Today we start the travel that will/can/might bring us to Ulan Batar in Mongolia. We have spent months setting up these tickets, transferred money abroad.. 20 emails, so lets see how this will work out in the end.
The bullet train (speed above 300 kmt) leaves from Beijing North railway station, and because of luggage we went with a taxi this time around.
Its a fairly nice station, with the bullet train gates at the ground floor. First thing we learned is that the security checking here is a bit more strickt than we where used to. So our supernice meatscissors from Korea is now in the property of a very nice girls in the security check… The scissors where 3-4 cm to long. Our bags are absolutely stuffed – 23-25 kg each (We actually bought a new suitcase some days ago, the old one was to small), so repacking and getting out the scissors was an absolute joy! 🙂
Our tickets are attached to our passport numbers, so we should now be golden. Hanging out at Gate 7 – for the 16:50 to Hohhot, where we probably/will/might get our international tickets to Mongolia… On either coach, second, first or some other option..we dont know 🙂