Camping in the Gobi Desert
Two nights in a ger camp in the Gobi Desert, driven out from Ulaanbaatar — mutton stew, wild horses, and keeping the fire lit through −10°C nights.
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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…