride in the…
Hangzhou and some Emperor Longjing Tea
The outer city high-speed rail terminal of Shanghai came as something as a surprise to us, though given the investment China has been inputting into its rail links over the past few years it probably shouldn't have. It was light, bright, and shiny with something…
The Reunification Express
A thousand miles from Ho Chi Minh City to Hanoi in a four-berth sleeper, on the line the French built, the war split and Vietnam reunified in 1975.
Crossing the Mekong Delta into Vietnam
Kep to Ho Chi Minh City through the new Hà Tiên border: a dirt track, a casino, then four hours of coach and chain ferry along the Mekong.