Got woken up at 0500 by the conductors, everybody off in 30 mins. Now it is time for change of the wheel sets to fit the wider tracks in Mongolia, og narrower – we are unsure. They are different at least.
It was absolutely freezing and windy – it at least felt so that early in the morning, think it was about 10c.
We where met by a bunch of locals selling jeep rides across the border to Mongolia (thats just a couple of kilometers away), food, hotell stays and other tours. We stood around for some minutes until we where pretty much the only ones around…wondering what to do.
Checking googlemaps – or amap as the app is called in China, we found a hotell and a very sleepy receptionist that set us up with a splendid room for only 100cny (140 nok).
The orange part there is the hotell – we are on the third floor. Big bed, European toilet and waterboiler for our ramen. 👍
Really nothing to do until the train leaves at 1645 (we think, it is absolutely impossible to know for sure 🙂 ). But nice to get a few hours sleep until then.
We really really need to stock up on snacks and water – there is none of this on the train.